P-O Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 From a jealous neighbor, amazing stuff from Ontario. nolando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-O Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 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 Edited October 10, 2023 by P-O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 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) Edited October 10, 2023 by rydermike P-O and nolando 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-O Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 How many teams will be in that D5? New entrants? How many do you guess? 10? 15? 20? Will it be a D5 splitted into East/West/North/South with a playoff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 In too am thrilled with a two tier L1 in Ontario, with pro-releg, though I feel a bit sorry for @Rocket Robin trying to cover it. NVsoccer, Kingston, narduch and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 On 10/13/2023 at 2:30 PM, Unnamed Trialist said: In too am thrilled with a two tier L1 in Ontario, with pro-releg, though I feel a bit sorry for @Rocket Robin trying to cover it. It's actually 3 tiers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 6 hours ago, Kent said: It's actually 3 tiers! With pro-releg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) 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. <snip> 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 Edited October 17, 2023 by Kent Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) 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. <snip> 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? Edited October 17, 2023 by Unnamed Trialist Shway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 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. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 https://northerntribune.ca/baj-maan-named-league1-ontarios-goalkeeper-of-the-year/ Interesting to see if any of the nominees -- Baj Mann, Andreas Vaikla, Svyatoslav Artemenko, Darlington Murasiranwa, Carter Robart -- can land (or keep in Darlington's case) a spot at a higher level. Bigcountry90 and Bison44 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Return of TFC III ? https://northerntribune.ca/league1-ontario-toronto-fc-return-2024/ NVsoccer, Kent, Kingston and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 5 hours ago, K Edgar said: Return of TFC III ? https://northerntribune.ca/league1-ontario-toronto-fc-return-2024/ I'd be happy to see them play in L1O permanently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Scrosoppi expanding to field a Women’s Championship team in 2024, acquired Pickering's women's license https://www.league1ontario.com/news_article/show/1293860 nolando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Finally my summary of Soccer in Toronto for the 75 games in total I attended in 2023 for League1 Ontario, Toronto FC II, York United FC and the Canadian Men's and Women's teams games in Toronto. http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports23/23l1o091.htm phresh, Kingston, NVsoccer and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Ontario Soccer finally puts clubs on notice about selling a false dream by branding with a European club. Apparently, clubs have blown awayy 100k to play under a Prem's team name. Kent, Trois Reds, narduch and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 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 Kent, narduch and K Edgar 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 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. longlugan, NVsoccer, Kent and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shermanator Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Bus leagues, amirite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 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. longlugan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 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. longlugan, Raven, ray and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 10 minutes ago, Kent said: 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. Electric scooter league MM3/MM2/MM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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