LEAGUE1 ONTARIO
League1 Ontario is the province of Ontario’s pro-am, standards-based, soccer competition. Launched in 2014 with a ten-team men’s division, League1 Ontario now has three senior men’s and women’s divisions and a U20 division.
League1 Ontario serves as a steppingstone between the high-performance youth level and elite amateur and professional levels of the game in Canada’s largest province. Our primary focus is to showcase and develop Canada’s future soccer stars, as well as providing an important platform for up-and-coming coaches and match officials.
League1 Ontario is owned and managed by Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) and is sanctioned by FIFA through the domestic bodies of Canada Soccer and Ontario Soccer. We are also proud partners of the League1 Canada alliance.
League1 Ontario Structure
League1 Ontario has announced restructuring of its competition model “2024 Plan”. Beginning in the 2024 season, the Men’s and Women’s competitions will be organized into three distinct tiers: L1O Premier, L1O Championship and League2 governed by a promotion and relegation system.
To assign club positions into their respective tiers for the 2024 season, L1O teams competing in the Premier Division during the 2022 and 2023 campaigns will see all the points earned in regular season over those two years aggregated. However, points earned in 2022 will be worth only 75% while points earned in 2023 will be worth 100%.
League1 Ontario Resources
