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North Toronto Nitros
Full name	North Toronto Soccer Club
Nickname(s)	Nitros
Founded	1980
Stadium	Downsview Turf
Head Coach	Marko Milanović (men); Billy Wilson (women)
League	League1 Ontario
2024	L1O-P, 4th (men); L1O-P, 3rd (women)
Website	https://northtorontosoccer.com/
	Current season

North Toronto Nitros is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario. The club was founded in 1980 as a youth soccer club and added its men's semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 2016 and its women's team in the League1 Ontario women's division in 2021.

History

The club was founded in 1980 as a youth soccer club.^[1] They updated the club logo in 2019, combining the club logo and Nitros team logo.^[2]

Originally a youth soccer club, the team added a men's semi-professional team in League1 Ontario in 2016,^[3] playing their home games at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium.^[4] They played their inaugural match on April 30, 2016, on the road against Vaughan Azzurri, which they lost by a score of 2–1.^[5] They defeated Aurora United by a score of 5–0 in their home debut.^[6]

In 2018, the club departed the league, going on hiatus.^[7] Two years later, they were set to return to the league for the 2020 season and also added a women's team to the League1 Ontario women's division for the first time, providing a full senior high-performance pathway for players based in downtown Toronto,^[8] however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was cancelled, delaying their return (and the women's team's debut) to 2021.^[9]^[10] They moved their home field to the Downsview Park turf fields.^[11]

Squad

As of 16 April 2023^[12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	CAN	Ali Ghazanfari Moghadam
—	GK	CAN	Alexandre Lin
—	GK	CAN	Quinn Stahmer
—	DF	CAN	Brandon Barone
—	DF	CAN	Daniel Casa
—	DF	CAN	Kaostubh Bolla
—	DF	CAN	Thomas Maccarone
—	DF	VIN	Tristan Marshall
—	DF	CAN	Kai Martin
—	DF	CAN	Alex Meczarski


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	CAN	Gabriel Mikina
—	DF	CAN	Emmanuel Obiefuna
—	DF	CAN	Christian Westlaken
—	MF	CAN	Jacob Carlos
—	MF	CAN	Juan Pablo Delgadillo
—	MF	CAN	Pablo Hempelmann-Perez
—	MF	CAN	Bilal Reslan
—	MF	CAN	Justin Santos
—	MF	CAN	Akeim Villous
—	MF	CAN	Tadija Vukas
—	FW	CAN	Zakaria Abdi
—	FW	CAN	Asher Barnes
—	FW	CAN	Luca Di Marco

Seasons

Men

Season	League	Teams	Record	Rank	Playoffs	League Cup	Ref
2016	League1 Ontario	16	14–3–5	3rd, East (4th overall)	did not qualify	Semi-finals	^[13]
2017	League1 Ontario	16	11–3–8	3rd, East (7th overall)	did not qualify	Round of 16	^[13]
2018	on hiatus
2019	on hiatus
2020	Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic^[14]
2021	League1 Ontario	15	1–1–10	7th, East (14th)	did not qualify	–
2022		22	13–5–3	4th	Quarter Finals	–	^[13]
2023		21	9–4–7	10th	did not qualify	–	^[13]
2024	League1 Ontario Premier	12	10–4–8	4th	–	Semi-Finals

Women

Season	League	Teams	Record	Rank	Playoffs	League Cup	Ref
2021	League1 Ontario	7	4–0–8	6th	Did not qualify	Not held	^[15]
2022		20	10–6–3	7th	Did not qualify	Not held
2023		19	12–2–4	3rd	Quarter-finals	Not held
2024	League1 Ontario Premier	10	11–3–4	3rd	Not held	Finalists