Blue Devils Football Club (formerly known as Oakville Blue Devils FC) is a semi-professional soccer club based in Oakville, Ontario. The senior men's and women's teams currently compete in League1 Ontario men's and women's divisions.[2][3]
Ontario amateur soccer club
For the team known as Oakville Blue Devils from 2005 to 2007, see Brampton United.
The original Oakville Blue Devils was a member team of the Oakville Soccer Club. The team was built, coached and developed by Phil Iafrati (1947–2013),[4] where they won the U19 provincial and national championships in 1998.[5] As the Devils reached the end of the youth soccer circuit that season, Iafrati restarted the program with the a U9 program Oakville Blue Stars in 1999.[6]
In 2005, the second edition of the Blue Devils were formed when the Scarborough-based Metro Lions of the Canadian Professional Soccer League relocated to Oakville and adopted the Blue Devils name,[5] coached by Duncan Wilde.[7] They won the 2005 season defeating Vaughan Shooters in the final.[8] In 2006, Wilde left to manage the Toronto Lynx, which resulted in a mass exodus of players not returning. [9] The club was relocated in 2007 and became Brampton United, bringing to an end the period of the Oakville Blue Devils history.[4]
Revival
Club logo from 2015 to 2020
In 2015, the club was founded to play in the semi-professional League1 Ontario, named after the original team from prior years.[4] The Toronto Lynx men's senior team was incorporated into the Oakville team[10] and in late 2017, the teams merged completely under Oakville's umbrella.[11] In their inaugural L1O season, they were crowned league champions and qualified for the Inter-Provincial Cup against the champion of the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec to determine the Canadian Division III champion, where they defeated CS Mont-Royal Outremont to win the title.[12] In 2017, they won their second title, defeating Woodbridge Strikers in the Championship final on penalty kicks.[13]
In 2018, the team played in the Canadian Championship for the first time where they lost in the first qualifying round against 2017 PLSQ champion AS Blainville.[14][15][16][17] Later, during the 2018 season, they played a friendly against Italian professional Serie A club Frosinone Calcio, losing by a score of 2–0.[18][19][20]
Also in 2018, the club added a team in the women's division of League1 Ontario, beginning in the 2018 season.[21][22] In their second season, the women advanced to the Championship Final, where they were defeated by FC London.[23] In 2021, the women once again finished as runner-ups after being defeated in the finals by the Woodbridge Strikers.[23]
In 2020, the club merged with GPS Academy and was renamed to Blue Devils FC.[24] The men finished as runner-ups in both 2021 and 2022, being defeated in the Championship Finals by Guelph United FC and Vaughan Azzurri, respectively.[23]
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