2015 League1 Ontario season

League1 Ontario
Men's Division
Season 2015
Champions Oakville Blue Devils
Cup champions Woodbridge Strikers
Matches played 132
Goals scored 503 (3.81 per match)
Top goalscorer Filipe Vilela & Adonijah Reid
(20 goals)
Biggest home win Durham 8-0 ProStars
(17 July 2015)
Sigma 8-0 Master's
(18 July 2015)
Biggest away win Sanjaxx 0-7 Vaughan
(14 June 2015)
ProStars 1-8 Kingston
(17 October 2015)
← 2014
2016 →

The 2015 League1 Ontario season is the second season of play for League1 Ontario, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario.

This season saw the return of all nine teams which completed the previous season, as well as the addition of three new teams for the Men's Division.[1] The 2015 season also marks the birth of League1 Ontario's Women's Division, which starts play with seven teams.[2]

Changes from 2014

Three new teams (Oakville Blue Devils, Pro Stars FC, and Sanjaxx Lions) joined the Men's Division for this season, resulting in a twelve-team competition for that side. As a result, the group stage of the Men's cup will change from two five-team groups to four three-team groups.

The Cataraqui Clippers changed their name to the Kingston Clippers starting in this season.

The Women's Division begins its first season of play this year, having been originally announced with six teams, with a seventh (Woodbridge Strikers) added before the start of the season.[3] The Women's cup will consist of two groups of either three or four teams, with the top two from each group advancing to the knockout round.

Men's Division

Teams

ANB Futbol
Kingston
Durham
Oakville
Pro Stars
Windsor
TORONTO
Location of teams outside of Toronto for the 2015 League1 Ontario season.
Master's FA
Sanjaxx
Sigma / NMSC
TFC Academy
Vaughan
Woodbridge
Location of teams in or near Toronto for the 2015 League1 Ontario season.
Team City Stadium
ANB Futbol King City, ON The Country Day School
Durham United FC Pickering, ON Kinsmen Park
Kingston Clippers Kingston, ON Tindall Field, Queen's University
Master's Futbol Academy Scarborough, ON L'Amoreaux Park
Oakville Blue Devils Oakville, ON Sheridan Stadium
Pro Stars FC Brampton, ON Victoria Park
Sanjaxx Lions North York, ON Esther Shiner Stadium
Sigma FC Mississauga, ON Hershey Centre
Toronto FC Academy Toronto, ON KIA Training Ground
Vaughan Azzurri Maple, ON McNaughton Park
Windsor Stars Windsor, ON McHugh Park
Woodbridge Strikers Woodbridge, ON Vaughan Grove

Source:[4]

Standings

Each team will play 22 matches as part of the season; one home and one away against every other team in the league. There are no playoffs at the end of the season; the first-place team will be crowned as league champion and will face the PLSQ league champion in the Inter-Provincial Cup.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Oakville Blue Devils 22 17 2 3 57 18 +39 53 Inter-Provincial Cup vs PLSQ Champion
2 Woodbridge Strikers 22 15 2 5 44 16 +28 47
3 Vaughan Azzurri 22 12 7 3 55 22 +33 43
4 Sigma FC 22 12 6 4 62 33 +29 42
5 Toronto FC Academy 22 13 1 8 61 37 +24 40
6 ANB Futbol 22 12 3 7 50 28 +22 39
7 Durham United FC 22 11 3 8 44 29 +15 36
8 Windsor Stars 22 7 6 9 39 43 −4 27
9 Kingston Clippers 22 4 6 12 33 50 −17 18
10 Pro Stars FC 22 4 3 15 24 78 −54 15
11 Sanjaxx Lions 22 3 0 19 14 66 −52 9
12 Master's FA 22 1 3 18 20 83 −63 6

Cup

2015 League1 Ontario Cup
Men's Division

Trophy presented to the champions of the League1 Ontario Cup
Country Canada
Dates May 20 - August 9, 2015
Teams 12
Champions Woodbridge Strikers
Runners-up Sigma FC
Matches played 19
Goals scored 82 (4.32 per match)

The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all twelve teams from the men's division take part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.

The cup tournament for the men's division consists of two phases. The first phase is a group phase, where four groups of three teams play in a single round-robin format. From each group, the top two teams advance to the knockout phase, which consists of a quarterfinal, semifinal, and final.

Each match in the group stage must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to kicks from the penalty mark, with the winner receiving two points in the standings, while the loser receives one point.[5] Likewise, any knockout round matches which are tied after full time head directly to penalty kicks instead of extra time.[6]

Group Stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VGN KNG MAS
1 Vaughan Azzurri 2 2 0 0 0 8 1 +7 6 Advance to knockout round — — 4–0
2 Kingston Clippers 2 1 0 0 1 5 7 −2 3 1–4 — —
3 Master's FA 2 0 0 0 2 3 8 −5 0 — 3–4 —

Group B

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SIG ANB OAK
1 Sigma FC 2 1 0 0 1 6 4 +2 3 Advance to knockout round — — 1–2
2 ANB Futbol 2 1 0 0 1 4 5 −1 3 2–5 — —
3 Oakville Blue Devils 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 −1 3 — 0–2 —

Group C

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification WDB DUR SAN
1 Woodbridge Strikers 2 2 0 0 0 5 2 +3 6 Advance to knockout round — 2–1 —
2 Durham United FC 2 1 0 0 1 7 2 +5 3 — — 6–0
3 Sanjaxx Lions 2 0 0 0 2 1 9 −8 0 1–3 — —

Group D

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PRO WSR TFC
1 Pro Stars FC 2 1 1 0 0 7 3 +4 5 Advance to knockout round — 2–1 (p) —
2 Windsor Stars 2 1 0 1 0 6 4 +2 4 — — 5–2
3 Toronto FC Academy 2 0 0 0 2 4 10 −6 0 2–5 — —

Knockout Stage

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
         
Vaughan Azzurri 1
ANB Futbol 3
ANB Futbol 1
Sigma FC 3
Sigma FC 6
Kingston Clippers 2
Sigma FC 1
Woodbridge Strikers 2
Woodbridge Strikers 2
Windsor Stars 1
Woodbridge Strikers 0 (7)
Durham United FC 0 (6)
ProStars FC 1 (4)
Durham United FC 1 (5)
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final

Top Goalscorers

This table includes goals scored in all competitions, including both league and cup matches.

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Filipe Vilela Oakville Blue Devils 20
Adonijah Reid ANB Futbol 20
3 Joey Cicchillo Vaughan Azzurri 16
4 Cyrus Rollocks TFC Academy 14
5 Christian Cavalllini Woodbridge Strikers 12
Marcel Zajac Sigma FC 12
7 Ryan McCurdy Kingston Clippers 11
8 Belrum Vartanian ANB Futbol 10
9 Leaford Allen ProStars FC 9
Michael Pio Windsor Stars 9
Tom Winski ProStars FC 9

Last updated October 28, 2015.[7]

Women's Division

League1 Ontario
Women's Division
Season 2015
Champions Durham United FC
Cup champions North Mississauga SC
Matches played 63
Goals scored 252 (4 per match)
Top goalscorer Jessica Lisi
(21 goals)
Biggest home win Woodbridge 11-0 ANB Futbol
(6 September 2015)
Biggest away win ANB Futbol 1-10 Vaughan
(22 August 2015)
2016 →

Teams

Team City Stadium
ANB Futbol King City, ON The Country Day School
Durham United FC Pickering, ON Kinsmen Park
North Mississauga SC Mississauga, ON Hershey Centre[8]
Pro Stars FC Brampton, ON Victoria Park
Sanjaxx Lions North York, ON Esther Shiner Stadium
Vaughan Azzurri Maple, ON McNaughton Park
Woodbridge Strikers Woodbridge, ON Vaughan Grove

Source:[9]

Standings

Each team will play 18 matches as part of the season; three games split home and away against every other team in the division. There are no playoffs; the first-place team will be crowned as league champion at the end of the season.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Notes
1 Durham United FC 18 14 2 2 69 8 +61 44 2015 L1O Women's Division champion
2 Woodbridge Strikers 18 13 2 3 53 22 +31 41
3 Vaughan Azzurri 18 10 5 3 50 21 +29 35
4 North Mississauga SC 18 8 3 7 25 22 +3 27
5 ANB Futbol 18 4 1 13 25 70 −45 13
6 Sanjaxx Lions 18 3 2 13 17 58 −41 11
7 Pro Stars FC 18 2 3 13 13 51 −38 9

Cup

The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all seven teams from the women's division take part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.

The cup tournament for the women's division consists of two phases. The first phase is a group phase, where two groups of either three or four teams play in a single round-robin format. From each group, the top two teams advance to the knockout phase, which consists of a semifinal and a final.

Each match in the group stage must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to kicks from the penalty mark, with the winner receiving two points in the standings, while the loser receives one point.[10] Likewise, any knockout round matches which are tied after full time head directly to penalty kicks instead of extra time.[11]

Group Stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification DUR WDB ANB SAN
1 Durham United FC 3 3 0 0 0 17 3 +14 9 Advance to knockout round — 3–2 8–1 —
2 Woodbridge Strikers 3 2 0 0 1 12 4 +8 6 — — 4–1 —
3 ANB Futbol 3 1 0 0 2 5 13 −8 3 — — — 3–1
4 Sanjaxx Lions 3 0 0 0 3 1 15 −14 0 0–6 0–6 — —

Group B

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VGN NMS PRO
1 Vaughan Azzurri 2 1 1 0 0 8 1 +7 5 Advance to knockout round — 2–1 (p) —
2 North Mississauga SC 2 1 0 1 0 6 4 +2 4 — — 5–2
3 Pro Stars FC 2 0 0 0 2 2 11 −9 0 0–6 — —

Knockout Stage

Semifinals Finals
      
1 Durham United FC 0
4 North Mississauga SC 2
North Mississauga SC 2
Vaughan Azzurri 1
3 Vaughan Azzurri 0 (5)
2 Woodbridge Strikers 0 (4)
Semifinals
Final

Top Goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Jessica Lisi Woodbridge Strikers 21
2 Alexandria Lamontagne Durham United FC 18
3 Hollie Babut Durham United FC 13
4 Kelsey Araujo ANB Futbol 12
5 Oshay Lawes North Mississauga SC 11
6 Nicole Lyon Vaughan Azzurri 10
Geneva Winterink Durham United FC 10
8 Colleen Beesley Vaughan Azzurri 9
9 Chanel Hudson-Marks Woodbridge Strikers 8
Nadya Gill Vaughan Azzurri 8

Last updated October 22, 2015.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "League1 Ontario Announces 12-Team 2015 Men's Division". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "League1 And OSA Announce 2015 Women's Division". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Seventh League1 Ontario Women's Team Added For 2015". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "2015 League1 Men's Division Schedule Finalized". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "2015 L1 Cup Standings". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "ProStars FC on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Scoring leaders". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "2015 Home Opener". North Mississauga Soccer Club. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "2015 League1 Men's Division Schedule Finalized". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "2015 L1 Cup Standings". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  11. ↑ "ProStars FC on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "Scoring leaders". League1 Ontario. Retrieved 7 May 2015.

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