League1 Ontario is the province of Ontario’s pro-am, standards-based, senior league. Founded in 2014, the league launched with a ten-team men’s division, which has now grown to 22 teams in the Men’s Premier Division and a separate 20 team Women’s Premier division. When we include our Women's and Men's Reserve Divisions, League1 Ontario boasts a total of 118 teams for the 2022 season.
League1 Ontario serves as a stepping stone between the high-performance youth level and elite amateur and professional levels of the game in Canada's largest province. Our primary focus is to showcase and develop Canada’s future soccer stars, as well as providing an important platform for up-and-coming coaches and match officials to showcase themselves.
L1O was founded in 2014 as a 10-team men’s league, before introducing a women’s division in 2015 which is Canada’s highest level.
The league surpassed 100 players going professional in 2018, and despite the COVID-19 pandemic impacting L1O across two seasons, that number has now skyrocketed past the 200 milestone, with the number of men’s players signing professionally almost doubling since the Canadian Premier League formed in 2019.
L1O alumni have signed for clubs in more than 100 different professional competitions internationally, including the top divisions in England, France, Spain, and USA. Players from around the world are coming to play in L1O to benefit from the league’s profile and use it as a springboard for their careers.
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