About Us

The Saskatoon Soccer Centre Inc. (SSCI) was first registered as a nonprofit corporation in 1993 when representatives of the Saskatoon & District Soccer Association (SDSA) and Saskatoon Youth Soccer Inc. (SYSI) established a committee to raise funds to construct a building primarily for the sport of indoor soccer.  With the help of the City of Saskatoon, and hundreds of organizations and individuals the Saskatoon Kinsmen Henk Ruys Soccer Centre was opened for its first game in November, 1998.  Since then the SSCI has been home to more almost 10,000 soccer players. 
In 2003 the soccer family determined that if soccer was to continue to grow, another facility was necessary. The design and development of another facility included two artifical grass outdoor fields as well as an indoor artificial grass field. The two parent organizations, SYSI, and SDSA have previously utilized city owned facilities for all their outdoor programs. This is the first time that soccer actually owns and operates outdoor fields. This new development allows for the programming of a significant number of games on the three fields since they don’t need the rest that natural grass fields should have on an ongoing basis. Each artificial grass field is equal to four natural grass fields.

The partnership with the Saskatoon Public School Board and the City of Saskatoon makes it one of a kind in Saskatoon and in Canada. The SaskTel Sports Centre (named in June of
2006) is attached to the Centennial Collegiate and the city operates a walking track within the centre with a future civic facility being planned in 5 to 10 years.

The building committee is being chaired by Bob Rohachuk and the fundraising campaign being chaired by Declan O’Reilly. The doors opened to the public on January 2, 2006 with the artificial turf field being opened for its first indoor games. By September, 2006, the hard court fields, the Pleasureway Pub and Deck, cafeteria and Terry Fox Walking Track were all opened to the public.