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List of soccer stadiums in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6639668 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a partial list of Canadian soccer stadiums, in order by capacity. Not all stadiums are used exclusively for soccer; some also host Canadian football, rugby and/or track and field.

Current stadiums

Capacity of at least 15,000

Capacity between 4,000 and 15,000

Capacity between 1,000 and 4,000

Former stadiums

See also

Rogers Centre - Formerly used for occasional Canada matches, and rare winter matches and friendlies for Toronto FC. Renovated for baseball-only use in 2016.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, soccer and stadiums is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of soccer stadiums in Canada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.