Ottawa Fury FC Academy was the youth academy and development system of Canadian soccer club

Ottawa Fury FC Ottawa Fury Football Club was a Canadian professional soccer club based in Ottawa, Ontario. The club competed in the North American Soccer League and USL Championship and played its home games at TD Place Stadium. The Ottawa Fury FC were diss ...

. In 2015 and 2016, they played in the

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History

The Fury Academy was launched in 2006, under the umbrella of the original Ottawa Fury. At its peak, the Ottawa Fury FC Academy had more than 20 teams of various age levels, among both genders, with the aim of developing players for both its professional squad and women's team. The Academy works with community clubs in the Ottawa area to identify high-potential players, in addition to holding open tryouts. During their early years, they faced some unexpected pushback from other local minor soccer groups competing for youth players. In 2015, they decided to field two teams in the Quebec-based

, a Division III league, with their Senior team playing in the man division, while their Junior team played in the Reserve Division. Phil Dos Santos, brother of first-team coach

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served as the head coach of the Senior Academy team. Fury FC citing the proximity of other teams as making the PLSQ a logical choice, as opposed to joining the Ontario-based

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. They were the first club located outside of Quebec to join the league (

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would later follow them in 2020). Their home games were based out of

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and

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. In 2016, the club decided to shut down its academy program and entered into an affiliation with

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club Montreal Impact. The move to disband the academy was criticized as hurting the Fury's identity as a soccer club.

Seasons

References

{{Première ligue de soccer du Québec – Men's Division Première ligue de soccer du Québec clubs Ottawa Fury FC