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| Full name | Alliance United Futbol Club |
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| Founded | 2017 |
| Stadium | Mount Joy Turf Field /Turf Sports Field |
| Head Coach | Ilya Orlov (men) Angelo Cavalluzzo (women) |
| League | League1 Ontario |
| 2024 | L1O-P, 6th (men) L1O-P, 8th (women) |
| Website | https://allianceunited.club/ |
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Alliance United Futbol Club is a Canadian semi-professionalsoccer club based inMarkham andScarborough,Ontario. The club was founded in 2017 to compete inLeague1 Ontario. The club was formed as a partnership between two youth clubs - Markham FC and Wexford SC. It fields teams in both the men's andwomen's divisions of League1 Ontario.
The club was founded in 2017 as a joint partnership between clubsMarkham FC andWexford SC with the team playing out ofCentennial College.[1][2] The name Alliance United was initially meant to be a temporary with a 'name the team' initiative planned, but it ultimately remained the official name.[3][4]
Markham FC is a youth soccer club inMarkham, Ontario. It was founded in 1971 as the Markham Minor Soccer Club, before changing its name to the Markham Youth Soccer Club.[5]
Wexford SC is a youth soccer club inScarborough inToronto. It was founded in 1967 as the Buchanan Soccer Club and is the longest running club in Scarborough.[6]
Alliance United joined the men's division ofLeague1 Ontario for the2018 season.[7] They played their inaugural match on April 29, 2018 againstNorth Mississauga SC at home, which they lost by a score of 1–0.[8] They finished in 7th place in their debut season.[9] They improved to a 3rd-place finish in the2019 season, but had a very poor showing in the playoffs where they lost 15–0 toFC London on aggregate in the semi-finals over the two-game series, due to being unable to field many of their best players, who missed the series due to college and university commitments,[10] thereby having to rely on many youth players instead.[11]
In2019, the club added a team in theLeague1 Ontario women's division.[12] In their debut season, they finished in a three-way tie for fifth, but did not play in 2020 or 2021 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[4] In their return in 2022, they finished 6th in the regular season, but advanced to the Championship Final in the playoffs, where they were defeated byNDC Ontario.[13] In addition, they advanced to theLeague1 Canada Women's Interprovincial Championship for 2022, as NDC Ontario was unable to compete due to player unavailability,[13] where they finished in 3rd place, following a defeat toPLSQ sideAS Laval in a penalty shootout in the semi-finals,[14][15] before defeatingLeague1 British Columbia sideVarsity FC in the third-place match in another penalty shootout.[16] In 2023, after finishing 4th in the regular season, they won the women's league championship defeatingNDC Ontario in the playoff final.[17][18]
In 2023, they formed an affiliation withCanadian Premier League clubYork United FC, which enables York United to send players to Alliance on short-term loans.[19] On July 29, 2023, they recorded their largest victory, defeatingUnionville Milliken SC by a score of 13-1.[20] In 2024, the men's second team won the inaugural third tier League2 Ontario title, earning promotion to the second tier League1 Ontario Championship.[21] However, they chose to decline the promotion to remain in League2 Ontario for 2025.[22]
2024 Season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Men
| Season | League | Teams | Record | Rank | Playoffs | League Cup | Ref |
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| 2018 | League1 Ontario | 17 | 7–3–6 | 7th | Group Stage | Preliminary Round | [23] |
| 2019 | 16 | 11–3–1 | 3rd | Semi-finals | – | [23] | |
| 2020 | Season cancelled due toCOVID-19 pandemic[24] | ||||||
| 2021 | League1 Ontario Summer Championship | 11 | 3–2–2 | 3rd | – | – | |
| 2022 | League1 Ontario | 22 | 13–6–2 | 3rd | Semi-Finals | – | |
| 2023 | 22 | 9–6–5 | 8th | did not qualify | – | ||
| 2024 | League1 Ontario Premier | 12 | 8–6–8 | 6th | – | Round of 16 | |
Women
| Season | League | Teams | Record | Rank | Playoffs | League Cup | Interprovinical Championship | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | League1 Ontario | 14 | 6–2–5 | 7th | Quarter-finals | – | – | [25] |
| 2020 | Season cancelled due toCOVID-19 pandemic[24] | |||||||
| 2021 | Did not enter due toCOVID-19 pandemic | |||||||
| 2022 | League1 Ontario | 20 | 11–4–4 | 6th | Finalists | – | 3rd | |
| 2023 | 19 | 10–5–3 | 4th | Champions | – | 4th | ||
| 2024 | League1 Ontario Premier | 10 | 5–4–9 | 8th | – | Round of 16 | Did not qualify | |
The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the League1 Ontario team:
Jade Vyfhuis
