2014 League1 Ontario season

The 2014 League1 Ontario season was the inaugural season of the Division 3 Ontario-based semi-professional soccer league. It began on May 30, featuring 10 teams. The league's first ever goal was scored by Toronto FC Academy player Dylan Sacramento.

League1 Ontario
Season2014
ChampionsToronto FC Academy
L1 Cup championsVaughan Azzurri
Matches played72
Goals scored278 (3.86 per match)
Top goalscorerMolham Babouli (21)
2015 →

Teams
Kingston
Durham
TORONTO
VAUGHAN
Sigma
Windsor
Location of teams outside of Toronto for the 2014 League1 Ontario season.
Internacional
Master's
Sigma
TFC Academy
ANB Futbol
Vaughan
Woodbridge
Location of teams in or near Toronto for the 2014 League1 Ontario season.

Being the first year of the league, all teams are new to the league.

On July 22, 2014, the league terminated the license of Internacional de Toronto. Their record will be expunged.


TeamCityStadium
ANB FutbolRichmond Hill, ONThe Soccer Centre
Cataraqui ClippersKingston, ONSt. Lawrence College South Main Field
Durham United FCPickering, ONKinsmen Park
Internacional de TorontoToronto, ONLamport Stadium
Master's FAToronto, ONL'Amoreaux Park
Sigma FCMississauga, ONHershey Fields at Hershey Centre
Toronto FC AcademyToronto, ONKIA Toronto FC Training Ground and Academy
Windsor StarsWindsor, ONMcHugh Park
Woodbridge StrikersWoodbridge, ONVaughan Grove Sports Park
Vaughan AzzurriVaughan, ONYork Stadium

Format

Unlike most North American sports leagues, there will be no playoffs. The title will be awarded to the team with the most points at the end of the 16-game regular season.[1] League1 Ontario also expressed the desire to organize a final game between their champion, and the winner of the other Division 3 league in Canada, the PLSQ.[2]
There will also be a cup competition for the 10 teams, the final representing the last game of the season. This cup is unrelated to the Canadian Championship, though the Canadian Soccer Association has hinted at the possibility of including more teams in the future.[3]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TFC Academy (C) 16 11 5 0 51 19 +32 38 Inter-Provincial Cup
2 Woodbridge Strikers 16 10 3 3 35 17 +18 33
3 Sigma FC 16 8 5 3 48 19 +29 29
4 Vaughan Azzurri (X) 16 8 3 5 41 26 +15 27
5 ANB Futbol 16 6 4 6 24 31 −7 22
6 Windsor Stars 16 6 2 8 25 25 0 20
7 Master's FA 16 5 2 9 22 40 −18 17
8 Durham United 16 2 4 10 19 43 −24 10
9 Cataraqui Clippers 16 0 4 12 13 58 −45 4
10 Internacional de Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Suspended[lower-alpha 1]
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20140724025136/http://www.league1ontario.com/page/standings
(C) Champion; (X) L1 Cup winner
Notes:
  1. Internacional de Toronto had its license suspended and its results removed effective July 22, 2014. They had a record of 0–1–6.

Players

Cup

In addition to the regular season, the 2014 League1 Ontario season also contained a cup tournament, which was run separately (and consisted of different games) from the rest of the regular season. The initial ten teams were divided into two groups of five, with each team facing the other teams in their group once. The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Group Stage

The teams were divided into two groups of 5, with the best 2 teams in each group qualifying for the semifinals. With the removal of Internacional de Toronto, Group A was reduced to four teams.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TFC Academy 3 2 1 0 15 2 +13 7 Knockout Stage
2 Durham United 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3 Cataraqui Clippers 3 1 0 2 2 17 −15 3
4 ANB Futbol 3 0 1 2 4 6 −2 1
Source: L1O
Cataraqui Clippers2–1ANB Futbol
Own goal
Hong 		Report Mills
CaraCo Field, Kingston
ANB Futbol1–2Durham United FC
Mills Report Young
Ontario Soccer Centre, Vaughan
Durham United FC0–2Toronto FC Academy
Report Babouli
Stowell
Civic Field, Oshawa
ANB Futbol2–2Toronto FC Academy
Vartanian
Michael 		Report Sacramento
Ontario Soccer Centre, Vaughan
Durham United FC5–0Cataraqui Clippers
James
Crichton
Young
Agard
Dumevski 		Report
Civic Stadium, Oshawa
Toronto FC Academy11–0Cataraqui Clippers
Babouli 4', 28', 38', 44'
Nunes 16', 26', 78'
Uccello 40'
Rodriguez 50'
Osorio 59', 65'		 Report
Kia Training Ground, Toronto

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Vaughan Azzurri (O) 4 3 1 0 13 2 +11 10 Knockout Stage
2 Sigma FC 4 2 1 1 6 5 +1 7
3 Woodbridge Strikers 4 2 0 2 5 6 −1 6
4 Master's Futbol 4 1 1 2 2 6 −4 4
5 Windsor Stars 4 0 1 3 2 8 −6 1
Source: L1O
(O) Play-off winner
Master's FA Saints0–2Woodbridge Strikers
Report Almeida
Ontario Soccer Centre, Vaughan
Woodbridge Strikers0–3Vaughan Azzurri
Report Fabrizi
Cicchillo
Vaughan Grove 1, Vaughan
Woodbridge Strikers2–1Windsor Stars
Holder
Derayeh 		Report Berardi
Vaughan Grove, Woodbridge
Windsor Stars0–0Master's FA Saints
Report
McHugh Stadium, Windsor
Sigma FC2–2Vaughan Azzurri
Mrabure
Thomas 		Report Whiteman
Moody
Hershey Centre, Mississauga
Sigma FC2–1Woodbridge Strikers
Welshman 90+2'
Pereira 90+4'		 Report Anastasov 61'
Hershey Centre, Mississauga
Master's FA Saints2–1Sigma FC
Malcolm 21', 26' Report Ferritto 84'
Ontario Soccer Centre, Vaughan
Windsor Stars0–1Sigma FC
Report Drăgoi 11'
McHugh Stadium, Windsor
Vaughan Azzurri5–0Windsor Stars
Gertiesingh 4', 42'
Nogueira 9'
Ornoch 44'
Orlov 57'		 Report
St. Joan of Arc, Maple
Vaughan Azzurri3–0Master's FA Saints
Izeady 68', 88' (pen.)
Arnone 90'		 Report
McNaughton Field, Maple

Knockout Stage

The top two teams from each group entered a single-game elimination tournament to determine the cup champion. The final was held on Sunday, October 19 at BMO Field. [5]

Semifinals Finals
      
Vaughan Azzurri 4
Durham United FC 1
Vaughan Azzurri 2
Sigma FC 1
Toronto FC Academy 1
Sigma FC 4

Semifinals

Vaughan Azzurri4–1Durham United FC
Badat 16'
Iezady 47', 72', 78'		 Report Hargrave 80'
McNaughton Turf, Maple
Toronto FC Academy1–4Sigma FC
Babouli 39' Report Grant 4'
Zajac 33'
Welshman 37'
McLean 75'

Finals

Vaughan Azzurri2–1Sigma FC
Iezady 61'
Di Chiara 77'		 Report Welshman 7'

Inter-Provincial Cup Championship

The Inter-Provincial Cup Championship was announced on October 14, 2014[6] as a two-legged home-and-away series between the league champions of League1 Ontario and the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec – the only Division 3 men's semi-professional soccer leagues based fully within Canada.

CS Longueuil0–4Toronto FC Academy
Report Sacramento 2', 38'
Kaye 10'
Uccello 48'
Toronto FC Academy0–0CS Longueuil
Report
Pickering Soccer Complex, Pickering

Toronto FC Academy won 4–0 on aggregate

Awards

Award Player (club) Ref
Most Valuable Player Molham Babouli (Toronto FC Academy) [7]
Golden Boot Molham Babouli (Toronto FC Academy) [7]
Coach of the Year Peter Pinizzotto (Woodbridge Strikers) [7]
Young Star Award Chris Mannella (Toronto FC Academy) [7]
Goalkeeper of the Year Anthony Santilli (Windsor Stars) [7]

The following players were named the League1 Ontario Top XI.[8]

League1 Ontario Top XI
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Anthony Santilli (Windsor Stars) Jonathan Grant (Sigma FC)
Franco LoPresti (Woodbridge Strikers)
Mateo Restrepo (Toronto FC Academy)		 Chris Mannella (Toronto FC Academy)
Jonathan Lao (Vaughan Azzurri)
Alex Halis (Sigma FC)		 Christian Dragoi (Windsor Stars)
Molham Babouli (Toronto FC Academy)
Emery Welshman (Sigma FC)
Andrew Ornoch (Vaughan Azzurri)

The following players were named the League1 Ontario Next XI.[9]

League1 Ontario Next XI
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Matt George (Woodbridge Strikers) Daniel Fabrizi (Vaughan Azzurri)
Marcus Godinho (Toronto FC Academy)
Giuliano Frano (Sigma FC)		 Oscar Cordon (Woodbridge Strikers)
Joseph Di Chiara (Vaughan Azzurri)
Manny Morgado (Sigma FC)
Luca Uccello (Toronto FC Academy)		 Julian Uccello (Woodbridge Strikers)
Marcos Nunes (Toronto FC Academy)
Jason Mills (ANB Futbol)

The following players were named the League1 Ontario Young Stars.[10]

League1 Ontario Young Stars
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Filippo Di Bernardo (Toronto FC Academy) Kevon Black (Toronto FC Academy)
Daniel Gogarty (Vaughan Azzurri)
Kamal Miller (Vaughan Azzurri)		 Dylan Sacramento (Toronto FC Academy)
Stephen Almeida (Woodbridge Strikers)
Jashua Mills (ANB Futbol)
Christian Samaniego (Sigma FC)		 Alex Dimitriu (Master's FA)
LeRohne Young (Durham United)
Raheem Edwards (ANB Futbol)
Honourable Mentions
Ali Ghazanfari (ANB Futbol) Tyrell Rayne (Master's FA) Oladapo Afolayan (Toronto FC Academy)
Joseph Roccasalva (Durham United)
Anthony Osorio (Toronto FC Academy)		 Marcel Zajac (Sigma FC)
Darren Gertiesingh (Vaughan Azzurri)

References

  1. "League1 format". League1 Ontario. Facebook. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  2. "Cataraqui Clippers League1 Ontario press conference". Support Local Soccer. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  3. "League1 Ontario Cup Groups Announced". Canada Kicks. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  4. "League 1 Ontario – Scoring leaders". League1 Ontario. Archived from the original on March 27, 2015.
  5. "League1 and OSA announce L1 Cup Final to be hosted at BMO Field". Ontario Soccer Association. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  6. "OSA and QSF announce Division 3 Inter-Provincial Cup final". Ontario Soccer Association. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  7. "League1 Ontario Awards Banquet 2014". League1 Ontario. November 13, 2014.
  8. "League1 Ontario Top XI 2014". League1 Ontario. October 22, 2014.
  9. "League1 Ontario Next XI 2014". League1 Ontario. October 23, 2014.
  10. "League1 Ontario Young Stars". League1 Ontario. October 28, 2014.
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