CPL–U Sports Draft

The CPL–U Sports Draft is an annual event in which Canadian Premier League clubs select players from U Sports, Canada's governing body for university sports. The inaugural draft took place on November 12, 2018.[1]

Logo of the CPL–U Sports Draft

Developmental contract

Drafted players will get an invitation to the team's preseason camp, with the opportunity to earn a developmental contract. The developmental contract allows players to be paid to play in the CPL in the spring and summer, before returning to their university team in August for the U Sports men's soccer season. Players who remain draft-eligible will re-enter the draft in subsequent years.[2]

Drafted players can remain with their CPL club until the end of the season in early November by extending their developmental contract. These players would be ineligible to participate in U Sports the same season as their contract but would regain eligibility the following year.[3]

Rules and procedure

The league standings determine the draft order for the first round. The format is a "snake draft", with the order reversing after each round. Clubs have a window of time in which they must submit their pick, and failure to do so results in a pass. There is a break between each round, as well as one timeout per club. However, timeouts can not be used in back-to-back picks.[4]

List of drafts
Year Date Rds Picks City First selection Team Source
2018 November 12, 2018 3 21 Vancouver, British Columbia Gabriel Bitar Cavalry FC [5]
2019 November 11, 2019 2 14 Montreal, Quebec Cory Bent HFX Wanderers [6]
gollark: Or any concept of stdio, even.
gollark: There's no `cat` under CC.
gollark: PotatOS actually ships with a 5rot26 cryptography program.
gollark: Alternatively, bit hacking I guess, ASCII is designed for that.
gollark: You would need to use ”””subtraction""""" and "modulo".

References
  1. Dheenshaw, Cleve (October 17, 2018). "New Canadian Premier League to hold draft for university soccer players". Times Colonist. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  2. "CPL to partner with U Sports on sharing talent". Sportsnet. The Canadian Press. October 17, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  3. "2019 CPL-U SPORTS Draft announced, rules released". Canadian Premier League. October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  4. "CPL-U SPORTS Draft 101: Detailing the process of the CPL's inaugural university draft". canpl.ca. November 2, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  5. Bedakian, Armen (November 12, 2018). "Draft order revealed: Cavalry FC gets 1st pick in inaugural CPL-U SPORTS Draft". canpl.ca. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  6. "HFX selects Cape Breton's Cory Bent 1st overall in CPL-U SPORTS Draft". Canadian Premier League. November 11, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.