Ottawa and Montreal in action in the 2025 semi-finals. Source.
It’s the finals of the 2026 Walter Cup: Montréal versus Ottawa. This is the first time that two Canadian teams have made the Walter Cup finals. In Year One of the PWHL the finalists were Minnesota and Boston; last year Minnesota and Ottawa. The last time two Canadian teams met in the Stanley Cup finals was 1989. The last time Ottawa and Montréal played for the Stanley Cup was 1908, back in the challenge cup days.
The best-of-five series so far: 2026/5/14 Montréal 3, Ottawa 2 2026/5/16 Montréal 2, Ottawa 1
The PWHL is expanding to twelve teams. The new cities are Detroit, Hamilton, Las Vegas and reportedly San Jose.
Nova Scotians in the PWHL: Jill Saulnier (Boston), Carly Jackson (Seattle), Blayre Turnbull (Toronto), Allie Munroe (Toronto).
Newfoundlanders in the PWHL: Abby Newhook (Boston), Maggie Connors (Toronto).
Korean veteran midfielder Cho So-hyun joined the Halifax Tides this year. She has played for Suwon, Hyundai Steel, Kobe Leonessa, Avaldsnes, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur, and Birmingham City. Here she is at Gyeongbokgung Palace. Source.
Premiership playoff semi-finals: Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 1 Partick Thistle (May 12) Partick Thistle 2 – 1 Dunfermline Athletic (yesterday) Partick advance. Championship playoff finals: Alloa 1 – 3 Stenhousemuir (May 13) Stenhousemuir [0 – 1] Alloa [Stenny are promoted.] League 1 playoff finals: Clyde 1 – 1 Hamilton Academical (May 12) Hamilton Academical 4 – 3 Clyde (yesterday) Accies stay up. League 2 playoff final, leg 2: Edinburgh City [2 – 0] Brora Rangers [Edinburgh City stay up.]
Other matches: Lesmahagow 4 – 2 Greenock (May 12) Kluczevia Stargard 0 – 3 Lipno Stęszew (May 13) Ottawa Rapids 2 – 0 Halifax Tides (May 13) Scrosoppi 4 – 0 Unionville Milliken (yesterday) Mynavi Sendai [2 – 3] Elfen Saitama This ends the 2025-26 WE League. Elfen Saitama finish eleventh. Celtic [3 – 1] Hearts Hearts [had to] win or draw to finish atop the Premiership. Kilwinning Rangers [1 – 2] Largs Thistle This ends the WoS Premier Division season. Largs are promoted to the new Lowland League West. Cambuslang Rangers [1 – 7] Greenock [Greenock finish eleventh.] This ends the WoS 2nd Division season. Finnart [2 – 2] Port Glasgow This ends the WoS 3rd Division season. Port Glasgow are promoted. Coldstream [4 – 3] Kennoway Star Hearts This ends the EoS 2nd Division season. Coldstream are promoted. Lipno Stęszew [0 – 5] Luzino (tomorrow) Armadale Thistle [1 – 2] Morton Women (tomorrow) This ends the Scottish Women’s Championship season. [Morton stay up.] Atlético Ottawa [1 – 0] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow)
The Vancouver Whitecaps will use 5,000-seat Swangard Stadium in Burnaby for their Canadian Championship quarter-final against Cavalry FC. The Whitecaps are out of BC Place until August due to the World Cup.
Mortonalia: Michael O’Halloran has signed on for another year.
The Hokkaido Soccer League starts this weekend. Let’s follow Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth: Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [3 – 0] Sapporo FC (tomorrow)
J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 12 (May 13): Machida Zelvia (3rd) 0 – 0 Tokyo Verdy (5th) (Zelvia win on PK)
J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 17: Mito HollyHock (7th) [0 – 1] Tokyo Verdy (4th) Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) [0 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd) [FC Tokyo win on PK] Yokohama F Marinos (8th) [0 – 1] Kashiwa Reysol (9th) JEF United (10th) [0 – 2] Kashima Antlers (1st) (tomorrow) Kawasaki Frontale (6th) [1 – 1] Machida Zelvia (3rd) (tomorrow) [Frontale win on PK]
Avon Saxon was born in Grand-Pré about 1857 and died in Berwick in 1909. In between he had a trans-Atlantic musical career, the highlight of which was the role of Friar Tuck in Arthur Sullivan’s Ivanhoe. Source. And.
China has a communications satellite, Queqiao 1, in a halo orbit around the earth-moon L2 point, which allows China’s landers on the lunar far side to remain in constant contact with ground control. Source.
HFX Wanderers versus Forge FC in last year’s cup. Source.
HFX Wanderers visit Forge in the preliminary round of the Canadian Championship. They played the same cup fixture last year and Forge won 3 – 1. They also met in league play last weekend in Halifax and Forge won 3 – 1.
Former Wanderers assistant coach Derek King has been appointed head of the Trinidad and Tobago national men’s team.
[Forge 4 – 0 HFX Wanderers.]
The other Canadian Championship matches: Toronto FC 1 – 3 Atlético Ottawa (May 5) Upset CF Montréal 5 – 0 Calgary Blizzard (May 6) Supra 3 – 1 Woodbridge Strikers (yesterday) Pacific [1 – 3] Cavalry Vancouver FC [2 – 0] Langley United (tomorrow) Inter Toronto [0 – 1] CS Saint-Laurent (tomorrow) Upset
It’s the SPFL playoffs: Premiership playoffs, QF: Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 0 Arboath (May 5) Arbroath 0 – 0 Dunfermline Athletic (yesterday) Pars advance. Championship playoffs, semi-finals: Alloa Athletic 1 – 0 Airdrieonians (May 5) Queen of the South 1 – 1 Stenhousemuir (May 5) Airdrieonians [1 – 2] Alloa Athletic (May 9) [Airdrie are relegated.] Stenhousemuir [2 – 2] Queen of the South (May 9) [Stenny win on PK.] League 1 playoffs, SF: Forfar 1 – 3 Hamilton Academical (May 5) Clyde 2 – 0 Spartans (May 5) Hamilton Academical [2 – 1] Forfar (May 9) Spartans [1 – 1] Clyde (May 9) [Hamilton and Clyde advance.] League 2 playoff final, leg 1: Brora Rangers [1 – 1] Edinburgh City
Airdrieonians are in the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year, once (2023-24) in the Premiership playoffs and five times in the Championship playoffs.
Dumbarton are replacing their grass with a plastic pitch. Story.
Mortonalia: James Storer has returned to Wolverhampton. Cammy Ballantyne has signed on for another year.
Other matches: Djurgården 6 – 0 Göteborg (May 4) Beith 2 – 1 Largs Thistle (May 5) Pogoń Nowe Skalmierzyce [2 – 0] Lipno Stęszew Göteborg 0 – 1 Hammarby Stirling University EoS [0 – 5] Coldstream Hurlford United [2 – 2] Largs Thistle Thorn Athletic [4 – 2] Greenock International FC [1 – 3] Scrosoppi Elfen Saitama [0 – 1] Kobe Leonessa (tomorrow) Fortuna Düsseldorf [3 – 1] SV Elversberg (tomorrow) Forfar Farmington [0 – 4] Morton Women (tomorrow)
J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 15 (May 6): FC Tokyo (2nd) 0 – 3 JEF United (10th) Machida Zelvia (3rd) 2 – 0 Yokohama F Marinos (8th) Kashima Antlers (1st) 3 – 0 Mito HollyHock (7th) Kawasaki Frontale (5th) 1 – 0 Tokyo Verdy (4th) Kashiwa Reysol (9th) 0 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds (6th)
J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 16: Mito HollyHock (7th) [1 – 4] Urawa Red Diamonds (6th) Yokohama F Marinos (8th) [1 – 1] Kashima Antlers (1st) [Kashima win on PK] (tomorrow) FC Tokyo (2nd) [2 – 1] Tokyo Verdy (4th) (tomorrow) Kashiwa Reysol (10th) [1 – 0] Kawasaki Frontale (5th) (tomorrow) JEF United (9th) [0 – 2] Machida Zelvia (3rd) (tomorrow)
2026 HKFA 8th Hokkaido Football Championship: SF #1: BTOP Hokkaido [3 – 0] Tokai University Sapporo (May 9) SF #2: Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [1 – 1] Sapporo University [Sapporo University win on PK] (May 9) Final: [BTOP Hokkaido 0 – 1 Sapporo University] (May 10)
SFL results 1890-91: 1891/5/5 Celtic 9 – 1 Vale of Leven 1891/5/6 Third Lanark 3 – 0 Cowlairs 1891/5/9 Vale of Leven 2 – 4 Hearts 1891/5/9 Rangers 4 – 1 Third Lanark
Who scored the most goals against Morton in 2025-26? 4 Jamie Gullan (St Johnstone) 3 Josh McPake (St Johnstone) 2 Tawanda Maswanhise (Motherwell); Matthew Aitken (Stenhousemuir); Aidan Connolly (Queen’s Park); Dom Thomas (Airdrieonians); Ben Stanway (Partick Thistle); Alex Samuel (Partick Thistle); Findlay Marshall (Arbroath); Euan Henderson (Airdrieonians)
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