Canadian women to face Costa Rica in 'Pride Celebration' friendly in June at Toronto's BMO Field

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 16, 2025 1:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The Canadian women's shot squad volition big Costa Rica successful Toronto connected June 27 successful a "Pride Celebration" friendly.

After the BMO Field game, the seventh-ranked Canadian women volition question to Washington, D.C., to look the top-ranked U.S. successful a antecedently announced crippled connected July 2 astatine Audi Field. Both games autumn successful FIFA's June-July planetary window.

The Canadian women person ne'er faced No. 43 Costa Rica before.

The Toronto crippled marks the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth that the Canadian women person celebrated Pride connected location soil, "underscoring Canada Soccer's ongoing committedness to diversity, equity, and inclusion for the 2SLGBTQ+ community."

The Canadian women volition deterioration a peculiar kit which features Pride-themed numbers.

"I'm excited for the situation Costa Rica volition bring," Canada manager Casey Stone said successful a statement. "They're a dynamic squad that volition supply different situation for america arsenic we look to trial ourselves against antithetic styles of play.

"With this lucifer besides marking our Pride Celebration, it's a almighty accidental to amusement that shot is for everyone. We privation our games to bespeak a abstraction wherever each subordinate of the 2SLGBTQ+ assemblage feels seen, celebrated, and astatine home. I can't hold to observe alongside our fans."

It is simply a origin beloved to Stoney, who has 3 children with her spouse Megan Harris, a erstwhile Lincoln Ladies teammate.

Canada has a 4-53-9 all-time grounds against the U.S. successful a rivalry that dates backmost to 1986 erstwhile the Canadian women's programme was established. The Canadian women person not won connected American ungraded since Nov. 11, 2000.

In their astir caller meeting, successful April 2024 astatine the SheBelieves Cup successful Columbus, Ohio, the 2 teams played to a 2-2 gully earlier the U.S. won a punishment shootout 5-4. The Americans besides won by punishment shootout successful the crippled earlier that, the CONCACAF W Gold Cup semifinal successful March 2024.

Canada's past triumph implicit the U.S. was a 1-0 determination successful the Tokyo Olympic semifinal successful August 2021. That was the Americans' archetypal nonaccomplishment to their bluish neighbours since March 2001, successful the radical signifier of the Algarve Cup.

The Canadian women are 3-1-1 nether Stoney, a erstwhile England skipper who was hired Jan. 13, and are coming disconnected a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Argentina connected April 8 successful Langford, B.C.