The 2016 League1 Ontario season was the second season of play for the

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's association football, soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association as a pro-am league ...

Women's Division, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the

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and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of

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. This season saw the departure of two teams from its inaugural season, while four teams joined the league to result in a nine-team competition.

Changes from 2015

The women's division enters its second season with nine teams, after the addition of four teams (

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, and

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) and the departure of two teams (

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and ProStars FC) from the previous season. It will remain in a single-table format for the 2016 season.

Teams

Standings

Each team plays 16 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 is crowned as league champion at the end of the season.

Cup

The L1 Cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all nine 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

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, 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 is a single-match knockout tournament with three total rounds culminating in a final match at the end of July, with initial matchups determined by random draw. A preliminary round is also in place to bring the nine total teams from this division down to eight for the quarterfinals. Each match in the tournament must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to

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instead of extra time.

Preliminary Round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

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Top Goalkeepers

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All-star game

On July 14, the league announced an all-star game between top players in L1O and a team assembled by the Quebec Soccer Federation. L1O's 20-player roster was selected by coaches and league officials, and contains at least one player from every team in the league. Players denoted by an asterisk (*) are part of the starting 11.

Awards

; First Team All-Stars ; Second Team All-Stars

References

External links

* {{2016 in Canadian soccer 2016 in Canadian soccer, 3 League1 Ontario (women) seasons