Halifax Tides
Halifax Tides make history, debuting professional women’s football in Atlantic Canada, but fall 4-1 to Calgary Wild
The Halifax Tides were greeted by singing, drums and thunderous support from a nearly sold out Wanderers Grounds on Saturday as they made history with their Northern Super League (NSL) debut. Despite the dreary weather, the atmosphere was electric as the Tides starting XI — which included Nova Scotians Sydney Kennedy
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‘It’s about so much more’: Hype building as Halifax Tides prepare for inaugural NSL season
The Northern Super League (NSL) is on the precipice of history. This coming Wednesday, Vancouver Rise and the Calgary Wild will kickoff the season at B.C. Place, officially marking the highly anticipated launch of the first professional women’s football league in Canadian history. And while history is being made
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Bringing rising international star Milly Clegg to the Halifax Tides: Inside the Northern Super League’s first-ever loan deal
The first loan deal in Northern Super League (NSL) history came about relatively quickly, a tidy affair in the otherwise wide and messy world of football. Many negotiations can span months, if not years. But in the case of 19-year old New Zealand international Milly Clegg, who has already made
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Nova Scotia’s Syd Kennedy wasn’t ready to be done with football. Now, she’ll represent the Halifax Tides in their inaugural season.
Anyone steeped in Nova Scotia’s football community knows her name, its utterance almost always followed by a smile. Be it as a member of the U-15 Canadian national team, playing for Acadia University or representing and scoring the game-winning goal to secure Nova Scotia a medal at the Canada Summer
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How curiosity led CanWMT veteran and Olympic champion Erin McLeod to become the first signing in Halifax Tides history
These days, Erin McLeod — Olympian, analyst, and now officially the first ever player signing in Halifax Tides’ history — has a favourite word. It’s a word, in her own words, that drives both her body and mind as, at 41-years old, she moves into the twilight of her professional footballing career.
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Developing the next Maritime Messi: How the football pyramid, bit by bit, is being built in Nova Scotia
Jacob Shaffelburg knows he beat the odds. Or more accurately, given his meteoric rise for Canada, widespread popularity in MLS and moniker as Maritime Messi, blew them out of the water. He’s risen to heights he believes, as he’s told several outlets, to be near impossible for a footballer from
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Q&A with Lewis Page, the first head coach in Halifax Tides history
Lewis Page spent 25 seasons with the UPEI Panthers. Now, after time as both the men’s and women’s coach, he’s beginning a new chapter with the Northern Super League (NSL) as the head coach for the Halifax Tides. Born in Montréal but raised in Chester, N.S., Page’s appointment is
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Tickets, coach shopping and contracts: An inside look at the Halifax Tides’ path from launch party to matchday
It’s been a whirlwind couple months for Dr. Courtney Sherlock, who is the CEO and co-founder of Halifax Tides FC, but it’s full steam ahead towards her club’s next big milestone: the Northern Super League’s (NSL) kickoff in April, 2025. “Ball drop 2025 will be the next pivotal moment, for
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Halifax Tides FC joins as NSL’s East Coast club
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story stated the club had confirmed they will play at the Wanderers Grounds; they remain in discussions but nothing is finalized at this time. Thursday night revealed the latest Northern Super League club, Halifax Tides FC, as they move closer to their
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