Club de Soccer Saint-Laurent is a Canadian semi-professional
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in
Saint-Laurent,
Quebec that plays in
Ligue1 Québec
Ligue1 Québec (L1QC) is a Semi-professional sports, semi-professional men's and women's Association football, soccer league in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2011 as the Première ligue de soccer du Québec, the league is sanctioned by the Canadian ...
.
History
Established as a youth soccer club, the club was founded in 1982. As part of their 40th anniversary in 2022, the club unveiled a new logo, incorporating several elements of their
arrondissement's coat of arms and logo while preserving the shape of its old coat of arms – the crown at the top symbolizing the coat of arms of Saint-Laurent, the three points of the latter refer to the three spheres of the Borough's emblem, representing the three main cultural communities at the time of its creation (the French, English and Jewish populations), and the triangular shape in the centre representing mountain peaks.
It was announced that they would enter the men's division of
Première Ligue de soccer du Québec starting in 2022. Their desire to join the PLSQ had begun five years earlier, but they delayed their entry as they waited for some of their youth players to age, as well as due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Their debut match occurred on May 7 against
Ottawa South United
Ottawa South United is a Canadian semi-professional soccer team based in Manotick, Ontario, a community in the rural south part of Ottawa that plays in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. The club previously competed in League1 Ontario. ...
, which they won 6–0. They finished in second place in their inaugural season.
In 2023, the club won the
Ligue1 Québec
Ligue1 Québec (L1QC) is a Semi-professional sports, semi-professional men's and women's Association football, soccer league in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2011 as the Première ligue de soccer du Québec, the league is sanctioned by the Canadian ...
(re-branded from the PLSQ) title, qualifying the club to compete in the
2024 Canadian Championship
The 2024 Canadian Championship () will be the seventeenth edition of the Canadian Championship, the premier men's domestic cup competition in Canadian soccer, and the 23rd competition staged to determine the winner of the Voyageurs Cup. It wi ...
.
Roster
Seasons
References
External links
Senior Semi-pro club websiteYouth club website
{{Première ligue de soccer du Québec – Men's Division
Soccer clubs in Montreal
Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Saint-Laurent
Association football clubs established in 1982