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New under-21 minutes threshold confirmed for 2020 CPL season

With a shortened 2020 Canadian Premier League season comes adjusted regulations, including to the CPL’s under-21 rule.

Michael Findlay, the CPL’s Director of Football Development, confirmed to CanPL.ca this week that clubs will be required to field domestic under-21 players for 250 combined minutes during The Island Games, which is down from the 2019 season’s 1,000-minute threshold.

All domestic players born Jan. 1, 1999 or after will be classified as an under-21, including loanees and CPL-U SPORTS Draftees. Teams are still required to have at least three under-21s signed to their rosters for the campaign, which all eight clubs have confirmed.


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CPL teams didn’t have trouble hitting the 1,000 minute threshold for Canadian under-21s in the league’s first season: All seven clubs made the target by late August, and each side had at least one player single-handedly collect their team’s required minutes.

Incredibly, Pacific FC surpassed the benchmark in just their third match of last season, away to Forge FC on May 8. In all, under-21 players combined for 36,161 minutes across the CPL in 2019.

Here’s a team-by-team breakdown of under-21s players signed for the 2020 CPL season.


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HFX Wanderers FC

Chrisnovic N’Sa
Daniel Kinumbe
Jake Ruby
Scott Firth
Luke Green

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York9 FC

Julian Altobelli
Ezequiel Carrasco
Ijah Halley
Max Ferrari
Lowell Wright
Isaiah Johnston

Atlético Ottawa

Malyk Hamilton
Gianfranco Facchineri
Matteo de Brienne
Antoine Coupland

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Forge FC

Klaidi Cela
Monti Mohsen
Baj Maan

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Valour FC

Federico Peña
Raphaël Garcia
Dante Campbell
Shaan Hundal
Yohan Le Bourhis
Julian Dunn

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FC Edmonton

Chance Carter
Marcus Velado-Tsegaye
Prince Amanda
David Doe
Anthony Caceres

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Cavalry FC 

José Hernández
Mohamed Farsi
Aribim Pepple

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Pacific FC 

Alessandro Hojabrpour
Sean Young
Emil Gazdov
Noah Verhoeven

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