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2024 League1 Ontario season
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The 2024 Men's League1 Ontario season is the tenth of League1 Ontario, a Division 3 men's soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario. Starting from this season, the league will split into three divisions with promotion and relegation between them.[1][2]
The Premier division will be composed of 12 clubs, the Championship division of 10 clubs, all returning from last season. The League2 Ontario will be made up by three conferences containing reserve teams and newly licensed clubs.[3]
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League1 Ontario Premier
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League1 Ontario Premier will be composed of 12 teams, all coming back from the 2023 League1 Ontario season. Those clubs have qualified to the Premier division by finishing in the top half of the combined standings of the previous two seasons, with the exception of the Electric City FC, which have folded, being then replaced by the Woodbridge Strikers SC.[4][5]
The 12 teams will face each other twice, once at home and once away and the club at the top of the standings will be crowned as League1 Ontario champions and gain a berth for the 2025 Canadian Championship. The last placed team will be automatically relegated, while the 11th placed club will play a playoff game against the 2nd placed club of the Championship to stay in the league.[3]
Clubs
Standings
Promotion playoffs
A playoff will be played between the 11th placed team in the Premier and the 3rd placed team in the Championship in a single game for a place in the top tier in 2025.
September 11, 2024 | Guelph United FC (L1O Premier 11th place) | 1–1 (1–3 p) | St. Catharines Roma Wolves (L1O Championship 3rd Place) | St. Catharines, Ontario |
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Stadium: Club Roma Referee: Ryan Schwenger | ||
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Note: The match was initially scheduled to be held at the Ontario Soccer Centre as a neutral venue. However, as Guelph United requested a match postponement, the match was moved to St. Catharines as a concession. |
Statistics
Top goalscorers
Source: League1 Ontario
League Honours
Awards
League All-Stars
The following players were named League1 Ontario Premier Division All-Stars for the 2024 season:[6]
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League1 Ontario Championship
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League1 Ontario Championship is composed of ten teams, nine of those returning from the 2023 League1 Ontario season, and one (Toronto FC Academy) which joined this season. The nine returning clubs qualified for the Championship division by finishing in the bottom half of the combined standings of the previous two seasons of League1 Ontario.
The 10 teams will face each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 18 games. The club at the top of the standings will be crowned as Championship division winners and will be promoted to the 2025 League1 Ontario Premier. The 2nd ranked team in the standings will face the 11th placed team in the Premier division to gain promotion into the top division for the next season. The team last in the standings will face the winner of the League2 Ontario playoffs winner to stay in the league. There will not be direct relegation to League2 Ontario for the 2024 season because the Championship division will expand to 12 teams in 2025.[3]
Clubs
Standings
Promotion playoffs
The two losing semi-finalists of League2 Ontario faced against each other, with the winner advancing to play against the 10th placed team in the Championship to get promoted to the Championship for the 2025 season. Despite winning the promotion playoffs, Scrosoppi FC B declined promotion, enabling Pickering FC to remain in the Championship.[7]
Qualification August 16 | Final August 31 | ||||||||
L1OC | Pickering FC | 2 | |||||||
L2O | Scrosoppi FC B | 3 | L2O | Scrosoppi FC B | 6 | ||||
L2O | Sigma FC B | 0 |
August 31, 2024 | Pickering FC (L1O Championship 10th place) | 2–6 | Scrosoppi FC B (L2O Qualifier) | Vaughan, Ontario |
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Stadium: Ontario Soccer Centre Referee: Nivin Raizada |
Statistics
As of September 4, 2024
Top goalscorers
Source: League1 Ontario
League Honours
Awards
League All-Stars
The following players were named League1 Ontario Championship Division All-Stars for the 2024 season:[8]
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League2 Ontario
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League2 Ontario clubs will be divided in three regional conferences. Those clubs will be either the "B" team of Premier and Championship clubs or newly licensed clubs.
All teams will face each other team in their conference twice, once at home and once away. The winners of the three conferences plus the best 2nd placed team will qualify for the League2 playoffs, made up by two semi-finals and the final. The winner of the playoffs will be crowned as League2 winner and will be automatically promoted to the 2025 League1 Ontario Championship alongside the losing finalist as the Championship division will expand to 12 teams for the next season. The losing semi-finalists will play each other in the promotion playoffs and the winner will finally face the last placed club of the Championship division for the chance to replace it in the 2nd division.[3]
Northeast Conference
Central Conference
Southwest Conference
Source: League1 Ontario
League2 Ontario Finals
Semi-finals August 9–10 | Final August 17 | ||||||||
CE1 | Scrosoppi FC B | 2 | |||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri B | 4 | |||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri B | 2 (8) | |||||||
WC | Alliance United FC B | 2 (9) | |||||||
WC | Alliance United FC B | 6 | |||||||
SW1 | Sigma FC B | 0 |
League Honours
Awards
League All-Stars
The following players were named League2 Ontario First Team All-Stars for the 2024 season:[9]
The following players were named League2 Ontario Second Team All-Stars for the 2024 season:
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L1 Cup
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The L1 Cup is a league cup tournament that was contested by teams from all three tiers of League1 Ontario. The Cup returned after a five season hiatus, having last been played in 2018.
All 25 "A" teams participated in the five-round knockout competition, which was played concurrently with the league season. Eighteen clubs entered the first round (five clubs from the Premier Division, all ten clubs from the Championship division, and the three A teams from League2), while seven clubs from the Premier Division received a bye to the round of 16.[10]
Bracket
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U20 Reserve Division
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The league will continue to operate a reserve division (however, unlike previous years where there were both U19 and U21 divisions, there will be a single U20 division). The reserve division will be split into regional conferences. It is not part of the regular pyramid and teams are not eligible for promotion.[3]
Summer Division
Northeast Division
Southwest Division
Source: League1 Ontario
Playoffs
Semifinals July 31 | Championship Game August 3 | ||||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri U20 | 2 | |||||||
SW2 | North Mississauga SC U20 | 1 | |||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri U20 | 4 | |||||||
NE2 | North Toronto Nitros U20 | 0 | |||||||
SW1 | Whitecaps London SC U20 | 1(4) | |||||||
NE2 | North Toronto Nitros U20 | 1(5) |
Fall Division
Northeast Division
Southwest Division
Updated to match(es) played on November 1, 2024. Source: League1 Ontario
Playoffs
Semifinals November 11–12 | Championship Game November 15 | ||||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri U20 | 2(5) | |||||||
SW2 | North Mississauga SC U20 | 2(4) | |||||||
NE1 | Vaughan Azzurri U20 | 2 | |||||||
NE2 | Sigma FC U20 | 1 | |||||||
SW1 | Blue Devils FC U20 | 0 | |||||||
NE2 | Sigma FC U20 | 1 |
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