Montreal Impact (1992–2011)

The Montreal Impact FC (French: Impact de Montréal FC ) was a football club based in Montreal ( Canada). Impact was founded in 1993 and played in the 2011 season in the North American Soccer League, the second highest league in North American football.

The owner of the Montreal Impact, Joey Saputo, took over from the 2012 season, the MLS franchise in Montreal. Thus, the game operation Montreal Impact has been completely transferred to the Major League Soccer.

History

The club was founded in 1993 by the Saputo family, after the Canadian Soccer League and with it the club Montreal Supra einstellten the game operation. After an average first season, the club surprised the defending champion Colorado Foxes in the league final with a 1-0 victory and were first champion of the former American Professional Soccer League. In the following years the club was always there in the top tier of league again but without reaching the final. A total of four times would retire in the play- offs against the Rochester Raging Rhinos. Only in 2004 was the arch-rival to be defeated and later Montreal celebrated the second championship title. In the final they beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0.

1999 saw the Impact between officials and the league to a conflict. During the season, the club withdrew from the league. A year later, the team was there again. During the 2001 season, the club went bankrupt. The association remained and continued to a sporting and financial soar to. Arrived in the bankruptcy season average of only 3,000 spectators rose to about 11,000 the number of spectators in the 2006 season. Simultaneously footballer played a greater role in Quebec -born Canadian national soccer team.

On July 22, 2008 Montreal was the Canadian Championship win. This victory in the tournament newly founded, the association was entitled to participate in the CONCACAF Champions League 2008 /09. There, the team won in the Preliminary Round against Real Estelí. The subsequent group stage (Group Stage) was finished in second place. Only in the quarterfinals of the Championship Round Montreal lost against Santos Laguna and retired.

In the 2009 season was winning Montreal Impact of the USL First Division. The regular season ended the team on the 5th Place. In the subsequent play-offs Impact came to the finals and won there over the Vancouver Whitecaps with a total of 6:3 (3:2, 3:1).

Montreal Impact played the 2010 season in the USSF Division 2 Professional League. This league was created after an attempt was made to establish a new North American Soccer League. The USSF league was discharged because of disputes between the new NASL and the United Soccer Leagues only in this single season as a transitional solution. For the 2011 season then the Montreal joined the newly formed North American Soccer League, missed there in his first (and only ) season but the playoffs.

From the 2012 season makes Montreal a dedicated team in Major League Soccer. This was announced on 7 May 2010. Montreal Impact made ​​after the end of the 2011 season, a league its operation in the NASL and is completely gone in the MLS franchise.

Stadium

  • Complexe sportif Claude- Robillard; Montreal, Quebec (1993-2007)
  • Stadium on the campus of the Université Laval; Quebec City, Quebec 3 Games (2003-2005)
  • Stadium on the campus of the Université de Sherbrooke; Sherbrooke, Quebec 2 Games (2004-2005)
  • Stade Saputo; Montreal, Quebec (2008-2011)

The club wore out its home games at the Stade Saputo, which was completed in summer 2007. From the appointment of Montreal MLS franchise to the existing stadium was expanded to 20,000 seats. The expansion cost about 12 million dollars.

Rivalries

The biggest rival of the club were the Rochester Raging Rhinos. Until 2006 there was also a great rivalry with Toronto Lynx. Since the club withdrew from Toronto in the Premier Development League after the 2006 season, this rivalry ended abruptly.

With the Vancouver Whitecaps Montreal Impact played in every season of the " Cascadia Cup". The winner was the same as Best Canadian Association of the USL First Division.

Montreal Impact Academy

After the cooperation contract had expired with the Canadian Football club Trois- Rivières Attak, Montreal Impact and Saputo Joey in 2009 founded his own team for the Canadian Soccer League.

Montreal Impact Academy served as youth and reserve team for the first team.

Achievements

  • Master of the American Professional Soccer League 1994
  • Master of the USL First Division 2009
  • Master of the A- League 2004
  • Winner of the Voyageur Cup 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Winner of the Canadian Championship 2008
2011 North American Soccer League season Rochester Rhinos Insolvency 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League Club Santos Laguna Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard Vancouver Whitecaps (1986–2010)
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