Competition: | League1 Ontario Men's Division |
Dates: | April 12 – August 20 (regular season) August 23 – September 2 (playoffs) |
Season: | 2023 |
Shieldtitle: | Supporters Trophy |
Matches: | 215 |
League Topscorer: | Tomasz Skublak (23 goals) |
Prevseason: | 2022 |
Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2023 Men's League1 Ontario season was the ninth 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 of Ontario. Following the 2023 season, the league will split into three divisions with promotion and relegation between them.[1]
Simcoe County Rovers FC were the league champions, having defeated Scrosoppi FC in the final to capture their first title.
With the exception of Pickering FC, 21 of the 22 clubs that took part in the 2022 season participated in 2023.[2] Because of the format changes planned for the following year, the league imposed a one-year moratorium on any new teams joining the league.[1] [3]
On March 7, 2023, League1 Ontario announced that the Men's Premier Division season would begin on April 13 (later revised to April 12).[4] [5] Each team will play 20 matches this season, one match against each opponent.
The top two seeds will earn a bye directly to the second round. After the first round, the teams will be re-seeded with the top seed playing the lowest ranked remaining seed.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
(regular season only)
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tomasz Skublak | Scrosoppi FC | 23 |
2 | Christopher Campoli | Vaughan Azzurri | 17 |
3 | Adam Czerkawski | Blue Devils FC | 15 |
Orlendis Benítez | Simcoe County Rovers | ||
5 | Kashiff Collins | Darby FC | 14 |
6 | Owen Antoniuk | Windsor City | 13 |
Augustus Oku | Burlington SC | ||
8 | Jared Agyemang | Guelph United | 12 |
9 | Jevontae Layne | Simcoe County Rovers | 11 |
Nikola Stakic | Alliance United | ||
Michael Soloman | St. Catharines Roma Wolves | ||
(regular season only)
Rank | Player | Club | Minutes | GAA | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Svyatik Artemenko | Electric City FC | 1600 | 0.90 | |
2 | Praveen Ahilan | Alliance United | 878 | 0.92 | |
3 | Andreas Vaikla | Scrosoppi FC | 1519 | 0.95 | |
4 | Carter Robart | Guelph United | 1800 | 1.10 | |
5 | Alessio Carbone | Vaughan Azzurri | 810 | 1.11 | |
6 | Baj Maan | Simcoe County Rovers | 1665 | 1.14 |
Award | Player | Team | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Most Valuable Player | Tomasz Skublak | [6] | |
Young Player of the Year (U20) | Marcus Caldeira | Sigma FC | |
Coach of the Year | Jason Beckford | Simcoe County Rovers FC | |
Goalkeeper of the Year | Baj Maan | Simcoe County Rovers FC | |
Defender of the Year | Windsor City FC | ||
Midfielder of the Year | Simcoe County Rovers FC | ||
Forward of the Year | Tomasz Skublak | Scrosoppi FC | |
Golden Boot (Top Scorer) | Tomasz Skublak | Scrosoppi FC | |
The following players were named League1 Ontario Premier Division All-Stars for the 2023 season:[7] First Team All-Stars
Player | Position | |
---|---|---|
Baj Maan (Simcoe County Rovers) | Goalkeeper | |
Amardo Oakley (Guelph United) | Defender | |
Gianfranco Facchineri (Windsor City) | Defender | |
Justin Earle (Simcoe County Rovers) | Defender | |
Carlo DiFeo (Scrosoppi) | Defender | |
Orlendis Benítez Hernández (Simcoe County Rovers) | Midfielder | |
Nikola Stakic (Alliance United) | Midfielder | |
Christian Zeppieri (Vaughan Azzurri) | Midfielder | |
Alexander Zis (Scrosoppi) | Midfielder | |
Tomasz Skublak (Scrosoppi) | Forward | |
Adam Czerkawski (Blue Devils) | Forward |
Player | Position | |
---|---|---|
Andreas Vaikla (Scrosoppi) | Goalkeeper | |
Andra Neptune (Blue Devils) | Defender | |
Nyal Higgins (Vaughan Azzurri) | Defender | |
Bradley Heath (Electric City) | Defender | |
Nirun Sivananthan (Alliance United) | Defender | |
Marcus Caldeira (Sigma) | Midfielder | |
Gray Yates (Guelph United) | Midfielder | |
Ideal Shefqeti (Hamilton United) | Midfielder | |
Brandon Duarte (Blue Devils) | Midfielder | |
Jevontae Layne (Simcoe County Rovers) | Forward | |
Augustus Oku (Burlington) | Forward |
Starting in 2024, the league will split into a multi-division format with promotion and relegation between them. Twelve teams will take part in the first-tier League1 Premier, ten teams in the second-tier League1 Championship, and all new expansion teams as well as reserve sides in a third-tier League2 Ontario.
The initial assignment of teams in the 2024 season is done by using the points obtained in the previous two years. The points from the 2022 season (weighted at 75%) will be added to the points teams obtain in the 2023 season (weighted at 100%) to determine the placements.[1]
The Reserve Division will return with each Premier Division club fielding one or more teams, as well as some other OPDL clubs that do not operate a League1 Ontario team.
Each team will play every team in their division once, as well as two games against teams from the opposite division.