Canada Day Information - Managers
Information 2024
Parking Limited - Calgary Soccer Centre Summer Facility Access
Please be advised that parking at the Calgary Soccer Centre is limited due to the upgrades to the west parking lot and construction of additional site amenities (indicated in red below). You can learn more about the improvements here.
The north parking lot and street parking along 48th Street S.E. remain open, but we expect limited capacity for tournament attendee parking on site.
Please plan ahead! We encourage attendees to explore alternatives when travelling to the Soccer Centre, such as carpooling and transit. NOTE: Carpooling Lot and day parking from 6am-11pm ( not RV’s in lot ) can be found at City of Calgary: New Brighton Athletic Park , address is 5801 130 Avenue SE. Teams can meet at this location and carpool to the Soccer Centre.
Calgary Parking Authority will be making frequent rounds and will ticket and/or tow vehicles that are parked in no parking areas.
Games will be scheduled from 4:00pm June 28, 2024 to 3:00 pm on July 1, 2024 . Please make travel arrangements to ensure you are prepared for the potential of a 4:00pm start on June 28, 2024 to 3:00 pm on July 1, 2024.
Mandatory Coaches/Managers meeting June 28 at 3:30pm and June 29 at 7:30am in the Main Building at the Red Card Lounge must attend prior to your first tournament game, if the coach can not attend please send another team representative.
Stay to play, your rooms are already being held for your team-please do not book directly until advised by tournament director. This weekend is one of the busiest in Calgary as there are also other sporting events scheduled. Hotel rooms can be very difficult to come by as well as exorbitant prices being offered. We have made arrangements with hotels for this weekend only with rates of $169 per room
Some further information:
Location of the home arena - Calgary Soccer Center at 7000-48th St SE: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Recreation/Pages/Calgary-Soccer-Centre/Calgary-Soccer-Centre.aspx Restaurant and outdoor food and beverage center available at the Soccer Center as well as fast food outlets within walking distance.
Buses can not stop in the front of the building, please have your bus wait elsewhere until your team is all together and waiting at the front, then call your driver for pickup.
Soccer Centre becomes very hot, ensure that your athletes are well hydrated all day. Many teams will bring extra water on the bench during the game and also a small cooler with wet sponges or clothes to cool the players down during period breaks.
No team warm-up is permitted in the the soccer centre, Outdoor Field #3 and #4 will be available for team warm up
Teams are required to supply their own roster labels for game sheets or fill them out by hand.
Volunteers required: Home team to supply three for timekeeping, visitors one for penalty box. Home team is determined by which ever team is nearest the City of Calgary. It is the home team‘s responsibility to ensure that game sheet is taken from the game sheet table, to the timekeepers box AND is returned to the game sheet table after the game. Game sheets will be made available 15-30 minutes before game time. Sheets must be completed at the game sheet table.
After each game, teams are to shake hands. Once done, have your players line up on their respective white lines. Coaches will be asked to choose a player from your team who most deserves the game MVP award (ring) and another player to receive the sportsmanship award (Kona Kindness Award). Players can only win this award once throughout the tournament.
Teams supply all practice balls for the tournament - however, players are not allowed to have any lacrosse balls whatsoever off the playing surface. Lacrosse balls will be confiscated. Game balls are supplied by the tournament.
Teams are to have two sets of jerseys, one home and one away. Should there be an issue with similar jersey colours it is the HOME team responsibility to change their jerseys.
Please ensure that each player has proof of age with them.
It is your responsibility to supply a dressing room supervisor to ensure dressing rooms are left the way that they are found and to ensure players are prompt (in/out) once changed. Please ensure your roster form has your team manager and their cell number listed
Dedicated female dressing room located in
Pay particular attention to Calgary Lacrosse rules and regulations at: http://calgarylacrosse.com/Team/edsTeam.dll/PageContent?ContentId=4380 Unless otherwise mentioned in tournament rules, CLA rules apply.
Ensure you are familiar with the affiliation rules at this link
Here are the Emergency facilities nearby the Soccer Centre
South Health Campus Hospital http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/facilities/shc/
Urgent Care South Calgary http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/facilities.asp?pid=facility&rid=1003295
Rockyview Hospital: http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/facilities.asp?pid=facility&rid=3
Peter Lougheed Hospital: http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/facilities.asp?pid=facility&rid=2
THIS IS A ZERO TOLERANCE TOURNAMENT
WE REQUEST THAT ALL COACHES, PLAYERS AND FANS SHOW RESPECT AND SPORTMANSHIP FOR OTHER PLAYERS, COACHES AND OFFICIALS. If a tournament official (not referees) witnesses any abuse, the offending team will have a deduction of .50 points off their round robin standing.
