Toronto Football Club is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home matches at BMO Field, located at Exhibition Place on Toronto's shoreline west of Downtown Toronto. Toronto FC joined MLS in 2007 as an expansion team and was the first Canadian-based franchise in the league.
Fans celebrating the club's first goal in its history, scored by Danny Dichio at home on May 12, 2007
Preki at a press conference as the club's head coach; he coached the club from November 2009 to September 2010
A game between Toronto FC and LA Galaxy at Rogers Centre during the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals. Toronto later advanced to that tournament's semi-finals.
Ryan Nelsen as head coach of the Toronto FC. He served as head coach from January 2013 to August 2014.
In Canada, soccer is the most popular sport in terms of participation rate; according to FIFA's Big Count, almost 2.7 million people played in Canada in 2006. Professional soccer in Canada is played in the Canadian Premier League and Major League Soccer. Canada also has many semi-professional and amateur soccer leagues. Canada's men's and women's national soccer teams are ranked 33rd and 6th respectively in the FIFA World Rankings as of February 10, 2022.
BC Place in Vancouver hosted the final of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
Illustration of a Hamilton vs. Toronto "football" match by Frederic M. Bell-Smith in 1874
The 1928 Westminster Royals, winners of their first Connaught Cup
Place Soccer Canada in Downtown Ottawa is the headquarters of the Canadian Soccer Association
