Canadian Soccer League 2006 season

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Canadian Soccer League 2006
League	Canadian Soccer League
Sport	Football (soccer)
Duration	19 May 2006-12 October 2006
League
League champions	Italia Shooters
Runners-up	Serbian White Eagles
Top scorer	Gabriel Pop (Serbian White Eagles)

The 9th Canadian Soccer League season began on May 19, 2006 and concluded on October 12, 2006 with Italia Shooters claiming their first Rogers Cup victory.

Contents 1 Changes from 2005 season 2 Final standings 2.1 National Conference 2.2 International Conference 3 Rogers Cup playoffs 4 Scoring 5 Individual awards 6 External links

[edit] Changes from 2005 season

• The Canadian Professional Soccer League changed their name to the Canadian Soccer League.
• Two new conferences were created International, and National, replacing the Eastern, and Western conferences.
• Vaughan Shooters changed their name to Italia Shooters and Toronto Supra changed their name to Toronto Supra Portuguese. Both join the newly created international division, re-kindling the spirit of the National Soccer League
• The Serbian White Eagles, and the Caribbean Selects began play as an expansion franchise in the International Conference. The White Eagles played under the same name in the National Soccer League in 1974.
• The Hamilton Thunder, and the Durham Storm folded.

[edit] Final standings

Purple indicates National Conference winners
Yellow indicates International Conference winners
Green indicates playoff berth clinched

[edit] National Conference

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	Points
1	Oakville Blue Devils	22	10	6	6	42	26	36
2	Brampton Stallions	22	10	7	5	38	32	35
3	Laval Dynamites	22	8	7	7	37	29	31
4	Windsor Border Stars	22	8	8	6	30	30	30
5	St. Catharines Wolves	22	7	9	6	29	40	27
6	North York Astros	22	3	11	8	28	45	17
7	London City	22	3	13	6	27	58	15

[edit] International Conference

Place	Team	P	W	L	T	GF	GA	Points
1	Serbian White Eagles	22	17	1	4	66	14	55
2	Toronto Croatia	22	14	3	5	58	23	47
3	Italia Shooters	22	8	5	9	30	26	33
4	Toronto Supra Portuguese	22	7	8	7	43	34	28
5	Caribbean Selects	22	1	18	3	15	87	6

[edit] Rogers Cup playoffs

	QuarterFinals							SemiFinals							Rogers Cup final
	3	Toronto Croatia			1
	6	Laval Dynamites			0
								3	Toronto Croatia			0
								5	Italia Shooters			1
	2	Oakville Blue Devils			1
	7	Windsor Border Stars			2
															5	Italia Shooters			1
															1	Serbian White Eagles			0
	4	Brampton Stallions			0
	5	Italia Shooters			2
								1	Serbian White Eagles			6
								7	Windsor Border Stars			1
	1	Serbian White Eagles			3
	8	Toronto Supra Portuguese			0

Quarterfinals

October 1, 2006	Laval Dynamites	0–1	Toronto Croatia	Victoria Park: 150
			Ples  89'

October 1, 2006	Windsor Border Stars	2–1	Oakville Blue Devils	Bronte Stadium: 100
	Samson  16' Kletzien  45'		Czoli  40'

October 1, 2006	Italia Shooters	2–0	Brampton Stallions	Victoria Park:

Italia Shooters were given the semi-final spot as a result of a 2-0 forfeit.

October 2, 2006	Toronto Supra	0–3	Serbian White Eagles	Centennial Park Stadium: 1,200
			Viciknez  53'  89' Braletic  90+1'

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Semifinals

October 7, 2006	Toronto Croatia	0–1	Italia Shooters	Esther Shiner Stadium: 300
			De Thomasis  83'

October 7, 2006	Serbian White Eagles	6–1	Windsor Border Stars	Esther Shiner Stadium: 1,000
	Pop  29'  36'  49'  61' Scepanovic  34' Gordon  81'		Abdulla  68'

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Rogers Cup final

October 15, 2006	Serbian White Eagles	0–1	Italia Shooters	Esther Shiner Stadium: 1,800
	Adur  62'

Canadian Soccer League 2006 winners
Italia Shooters First Title

[edit] Scoring

This table lists the scoring leaders for the regular season.

Player	Team	GP	G
Gabriel Pop	Serbian White Eagles	22	27
Sasa Viciknez	Serbian White Eagles	22	23
Castro Uarlem	Toronto Supra	22	20
Hayden Fitzwilliams	Toronto Croatia	22	12
Tommy Ples	Toronto Croatia	20	11
Sam Hassam	Oakville Blue Devils	19	10
Rachid Madkour	Laval Dynamites	16	9
Hugo Herrera	Brampton Stallions	16	8
Petro Czoli	Oakville Blue Devils	21	8
Michael Di Luca	Toronto Supra	20	8

[edit] Individual awards

• CSL MVP Award: Sasa Viciknez, Serbian White Eagles
• CSL Golden Boot: Gabriel Pop, Serbian White Eagles (27)
• CSL Defender of the Year Award: Fil Rocca, Windsor Border Stars
• CSL Goalkeeper of the Year Award: George Azcurra, Toronto Croatia
• CSL Rookie of the Year Award: Uarlem Castro, Toronto Supra
• CSL Coach of the Year Award: Tony De Thomasis, Italia Shooters
• CSL President's Award: Isac Cambas, Toronto Supra
• CSL Best Official: Mercey Watfa
• CSL Fair Play Award: Caribbean Selects

[edit] External links

• Rocket Robin's Home Page of the 2006 CSL Season

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