League1 Ontario consists of three tiers – League1 Premier, League1 Championship, and League2 Ontario – with promotion and relegation between them.[3] The top-two tiers consist of 12 and 10 teams respectively, while the lowest tier is uncapped in size.
League1 Ontario was founded on November 15, 2013, in an announcement by the Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) that it would pilot the semi-professional league in 2014 and 2015 as a key pillar of long-term player development in Canada. The league would be administered by DG Sports, who also operate the province's amateur Ontario Soccer League, with Dino Rossi serving as commissioner. OSA President Ron Smale stated that the league's core group of players are to consist of U-23s, with League1 complementing the newly formed Ontario Player Development League (OPDL) elite youth league as a pathway for professional player development.[6]
Dylan Sacramento of Toronto FC Academy scored the first ever goal in the league with a 10th-minute strike against Vaughan Azzurri.[9] In the same game, Mateo Restrepo received the league's first red card.[9] On July 22, 2014, the league and the Ontario Soccer Association announced the termination of Internacional de Toronto's license agreement due to "failure to comply with agreed-upon league standards",[10][11] with league matches rescheduled for the season to accommodate the change. Toronto FC Academy were crowned the inaugural league champions on October 4, 2014, after defeating the Cataraqui Clippers 3–1 to secure the top place in the regular season standings.[12][13] Vaughan Azzurri and Sigma FC contested the inaugural League1 Cup on October 19, 2014, at BMO Field, with the Azzurri winning the single-game cup final 2–1 to be crowned champions.[14][15]
As the number of teams in the league continued to grow through expansion, the league introduced a two-conference format with the winner of each conference facing off in a championship match.[16] After the 2016 season, the Inter-Provincial Cup was cancelled, with the winners of League1 Ontario and the PLSQ instead advancing to the national Canadian Championship the following season, beginning in 2018.[17]
In 2018, the league returned to a single division, introducing playoffs for the top finishers of the league to decide the league champion.[18] The League Cup tournament was eliminated the following season.[19]
On November 14, 2018, the Canadian Premier League announced its purchase of League1 Ontario. According to L1O commissioner Dino Rossi, L1O would serve as "CPL's official development league."[20]
Due to restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the league cancelled the 2020 season[21][22] and delayed the start of the 2021 season.[23] In 2022, L1O joined League1 Canada as a founding member. League1 Canada is an alliance of soccer leagues that operate at the pro-am level.[24]
In 2024, League1 Ontario restructured from a single league into a three-tier competition.[25] First announced in January 2022, existing teams were divided into the top two tiers (Premier and Championship) and the lowest tier (League2) was created as an entry point for expansion clubs to the L1O system. The competition adopted promotion and relegation for clubs to move between the tiers.[26] The 2024 season also saw the return of the L1 Cup, a league cup knockout tournament which features teams from all three tiers of the L1O system.[26]
Competition format
League1 Ontario structure (2024)
Tier
Division
1
Premier 12 teams
↓ relegate 1 or 2
2
Championship 10 teams
↑ promote 1 or 2 ↓ relegate 0 or 1
3
League2 24 teams in 3 conferences
↑ promote 2 or 3
League1 Ontario clubs are grouped into three divisions: League1 Premier, League1 Championship, and League2 Ontario. The regular season runs from April to August in which teams only play against other teams in their division. The top-two tiers use a single table round-robin format while the lowest tier is further subdivided into regional groupings. The team that accumulates the most points during the season is crowned league champions.[27] In 2016 and 2017, the league champion was determined by a single match playoff between the winners of the east and west divisions. From 2018 to 2023, a larger playoff format was used.
Since 2017, the winner of the Premier division has qualified for the Canadian Championship. At the end of each season, the winner of the Championship and League2 divisions are promoted to the next tier up while the bottom team in the Premier and Championship divisions are relegated down.[28]
Beginning in 2019, the Supporters Trophy was created by the Rogue Street Elite supporter group of North Mississauga SC to be given to the regular season champions.[29]
L1 Cup
The L1 Cup is a league cup tournament that features all L1O clubs.[30] It runs concurrently with the regular season, with cup games usually taking place mid-week. It is not a form of playoffs and all matches are separate from the regular season and are not reflected in the season standings. The 2014 and 2015 cups included a group stage and a knockout stage but from 2016 to 2018 the format was a single-elimination tournament. Following a hiatus from 2019 to 2023,[19] the L1 Cup will return in 2024 to coincide with the league's restructuring.[26][31]
Clubs
Current clubs
Twelve teams compete in League1 Premier, ten in League1 Championship, and all remaining teams in League2 Ontario. In 2024, existing teams were assigned to either the Premier or the Championship division based on results from the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
^BVB IA Waterloo was known as Waterloo United in 2021
^Pickering FC was known as Durham United FC/FA until the end of 2019
^Durham United was on hiatus in 2018 & returned in 2019[33] Pickering FC went on hiatus for 2023 & returned in 2024.[34]
^Windsor City FC was known as Windsor Stars from 2014 to 2016 and known as Windsor TFC from 2017 to 2022
League2 Ontario
In 2024, a third tier has been introduced featuring new clubs as well as reserve teams. 24 teams, 3 independent and 21 reserve, have been split into three conferences and will be eligible to earn promotion to the higher tiers.
^Toronto FC Academy played in League1 Ontario from 2014 to 2018, before returning in 2024. They were known as Toronto FC III between 2017 and 2018.
Organization
Regulations
League1 Ontario was founded with a series of values, objectives and standards all aimed at furthering the league's stated objective of improving player development in Ontario and Canada.[35] Some of these regulations include:
Standards-based club licensing, renewed annually (not a franchise/ownership model). Standards include technical, organizational, facility and financial criteria.[35]
Maximum of 9 substitutes can be named to the bench.
League1 Ontario is an open-age league however there are several rules designed to give playing opportunities to young players. For the 2022 season, teams were required to have at least eight U-23 players on each match-day roster and to give U-20 players a total of at least 2,000 minutes across the regular season.[36] In 2024, the "eight U-23 player rule" was removed and replaced by a minutes quota. U-23 players must now play at least 41% of available minutes across the season (9,000 in Premier division) and U-20 players must play 11% of available minutes (2,500 in Premier division).[37]
Honours
Bold indicates clubs playing in 2024 League1 Ontario season. From 2016 to 2023, the winner of the playoffs determined the league champion.
^Originally, 10 clubs were in the league, but Internacional de Toronto was removed from the league mid-season.
^Originally, 21 clubs were set to participate, but some clubs opted out of the main division due to scheduling impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some clubs participated in a separate short-season division.
In 2019, L1O launched a men's U21 Reserve Division open to existing League1 Ontario or Ontario Player Development League license holders. The inaugural year will consist of a 12-game summer season and a separate 10-game fall season. Nine teams will participate in the 2019 summer season with a possibility of more teams joining for the fall.[38]
Players who earned national team caps while in L1O
The following players have earned a senior national team cap while playing in League1 Ontario (the year of their first cap while playing in the league is listed). Players who earned caps before or after playing in League1 Ontario are not included, unless they also earned caps while in the league. This section also does not include youth caps (U23 or below).
^"Competitive S4L Leagues". Ontario Soccer. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2021. League1 Ontario sits as the highest level of soccer for Ontario-based players and is defined as a semi-professional league
Paskaljević menandatangani tanda tangan pada tahun 1997 di acara Filmski susreti festival di Niš. Mihajlo Bata Paskaljević (bahasa Serbia: Михајло Бата Паскаљевић; 14 Januari 1923 – 26 Januari 2004) adalah pemeran panggung, film, dan televisi asal Serbia dan anggota tetap dair Belgrade Drama Theatre sejak tahun 1950.[1][2][3] Referensi ^ Bata Paskaljevic filmography ^ Radmila Stankovič, Живот од игре и љубави …
Ali Alatas Ketua Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden ke-1Masa jabatan10 April 2007 – 11 Desember 2008PresidenSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono PendahuluAchmad Tirtosudiro(Sebagai Ketua Dewan Pertimbangan Agung)PenggantiT.B. SilalahiMenteri Luar Negeri Indonesia ke-13Masa jabatan21 Maret 1988 – 20 Oktober 1999PresidenSoehartoB. J. Habibie PendahuluMochtar KusumaatmadjaPenggantiAlwi Shihab Informasi pribadiLahir(1932-11-04)4 November 1932Batavia, Hindia BelandaMeninggal11 Desember 200…
Mohan RajaPekerjaanSutradara, penulis naskahTahun aktif2001–sekarangOrang tuaEditor MohanVaralakshmi MohanKerabatJayam Ravi (saudara) Mohan Raja adalah seorang sutradara dan penulis cerita asal India yang utamanya berkarya dalam industri film Tamil. Setelah membuat debutnya dengan film Telugu Hanuman Junction (2001), ia membuat remake dari beberapa film Telugu ke dalam bahasa Tamil, yang dimulai dengan film Jayam (2003) yang juga meluncurkan saudaranya Ravi sebagai pemeran utama. Pranala …
Lihat pula: Ekspatriat dan Pekerja migran Pekerja asing di New York Pekerja asing adalah seseorang yang bekerja di negara yang bukan kewarganegaraannya. Beberapa pekerja asing memanfaatkan program pekerja tamu di suatu negara dengan prospek pekerjaan yang lebih menjanjikan daripada di negara asal. Pekerja asing sering kali dikirim atau diundang untuk bekerja di luar negara asalnya, atau telah mendapatkan pekerjaan sebelum meninggalkan negara asal, sedangkan pekerja migran pada umumnya meninggalk…
Alga merahRentang fosil: Mesoproterozoikum–sekarang[1] Had'n Arkean Proterozoikum Pha. Klasifikasi ilmiah Domain: Eukariota (tanpa takson): Archaeplastida Filum: RhodophytaWettstein, 1922 kemungkinan kelas Florideophyceae Bangiophyceae Cyanidiophyceae Alga merah atau Rhodophyta (/roʊˈdɒf[invalid input: 'ɨ']tə/ roh-DOF-fit-tə atau /ˌroʊdəˈfaɪtə/ ROH-də-FY-tə; dari Bahasa Yunani Kuno: ῥόδον rhodon, mawar and φυτόν phyton, tumbuhan) adalah salah satu filum dari al…
Artikel ini perlu dikembangkan agar dapat memenuhi kriteria sebagai entri Wikipedia.Bantulah untuk mengembangkan artikel ini. Jika tidak dikembangkan, artikel ini akan dihapus. Artikel ini tidak memiliki referensi atau sumber tepercaya sehingga isinya tidak bisa dipastikan. Tolong bantu perbaiki artikel ini dengan menambahkan referensi yang layak. Tulisan tanpa sumber dapat dipertanyakan dan dihapus sewaktu-waktu.Cari sumber: Mei – berita · surat kabar · buku ·…
Pour les articles homonymes, voir Mandarin. Si ce bandeau n'est plus pertinent, retirez-le. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus. Cet article ne cite pas suffisamment ses sources (novembre 2013). Si vous disposez d'ouvrages ou d'articles de référence ou si vous connaissez des sites web de qualité traitant du thème abordé ici, merci de compléter l'article en donnant les références utiles à sa vérifiabilité et en les liant à la section « Notes et références » En pratique …
Complex network of nerves located in the upper abdomen Solar plexus redirects here. For other uses, see Solar Plexus (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Celiac plexus – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) …
Altiero Spinelli Komisioner untuk Industri dan WirausahaMasa jabatan1 Juli 1970 – 4 Juli 1976PresidenFranco Maria Malfatti,Sicco Mansholt PendahuluGuido Colonna di PalianoPenggantiÉtienne DavignonAnggota Dewan ItaliaMasa jabatan5 Juli 1976 – 10 Juli 1983Daerah pemilihanRomaAnggota Parlemen Eropadapil Italia TengahMasa jabatan10 Juni 1979 – 23 Mei 1986Grup parlemenKelompok Komunis dan Sekutu Informasi pribadiLahir(1907-08-31)31 Agustus 1907Roma, Kerajaan ItaliaMe…
إرنست ياكوبي (بالألمانية: Ernst Jacobi) معلومات شخصية اسم الولادة (بالألمانية: Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening) الميلاد 11 يوليو 1933 [1] برلين الوفاة 23 يونيو 2022 (88 سنة) [2] فيينا مواطنة ألمانيا الحياة العملية التلامذة المشهورون إريك شافنر [لغات أخرى]…
Bendera Kitakyushu Lambang Kitakyushu Letak Kitakyushu di Prefektur Fukuoka. Kitakyūshū (北九州市; Kitakyūshū-shi), secara harafiah berarti Kyushu utara, adalah sebuah kota yang terletak di Prefektur Fukuoka, Jepang. Kota ini didirikan pada 10 Februari 1963 dan ditetapkan sebagai kota besar pada 1 September 1963. Pada 1 Februari 2005, Kitakyushu mempunyai luas sebesar 486,81 km². Penduduknya berjumlah 999.373 jiwa dan kepadatan penduduknya sebesar 2.052,9 jiwa/km². Bandara Baru Ki…
Questa voce sull'argomento calciatori italiani è solo un abbozzo. Contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. Segui i suggerimenti del progetto di riferimento. Mario Caccia Nazionalità Italia Calcio Ruolo Attaccante Termine carriera 1953 Carriera Squadre di club1 1938-1940 Pro Patria14 (2)1940-1941 Pisa3 (0)1941-1942 Lecce2 (0)1942-1943 Sparta Novara? (?)1945-1946 Omegna? (?)1946-1947 Inter5 (1)1947-1950 Omegna? (?)1950-1953…
Questa voce sull'argomento calciatori ghanesi è solo un abbozzo. Contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. Segui i suggerimenti del progetto di riferimento. Hamza Mohammed Nazionalità Ghana Calcio Ruolo Centrocampista Termine carriera 2011 CarrieraSquadre di club1 1997-2001 R. Tamale Utd? (?)2001-2002 Asante Kotoko? (?)2002-2003 R. Tamale Utd? (?)2005-2007 King Faisal Babies? (?)2006-2007 NZL Knights6 (0)2007-2009 Chinezul Timișoa…
Tanker ship built in 1936 This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: SS R.P. Resor – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2023) (Learn how …
СелоТатарское Бурнаевотат. Татар Борнае 54°44′01″ с. ш. 49°51′47″ в. д.HGЯO Страна Россия Субъект Федерации Татарстан Муниципальный район Алькеевский Сельское поселение Чувашско-Бурнаевское История и география Основан не позднее XVI–XVII веков[1] Часовой пояс UTC…
Jef van de VijverJef van de Vijver lors de sa victoire au championnat du monde de vitesse amateur 1937InformationsNaissance 22 août 1915TeteringenDécès 20 février 2005 (à 89 ans)RosendaelNationalité néerlandaisePrincipales victoires Champion du monde de vitesse amateur (1937 et 1938)modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata Johan van de Vijver, dit Jef van de Vijver, (né le 22 août 1915 à Teteringen et mort le 20 février 2005 à Roosendaal) est un coureur cycliste néerland…