In our final new episode of 2025, we review our picks for top Calgary soccer stories this year.  We both picked our top five stories and four of the five were the same.  So we decided to include make it a list of the top six, which we recap in chronological order. 

We also look ahead to 2026. We talk about some of the stories we are expecting to follow and we also make some predictions for the new year.

We expect to be back in late January or early February once we get close to Cavalry and Wild training camps.  If some really big news happens, we will come back sooner to discuss.

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After a week's delay we are back covering a wide variety of Calgary related soccer topics. Most of them are regarding player movement.

Goalkeeper Marco Carducci has announced he's leaving Cavalry FC. We discuss his iconic tenure with the club, where we think he will play in 2026 and who could be his replacement at Spruce Meadows. Cavalry also provided a roster update verifying who is under contract for 2026.

Emmanuel Dan-Adokene and Luc Ihama were selected by Cavalry in the recent CPL draft. We talk about what we know about these players (which honestly isn't very much). We also own up to our failed draft predictions.

The Calgary Wild announced that six players will not return for 2026. We speculate on the rationales behind these moves. Perhaps the most interesting player leaving is starting keeper Stephanie Bukovec and we delve into possible reasons for her release.

We also provide updates on a range of players from Mya Jones, Elijah Adekugbe, Bryn Mortensen, Jorda James, Sydney Wathuta and others.

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This week we preview Friday's Canadian Premier League college draft.  We discuss Calgary connections to the draft, including MRU"s Chanan Chanda.  Both Jason and Scott make some predictions regarding who Cavalry FC might pick.  

We also catch up with some Calgarians playing pro soccer overseas.

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We interview graduating SAIT Trojan Nikki Charlton, who reflects on the conclusion of her collegiate career.  We talk about personal and team achievements and her connection to retiring head coach John Talerico.

Many Calgary based pros are playing with their international clubs in the men's and women's November windows.  We do some recaps of completed matches and preview some of the games yet to come.  We also look at both women's and men's NCAA tournaments.

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This week we catch up on what's been happening with Calgarians playing NCAA soccer this season.  We interview Nyema Ingleton, who is a defender at West Virginia University and with the Jamaican women's national team.  Nyema grew up in Airdrie and played soccer as a youth in Calgary before moving to Vancouver to join the Whitecaps program.  We talk about her career so far, the Mountaineers upcoming first match in the NCAA soccer tournament and what it's like to play international football with Jamaica.

Cavalry FC is now in their offseason, but we look at a list of players who we suspect are out of contract.  We also talk about Cavalry players participating in international action this week.

League One Alberta handed out their season end awards, the Villains Dome is inflating and Calgarian Drew Fischer won MLS referee of the year for the second year in a row.

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It's the final weekend for the two Calgary teams that made it to a national championship. Both Cavalry FC and the Mount Royal Cougars men's team were faced with snowy conditions in Ontario. Both matches went into extra time and both teams ultimately lost their games.

We review Cavalry FC's 2-1 loss to Atletico Ottawa in a rather unforgettable match especially when it comes to the weather.

The Cougars were a few hundred km to the southwest in Toronto but faced similar snowy conditions. Their match ended in a 1-0 victory for York with a controversial handball call giving the Lions a penalty for the win.

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We preview this weekend's CPL championship final between Ottawa and Cavalry FC. Cavs defender Callum Montgomery joins us to talk about preparations for the match and also talks about his career including his time growing up in Nanaimo.

The MRU Cougars men's team is at USports nationals this week and they had success in their opening match vs Max Piepgrass and the Cape Breton University Capers. The Cougars advance to the semifinals vs UQTR on Friday.

We also review USports player award winners and all stars, Trojan Nikki Charlton winning the CCAA Women's Player of the Year, and a few updates about the Calgary Wild, including a job posting for the club that we noticed.

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We talk about three matches in our weekend update episode:

Cavalry FC defeated Forge FC in Hamilton this weekend. The Cavs will appear in their third consecutive CPL championship final next weekend. We talk about the victory and have audio from Tommy Wheeldon Jr and Shamit Shome from the post match press conference.

The Mount Royal Cougars men's team inaugurated their new turf field on campus with a dramatic win over nationally #1 ranked UBC. The Cougars claim their second Canada West title in three years and are now off to USports nationals in Toronto.

The Dinos women's squad defeated MRU Cougars in the Canada West bronze medal match.

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We preview Cavalry FC's playoff match with Forge this weekend. Both of us expect an epic battle.

The MRU Cougars men's team will face UBC in the Canada West final on Saturday afternoon at Mount Royal. We discuss the match with Cougars keeper Sjard Strauss. We also talk about how he ended up going to school in Canada, his career and his perspective of that wild match last weekend vs Victoria where he scored the winner in penalty kicks.

Both the Cougars and Dinos women's teams lost in their semifinal playoff matches on Thursday evening. We also review Canada West women's player and all star awards. 

We also have ACAC all star and player awards, Charlie Trafford's inclusion in Avenue magazine's 40 under 40 and we pay tribute to coach Noel Smith who passed away unexpectedly this week.

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We recap Cavalry FC's dominant victory over York on Sunday afternoon. Jason was also at the MRU Cougars men's match vs the University of Victoria. He talks about the penalty shootout that went 11 rounds before the Cougars prevailed. 

The Dinos and Cougars women's teams advanced to the next weekend's Canada West final four. The SAIT Trojans did not have a very good championships weekend in Raymond. We discuss all of these matches in our weekend recap episode.

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