Canadian Soccer League

CANADA'S PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE

The Canadian Soccer League (CSL) is Canada's only professional league and is a continuation of earlier leagues, the National Soccer League (NSL), the Canadian National Soccer League (CNSL) and the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL), going back more than 80 years.

The CSL presently operates teams in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and has adopted a mandate to expand on a regional basis to other parts of Canada.

The league is headed by a Commissioner, Cary Kaplan, with offices at The Soccer Centre in Vaughan and Mississauga, Ontario.

The CSL operates two divisions -- a National Conference of teams in Windsor, St. Catharines, London, Brampton, Oakville, North York and Toronto and the Province of Quebec - and an International Division of teams in the Toronto area which represent their country of origin.

The CSL has a 22-game regular league schedule which runs from mid-May through to the end of September, followed by the playoffs which lead to the Championship Final late October. It also runs an Open Canada Cup from mid-May to Labour Day weekend in September, a competition open to all senior teams in Canada, amateur or pro, which is a first step in Canada's attempt to run a total club championship.

Inaugural year team Trois-Rivieres Attak won the 2007 Open Canada Cup, defeating Columbus Clan of Vancouver, 3-0, in the final on September 3, 2007, and the current CSL champions are Toronto Croatia of the International Conference which defeated another International Conference team, Serbian White Eagles, in 2-leg final October 20/21, 2007

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[lovejessica531]

@hockeydangler9 i would say soccer in the current youth generation i would say where i live (toronto area) is without a doubt just as popular as hockey if not even more popular then hockey

[hockeydangler9]

Lets just face it canada isn't really a soccer country. But we kill almost every1 in hockey

[CR7SL]

is the csl really a full pro league or semi pro ?

[AndyPakSixPak]

Is it hard to play pro soccer in CSL???

[FRSFreeStateES]

A CSL would be the best thing for Canada if its run right because they have the markets to make a Major League. And with the MLS they would probably be limited to a few clubs instead of 8-10. Perhaps they could merged with the MLS.

[Herb615]

Damn this is why Canada can't qualify, CSA is kicking the star players in Canada to the curve. This is why so many Canadians are moving to USA ,England and Holland to play pro. Please join MLS, if the USA can be sucessful with it, so can you Canada.

Fuck that CSL bullshit and half of those players are retired!

[SSJ2trunkSSJ2]

lol maybe my grand grand grand grand grand grand son will see the day this shit league grows big enough to be considered a Real pro league and compete in champions league lol

[bobbymozza]

I agree with ConCon

They should bring in teams from the PCSL join and the USL DL. Then they could have an East and West league (like MLS) and scrap the International Division. At the moment nearly all the clubs are based in the Toronto area, that isn't a good thing btw.

Currently there's only have 9 clubs, with PCSL and the Canadian teams currently in USL DL, that would bring them up to 28. With that, include a few from other state leagues and form a CSL 2 aswell, East and West also.

[ConCon75]

Its shit either way its a joke, and it has been set up or business i think Canada should just end this league and unite, the CSL and the PCSL,and bring the PDL teams in aswell, and maybe if they want to bring the USL teams in because if u do that u can have a full canada league.

[souldude81]

I agree but I think it is called the international division because most of these players could never play for Canada because they are not born in Canada, Hence to have their own league that competes with national Canadians is okay.