Canadian men’s national team captain Atiba Hutchinson confirmed on Saturday that this weekend’s Concacaf Nations League Final will be his last game his country, as he officially announced his retirement from professional football.

“Tomorrow is going to be my last time putting on that shirt, representing Canada,” Hutchinson told the press in a virtual availability on Saturday evening. “It’s obviously a very big game, that’s the most important for tomorrow. I’m going to enjoy every moment of that.”

The 40-year-old native of Brampton, Ontario is the men’s senior team’s all-time caps leader with 103, having made his debut in 2003. Hutchinson has represented Canada at a number of different tournaments, including six Concacaf Gold Cups and five FIFA World Cup qualification cycles. He also captained Les Rouges in their World Cup first appearance in 36 years at the Qatar 2022 tournament this past fall, playing in all three group stage matches and starting two of them.

Hutchinson has been named Canada Soccer’s men’s player of the year six times, most recently in 2017. He is, to date, the only male player to reach 100 appearances for the Canadian national team.

“It’s been 20 years of representing Canada, and I’ve enjoyed all of it,” Hutchinson said. “Every single moment, always coming into these camps, getting together with the boys and playing the games we’ve played, travelling to so many different countries. A lot has been going through my mind over the last little while.”

The longtime Canada captain is also retiring from club soccer, having played professionally in Europe for the last 20 years. Most recently, Hutchinson spent 10 seasons at Turkish giants Beşiktaş, making 334 appearances across domestic competitions and European tournaments including the UEFA Champions League.

Hutchinson won three league titles with Beşiktaş, as well as four in the Danish Superliga for Copenhagen. Overall, he played 711 club matches in Europe across stints in the top flights of Turkey, the Netherlands (PSV Eindhoven), Denmark and Sweden (Helsingborg and Öster).

After several years spent playing soccer in Ontario — with clubs including Woodbridge Strikers, York Region Shooters and Toronto Lynx — Hutchinson left Canada shortly before his 20th birthday to sign for Öster in Sweden.

Canada will hope that Hutchinson’s illustrious career with the national team is able to end with a trophy. They take on the United States on Sunday evening in Hutchinson’s last match, in the 2023 Concacaf Nations League Final.

“It’s a chance at us winning a trophy, and if that was to happen I think it would be truly an amazing accomplishment,” Hutchinson said. “I would be able to walk out with a very good feeling, that being my first trophy for Canada. I’m just looking forward to the day.”

If Les Rouges can win on Sunday, it will be the first competitive trophy for the men’s program since the 2000 Gold Cup.