REGINA - Regina has been selected as the host city for Canada Soccer’s 2025 Futsal Canadian Championship featuring the top men’s and women’s amateur teams in pursuit of a national title.
The annual competition will be hosted in the Saskatchewan capital for the first time with the championship matches scheduled for Sunday, April 13, at the Brandt Centre.
According to Futsal Canada, the game is a variant of soccer that is played on a smaller field – called a court in futsal terms - and most often played indoors. Its name is derived from the Portuguese, futebol de salão and the Spanish, fútbol de salón (colloquially fútbol sala), which can be translated as “hall football” or “indoor football”. During the sport’s second world championships held in Madrid in 1985, the name fútbol de salón was used. Since then, all other names have been officially and internationally changed to futsal.
The origins of futsal can be traced back to Uruguay in 1930, where amid the euphoria that greeted the country’s victory at the inaugural FIFA World Cup on home soil, there was a football 小蓝视频 kicked on every street corner in their capital, Montevideo, according to Futsal Canada.
