2016 Première ligue de soccer du Québec season

Première ligue de soccer du Québec
Season	2016
Champions	CS Mont-Royal Outremont
Cup champions	AS Blainville
Matches played	63
Goals scored	209 (3.32 per match)
Top goalscorer	Frederico Moojen (21); (CS Mont-Royal Outremont) & ; Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (21) ; (AS Blainville)
Best goalkeeper	Francis Monongo (0.75 GAA); (CS Mont-Royal Outremont)
Biggest home win	Mont-Royal 5-0 Ottawa; (May 15, 2016); Lanaudière 5-0 Ottawa; (May 28, 2016); Mont-Royal 5-0 Lanaudière; (June 5, 2016); Blainville 6-1 Gatineau; (Oct. 2, 2016)
Biggest away win	Lanaudière 2-7 Longueuil; (June 11, 2016); Lanaudière 0-5 Blainville; (July 23, 2016)
	← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of October 24, 2016.

The 2016 Première ligue de soccer du Québec season is the fifth season of play for the Première ligue de soccer du Québec; the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Québec and one of two Division 3 semi-professional soccer leagues in the Canadian soccer pyramid (the other being League1 Ontario).

CS Mont-Royal Outremont was the defending champion from 2015 and won the title again this season.

Changes from 2015

The league will again feature seven teams, as in 2015.^[1]

In December 2015, the league announced that FC L'Assomption-Lanaudière had dropped out of the league and that the club's regional soccer association, ARS Lanaudière, would field a new club in the PLSQ called FC Lanaudière. This club is meant to represent the whole Lanaudière region, and is supported by the association's 14 clubs, including L'Assomption-Lanaudière.^[2]

Teams

The following seven teams will take part in the 2016 season:

Team	City	Stadium	Founded	Joined	Head Coach
AS Blainville	Blainville, Laurentides	Parc Blainville	1986	2012	Jean-Pierre Ceriani
FC Gatineau	Gatineau, Outaouais	Terrain Mont-Bleu	?	2013	Nabil Aouadi
Lakeshore SC	Kirkland, Montréal	John Abbott College	1966	2015	Bill Sedgewick
FC Lanaudière	Terrebonne, Lanaudière	Multiple venues	2016	2016	Andrew Olivieri
CS Longueuil	Longueuil, Montérégie	Centre Multi Sport	1970	2013	Anthony Rimasson
CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Mount Royal, Montréal	REC Mont-Royal	?	2013	Luc Brutus
Ottawa Fury FC Academy	Ottawa, Ontario	Algonquin College	2013	2015	Darko Buser

Blainville

Gatineau

Lakeshore

Lanaudière

Longueuil

Mont-Royal

Fury Acad.

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Locations of PLSQ clubs in the 2016 season.

Standings

Each team plays 18 matches as part of the season; three against every other team in the league. There are no playoffs; the first-place team is crowned as league champion at the end of the season and faces the League1 Ontario league champion in the Inter-Provincial Cup.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	18	14	2	2	52	18	+34	44	Inter-Provincial Cup vs L1O Champion
2	AS Blainville	18	11	4	3	45	18	+27	37
3	Lakeshore SC	18	7	6	5	25	21	+4	27
4	FC Gatineau	18	6	4	8	18	30	−12	22
5	CS Longueuil	18	4	5	9	27	41	−14	17
6	FC Lanaudière	18	4	3	11	22	43	−21	15
7	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	18	4	2	12	20	38	−18	14

Source: TSI Sports

Cup

The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all seven teams from the league take part, and is unrelated to the season standings. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is a competition running in parallel to the regular season (similar to the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup), albeit only for PLSQ teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.

The 2016 PLSQ Cup will maintain the same format as the previous seasons, as a two-game aggregate knockout tournament with a single match final. As defending champion, Lakeshore SC will obtain a bye for the first round.^[3]

First round					Semifinals				Finals

1	Lakeshore SC

8	(BYE)
					Lakeshore SC	1	1	2

					FC Gatineau	2	2	4
4	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	2	0	2

5	FC Gatineau	2	3	5
									FC Gatineau	0

									AS Blainville	4
2	FC Lanaudière	3	1	4

7	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	4	3	7
					CS Mont-Royal Outremont	2	1	3

					AS Blainville	3	2	5
3	CS Longueuil	0	0	0

6	AS Blainville	4	1	5

First round

June 18, 2016	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	2 - 2	FC Gatineau	Algonquin College
3:00 pm	Kaiser 29' Malekos 59'	Report	Lobo 3' Dagnogo 25'

July 17, 2016	FC Gatineau	3 - 0	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	Mont-Bleu 4
5:00 pm	Kulic 23' Dagnogo 34' Basiala 90'	Report

FC Gatineau wins 5-2 on aggregate.

June 18, 2016	FC Lanaudière	3 - 4	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Armand Corbeil
4:00 pm	Grondin 65' Syla 74', 79'	Report	Sissoko 2' Oliveri 22' Moojen 40', 68'

July 17, 2016	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	3 - 1	FC Lanaudière	TMR REC 3
6:30 pm	Moojen 34' François 56' Dias 79'	Report	Syla 38'

CS Mont-Royal Outremont wins 7-4 on aggregate.

June 18, 2016	CS Longueuil	0 - 4	AS Blainville	Laurier 1
6:00 pm		Report	Moulinas 33' Aboulhamid 42', 87' (pen) Mayard 63' (pen)

July 17, 2016	AS Blainville	1 - 0	CS Longueuil	Parc Blainville 1
6:00 pm	Aboulhamid 82'	Report

AS Blainville wins 5-0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

August 14, 2016	FC Gatineau	2 - 1	Lakeshore SC	Mont-Bleu 4
5:00 pm	Maheu 11', 71'	Report	Perico 6'	Attendance: 200

September 10, 2016	Lakeshore SC	1 - 2	FC Gatineau	Smiley
2:00 pm	Kaniki 87'	Report	Maheu 31' Dagnogo 90+4'	Referee: Robert Schaap

FC Gatineau wins 4-2 on aggregate.

August 14, 2016	AS Blainville	3 - 2	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Parc Blainville 1
7:00 pm	Mayard 21', 70' Leconte 80'	Report	Sissoko 39' François 90'

September 11, 2016	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	1 - 2	AS Blainville	TMR REC 3
6:30 pm	François 31'	Report	Mayard 10' Redjradj 44'	Referee: Francis Latulippe

AS Blainville wins 5-3 on aggregate.

Final

October 29, 2016	FC Gatineau	0 - 4	AS Blainville	Terrebonne
6:30 pm		Report	Sylla 4' Mayard 45+1', 74' Vela 86'

Inter-Provincial Cup Championship

The Inter-Provincial Cup Championship was a two-legged home-and-away series between the league champions of League1 Ontario and the Première ligue de soccer du Québec – the only Division 3 men's semi-professional soccer leagues based fully within Canada.^[4]

November 5, 2016

8:00pm

CS Mont-Royal Outremont	1–1	Vaughan Azzurri
Rosa 24'	Report	Kovacevic 57'

Complexe Sportifs Terrebonne, Terrebonne

November 12, 2016

8:00pm

Vaughan Azzurri	1–2	CS Mont-Royal Outremont
Lowe 14'	Report	Ritch-Andy 41' Oliveri 67'

Pickering Soccer Complex, Pickering

CS Mont-Royal Outremont won 3–2 on aggregate

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Frederico Moojen	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	21
1	Pierre-Rudolph Mayard	AS Blainville	21
3	Dex Kaniki	Lakeshore SC	10
4	Sean Rosa	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	9
5	Maxime Oliveri	CS Mount Royal Outremont	7
5	Mitchell Syla	FC Lanaudière	7
7	Karim Ourzdine	CS Longueuil	6
	Gabriel Bitar	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	6
	Rida Aboulhamid	AS Blainville	6
	Adama Sissoko	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	6

Source: [1]

Top Goalkeepers

Rank	Player	Club	Minutes	GAA
1	Francis Monongo	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	720	0.75
2	Andrew MacRae	Ottawa Fury FC Academy	450	0.80
3	Jean-Lou Gosselin	AS Blainville	1530	0.94
4	Gabard Fénélon	Lakeshore SC	1066	1.01
5	Jason Stock	CS Mont-Royal Outremont	630	1.14
6	Horace Sobze Zemo	FC Gatineau	1035	1.57
7	Remo Taraschi	Lakeshore SC	509	1.59
8	Erwann Ofouya	FC Gatineau	585	1.85
9	Frederick Nadeau	CS Longueuil	450	2.00
10	Gregory Walters	FC Lanaudière	1218	2.07

Minimum 450 minutes played. Source: [2]

Awards

Award	Player (club)	Ref
Ballon d'or (Best Player)	Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (AS Blainville)	^[5]
Ballon d'argent (2nd Best Player)	Maxime Oliveri (CS Mont-Royal Outremont)
Ballon de bronze (3rd Best Player)	Frederico Moojen (CS Mont-Royal Outremont)
Golden Boot (Top Scorer)	Frederico Moojen (CS Mont-Royal Outremont) Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (AS Blainville)
Coach of the Year	Emmanuel Macagno (AS Blainville)

Reserve Division

The league operated a reserve division.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	AS Blainville Reserves	12	9	2	1	32	12	+20	29
2	CS Mont-Royal Outremont Reserves	12	7	2	3	29	18	+11	23
3	FC Gatineau Reserves	12	7	1	4	19	17	+2	22
4	Lakeshore FC Reserves	12	4	5	3	26	21	+5	17
5	CS Longueuil Reserves	12	4	2	6	25	26	−1	14
6	Ottawa Fury FC Academy Reserves	12	2	2	8	17	30	−13	8
7	FC Lanaudière Reserves	12	2	0	10	14	38	−24	6

Source: http://www.tsisports.ca/soccer/archiveLigue/l_classam.aspx

References

^ "Sept Équipes Amoreceront La Saison 2016 En Première ligue de soccer du Québec" [Seven teams will kick off the 2016 season in the Quebec Premier soccer league] (in French). PLSQ. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
^ "Le FC Lanaudière est né!" [FC Lanaudière is born!] (in French). FC Lanaudière. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
^ "Le calendrier 2016 est dévoilé!" [The 2016 calendar is unveiled!] (in French). PLSQ. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^ "CS Mont-Royal Outremont Griffons Beat Vaughan Azzurri In 2016 Inter-Provincial Cup". League1 Ontario. 12 November 2016.
^ "PLSQ Guide de Press 2018" [PLSQ Press Guide 2018] (PDF). PLSQ (in French). April 2018.

External links

Official website

[1] "Sept Équipes Amoreceront La Saison 2016 En Première ligue de soccer du Québec" [Seven teams will kick off the 2016 season in the Quebec Premier soccer league] (in French). PLSQ. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

[2] "Le FC Lanaudière est né!" [FC Lanaudière is born!] (in French). FC Lanaudière. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.

[3] "Le calendrier 2016 est dévoilé!" [The 2016 calendar is unveiled!] (in French). PLSQ. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

[4] "CS Mont-Royal Outremont Griffons Beat Vaughan Azzurri In 2016 Inter-Provincial Cup". League1 Ontario. 12 November 2016.

[5] "PLSQ Guide de Press 2018" [PLSQ Press Guide 2018] (PDF). PLSQ (in French). April 2018.

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