Association de Soccer de Chaudière-Ouest is a Canadian women's semi-professional

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club based in

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that plays in the women's division of

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. Their L1QC team operates under the name Rapides de Chaudière-Ouest.

History

Established as a youth soccer club, the club was founded in 2002. In December 2020, they were awarded the

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national license for their excellence. It was announced that they would enter the women's division of

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starting in 2022, becoming the second team from the Quebec City area in the league (

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is the other). Their men's team, however, was not selected to join for the 2022 season, as they had been playing at the AA level in the

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in 2021, rather than the AAA (as the women were). The men joined the AAA level for 2022, with the hope of joining the PLSQ the following year. The women played their first PLSQ match on May 7, 2022, defeating

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by a score of 1-0. They finished third place in the league in their inaugural season, qualifying them for the Coupe PLSQ, where they finished in second place, after being defeated by

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in the final.

Year-by-year

References

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