Hamilton City Soccer Club

Hamilton City Soccer Club is a Canadian soccer team founded in 2016. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, and play their home games at Cardinal Newman Secondary School multi-sport athletic field in the community of Stoney Creek, Hamilton.

Hamilton City 1

Full name	Hamilton City 1 Soccer Club
Founded	2016
Stadium	Heritage Field Hamilton, Ontario
Manager	Kathleen Nurse
Coach	Sasa Vukovic
League	Canadian Soccer League
2020	Regular season: 3rd Playoffs: Did Not Qualify
Home colours Away colours

History

Original team logo

In May 2016, Andrew Crowe, the owner of London City, sold his share to his partner Zoran Kliseric, and relocated the club to Hamilton, Ontario marking the return of professional soccer to the city since Hamilton Croatia competed in the Canadian Soccer League in 2010.[1][2][3][4] The organizations territory was located at Stoney Creek with Cardinal Newman Secondary School multi-sport athletic field as their home venue.[5] Former London City manager Josip Dzale assumed the responsibilities of head coach, and assembled a roster of players with European and CSL experience. Dzale brought in Drazen Vukovic, Nikola Stanojević, Josip Keran, Miroslav Čabrilo, Igor Krmar, Haris Fazlagić, and Zdenko Jurcevic.[6]

Hamilton City made its league debut on May 27, 2016 against Milton SC, where Santiago Pestrepo scored the club's first historic goal in a 2-1 defeat.[7] Hamilton secured a postseason berth by finishing sixth in the standings. In the first round of the playoffs they faced Scarborough SC, where Hamilton advanced to the next round by a score of 3-0 with goals coming from Timotej Zakrajsek, Jurcevic, and Frane Grbesa.[8] Hamilton faced the regular league champions York Region Shooters and reached the CSL Championship final after a 4-1 victory in a penalty shootout.[9] Their opponents in the final were the Serbian White Eagles, where Domagoj Zubac recorded the first goal with Serbia tying the match later and scoring the final goal at the last minutes of the match to win the championship.[10] On February 20, 2017 it was announced that the owners of Hamilton SC decided not to field a team for the 2017 season.[11]

After a one year hiatus, Hamilton returned for the 2018 season.[12] After a third place finish during the 2020 season, they were disqualified from the playoffs for being "Not-in-Good Standing" at the conclusion of the season.[13]

Players

First Division roster

As of September 23, 2020[14]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  CAN Luke Rankin [15] 5 MF  BIH Haris Fazlagic 7 MF   Vukasin Kovacevic 9 FW  GHA Sani Dey [16] 10 FW  SVN Timotej Zakrajsek [17] 11 DF   Vladimir Mirkoski 12 MF   Danijel Milojevic 15 DF   Stefan Stojanovic 18 GK   Andriy Kulik 27 MF   Matija Popovic 28 MF   Alexandar Nicolic - FW   Illija Bajcetic - MF   Ivan Bogosaljevic - MF   Sime Bukarica - MF   Stefan Blazic

No. Pos. Nation Player - DF   Marko Dzaric - FW   Marko Ferlez - FW  BIH Zoran Kokot - FW   Branislav Janjic - MF   Martin Mamic - MF   Bojan Nedeljkovic - MF   Arsen Platis - DF   Petar Prnjat - MF   Sandro Rajkovic - MF  BIH Haris Redžepi - MF   Nemaja Vojinovic - DF  SRB Đorđe Vukobrat

Head coaches

Years	Name	Nation
2016	Josip Dzale	Croatia
2018	Sasa Vukovic

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs
2016[18]	First Division	CSL	Sixth	Finals
2018[19]	First Division	CSL	Fifth	Quarterfinal
2019[20]	First Division	CSL	Sixth	Quarterfinal

References

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2. Adamson, Stan. "CSL Set for May Kickoff | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
3. Dalla Costa, Morris. "Cornerstone soccer club leaving city". The London Free Press. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
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5. "London City Soccer Club Moving to Hamilton". (CFPL AM) AM 980. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
6. "Hamilton City | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
7. Adamson, Stan. "Last Minute Winner for Milton... .Recover from 1-0 first half deficit | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
8. Adamson, Stan. "York Region and Hamilton Advance to Semifinals....Shooters and Atomic will meet in Second Division final | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
9. Adamson, Stan. "SERBIAN EAGLES, HAMILTON CITY IN CSL CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
10. Adamson, Stan. "SERBIAN WHITE EAGLES CSL CHAMPIONS……defeat Hamilton City in final | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
11. Nason, Jason (2017-02-20). "BREAKING: Hamilton City Soccer Club will not field a team in 2017". Hamilton Today. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
12. Kostourkov, Dimitar. "Canadian Soccer League 2018 Season | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
13. Adamson, Stan (October 9, 2020). "Three Teams Bid for CSL Championship…….Semifinal Saturday". Canadian Soccer League.
14. "Hamilton City 1 SC – Canadian Soccer League". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
15. "Luke Rankin - 2018-19 - University of Guelph". gryphons.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
16. "Sani Dey wins goal king in Canada |". www.ahomkafm.com. Archived from the original on 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
17. "NZS – Nogometna zveza Slovenije". www.nzs.si. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
18. "2016 First Division Standing | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
19. "2018 CSL First Division Standings – Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
20. "2019 CSL First Division Standings – Canadian Soccer League". Retrieved 2019-10-14.