By Football Alberta

Week 4

Football Alberta Weekly Top-10 Rankings

Sep 22, 2025 | 9:35 AM

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2025 season.

These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labor Day kickoff) from now up until November 2. At that time those will be the last rankings and teams will take this rank into Provincials.

The 12-a-side teams are slotted into their levels based on their estimated school size by School Sport Alberta while the 9 and 6-a-side are one level only. Some re-sorting of 12-a-side levels will take place after the final official population numbers are recorded at the end of September.

Note: games vs. U.S. opponents, scrimmages, or tournaments are not taken into consideration for ranking or listed in the overall record of the schools.

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5A (School Pop. 1400 +) Rank*, School & Record, City/Town, Last Weeks Result, and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Harry Ainlay (5-0) Edmonton beat Salisbury 20-10 (next vs. Ross Sheppard)

2(2) Raymond (4-1) Raymond beat George McDougall 63-17 (next vs. Cardston)

3(4) St. Francis (4-0) Calgary beat Lord Beaverbrook 28-14 (next vs. All Saints)

4(6) Notre Dame (3-0-1) Calgary beat Centennial 38-14 (next vs. William Aberhart)

5(5) Salisbury (3-1) Sherwood Park lost to Harry Ainlay 10-20 (next vs. Bev Facey)

6(8) Ernest Manning (2-2) Calgary beat L.C.I. 24-19 (next vs. Henry Wise Wood)

7(3) L.C.I. (2-2) Lethbridge lost to Ernest Manning 19-24 (next vs. Holy Trinity Academy)

8(9) Notre Dame (3-1) Red Deer beat Lindsay Thurber 63-0 (next vs. Stettler)

9(10) Ross Sheppard (3-1) Edmonton did not play (next vs. Harry Ainlay)

10(7) Spruce Grove (2-2) Spruce Grove lost to Austin O’Brien 13-20 (next week BYE)

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4A (School Pop. 800-1399) Rank*, School & Record, City/Town, Last Weeks Result, and Upcoming Opponent

1(4) Catholic Central (5-0) Lethbridge beat Medicine Hat 36-16 (next vs. Chinook)

2(2) Holy Trinity Aca. (3-1) Okotoks did not play (next vs. L.C.I.)

3(1) George McDougall (4-1) Airdrie lost to Raymond 17-63 (next vs. Springbank)

4(5) Cochrane (4-0) Cochrane beat Springbank 38-7 (next week BYE)

5(6) Chinook (3-0) Lethbridge did not play (next vs. Catholic Central)

6(3) St. Joseph’s (3-2) Grande Prairie lost to Holy Rosary 0-21(next vs. Peace Wapiti)

7(8) Austin O’Brien (1-3) Edmonton beat Spruce Grove 20-13 (next vs. Jasper Place)

8(-) Cold Lake (3-1) Cold Lake beat McCoy 21-14 (next vs. Brooks)

9(10) Hunting Hills (2-1) Red Deer beat Sylvan Lake 35-0 (next vs. Lindsay Thurber)

10(7) Medicine Hat (1-3) Medicine Hat lost to Catholic Central 16-36 (next vs. Foothills)

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3A (School Pop. 200 – 799) Rank*, School & Record, City/Town, Last Weeks Result, and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Holy Rosary (4-0) Lloydminster beat St. Joseph’s 21-0 (next vs. Olds)

2(2) St. Paul (3-0) St. Paul beat Holy Trinity Academy JV 41-14 (next week BYE)

3(6) Cardston (2-1) Cardston beat Willow Creek 42-12 (next vs. Raymond)

4(7) Crescent Heights (3-1) Medicine Hat beat Winston Churchill 23-12 (next vs. Willow Creek)

5(5) Olds (2-2) Olds beat Highwood 45-0 (next vs. Holy Rosary)

6(3) Willow Creek (2-1) Claresholm lost to Cardston 12-42 (next vs. Crescent Heights (MH))

7(4) Sylvan Lake (2-2) Sylvan Lake lost to Hunting Hills 0-35 (next vs. Camrose)

8(8) W.R. Myers (2-2) Taber beat Brooks 44-8 (next vs. Winston Churchill)

9(9) Ardrossan (2-0) Ardrossan beat St. Albert 24-14 (next vs. Queen Elizabeth)

10(10) Drumheller (1-2) Drumheller lost to Foothills 14-36 (next vs. Highwood)

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9-a-side Rank*, School & Record, City/Town, Last Weeks Result, and Upcoming Opponent

1(1) Peace River (2-0) Peace River beat Whitecourt 52-7 (next vs. Frank Maddock)

2(2) Ponoka (1-0) Ponoka did not play (next vs. Wainwright)

3(5) Bonnyville (2-0) Bonnyville beat Wetaskiwin 59-21 (next vs. Millwoods Christian)

4(4) Millwoods Christian (2-1) Edmonton beat Wainwright 32-28 (next vs. Bonnyville)

5(3) Wainwright (2-1) Wainwright lost to Millwoods Christian 28-32 (next vs. Ponoka)

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6-a-side Rank*, School & Record, City/Town, Last Week Result, and Upcoming opponent

1(1) J.C. Charyk (2-0) Hanna beat Hinton 47-46 (next vs. Breton)

2(2) Breton (2-0) Breton beat Holy Redeemer 52-24 (next vs. J.C. Charyk)

3(3) Hinton (1-1) Hinton lost to J.C. Charyk 46-47 (next vs. West Central)

4(5) Rimbey (1-1) Rimbey beat West Central 22-14 (next vs. Holy Redeemer)

5(-) West Central (0-2) Rocky Mtn. Hs. lost to Rimbey 14-22 (next vs. Hinton)

UPCOMING GAME(S) OF THE WEEK:

4A #1 Catholic Central Cougars vs. #5 Chinook Coyotes Friday, September 26th , 7:30 p.m., U. of Lethbridge Stadium (Lethbridge)

4A is tough to rank this year, which is a good problem to have. Catholic Central is now the third team in three weeks to take the #1 spot as the previous two holders of that spot have lost badly to Raymond. The Cougars date with the Comets comes on October 9 but they are undefeated for now, so we’ll go with them.

This week the 4A Battle of Lethbridge is a big thing in 2025. With the long tradition of the Catholic Central Cougars in full swing this year going undefeated so far, they run into a team from across town with no so long a tradition but undefeated as well in the Chinook Coyotes.

Only one team will come out of Zone 1 into Provincials this year and the 4A level is packed with good teams. This game will go a long way to seeing who might be standing at the end of the season.

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3A #1 Holy Rosary Raiders at #5 Olds Spartans Thursday, September 25th , 4:00 p.m., Great Chief Park (Red Deer)

The Olds Spartans have been down this road before. Always a solid 3A team they have scheduled an aggressive non-conference schedule this year against ranked 3A opponents.

There first two non-conference forays where excellent football games but saw the Spartans come up short to both Sylvan Lake and Willow Creek. Olds is hoping third time is the charm this week, but have an even tougher challenge in the #1 ranked Holy Rosary Raiders from Lloydminster.

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9-a-side #2 Ponoka Broncs at #5 Wainwright Commandos Saturday, September 27th , 7:00 p.m., Commando Field (Wainwright)

Two teams that are flourishing at the 9-a-side level meet in Wainwright this week. Both Ponoka and Wainwright have a decent history in 12-a-side with the Commando’s even winning a Tier III Provincial Championship in 1994 but it was becoming quite the struggle pre-COVID for both programs.

Post COVID both teams have made the move to 9-a-side where the smaller rosters fit their smaller school populations and things have taken off. In 2024, the Commandos entered Provincials with the #1 ranking only to be knocked off in the semi-finals by #3 Ponoka at home.

The Broncs then went on to lose in overtime to Peace River in the Alberta Bowl. A revenge game? Maybe. But more importantly a chance to sharpen the axe going forward into the 2025 Provincials.

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6-a-side #1 J.C. Charyk Hawks at #2 Breton Cougars Friday, September 26 th , 4:30 p.m., Breton High School (Breton)

Breton is a quiet, small town nestled in the forests west of Pigeon Lake. It is also the modern birthplace of 6-a-side high school football in Alberta.

It’s true the Cougars were in the Game of Week for 6-a-side last week, and we usually don’t do repeats, but you can’t ignore a battle between the #1 and #2 ranked teams at any level of play. The #1 ranked Hawks may not have been the birthplace of 6-a-side in Alberta but they are now arguably the epicenter of it, with their first-rate facilities and recent history of championships and hosting major national and international 6-a-side events.

Again, Breton is a small town just like any other along highway 20, but it will be the place to be on Friday for the best of fast break football.