Canada Soccer – Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team will welcome Brazil to Ottawa on 2 September for an International Friendly ahead of Canada’s FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ qualification campaign set for October at the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championships. Canada, ranked fifth in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings, will play the 2016 Rio Olympic hosts, ranked seventh, at 2pm ET on Sunday 2 September at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa.
 
Tickets for the highly anticipated match-up will go on sale to the public this Thursday, 12 July at 10am ET via TDPlace.ca, by phone at 613.232.6767, and in-person at the TD Place Box Office. Tickets to the match start as low as $20 and groups of 10 or more are eligible for discounts of up to 30% off regularly priced tickets. For complete ticket information visit www.canadasoccer.com/tickets.   

“Canada Soccer is thrilled to be returning to the nation’s capital with our Women’s National Team to play Brazil, who we faced in the Bronze Medal match at the 2016 Rio Olympics,” said Peter Montopoli, Canada Soccer General Secretary. “Ottawa has always supported this team, as they did in 2016 when over twenty thousand fans came out to send them of to Rio, and we are confident we’ll have an excellent crowd again for this rematch.”
 
Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team last match against Brazil saw Canada defeat the home side at Rio 2016 Olympic Games to take the Olympic Bronze Medal.  Canada’s back-to-back podium finishes at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games earned them the distinction of becoming the first Canadian team to win back-to-back Summer Olympic medals since 1908, and the first-ever women’s Canadian team to repeat on the podium. Canada also faced Brazil in Toronto and Ottawa ahead of the Rio Olympics, splitting the series 1-1, including Canada’s send-off final match in Ottawa which saw the home team defeat Brazil 1-0, with Janine Beckie scoring in the 90th minute to secure the win in front of 23,588 fans TD Place.

“Bringing Brazil to Canada for this match in September is an extremely important opportunity for us as we prepare for the Concacaf Women’s Championship in October,” said Canada Soccer Women’s National Team Head Coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller. “Brazil is an incredibly challenging team, with a wealth of talent, so having the opportunity to play them ahead of our FIFA Women’s World Cup™ qualification campaign will give us a good opportunity to test ourselves against another top ten team, while facing an opponent that will bring a different style of play than our most recent European opponents, which is something we expect we will face in the Concacaf Championships as well.”
 
Since the 2016 Rio Olympics, Canada has played 18 matches, 11 of which have been against European sides, and recorded ten wins, two ties and six losses. Six of those matches have been against teams ranked in the top ten in the world, including a tie against the USA ranked #1 in Vancouver in November 2017.   
 
“Our focus since 2016 has been on playing the world’s top teams as we ready ourselves for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France next year, but first we must qualify through the Concacaf Women’s Championship tournament, which presents a different set of challenges,” said Heiner-Møller. “We anticipate facing teams with a different style of play and a different level of intensity, so facing Brazil as a preparatory match will give us some good insight into what we need to work on in the final push of our qualification campaign.”
 
While the United States and Canada are already seeded into Group A and Group B at the Concacaf Women’s Championships respectively, the Central American Zone and Caribbean Zone qualification for the Concacaf Women’s Championship will conclude on 2 September, the same day Canada faces Brazil in Ottawa.

For complete ticket information visit www.canadasoccer.com/tickets. 
 
Canada v Brazil Recent Results
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Date	Location	Match type	CAN	Result	Opponent	Venue	Attendance
2016-08-19	São Paulo, BRA	Women’s Olympic Football Tournament	CAN WNT	2 – 1	BRA	Arena Corinthians	39,718
2016-06-07	Ottawa, ON, CAN	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	1 – 0	BRA	TD Place	23,588
2016-06-04	Toronto, ON, CAN	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	0 – 2	BRA	BMO Field	28,604
2016-03-09	Lagos, POR	Algarve Women’s Cup	CAN WNT	2 – 1	BRA	Estádio Municipal da Bela Vista	300
2015-12-20	Natal, BRA	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	1 – 3	BRA	Arena das Dunas	10,643
2015-12-16	Natal, BRA	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	1 – 2	BRA	Arena das Dunas
2013-12-18	Brasilia, BRA	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	0 – 0	BRA	Estadio Nacional Mané Garrincha	4,000
2012-07-17	Savièse, SUI	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	1 – 2	BRA	Stade St-Germain	2,000
2012-03-24	Foxborough, MA, USA	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	2 – 1	BRA	Gillette Stadium	3,000
2011-10-27	Guadalajara, MEX	Pan American Games	CAN WNT	1 – 1	BRA	Estadio Omnilife	10,000
2011-10-22	Guadalajara, MEX	Pan American Games	CAN WNT	0 – 0	BRA	Estadio Omnilife	10,000
2010-12-19	São Paulo, BRA	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	2 – 2	BRA	Estádio do Pacaembu	17,264
2010-12-15	São Paulo, BRA	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	0 – 0	BRA	Estádio do Pacaembu	3,986
2008-07-10	Toronto, ON, CAN	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	1 – 1	BRA	BMO Field	13,554
2007-07-20	Rio, BRA	Pan American Games	CAN WNT	0 – 7	BRA	Estadio Maracana
2006-11-01	Changwon, KOR	Women’s International Tournament	CAN WNT	4 – 2	BRA	Changwon, KOR
2003-07-20	Ottawa, ON, CAN	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	2 – 1	BRA	TD Place	18,000
2003-07-17	Montréal, QC, CAN	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	2 – 1	BRA	Stade Molson	12,245
1999-06-03	Portland, OR, USA	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	2 – 4	BRA	Portland, OR, USA
1996-07-04	SD, USA	Women’s International Friendly	CAN WNT	1 – 2	BRA	SD, USA

 

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Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team
Canada recently made history with back-to-back podium finishes at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games, becoming the first Canadian team to win back-to-back Summer Olympic medals since 1908, and the first-ever women’s Canadian team to return to the podium.  
 
At the last three major women’s tournaments, Canada finished third at the London 2012 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament, sixth at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™, and third at the Rio 2016 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament.

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MEDIA CONTACTS / CONTACTS MÉDIAS

Richard Scott
Men’s National Teams Program | Programme de l’équipe nationale masculine
rscott@canadasoccer.com
m. +1 613.818.0305

Carrie Croft
Women’s National Teams Program | Programme de l’équipe nationale féminine
ccroft@canadasoccer.com
m. +1 613.406.4986