The 2024 Men's League1 Ontario season is the tenth of
League1 Ontario, a Division 3 men's soccer league in the
Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the
Canadian province
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of
Ontario
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. Starting from this season, the league will split into three divisions with
promotion and relegation
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between them.
The Premier division will be composed by 12 clubs, the Championship division by 10 clubs, all returning from last season. The League2 Ontario will be made up by three conferences containing reserve teams and newly licensed clubs.
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League1 Ontario Premier
League1 Ontario Premier will be composed by 12 teams, all coming back from the 2023 League1 Ontario season
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. Those clubs have qualified to the Premier division by finishing in the top half of the combined standings of the previous two seasons, with the exception of the Electric City FC
Electric City Football Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer team based in Peterborough, Ontario, that competes in League1 Ontario's men's and women's division.
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, which have folded, being then replaced by the Woodbridge Strikers SC.
The 12 teams will face each other twice, once at home and once away and the club at the top of the standings will be crowned as League1 Ontario champions and gain a berth for the 2025 Canadian Championship. The last placed team will be automatically relegated, while the 11th placed club will play a playoff game against the 2nd placed club of the Championship to stay in the league.
Clubs
Standings
Promotion playoffs
A playoff will be played between the 11th placed team in the Premier and the 2nd placed team in the Championship in a single game for a place in the top tier in 2025.
Statistics
As of August 3, 2024
Top goalscorers
Source
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League1 Ontario Championship
League1 Ontario Championship is composed of 10 teams, 9 of those returning from the 2023 League1 Ontario season
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, while the final one has yet to be confirmed. Those clubs have qualified for the Championship division by finishing in the bottom half of the combined standings of the previous two seasons of League1 Ontario.
The 10 teams will face each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 18 games. The club at the top of the standings will be crowned as Championship division winners and will be promoted to the 2025 League1 Ontario Premier. The 2nd ranked team in the standings will face the 11th placed team in the Premier division to gain promotion into the top division for the next season. The team last in the standings will face the winner of the League2 Ontario playoffs winner to stay in the league. There will not be direct relegation to League2 Ontario for the 2024 season because the Championship division will expand to 12 teams in 2025.
Clubs
Standings
Promotion playoffs
The two losing semi-finalists of League2 Ontario will face against each others, the winner will then play against the 10th placed team in the Championship to get promoted to the Championship for the 2025 season.
League2 Ontario
League2 Ontario clubs will be divided in three regional conferences. Those clubs will be either the "B" team of Premier and Championship clubs or newly licensed clubs.
All teams will face each other team in their conference twice, once at home and once away. The winners of the three conferences plus the best 2nd placed team will qualify for the League2 playoffs, made up by two semi-finals and the final. The winner of the playoffs will be crowned as League2 winner and will be automatically promoted to the 2025 League1 Ontario Championship alongside the losing finalist as the Championship division will expand to 12 teams for the next season. The losing semi-finalists will play each other in the promotion playoffs and the winner will finally face the last placed club of the Championship division for the chance to replace it in the 2nd division.
Northeast Conference
Central Conference
Southwest Conference
L1 Cup
The L1 Cup is a league cup tournament that will be contested by teams from all three tiers of League1 Ontario. The Cup will be returning after a five season hiatus, having last been played in 2018
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All 25 "A" teams will participate in the five-round knockout competition, which will be played concurrently with the league season. Eighteen clubs will enter the first round (five clubs from the Premier Division, all ten clubs from the Championship division, and the three A teams from League2), while seven clubs from the Premier Division will get a bye to the round of 16.
Bracket
U20 Reserve Division
The league will continue to operate a reserve division (however, unlike previous years where there were both U19 and U21 divisions, there will be a single U20 division). The reserve division will be split into regional conferences. It is not part of the regular pyramid and teams are not eligible for promotion.[
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Northeast Division
Southwest Division
Playoffs
References
External links
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