The first weekend in June has got to be the slowest part of the soccer calendar.

HFX Wanderers visit Calgary. Cavalry are second with 17 points, HFX Wanderers sixth with 9 points. Since 2019 HFX Wanderers have beaten Cavalry only 3 times in 26 attempts.

Halifax’s Isaiah Johnston and Calgary’s Tobias Warschewski are joint league leaders with four goals each.

This is Mario Carducci’s first game against his old teammates.

Cavalry [2 – 0] HFX Wanderers

Other matches:
Canada 2 – 0 Uzbekistan (friendly) (June 1)
Alouettes 30 – 27 Tiger-Cats (June 4)
Mexico 5 – 1 Serbia (friendly) (June 4)
Canada 1 – 1 Ireland (friendly) (yesterday)
Bolivia [0 – 4] Scotland (friendly) [Two for Shankland.]
Oakville [3 – 2] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Morton have signed 19-year-old Bobby McLuckie, previously of Hearts, Stenny, Hamilton Accies and East Kilbride. Grant Gillespie has signed on for another year. Also signed is goalkeeper Brian Kinnear, formerly of Rangers B, Camelon, Annan Athletic, West Ham U23, Falkirk and Clyde. Sam Murdoch has been loaned out to Annan Athletic.

[The 2026-27 Morton primary kit is out. The blue hoops are tartan.]

The Challenge Cup has been reformatted, as it is every year. This time the league phase will include League One, League Two, ten Premiership B teams, plus Banks o’ Dee, Clachnacuddin, Formartine United, Fraserburgh, Berwick Rangers, Bonnyrigg Rose, Cowdenbeath, Gala Fairydean Rovers, Clydebank and Cumbernauld Colts, or four from the Highland League, four from the Lowland League East and two from the Lowland League West. Clach, new Clydebank and Gala have never been in the Challenge Cup before.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 2 (selected matches):
Kashima Antlers [2 – 0] Vissel Kobe [Vissel finish first on aggregate.]
Mito HollyHock [0 – 1] V-Varen Nagasaki [Mito finish 18th.]
JEF United [1 – 2] Avispa Fukuoka [JEF finish 20th.]

JFL Cup final, leg 2 (tomorrow):
Okinawa SV [4 – 1] ReinMeer Aomori [Okinawa win the cup.]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/6/6 Dumbarton 5 – 1 Morton (Greenock Charity Cup final)
1891/6/10 Dumbarton 3 – 0 Celtic (SFL Charity Cup final)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 2:
1942/6/6 Queen’s Park 4 – 3 Albion Rovers
1942/6/6 Partick Thistle 0 – 2 Celtic
1942/6/6 Motherwell 4 – 2 Dumbarton
1942/6/6 Morton 1 – 0 Falkirk (3 – 3 on aggregate. Falkirk won on a coin toss.)
1942/6/6 Rangers vs Hamilton Academical (not played)
1942/6/6 Clyde 0 – 2 Hibs
1942/6/6 Hearts 4 – 1 St Mirren
1942/6/6 Airdrieonians 1 – 4 Third Lanark

Largs Thistle, 1994 victors. Source.

Largs Thistle and Auchinleck Talbot meet in the final of the Scottish Communities Cup, formerly the Scottish Junior Cup. Auchinleck have won this cup 14 times, Largs once. Auchinleck beat Largs in the 2018-19 final.

Both clubs will be playing in the new Lowland League West next season.

Auchinleck Talbot [2 – 1] Largs Thistle (tomorrow)

Other matches:
Göteborg 1 – 1 Mjallby (May 25)
Halifax Tides 1 – 2 Ottawa Rapid (yesterday) Halifax goal by Benati.
Scrosoppi 2 – 1 Sigma (yesterday)
Ti-Cats 20 – 14 Argos (pre-season) (yesterday)
Lipno Stęszew [4 – 3] Unia Swarzędz
This ends the Polish III Liga, Group II season. Lipno Stęszew finish midtable fourth.
HFX Wanderers [1 – 0] Vancouver FC [Goal by Ciccarelli.]
Scotland [4 – 1] Curaçao (friendly) [Two goals for Shankland.]
Mexico [1 – 0] Australia (friendly)
Norbritz Hokkaido [0 – 2] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Västerås SK [4 – 5] Göteborg (tomorrow)
Japan [1 – 0] Iceland (friendly) (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Players not returning are: Fergus Owens, Ali Crawford, Kian Taylor, Nathan Shaw, Zak McKay, James Storer, Aaron Lyall, Reuben Lopata-White, Curtis Main and Murray Johnson.

Iain (“Shug”) Wilson has signed on for another year.

Former Morton throw-in specialist Lewis Strapp has signed with Ross County. Lawrence Shankland has signed with Rangers. Josh McPake has joined Hearts.

The draw for the League Cup group stage was held Wednesday. Morton are in the same group as St Johnstone, Inverness CT, East Fife and Linlithgow Rose. Three of them are league champions.

The 2026-27 Highland League schedule is already out. That is the best organized league.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 1 (selected matches):
Vissel Kobe [5 – 0] Kashima Antlers (for 1st place)
V-Varen Nagasaki [1 – 0] Mito HollyHock (for 17th place)
Although there will be no relegation at the end of the 100 Year Vision League, the 18th team would be relegated in a regular J1 season, which makes V-Varen vs HollyHock important for both teams.
Avispa Fukuoka [2 – 2] JEF United (for 19th place)

JFL Cup final, leg 1 (tomorrow):
ReinMeer Aomori [0 – 0] Okinawa SV

2025-26 UEFA Conference League final (May 27):
Crystal Palace 1 – 0 Rayo Vallecano

2025-26 UEFA Champions League final:
Paris Saint-Germain [1 – 1] Arsenal [PSG win on PK]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/5/30 Celtic 6 – 1 Third Lanark (SFL Charity Cup SF)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 1:
1942/5/30 Albion Rovers 2 – 0 Queen’s Park
1942/5/30 Celtic 2 – 1 Partick Thistle
1942/5/30 Dumbarton 1 – 0 Motherwell
1942/5/30 Falkirk 3 – 2 Morton
1942/5/30 Hamilton Academical 1 – 7 Rangers
1942/5/30 Hibs 2 – 1 Clyde
1942/5/30 St Mirren 3 – 3 Hearts
1942/5/30 Third Lanark 4 – 2 Airdrieonians