The 2017 League1 Ontario season was the third season of play for the Women's Division of

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's 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 in the Canadian so ...

, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the

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and the highest level of soccer based in the

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. For the first time, the league expanded to include teams in the nation's capital,

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, allowing it to span from the western to eastern borders of southern Ontario.

Changes from 2016

The women's division grew from nine to eleven teams, with the addition of

Toronto Azzurri Blizzard Toronto Azzurri Blizzard was a Canadian women's semi-professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario that competed in the women's division League1 Ontario. The club was formed as a partnership between two local area clubs - Toronto Blizzard ...

Unionville Milliken SC Unionville Milliken Soccer Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Unionville, Ontario. The club was founded in 1976 as a youth soccer club and added its men's semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 2018. The club also f ...

, and

West Ottawa SC West Ottawa Soccer Club was a Canadian women's semi-professional soccer club based in Kanata, Ontario, just west of Ottawa that competed in the women's division League1 Ontario. The club continues to operate as a youth club. History The club ...

, while the

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women's side did not return for play.

Teams

Standings

Each team plays 20 matches as part of the season; two 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 cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all eleven 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

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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 four total rounds culminating in a final match in the start of August, with initial matchups determined by random draw. 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.

First Round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

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Top Goalkeepers

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Awards

The following players received honours in the 2017 season: ; First Team All-Stars ; Second Team All-Stars ; Third Team All-Stars

All-Star Game

On June 28, the league announced that this year's all-star game would take place against the Ontario team competing in the

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. The rosters for this game will be selected by team & league officials, and was announced on July 25th.

References

External links

* {{2017 in Canadian soccer League1 W League1 Ontario (women) seasons