Saturday, May 30 at 2:00 p.m. vs Vancouver Rise FC at Stade Boréale : Tickets on sale now at en.rosesmtl.ca/tickets 

After three straight matches on the road, the Roses are home. Montreal returns to Stade Boréale on Saturday with the best record in the league at 4-0-1, still the only team yet to lose this season. The opponent is a familiar one: Vancouver Rise FC, the defending champions, beaten 4-0 here on May 2. 

Saturday in Ottawa was the response the Roses were looking for after Calgary. A week earlier, they had let a late lead slip and conceded in stoppage time for a 2-2 draw. Against the Rapid, second in the table and one point back of Montreal going in, the finish held this time. Tanya Boychuk scored twice in the first half, and the defence saw out the win after the break. Five matches in, the Roses have conceded just three goals. 

Boychuk’s brace moved her level with Elyse Bennett atop the league scoring chart, both on four. Behind them, the rest keeps working. Lisa Pechersky, Chloe Minas, Evelyn Badu and Charlotte Bilbault continue to run the midfield, and Anna Karpenko has three clean sheets through five matches.

The opponent

Vancouver arrives in a different spot than a year ago. The champions opened 2026 with three losses, including the 4-0 result in Montreal and a 4-0 home defeat to Ottawa on May 6. They got on the board on May 18, when Quinn converted a penalty in a 2-1 win in Halifax for the club’s first points of the season. 

There’s still quality in the group. Quinn, the Canadian international with over 100 caps and an Olympic gold medal, runs the midfield. Shannon Woeller, back from the knee injury that ended her 2025, shares the captaincy and anchors the back line. Anja Heiner-Møller coaches the side, with former Canada goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé as sporting director. 

The two clubs split their five meetings in 2025: two wins each, one draw, a +2 edge for Montreal on goal difference. Lisa Pechersky, who lifted the title with the Rise last November, faces her former club for the second time this year. 

What to watch

Vancouver has struggled to score, with no more than two goals in a match this season. That puts the focus on a Roses defence that has conceded fewer goals than anyone in the league two years running. Keeping the Rise’s offence quiet behind Lucy Cappadona, Stéphanie Hill and Anne-Valérie Seto is the key to a fourth clean sheet.

In midfield, Quinn is the one who can open a tight game. Bilbault and Pechersky will look to close that down. And up front, Boychuk and Bennett will try to keep a good thing going.

Broadcast

Saturday, May 30, 2026 · 2:00 p.m. ET · Stade Boréale, Laval

Live on Radio-Canada, CBC Gem and NSL.ca. 

Be there: Tickets are on sale now at en.rosesmtl.ca/tickets. Doors open 90 minutes before kickoff, and the free STL shuttle runs between Métro Cartier and the stadium.