2017 Première ligue de soccer du Québec season

The 2017 Première ligue de soccer du Québec season is the sixth season of play for the Première ligue de soccer du Québec, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Québec.

Première ligue de soccer du Québec

Season	2017
Champions	AS Blainville
Cup champions	AS Blainville
Matches played	63
Goals scored	203 (3.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (14 goals) (AS Blainville)
Biggest home win	5 goals: Blainville 5–0 Gatineau (2 September)
Biggest away win	8 goals: St-Hubert 1–9 Blainville (20 May)
Highest scoring	10 goals: St-Hubert 1–9 Blainville (20 May)
← 2016 2018 →

CS Mont-Royal Outremont was the defending champion from 2016.

AS Blainville won the league championship this season.

Changes from 2016

For the third season running, the league will feature a total of seven teams. Dynamo de Québec & CS St-Hubert will begin their first season in the league,^[1] while Lakeshore SC & Ottawa Fury FC Academy departed after the 2016 season.

Starting this year, the league champion was granted a place in the next year's Canadian Championship. As a result, the Inter-Provincial Cup was discontinued.^[2]

Teams

The following seven teams will take part in the 2017 season:

Team	City	Stadium	Founded	Joined	Head coach
Current teams
AS Blainville	Blainville, Laurentides	Blainville Park	1986	2012	Emmanuel Macagno
Dynamo de Quebec	Quebec City, Capitale-Nationale	ESLE	1991	2017	Edmond Foyé
FC Gatineau	Gatineau, Outaouais	Mont-Bleu Field	2012	2013	Sylver Castagnet
FC Lanaudière	Terrebonne, Lanaudière	Terrebonne Sports Complex	2016	2016	Andrew Olivieri
CS Longueuil	Longueuil, Montérégie	Laurier Park	1970	2014	Anthony Rimasson
CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Mount Royal, Montréal	TMR Recreation Centre	?	2013	Luc Brutus
CS St-Hubert	Saint-Hubert, Montérégie	Rosanne-Laflamme	1980	2017	François Bourgeais

Blainville

Gatineau

Lanaudière

Longueuil

Mont-Royal

St-Hubert

Dynamo

Locations of teams for the 2017 PLSQ season.

Standings

Each team played 18 matches as part of the season; three against every other team in the league. There are no playoffs; the first-place team is crowned as league champion at the end of the season and qualifies for the 2018 Canadian Championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AS Blainville (C, Q)	18	13	2	3	45	14	+31	41	2018 Canadian Championship
2	Dynamo de Québec	18	9	4	5	28	25	+3	31
3	CS Longueuil	18	6	9	3	30	24	+6	27
4	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	18	6	6	6	30	29	+1	24
5	FC Lanaudière	18	4	7	7	32	33	−1	19
6	CS St-Hubert	18	5	2	11	23	44	−21	17
7	FC Gatineau	18	3	4	11	15	34	−19	13

Updated to match(es) played on October 22, 2017. Source: TSI Sports
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Pierre-Rudolph Mayard AS Blainville 14 2 Berlin Jean-Gilles FC Lanaudière 13 3 Dex Kaniki CS Longueuil 11 Frederico Moojen CS Mont-Royal Outremont 5 Rida Aboulhamid AS Blainville 9 6 Mitchell Syla FC Lanaudière 8 7 Charles-David Martel CS St-Hubert 7 8 Nicolas Bertrand AS Blainville 6 9 (Four players tied) 5 Updated to matches played on 22 October 2017. Source:

Top goalkeepers Rank Player Club Minutes GAA 1 Jean-Lou Gosselin AS Blainville 450 0.60 2 Erwann Ofouya AS Blainville 1170 0.69 3 Nizar Houhou CS Mont-Royal Outremont 720 0.75 4 Valentin Lamoulie CS Longueuil 709 0.76 5 Mario Gerges Dynamo de Québec 1215 0.96 6 Gabard Fénélon FC Lanaudière 1440 1.31 7 Horace Sobze Zemo FC Gatineau 1260 1.57 8 Francis Monongo CS Longueuil 731 1.60 9 Khalid Ismail CS Mont-Royal Outremont 900 2.10 10 Nicolas Milli CS St-Hubert 1035 2.61 Updated to matches played on October 22, 2017. Minimum 450 minutes played. Source:

Awards

Award	Player (club)	Ref
Ballon d'or (Best Player)	Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (AS Blainville)	[3][4]
Ballon d'argent (2nd Best Player)	Frederico Moojen (CS Mont-Royal Outremont)
Ballon de bronze (3rd Best Player)	Berlin Jean-Gilles (FC Lanaudière)
Golden Boot (Top Scorer)	Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (AS Blainville)
Coach of the Year	Emmanuel Macagno (AS Blainville)

Cup

The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all seven teams from the league take part, and is unrelated to the season standings. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is a competition running in parallel to the regular season (similar to the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup), albeit only for PLSQ teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.

The 2017 PLSQ Cup maintained the same format as the previous seasons, as a two-game aggregate knockout tournament with a single match final.^[5] As defending champion, AS Blainville were granted a bye for the first round.^[6]

	First round						Semifinals						Final
							AS Blainville (a)	1	0	1
							CS Longueuil	1	0	1
	CS Longueuil	1	3	4
	FC Lanaudière	1	0	1
													AS Blainville			1
													FC Gatineau			0
	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	1	0	1
	FC Gatineau	1	1	2
							FC Gatineau	3	1	4
							CS St-Hubert	1	2	3
	Dynamo de Québec	1	2	3
	CS St-Hubert (a)	1	2	3

First round

FC Lanaudière v CS Longueuil

July 15, 2017	FC Lanaudière	1 – 1	CS Longueuil	Terrebonne
3:00 pm	Syla 65'	Report	Bona 37'	Stadium: Multisports Terrebonne

CS Longueuil v FC Lanaudière

July 22, 2017	CS Longueuil	3 – 0 (4 – 1 agg.)	FC Lanaudière	Longueuil
7:30 pm	Davies 13' Oliveri 45', 68'	Report		Stadium: Laurier 1

FC Gatineau v CS Mont-Royal Outremont

July 16, 2017	FC Gatineau	1 – 1	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Gatineau
5:00 pm	Dagnogo	Report	Rosa	Stadium: Mont-Bleu 4

CS Mont-Royal Outremont v FC Gatineau

July 23, 2017	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	0 – 1 (1 – 2 agg.)	FC Gatineau	Montreal
6:30 pm		Report	Gauthier-Lafrenière 15'	Stadium: TMR REC3

CS St-Hubert v Dynamo de Québec

July 15, 2017	CS St-Hubert	1 – 1	Dynamo de Québec	Longueuil
5:00 pm	Martel 64'	Report	Cossette 29'	Stadium: Rosanne-Laflamme

Dynamo de Québec v CS St-Hubert (a)

July 22, 2017	Dynamo de Québec	2 – 2 (3 – 3 agg.)	CS St-Hubert (a)	Lévis
4:00 pm	Grant-Gignac 69' (o.g.) St-Maurice 89' Aussems 90+3'	Report	Adiem 2'	Stadium: ESLE

Semifinals

CS Longueuil v AS Blainville

July 29, 2017	CS Longueuil	1 – 1	AS Blainville	Longueuil
8:30 pm	Mira 47'	Report	Aboulhamid 2'	Stadium: Laurier 1

AS Blainville (a) v CS Longueuil

September 9, 2017	AS Blainville (a)	0 – 0 (1 – 1 agg.)	CS Longueuil	Blainville
6:00 pm				Stadium: Parc Blainville 1

CS St-Hubert v FC Gatineau

July 29, 2017	CS St-Hubert	1 – 3	FC Gatineau	Longueuil
5:00 pm	Mersel 71'	Report	Lamontagne 48' Karajovanovic 63' Houache 82'	Stadium: Rosanne-Laflamme

FC Gatineau v CS St-Hubert

September 9, 2017	FC Gatineau	1 – 2 (4 – 3 agg.)	CS St-Hubert	Gatineau
5:00 pm				Stadium: Mont-Bleu

Final

AS Blainville v FC Gatineau

October 28, 2017	AS Blainville	1 – 0	FC Gatineau	Terrebonne
6:30 pm	Mayard 28'			Stadium: Multisports Terrebonne

Reserve Division

The league operated a reserve division.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo de Quebec Reserves	12	8	2	2	27	13	+14	26
2	CS Longueuil Reserves	12	7	2	3	27	18	+9	23
3	CS Mont-Royal Outremont Reserves	12	6	3	3	26	17	+9	21
4	AS Blainville Reserves	12	6	2	4	27	13	+14	20
5	CS St-Hubert Reserves	12	3	5	4	27	33	−6	14
6	FC Lanaudière Reserves	12	2	1	9	17	39	−22	7
7	FC Gatineau Reserves	12	1	3	8	16	34	−18	6

Source: TSI Sports

Awards

Award	Player (club)	Ref
Ballon d'or (Best Player)	Laurent Palacio Tellier (CS Longueuil Reserves)	[4]
Ballon d'argent (2nd Best Player)	Nacereddine Zenaini (FC Lanaudière Reserves)
Ballon de bronze (3rd Best Player)	Wassim Chaouki (Dynamo de Québec Reserves)
Golden Boot (Top Scorer)	Ekoe Wobuibe Dekpo (CS Longueuil Reserves)