Canada Soccer Election Results

Canada Soccer Welcomes New Board Leadership Following 2026 Annual Meeting of Members

Dear Members,

Here are the results of the Board of Directors elections following our organization’s 2026 Annual Meeting of the Members (AMM), held this past weekend in Laval, Québec.

Gayle Statton was elected Vice-President. Statton has a 30-year management career culminating in national Chartered Insurance Professional designation. She was elected as a Director to the Canada Soccer Board in 2024, and she brings three decades of building and leading soccer at a local, provincial, national level with more than 10,000 volunteer hours. Statton was a former President of the BC Soccer Association.

Tony Nocita, Kelly Brown, Kevin Gilmore and Terri Mattucci were elected to serve as Directors on Canada Soccer’s Board. Nocita and Gilmore join the Board as newly elected members. Nocita, Brown, and Gilmore were elected to three-year terms, while Mattucci was elected to a one-year term.

Canada Soccer also extends its sincere appreciation to outgoing Board members Paul-Claude Bérubé, Don Story and Dominique Grégoire for their service and lasting contributions to the organization and to the advancement of soccer in Canada.

2026 Board Election Results:

  • Gayle Statton – Vice-President, two-year term
  • Tony Nocita – Director, Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Nunavut, three-year term
  • Kelly Brown – Director, three-year term
  • Kevin Gilmore – Director, three-year term
  • Terri Mattucci – Director, one-year term

Canada Soccer’s Board of Directors provides strategic oversight and governance of our organization as it works with members and stakeholders to support the continued growth and development of soccer across our country.

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