A year after Saint John was announced as the host city for the 2013 IFAF Women’s World Championship, it finds out it will no longer be hosting the football tournament.
Football Canada and the IFAF says the decision to pull the tournament was due to liability, lack of suitable fields and international travel costs.
President of Football New Brunswick Lisa Harlow tells CHSJ news there are plenty of fields in Saint John and 68% of the budget was already covered, so the decision to pull was a surprise. Harlow says they tried to having meetings to make changes but were unsuccessful.
Harlow adds one concern was having Canadian sized football fields instead of American, but they were working with companies to get them changed over.
She says despite the disappointment, women’s football is growing. There’s still no word yet on where the new host city will be.
