Canadian Soccer League News

10/01/2025

Some highlights from the championship final.

09/29/2025

Scarborough SC vs. Serbian White Eagles – Championship MatchCanadian Soccer League2025-09-28Video credit:

10/03/2024

STATEMENT:

The Canadian Soccer League has ended its 2024 season with the completion of the regular league schedule and will not proceed with the CSL Championship playoffs scheduled for October 6 and October 13. Recent circumstances have moved the league to focus on the 2025 season with additional teams that ha...

07/01/2024

06/10/2024

Serbian White Eagles FC - Toronto: the 2024 CSL Royal Cup champion.

📷: Djuradj Vujcic

06/07/2024

The championship final of the second annual Royal CSL Cup (in memory of the late great Enio Perruzza) is this Sunday June 9th (6:00 PM) between Serbian White Eagles FC - Toronto and Scarborough SC at Esther Shiner Stadium.

It should be an exciting encounter as Scarborough won the league last year and Serbian White Eagles finished second. We hope to see you there!

01/16/2024

IS THE CSL CHANGING WITH PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

The CSL is changing, is what we said almost a decade ago on November 20, 2014. That was two days after the CSL’s Rookie of the Year Jonathan Osorio entered the field for Canada at 62 minutes in an international friendly against Panama, a game that ended in a scoreless tie at the Rommel Fernandez Stadium in Panama City.

Osorio was impressive in that debut 2012 season with the CSL’s Toronto SC, scoring 11 goals in 17 appearances, the second highest in the league. He was then quickly invited by Toronto FC to join the MLS team’s Toronto FC Academy.

The Toronto-born midfielder of Colombian ancestry made his debut in the Toronto FC first team on March 9, 2013 and gained his first international cap on May 23, 2013. Osorio earned his first call up to the Canadian senior team for a friendly the following week against Costa Rica.

Osorio was one of 40 CSL players to play internationally, mostly in national youth teams during a period when developing players was a desire and an overriding feature of many CSL clubs. During the period up to 2015 Toronto Croatia, Kingston FC, York Region Shooters and SC Waterloo put the strongest emphasis on developing players. During that time York Region hired Bob De Klerk, a former player, manager and coach for 10 years with the Ajax youth system before moving to North America in 2011 when he joined Toronto FC as first assistant coach.

The player development attitude paid big dividends for the Shooters when the club won the CSL Championship in 2014 and 2017 and the Second Division title with the reserve team in 2016. The First Division side was undefeated in the 1914 season, only the third time the historic achievement has occurred in the CSL.

Developing local players has faded somewhat as CSL teams move to importing players mostly from Europe, a change that brought increasing pace with the greater skills and a more attractive game for the fans.

But is there change in the works yet again ? As more players arrive from elsewhere are we paying enough attention to the development of local players ? We’ll explore that for answers in the days ahead, a heads-up as we move toward a new season.

The CSL is changing, is what we said almost a decade ago on November 20, 2014. That was two days after the CSL’s Rookie of the Year Jonathan Osorio entered the field for Canada at 62 minutes in an international friendly against Panama, a game that ended in a scoreless tie at the Rommel Fernandez S...

01/10/2024

CSL PLAYERS ON TOP IN OFF-SEASON INDOOR TOURNAMENT
With approximately one million registered players, the game of soccer continues to be the most popular sport in Canada in terms of participation. There is also an increasing demand for the indoor game with more facilities accommodating soccer during the off season winter months for a year-round activity for many. The Hanger, as it is known, is a longstanding spacious Toronto indoor soccer location known in earlier times a part of the Downsview air base for the Canadian Air Force and which was also for a period of time occupied by the military. its proximity to Pearson International brought an occasional commercial overseas flight mistakenly landing on the Downsview runway...READ MORE

With approximately one million registered players, the game of soccer continues to be the most popular sport in Canada in terms of participation. There is also an increasing demand for the indoor game with more facilities accommodating soccer during the off season winter months for a year-round acti...