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Has anything been said about the 10th team in L1O Championship? When the 22 teams were announced Pickering was one of them. They withdrew prior to the 2023 season so as of now L1O Championship only has 9 teams, pretty sure they will want to even it out. 

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18 minutes ago, Cblake said:

Has anything been said about the 10th team in L1O Championship? When the 22 teams were announced Pickering was one of them. They withdrew prior to the 2023 season so as of now L1O Championship only has 9 teams, pretty sure they will want to even it out. 

There might be another announcement.

They said months ago they received a lot of applications. Maybe one of the applicants will be in the D4

 

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I'm going to guess TFC Academy is going to get the 10th spot. They entered a team in the L1O Fall Reserve Division - almost like a foreshadowing that'd they're re-joining. They'd basically compliment NDC Ontario (like how Quebec has the PEF and CF Montreal) with the male/female license. (I know not all teams have a dual M/F license [unlike BC] but it'd make it closer to that) 

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5 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

With pro-releg?

Yes. From Wikipedia (which corroborates what I remember from the announcement).

"On January 25, 2022, League1 Ontario announced that it would restructure from a single league into a three-tier competition in 2024.[24] 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.

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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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League1_Ontario

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3 hours ago, Kent said:

Yes. From Wikipedia (which corroborates what I remember from the announcement).

"On January 25, 2022, League1 Ontario announced that it would restructure from a single league into a three-tier competition in 2024.[24] 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.

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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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League1_Ontario

That's great, great initiative. 

Now the problem will be that a team consistently doing well but not winning a lower tier will never promote. And then the promotion battle and the relegation battle will not affect the mid-tables. 

So I think, as a matter of sporting fairness, you need to go to a playoff eventually (in a couple of years, likely). The second to last team vs the lower tier 2nd team, for example. That forces more teams into the fight to survive and gives solid teams not promoting directly a better chance to play in the higher tier. 

EDIT: Am I mistaken? It says in that article that the lower divisions will also play playoffs to decide winners. So the promoting team is the winner of the lower division playoffs in each case, not the regular season table?

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1 hour ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

 

EDIT: Am I mistaken? It says in that article that the lower divisions will also play playoffs to decide winners. So the promoting team is the winner of the lower division playoffs in each case, not the regular season table?

L2O will be a bunch of regional divisions. So if there are say 4 divisions of 10, they'll have playoffs with the division winners with the playoff winner moving up

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1 hour ago, rydermike said:

L2O will be a bunch of regional divisions. So if there are say 4 divisions of 10, they'll have playoffs with the division winners with the playoff winner moving up

Ok, one team going up to Championship after the playoffs between the regional divisions. That makes sense. And one going down, and sent into the appropriate regional division, meaning they will be reshuffled accordingly. 

But how about promoting from Championship to Premiership? Is that the league table winner, or the playoff winner? 

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43 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Ok, one team going up to Championship after the playoffs between the regional divisions. That makes sense. And one going down, and sent into the appropriate regional division, meaning they will be reshuffled accordingly. 

But how about promoting from Championship to Premiership? Is that the league table winner, or the playoff winner? 

They haven't announced the format for anything yet. I could also envision that for year 1, that maybe there might not be relegation from Championship, so they can promote two clubs from League2 and get to 12 teams to match the Premier.

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2 minutes ago, rydermike said:

Electric City has sold their license to Pickering. Pickering joins Championship. Woodbridge (men) and St Catharines (women) promoted to replace them.

Guess this is the end of Electric City. They talked a big game when they launched

The loss of the city of Peterborough as part of the league also hurts.  I appreciate having non-GTA teams.

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23 hours ago, rydermike said:

...Guess this is the end of Electric City. They talked a big game when they launched

Investors eventually tire of losing money when reality does not match their inflated expectations so it's much the same as the Faths and the Baldassarras heading for the exit in a CanPL context. Running a conventional mundane "pro-am" club clearly wasn't what they signed up for. Peterborough is a relatively small city that has never been much of a soccer hotbed so is not the most sensible place to attempt to do that moving forward. 

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8 hours ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said:

Investors eventually tire of losing money when reality does not match their inflated expectations so it's much the same as the Faths and the Baldassarras heading for the exit in a CanPL context. Running a conventional mundane "pro-am" club clearly wasn't what they signed up for. Peterborough is a relatively small city that has never been much of a soccer hotbed so is not the most sensible place to attempt to do that moving forward. 

Yet another clear sign that League 1 Ontario has the wrong model. They are trying to be a bus league but really they should be a more modest bicycle league.

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