With L10 and Swedish league experience, Adjei makes for the prototypical CanPL foreign signing 3 Dec 2018 Simon Adjei had a heck of a strike rate in 2016, when he played for Aurora FC in League1 Ontario. The Swedish/Ghanaian forward scored 19 times in 19 matches before heading back to Europe.
Membership numbers are surging for York 9, but team still has a ways to go 8 Nov 2018 At time of writing, the club’s membership numbers have nearly tripled during October to 702, an amount that still leaves them behind five of the other clubs preparing to kickoff in April, but represents a significant increase.
Can the CanPL start fixing our country’s “Mayan pyramid?” 24 Oct 2018 The task is daunting. The CanPL coaches are building a soccer league in a country that has never really embraced one. Success on the field, in the stands, and with player development may be elusive for years.
Never mind the memberships: Brennan bullish on York 9’s future 16 Oct 2018 “What we’re concerned about is that when these games come, we want 6,000 to 10,000 people in the seats. A membership is nice. But we’re not worried about that. We know what we’ve got coming down the line … all of the events that we’ve done, and the interest that we have, so we’re not worried about [memberships].”
Brennan becomes first head coach in York 9 history 27 Jul 2018 Jim Brennan, as an East York product, a Toronto FC day-one player and former MLS All-Star, is synonymous with soccer in the GTA.
York 9 reveals its colours 10 May 2018 York 9 is the first set-to-start-in-2019 Canadian Premier League club that has publicly revealed its name and logo. The primary colour is electric green, which we are told is meant to represent the lush forests of the regions north of Toronto, and not the GO Trains that carry thousands of commuters back and forth between York and the city every day.
