CCAA 50th Anniversary: Women's Soccer
The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association is highlighting history, programs and student-athletes in each sport during the association's 50th anniversary season.
In 1991, the first Women's Soccer National Championship is hosted at Fanshawe College in London, ON and is won by Vancouver Community College (now Langara). The women's championship had been discussed since 1983, but it took eight seasons to reach the minimum number of participating conferences.
Through the first third of its history, the sport crowned eight champions from the PACWEST, including five for Capilano in 11 years. Garneau then emerged, claiming six of the next ten gold medals, while Langara earned three in that same period.
In 2023 Seneca became the first non-RSEQ team to win a women's soccer championship since 2014. During that span, Quebec teams won a total of 15 women's soccer medals out of 27 - eight gold, five silver and two bronze.
At the launch of the CCAA's 25th Anniversary, the Association recognized a unique honour – Sport Supremacy. This award was a calculation of the aggregate number of points earned by a member institution's varsity athletics program, based on their performances at CCAA National Championships. This season, we are revisiting the idea of CCAA Sport Supremacy by acknowledging the cumulative achievements of the member varsity programs in each CCAA Sport from 1974 through 2024.
CCAA 50th Anniversary – Women's Soccer Programs
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1 |
Cégep Garneau |
26 |
Vanier College |
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2 |
Thompson Rivers University (Cariboo) |
27 |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University |
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3 |
Capilano University |
28 |
Algonquin College |
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4 |
Langara College (VCC) |
29 |
Cégep de Trois-Rivières |
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5 |
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology |
30 |
Conestoga College |
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6 |
Collège Ahuntsic |
31 |
Dawson College |
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7 |
John Abbott College |
32 |
University of King's College |
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8 |
Mount Royal University |
33 |
Dalhousie Agricultural Campus (NSAC) |
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9 |
Fanshawe College |
34 |
St. Thomas University |
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10 |
Champlain College Saint-Lambert |
35 |
Northwestern Polytechnic (GPRC) |
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11 |
Humber College |
36 |
Université de Saint-Boniface |
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12 |
Vancouver Island University (Malaspina) |
37 |
Red Deer Polytechnic |
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13 |
MacEwan University |
38 |
Brandon University |
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14 |
Cégep de Sainte-Foy |
39 |
Fleming College |
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15 |
Concordia University of Edmonton |
40 |
Mohawk College |
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16 |
Seneca Polytechnic |
41 |
Royal Military College of Canada |
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17 |
Cégep de Sherbrooke |
42 |
Crandall University (Atlantic Baptist) |
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18 |
Mount Saint Vincent University |
43 |
Nova Scotia Teachers College |
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19 |
Medicine Hat College |
44 |
University of New Brunswick - Saint John |
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20 |
Durham College |
45 |
Collège Montmorency |
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21 |
Douglas College |
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22 |
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology |
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23 |
Holland College |
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24 |
University of the Fraser Valley |
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25 |
Lethbridge Polytechnic |
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CCAA Fun Fact
In the mid-2000s, the Langara Falcons Women's Soccer team became the only institution in any sport to win back-to-back CCAA National Championships at home. Although the semi-permanent host site program had been discontinued, Langara was awarded the 2005 and 2006 Soccer National Championships in part due to the more predictable weather that is typically experienced in and around Vancouver, BC in November.
Note: The CCAA 50 for 50 – Programs were calculated using an aggregate scoring system.
