The Arena Lacrosse League (ALL) is a senior men's semi-professional
box lacrosse league based in
Canada
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. The league consists of teams in
Ontario and
British Columbia
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. Teams play a 14-game regular season schedule before league playoffs conclude with the ALL Cup.
History
Founded by Paul St. John in the summer of 2016, the ALL began with six teams for their first season in the winter of 2017. Oshawa Outlaws, Paris RiverWolves, Peterborough Timbermen, Six Nations Snipers, St. Catharines Shockwave and Toronto Monarchs were the original six of the ALL.
Oshawa Outlaws defeated the Toronto Monarchs 11-10 in the first league championship game played on April 9, 2017 at
Tribute Communities Centre in
Oshawa
Oshawa ( , also ; 2021 population 175,383; CMA 415,311) is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario, approximately east of Downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the G ...
. The Outlaws were the regular season winner with a 10-4 record.
Season two included expansion with the Whitby Steelhawks. Toronto Monarchs finished with a league-best 11-3 regular season, but were eliminated in the semifinals by Whitby who would go on to capture the ALL Cup by defeating Paris RiverWolves 12-10 on April 8, 2018 at the
Toronto Rock Athletic Centre.
In November of 2018 the ALL partnered with the
National Lacrosse League. It will serve as a development league for the NLL.
Expansion in the west happened prior to the 2022 season when a four-team division was announced.
All games to be played at the
Langley Events Centre.
Women
ALL added a women's division in 2018 with three teams (RiverWolves, Shockwave and Snipers) competing in the first season. All games are contested at the
Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.
A fourth team (Steelhawks) was added for the 2019 season.
Teams
ALL Cup
References
External links
Arena Lacrosse League
{{Box lacrosse leagues
Professional sports leagues in Canada
Sports leagues established in 2016
2016 establishments in Ontario