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Eight teams will kickoff the 2016 Canadian Soccer League season the weekend of May 27 for a five-month long campaign through to the end of October.

Ukraine United FC is a new entry in the CSL, while Hamilton City is a re-branded and relocated London City team. The move to Hamilton by London City ends a 10-year period during which Steeltown has been without professional soccer .

London will still be represented, however, in the 6-team CSL Second Division. Jasmin Halkic has assumed the CSL territory in that city and the team is entered as London City in a formation which includes four reserve teams and SC Waterloo.

Three teams, Toronto Croatia, Burlington and Niagara United, will not be returning in 2016, while Brampton City Utd were suspended near the end of the 2015 season and are also not entered.

London City entered professional soccer in 1973 and the southwestern Ontario club has changed hands twice in recent years. There is an expectation of greater community and fan support in Hamilton, a city with a long history in soccer and in recent times has shown an increase in new arrivals from countries where soccer is considered to be the first sport of interest. The Hamilton and District Soccer Association has increased its youth player population considerably over the years and it is estimated that there are now 160,000 fans and supporters of soccer in Hamilton and surrounding districts.

The 2016 league formation:

FIRST DIVISION                              SECOND DIVISION                       

Brantford Galaxy                            Brantford Galaxy ‘B’

Hamilton City                                  London City

Milton SC                                          Serbian White Eagles ‘B’

Scarborough SC                              Toronto Atomic ‘B’

Serbian White Eagles                    SC Waterloo

Toronto Atomic SC                        York Region Shooters ‘B’

Ukraine United FC

York Region Shooters

 

 

The city of Hamilton has a long history with professional soccer, but it’s been 10 years since Hamilton Thunder represented that city as a member of the Canadian Soccer League.

In earlier times, during the days of the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League (ECPSL) in the sixties, Hamilton Steelers was rated as one of the best teams in Canada. The team’s opening game in 1961 at home in the Civic Stadium (later named Ivor Wynne Stadium) was played against Toronto City, owned by grocery magnate Steve Stavro who signed a number of internationals from the UK, including Stanley Matthews, the only player to be knighted while still playing a career which included 73 caps for England.

Hamilton Steelers played in the ECPSL until 1964 when the name was changed to Hamilton Primos. The Primos’ goalkeeper was Dick Howard, who went on the represent Canada and some years later was a top soccer analyst covering the World Cup on Canadian television, a time when he was also appointed the only North American at that time to sit on FIFA’s technical committee. Hamilton Steelers re-surfaced in 1981, winning the National Soccer League championship in the team’s first year.

Hamilton was a site (with Buffalo and New York) for the World University Games in 1993, and the women’s soccer tournament played at Brian Timmis Stadium and McMaster University was considered at the time to be some of the finest women’s soccer in the world. The 2015 Pan American Games competition was staged in Hamilton.

The Hamilton Spectator newspaper has played an important part of the city’s soccer history with the Hamilton Spectator Cup for soccer supremacy, a trophy first introduced in 1896 and which today is still emblematic of the local championship.

London City of the Canadian Soccer League has relocated to Hamilton to bring the semi-pro level of the game back to Steeltown.

London City was one of the oldest pro teams in North America after being launched by Markus (Max) Gauss, a German immigrant from Stuttgart with a passion for soccer who arrived in Canada in 1958. The club was managed most of the time by his well-known son Harry Paul Gauss until Harry’s death on October 31, 2009 at the age of 57.

London City was sold in 2011 to a group headed by Hamilton businessperson Andrew Crowe, successful in environmental recycling, who then sold his share early 2015 to his partner, Zoran Kliseric.

Kathleen Nurse, general manager of London City In charge of the transfer of the CSL team to Hamilton under the new banner of Hamilton City, believes that as in the past pro soccer will thrive in Hamilton. “It’s a great soccer community that has been poorly served with the professional game in recent times and we look forward to bringing an attractive higher level soccer to the community,” said Nurse.

While the new team is expected to consist of some top players from the Hamilton region, there will be a few players retained from last year’s London City squad and some imports from Europe.

“The imports bring high level skills from Europe and that’s important both for competition in the tough CSL and for our contribution to youth player development in the Hamilton and district community – programs we intend to launch immediately following this upcoming inaugural year,” said Nurse.

The new Hamilton City is expected to be based in Stoney Creek to kickoff its 2016 CSL season late May.

 

Josip (Joe) Pavicic just happens to be one of those individuals born to do it well, whatever the endeavor.

For openers, he’s enterprising , quick to identify an opportunity and is equipped with the necessary  entrepreneurial skills to follow through.

He’s certainly not short on confidence and demonstrated that when some years ago a visitor to his impressive Likro company in Mississauga  – which he launched in 1980 to manufacture precision parts engineered mostly for the aviation industry – asked what the reject rate was in production.

“ None“, he responded.

The affable, Croatian-born, Zagreb University-educated Pavicic is not short of being on the receiving end of many accolades, having been honored a number of times for his varied achievements in the aerospace and aviation engineering industry and in his community. But it’s his presence in Canadian soccer, which  is not as well-known, that is now drawing attention as he steps down after serving 10 years as president of Toronto Croatia, a team in the Canadian Soccer League.

It didn’t take long for Toronto Croatia to be on top after Pavicic took over in 2006. His team won the CSL championship the following year, losing just one game in the five-month long campaign. Toronto Croatia also won the 2007 inaugural Croatian World Club Championship between Croatian teams from Austria, Germany, Australia, the United States and France. The win was repeated in 2011. Toronto Croatia continued under Pavicic to win the CSL title in 2011, 2012 and 2015.

Joe Pavicic is proudly Croatian, and is always quick to point out – proudly Canadian. On January 14, 2014 he staged a premiere showing of a documentary film: Toronto Croatia – a Great Croatian Story, which captured  before a full audience in Mississauga the memorable 1976 North American Championship victory by Metros Croatia, a team formed when Toronto Metros of the North American Soccer League  and Toronto Croatia  of the National Soccer League partnered  just a year earlier.

” I think the game has moved well forward in Canada since Toronto Croatia was launched in 1956, but there is a need for more soccer facilities to push it along, it deserves to be one of the mainstream sports. Mississauga is a great community with a population almost 800,000 but we still lack a soccer stadium,“ Pavicic said recently.

Pavicic will be spending more time attending to business interests  in Canada and Europe, but his presence in soccer will continue while taking part in events that commemorate the anniversary of Metros Croatia winning this continent’s soccer championship 40 years ago. He’ll also be celebrating Toronto Croatia’s 60 years in professional soccer in Canada.

This is a year too, when Toronto FC is going to honour Metros Croatia with new white kits with a touch of red and blue, designed with the championship victory in mind, while bringing attention to professional soccer’s past in the city.

It’s a part of soccer history that Joe Pavicic and Toronto Croatia have been very much a part of.

 

 

Prior to 2008, Canada did not have a club championship for professional teams and for some years prior to 2008 the Canadian Soccer League (prior to 2006 the Canadian Professional Soccer League, CPSL) organized the Open Canada Cup competition which was sponsored in part by the federal government.

During that time the Voyageurs, a Canadian supporters group, awarded a trophy to Canadian teams taking part in the U.S.-based USL Division 1, so it was not until 2007 that the Canadian Soccer Association decided to organize a competition that would decide Canada’s best team.

Various formats were considered, including a competition to include Canada’s MLS entries with the CSL champion and the Canadian national amateur champions. The big teams would enter late, just like in other countries, but this was scrapped in favour of a competition that would bring together only Canada’s premier professional clubs. Today this is known as the Amway Canadian Championship.

Amway is an American company and in 2016 there will be five teams taking part in the Canadian championship: MLS teams Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps, together with FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury FC of the North American Soccer League. Both leagues are based in the United States.

‘Hate the Canadian championship’, says soccer coach and former referee Dave Kenny, a Canadian who spent three years in England as a boy to love the FA Cup over there.

Kenny probably doesn’t really hate the Amway Canadian Championship, although he does explain in an interesting article published in a 2015 issue of Inside Soccer Magazine that  interest from a fan’s perspective is poor and the attendances generally low. ‘I made the mistake of paying for a ticket – only once’, he says in the story. He considers the games just an excuse to find a team to enter the CONCACAF Champions League.

By contrast, Kenny describes in glowing terms of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup – the oldest competition in US soccer which allow amateur and professional teams to compete together and against one another – allowing an amateur team to play against the country’s best – similar to the FA Cup in England which, as he points out, are played in front of sell-out crowds.

As a 19 year-old player in Richmond Hill, Kenny’s memory goes back to hosting a match against the European U- 18 champions and the town came together to treat the game as a major community event with the largest crowd to ever see a soccer game in Richmond Hill.

It’s all about the excitement of playing against a glamour team, creating almost an aura, with the possibility of victory for the underdog that attracts. The CSA would be wise to re-visit the first concept which included CSL and top amateur teams taking part in what could become an exciting major annual event in Canadian soccer.

Milton SC vs Toronto FC ….. why not ?

The Canadian Soccer League has been communicating with Canadian law enforcement since attending an Interpol meeting in New York City January 2013 to discuss match fixing, and is pleased to learn that investigations are now underway by the RCMP to ascertain if there is merit in a report of a study by the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) in Qatar of unusual betting activity on CSL matches played during the 2015 season.

The CSL earlier pledged co-operation and assistance to the Ontario Provincial Police following their interest in a game played at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec in 2009, and has reinforced that pledge with the RCMP more recently.  Betting on CSL matches in known to occur in Europe.

The league sought assistance during 2010 to 2012 from the Canadian Soccer Association and FIFA following reports of the 2009 game, but no assistance was made available.

Interest by the RCMP is considered by the CSL to be a positive development in the league’s efforts to come to terms with “suspicious betting activity” on the outcome of CSL matches, which invariably leads to allegations or suggestions of match manipulation.

“While the earlier investigation of the 2009 game did not produce sufficient evidence and, therefore, did not continue, it is hoped a current investigation will be completed to the fullest,” said CSL Chairman Vincent Ursini Thursday.

The CSL will be implementing a number of measures to monitor all games during the upcoming season and is considering the possibility of working closely with an integrity company in Europe that monitors betting activity on sporting events, including soccer. The highly regarded International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) has also offered assistance.

 

A FIFA statistic says that one in 40 Canadians are playing soccer. That’s about the same as in Italy.

Canadians bought more than 29,000 tickets to the 2014 World Cup – more than all of the other nations that did not qualify.

Since the late nineties, soccer has ranked as the most favoured sport for children in Canada between five and 14 years of age. At that time, 32 per cent of boys and girls participating in sports were playing soccer and that number jumped to 42 per cent in 2010.

In other words, soccer is becoming a mainstream sport in Canada and young people are playing a big part in the shift.

In Ontario, youth soccer accounts for 280,000 registered players – not including schools or other teaching institutions or recreational soccer. But while the dramatic increase in recent years is impressive, skills training, formal coaching have not kept pace with growth and many young people are without the benefit of being shown the rudiments of the game that crafts the real player.

The CSL has announced a partnership with a recently-formed Ontario Youth Soccer Association for competition as a OYSA Division of the CSL. The OYSA  teams will interface with  CSL academy teams to begin play this coming May. Eventually, CSL professional players and highly qualified coaches with their considerable skills training experience mostly from Europe, will be made available for the benefit of the young players.

“This is an important step in making youth development an important part of the CSL,” said Pino Jazbec, the league administrator. “We believe that with the CSL Academy addition and the OYSA the right environment can be of great benefit to young players, particularly in  accelerating their playing skills.”

The youth academy arm of the CSL is available to boys and girls U-8, U-10,. U-12, U-14, U,16 and academies and clubs in Ontario are invited to enquire with the Ontario Youth Soccer Association for competition starting in May.

The CSL has also announces a partnership with the Canadian Corporate Soccer League, which is based in Montreal with comprehensive summer and winter competitions for corporate teams in that city. The CSL will assist in the development of a similar competition structure in Toronto.

 

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Even the most knowledgeable of soccer enthusiasts in Canada will be surprised to learn that it was not until 1991 when the Ukraine national soccer team was formed and that the first match was played against Hungary on April 29,1992. This followed Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union.

Ukraine’s initial appearance in the World Cup was in 2006 and the first appearance in the European Championship came in 2012. Not surprising, Ukraine stood 123^rd in the FIFA rankings in 1993, but that eastern European country rocketed to 11^th position to be recognized as one of the world’s top teams in 2007 to remind the world that football is still the nation’s most favoured sport.

In Canada, and in other countries where Ukrainians settled, it was a different story. Toronto Ukraina showed prominence in Canada much earlier, winning the National Soccer League (NSL) championship five times during the period 1953 to 1965 during a very competitive period when many talented players – including high level professionals – came to southern Ontario from other parts of Europe.

The Ukrainian presence in Canadian soccer has faded in recent times, but that may be changing with the launch of Toronto Atomic in 2015 and an application by FC Ukraine United as an entry in the Canadian Soccer League’s first division this coming 2016 season.

Vladimir (Vlad) Koval, a native of Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine, is the mover, determined to see his club prominent in Canadian pro soccer. The CSL and its standard of play is an environment that Koval, now 40, is familiar with, having played for Toronto Italia and Toronto Croatia in the nineties through to 2001 . He’s played in York Region, also, with a reputation as a goalscorer and his skills take him into Etobicoke where he volunteers some of his time to coach the minors.

“It has always been a dream of ours to be playing in Canadian Soccer League, at the highest level. This milestone seemed unachievable until this year. Fortunately, we were lucky to have met the right people who agreed to be our sponsors, and the players are also stronger and better skilled and ready to play at the next level,” said Koval recently.

Koval, Andrey Malychenkov, Denys Yanchuk and Evgen Ischak will be the principals of the club’s professional team after taking the  amateur side to success in the Ontario Soccer League, including a runner-up finish in the OSL’s Premier Central Division in 2015.

Malychenkov came to Canada from the Russian first and second division and played for North York Astros in the CSL, while Denys Yanchuk played in the Ukraine first division. Ishchak also has a strong soccer background, a high school MVP in soccer, former player with Toronto Supra and North York Astros in the CSL, and is the son of the famous Ukraine player Vasyl Ischak.

FC Ukraine United was formed in October 2006 and this coming October the club will be hoping to have a say in the CSL Championship to add to a 10^th anniversary celebration.

The league will be recommending acceptance of FC Ukraine United at a meeting of the CSL member clubs on January 24.

 

Marin Vucemilovic-Grgic has proven to be an exciting striker in the CSL and in typical fashion opened his 2015 season  with a hat-trick for London City in a 3-3 tie with new club Scarborough SC at the Soccer-fest opening day games at the St.Joan of Arc ground in Maple on May 9. Winner of the CSL MVP award, Vucemilovic-Grgic, 28, from Split, Croatia, entered the CSL with Toronto Croatia and was  a member of the championship-winning team of 2011 and 2012.

The CSL welcomed Toronto Atomic FC into membership early 2015, a team with a distinctly Ukrainian flavour headed by Ihor Prokipchuk who took his Toronto Selects academy organization into professional soccer. The team played its first game against Niagara United on May 9, winning by a 3-0 score and Atomic went on to defeat London City 4-2 a week later. Oleksandr Semeniuk was the First Division side’s leading goalscorer with 10 and the first season appearance of the Toronto-based team is a reminder to us of the Toronto Ukraina presence in the National Soccer League, a forerunner league of the CSL in the 50s and 60s when the Ukrainian side won the championship five times.

While SC Waterloo failed to take advantage of yet again advancing both teams to the CSL Championship Finals, this time on their home ground on October 25, they must be congratulated for getting there. Waterloo reached the finals with both teams in 2013 as one of the more recent teams in the CSL and took a dramatic leap in profile when they won both the CSL Championship and the Second Division Championship that year. They then appeared in the CSL Second Division Championship Final in 2014, losing to Kingston FC Reserves. That the team from Southwestern Ontario appeared in five of the six finals played in the last three years is a remarkable achievement. Just to top things off, SC Waterloo reserves won the Second Division standings in the season just ended.

Serbian White Eagles had the distinction of clinching the first playoff berth in the First Division with a 2-0 victory over London City on September 6 and the Serbian White Eagles reserve team took the last playoff spot in the Second Division with a 3-1 victory over Toronto Croatia reserves, a rare Thursday game in the CSL on October 1.

 

Toronto Croatia won its tenth CSL championship since entering professional soccer in 1956 to be one of the highlights of the 2015 season just ended. Here are just a few of many more highlights and items of interest from a busy and exciting 2015 season. And there’s more to follow……..

When Richard West struck five goals in a 9-1 York Region Shooters thrashing of Niagara United on September 25 no one expected the 30 year old striker to repeat the scoring spree two days later at London City. The 10 goals in three days vaulted West into winning the CSL First Division scoring title with 23 goals, two in front of Brantford Galaxy’s Zdenko Jurcevic who led the scoring race most of the season to be pipped right at the end.

When Serbian White Eagles were beaten 3-1 by York Region Shooters on August 21 it ended an 11-game unbeaten streak, but the unbeaten string all but assured the Mississauga-based club the First Division title, so convincing was their lead at the top of the standings.  Serbian Eagles’ strong play and championship form was attributed to strengthening of the side by several signings from Europe early in the year.

The Canadian Soccer League is a men’s professional league but in the background are a number of women who year after year make a strong contribution to CSL affairs and the most outstanding of these was presented the Paul Harry Gauss Award at the league’s Annual Awards Night on October 24. Cyndy De Thomasis of York Region Shooters was voted to be the recipient of the award which recognizes the individual who has best demonstrated hard work, dedication and allegiance in the interests of the CSL during 2015.

MVPs are also special people and voted the most valuable player in the First Division was Josip Keran of Toronto Croatia and in the Second Division it was Arsenije Japalak, 20, of Brantford Galaxy reserves. Keran, a 30 year old attacking defender and team captain, who was the Defender of the Year in 2014, scored a number of key goals in the past season, 10 in all.

Scoring a hat-trick always attracts attention, but when forward Vladimir Vujovic scored two hat-tricks in succession with three goals in Burlington’s 5-0 defeat of Brampton City Utd on May 31 and repeat with three goals in his team’s next game 8-1 romp over Niagara United on June 6, that brought comments.

More to come…….

 

 

 Toronto Croatia defeated SC Waterloo 1-0 to win the CSL Championship at Warrior Stadium, Waterloo Sunday.

Midfielder Oscar Cordon struck the only goal of the game at 46 minutes, a low drive from 12 yards that left little opportunity for Waterloo goalkeeper Imad Hakura to make the save. The Toronto team also found the net 12 minutes into the game, but the goal was ruled offside.

It was a well-played defensive encounter with few scoring chances throughout. The championship victory was number 10 for Toronto Croatia since entering the league in 1956 and the third during the past five years, winning in 2011 and 2012.

“It was defensive for sure, but we wanted this one, maybe more than our opposition and that’s what made the difference,” said Velimir Crljen, coach of Toronto Croatia following the game.

Toronto Croatia finished second in the standings in the regular season, SC Waterloo end in fourth spot of 12 teams in the CSL First Division.

Toronto Croatia:

Josip Keran, Sven Arapovic, Andres Fresenga, Tomislav Zadro, Halburto Harris, Hayden Fitizwilliams, Shawn Brown, Jure Glavina, David Alva, Ainsley Deer, Pero Menalo, Darren Chambers, Ivan Cutura, Christian Maraldo, Anes Handanovic, Oscar Cordon, Amir Hosic, Faris Efendic. Head Coach: Vladimir Crljen, Assistant Coach: Milodrag Akamazdic, Assistant Coach: Tom Granic, Manager: Ivan Kulis.

SC Waterloo:

Imad Hakura, Thomas Sackor,  Nemanja Simeunovic,  Zachary Ellis-Hayden,Vladimir Zelenbaba, Terrell Christian, Mirza Colic, Mohammad-Ali Heydarpour, Ranko Golijanin, Ramon Bailey, Adis Hasecic, Aleksander Stojiljkovic, Slobodan Milanovic. Ryan Paumier, Branko Gavric, Dzenan Karic, Mladen Zeljkovic, Edward Syllie. Head Coach: Lazo Dzepina, Manager: Vojislav Brisevac.

CSL CHAMPIONSHIP – SUMMARY

Quarterfinals

Serbian White Eagles 1, London City 0

SC Waterloo 2, Toronto Atomic FC 0

York Region Shooters 4, Burlington SC 2

Toronto Croatia 4, Milton SC 0

 Semifinals

SC Waterloo 3, Serbian White Eagles 2

Toronto Croatia 3, York Region Shooters 2

Final

Toronto Croatia 1,  SC Waterloo 0

CSL SECOND DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP

In the first game of a double header, Milton SC reserves scored a 3-1 extra time victory over SC Waterloo reserves for the CSL Second Division Championship.

Forward Edward Syllie opened the scoring for Waterloo reserves at the 47^th minute for 1-0 score at the break.

Danny Jirta tied the score1-1 at 88 minutes for Milton, a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation time.

Adnan Smajic put Milton into a 2-1 lead at 91 minutes and Lucky Maghori increased the lead to 3-1 at 16 minutes of extra time, and the score remained 3-1 to the final whistle.

CSL SECOND DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP – SUMMARY

Quarterfinals

Brantford Galaxy B 1, Burlington SC B 0

SC Waterloo B 5, Serbian White Eagles B 0

Milton SC B 6, Toronto Atomic FC B 0

York Region Shooters B 4, Niagara United B 4 EXTRA TIME

Niagara United B won on penalty kicks.

 Semifinals

SC Waterloo B 5, Niagara United B 1

Milton SC B 3, Brantford Galaxy B 0

 Final

 Milton SC B 3, SC Waterloo  B 1

 

 

Josip Keran, a veteran standout attacking defender with Toronto Croatia, was voted the MVP of the Canadian Soccer League at a well-attended annual awards night held at Kitchener Saturday, a prelude to the CSL Championship Day being held at nearby Waterloo on Sunday afternoon.

Keran, 30, was considered to have played a big defensive role in the Toronto team’s second place finish in the CSL First Division and a the team is a finalist in the championship game against SC Waterloo being played at Warrior Field, Waterloo, a 4 pm kickoff on Sunday. Keran also found the net 10 times for Toronto Croatia in regular season games.

Most goals in the CSL First Division were scored by Richard West, a striker with York Region Shooters who struck 23 in the regular season – 10 goals in two games near the end of the season – while Nikola Stanojevic of Burlington SC was voted the league’s defender of the year.

The annual Rookie of the year award went to Ihor Melnyk of expansion club Toronto Atomic FC.

Andrew Stringer of Burlington SC picked up the best goalkeeper in the CSL First Division and Vasil Ischak of Atomic was voted the best coach in the league’s top division.

MVP of the CSL Second Division is Brantford Galaxy reserve team’s Arsenije Japalak and Nikola Miokovic of Burlington SC reserves was the top scorer in division two with 15 goals in the 2015 campaign.

The defender of the year award in the CSL Second Division was awarded to Namanjar Sudar of Brantford Galaxy reserves, rookie of the year is Kingma Zach, also of Brantford Galaxy reserves, Ihor Vitiv, of Toronto Atomic reserves, is the top goalkeeper in Division Two and Amir Osmanlic of Milton reserves was voted the best coach in division two.

Goran Babic was voted the referee of the year in the Canadian Soccer League, Cyndy De Thomasis of York Region Shooters was elected as the recipient of the year’s Harry Paul Gauss Award to reflect the top individual who contributed to the league with effort, dedication and allegiance in 2015.

Club’s honoured were Serbian White Eagles for finishing on top of the CSL First Division, SC Waterloo B for winning the CSL Second Division in the regular season, and Burlington SC won the Fair Play and Respect Award.

 

Toronto Croatia and SC Waterloo have both travelled the championship road before. And both have won.

Toronto Croatia have lifted the trophy nine times, Waterloo once.

The Toronto side entered professional soccer in 1956 – this is their 60^th year.

Waterloo entered the CSL, which is considered the entry point to the pro game in Canada, in 2011 – this is their fifth year.

Toronto Croatia ended the 2015 regular season second in the standings. Waterloo fourth.

Yet there’s no telling which team should win this weekend’s upcoming CSL Championship. It’s a tough call.

Both teams can score. Adis Hadecic struck 16 goals for Waterloo during the regular season just ended, but Toronto Croatia’s Darren Chambers, Jure Glavina and Josip Keran accounted for 33 of the 57 that found the net. Waterloo’s total output was 34.

Toronto Croatia conceded just 18 goals in the 22-game campaign. Waterloo conceded 27.

Josip Keran is a defender, but scored an amazing 10 goals in Toronto Croatia’s 22 games

Waterloo is at home – awarded the hosting of the 2015 Championship Finals.            

CSL Championship – Final

Sunday, October 25 at 4 pm

Toronto Croatia vs SC Waterloo

Warrior Field, Waterloo

 The CSL Championship is preceded by the CSL Second Division Championship at 1 pm

SC Waterloo B vs Milton SC B