Unionville Milliken Soccer Club is a Canadian semi-professional

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club based in Unionville,

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. The club was founded in 1976 as a youth soccer club and added its women's and men's semi-professional teams in

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in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The club also fields a team in the

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, which entered the league in the 2017 season.

History

The club was founded in 1976 to serve the communities of Unionville and Milliken in

. Originally a youth soccer club, the team added semi-professional teams in

in the women's division in 2017, followed by a men's team in 2018. In their inaugural season, the women's team finished in 4th place. Unionville announced that their club would go with a fully professional model, as opposed to an amateur or semi-professional approach, becoming the second fully professional team in the league, after

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. The men's team was formed through a partnership with

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, who played in the

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until 2017, to form a professional club in L1O to begin in 2018, created through the relationship of Shooters' owner

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and UMSC coach Filipe Bento. They played their inaugural match on April 29, 2018 against

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, which resulted in a 3–1 victory. In 2022, the women's reserve team won the League1 Ontario Reserve Division.

Squad

Seasons

Men

Women

Notable former players

The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the League1 Ontario team:

Men

Women

References

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