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Up the Rise

August 31, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Football No Comments

A fun night last night at the Vancouver Rise match at Swangard Stadium. Coming into last night’s match against Montreal Roses, the Rise were undefeated in five matches and two points off Montreal for second place. Vancouver started bright but former TSS Rover Tanya Boychuk opened the scoring for Montreal. Vancouver responded on a Holly Ward goal, scored off a perfect pass from Quinn. Ward has been snake bitten all year and she needs to get her goals to efforts ratio up a bit. She’s tireless in attack and this goal was well deserved. She had a tough game against Hailey Whitaker at right back for Montreal but she’ll be happy with that goal.

Vancouver got their second in added time before the half when right winger Lisa Perchersky curled a sublime shot into the far top corner. The Rise protected the lead in the second half but pressed for more and could have scored two or three more. By the final ten minutes both teams were running out of gas and the Rise managed the match to a satisfying conclusion, winning 2-1 and climbing to second.

The Rise have nailed this moment in time I think. They seem to be outdrawing Vancouver FC, the Canadian Premier League team who play up the road in Langley. The atmosphere is marvellous and the conversation in the stands, especially between the young women and girls who are dressed in their own club shirts, is about WOMEN’S football specifically. The girls behind us were comparing their own style of play to Alex Morgan, and then finishing the conversation with “but she’s American, so whatever…”

Walking around at half-time, I had the persistent thought in my head, which many of us involved in women’s football have, said in a sarcastic and mocking tone “BuT NoOnE WAtChes WoMEn’S FooTBalL!” which is the objection raised against the sport. Truly, if you head out to Langley to watch Vancouver FC, they are drawing about half of what the Rise is drawing. There are lots of reasons why, having to do with Vancouver FC’s general incompetence in developing support for their club at the moment, but the Rise are still averaging more people at their matches (4296, which included 16,000 at their home opener at BC Place, to be fair) than the CPL average (4049). In fact only one CPL club has outdrawn the Rise on average.

The point is, people DO watch women’s football, and it’s not always the same people that watch men’s football. The Rise are doing great. Long may they continue to, well, rise.

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