Saskatoon Hilltops

The Saskatoon Hilltops are a Canadian Junior Canadian Football team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Hilltops play in the six-team Prairie Football Conference, which is part of the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) and competes annually for the national title known as the Canadian Bowl. The team was founded in 1921 as a senior team in the Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union, in which it played until 1936. The team reorganized in 1947. The Hilltops have won 19 Canadian Bowl championships, the most of any Canadian junior football team in history.

Saskatoon Minor Football Field at Gordie Howe Park is the home field for the Saskatoon Hilltops. and was to undergo expansion and installation of artificial turf beginning in 2009. In 2011, Saskatoon's city council decided that plans for Gordie Howe Bowl were not feasible and plans to upgrade the facility have been put on hold. On September 6, 2014, the first Hilltop game was played on the newly installed artificial turf against the Regina Thunder ball team. With funding by Friends of the Bowl Foundation, community donors and the City of Saskatoon, new scoreboard, lights and sound system were also new additions. The facility still awaits a new clubhouse.

The Hilltops entered the playoffs with 6 wins and 2 losses which resulted in a first place standing. On October 19, 2014 the play off game against the Winnipeg Rifles was finalized with a 43 to 13 score in favour of the Hilltops. The Hilltops proceed to the Prairie Football Conference PFC finals on Sunday October 26, 2014.

The Hilltops have won 19 of the 22 Canadian Championships they have played in, the most recent being the 2012 Canadian Bowl versus the Langley Rams at Langley, B.C. “I’m pretty sure the odds are in my favour. The Saskatoon Hilltops are vying for their third straight Canadian Championship. They know how to win football games. I am proud to support them, and proud they are representing Saskatchewan. said Kevin Doherty, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Parks, Culture, and Sport of a friendly wager made between himself, and Bill Bennett, British Columbia’s Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development. It will be Bennett who will don a Saskatoon Hilltop jersey for a day.

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