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Unionville Milliken Soccer Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Unionville, Ontario. The club was founded in 1976 as a youth soccer club and added its men's semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 2018.[1]

Unionville Milliken SC

Full name	Unionville Milliken Soccer Club
Nickname(s)	UMSC Strikers
Founded	1976
Stadium	Azzurri Village
Head Coach	Filipe Bento (men) Paul Omoghan (women)
League	League1 Ontario
2022	League1 Ontario, 20th (men) League1 Ontario, 14th (women)
Website	Club website
Current season

The club also fields a team in the League1 Ontario women's division, which entered the league in the 2017 season.[2]

History

The club was founded in 1976 to serve the communities of Unionville and Milliken in Ontario.[3]

Originally a youth soccer club, the team added semi-professional teams in League1 Ontario in the women's division in 2017, followed by a men's team in 2018.[4] In their inaugural season, the women's team finished in 4th place.[5] Unionville announced that their club would go with a fully professional model, as opposed to an amateur or semi-professional approach, becoming the second fully professional team in the league, after Toronto FC III.[6]

The men's team was formed through a partnership with York Region Shooters, who played in the Canadian Soccer League until 2017, to form a professional club in L1O to begin in 2018, created through the relationship of Shooters' owner Tony De Thomasis and UMSC coach Filipe Bento.[7] They played their inaugural match on April 29, 2018 against Windsor TFC,[8] which resulted in a 3–1 victory.[9] In 2022, the women's reserve team won the League1 Ontario Reserve Division.[10]

Seasons

Men

Season	League	Teams	Record	Rank	Playoffs	League Cup	Ref
2018	League1 Ontario	17	6–5–5	8th	Group Stage	Round of 16	[11]
2019		16	3–3–9	12th	Did not qualify	–	[11]
2020		Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[12]
2021		15	5–2–5	4th, East (8th overall)	Did not qualify	–	[11]
2022		15	4–2–15	20th	Did not qualify	–

Women

Season	League	Teams	Record	Rank	Playoffs	League Cup	Ref
2017	League1 Ontario	11	10–3–7	4th	–	Quarter-finals	[13]
2018		13	5–3–4	8th	Did not qualify	Finalists	[13]
2019		14	5–5–4	11th	Did not qualify	–	[13]
2020	Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[12]
2021	League1 Ontario Summer Championship	7	2–1–3	5th	–	–	[13]
2022	League1 Ontario	20	7–1–10	14th	Did not qualify	–

Notable former players

The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the League1 Ontario team:

Men

Women

References

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