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Canada’s attempts to strengthen its professional soccer structure suffered a set- back during November with the termination of membership of FC Edmonton in the Canadian Premier League. The club has been a high profile member of the CPL after competing in the North American Soccer League until 2017 and has been a CPL member since…

Goalkeeper Anatoly (The Wall) Starushchenko is well named and for those fortunate enough to see the cliff hanger championship final won 2-1 by Continentals FC  at Lamport Stadium in downtown Toronto on August 27, it became obvious as the match progressed that opposition Scarborough were facing a special challenge with its numerous second half rallies…

Sasa Vukovic is making an early start to his club’s preparations for the 2023 season. The owner and general manager of Hamilton City is concentrating on his coaching in an effort to move the combined BGHC 1 team more competitive. File Magdenovski is under a new 2-year contract as an assistant coach following the one…

There was plenty of excitement but no surprises from the bench when Mykola Temniuk struck that winning goal for Continentals FC early in the second half of the 2021 CSL championship final against Scarborough SC at Lamport Stadium in downtown Toronto that Saturday night last August 27. There was no surprise when the talented Ukrainian…

It sometimes takes a decade, but a promising striker from earlier days in the Canadian Soccer League has finally hit the $1 million a year mark. Jonathan Osorio, who started playing soccer in Brampton and Mississauga on the fringes of Toronto and was signed on a professional contract with the CSL’s  SC Toronto in 2012…

The Enio Perruzza Memorial Trophy competition, originally scheduled to be played at the end of the 2022 season, has been postponed to early season 2023. The right stadium availability late in the season and other difficulties led to a recent Canadian Soccer League decision to move the competition into next year.  Enio Perruzza, who died…

There is little doubt that the Canadian Soccer League has earned a reputation for attractive soccer with good pace while being confined for decades to a regional location in the middle of the country. The league has become well-known also for importing many high level players and a select number of coaches on visas. Most…

Scarborough will extend an unusual achievement to now be in the CSL championship final for the sixth time in succession when the Toronto east side team meets opposition Continentals FC at Lamport Stadium in downtown Toronto on August 27. Scarborough defeated York Region Shooters 3-1 in the second game of a double-header semi-final at Esther…

Assuming Continentals FC is a re-branding of the original expansion team that entered the Canadian Soccer League in 2017 – which it is – that means that all four of the semi-final teams at Esther Shiner Stadium this coming Saturday have won the CSL Championship title in years gone by. Continentals have won the title…

Scarborough SC advanced to the semi-finals of the CSL Championship following a 3-2 close contest at Esther Shiner Stadium Saturday. But it was not an easy passage while opposition BGHC 1, the combined team from Brantford and Hamilton, fought every step of the 90 minutes while on a mission to win its first game of…

The Canadian Soccer League has announced that the Continentals FC vs Toronto Falcons match scheduled for Esther Shiner Stadium Saturday, August 13 at 4 pm has been cancelled for reasons of Toronto Falcons failing to meet the requirements of the CSL Championship competition. There will be one game only  – the Scarborough vs BGHC 1…