Toronto FC

Also written as Toronto.

The club

Toronto FC were founded on 27 October 2005 and joined Major League Soccer for the 2007 season as the league's first Canadian franchise, with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment paying an expansion fee of ten million United States dollars for the rights. The club is not to be confused with Inter Toronto FC, a Canadian Premier League club also based in the city, nor with AFC Toronto, a women's soccer club, nor with any club playing as Toronto elsewhere in the world such as Toronto Awaba Stags in New South Wales. Within this corpus, Toronto FC is one of three Canadian clubs alongside CF Montreal and the Vancouver Whitecaps, and is a separate club from both.

The home ground is BMO Field at Exhibition Place, which opened on 28 April 2007, Toronto FC's first game there, as a soccer-specific stadium built with around 25,000 seats at a cost of 62.5 million dollars. The pitch went from artificial turf to natural grass in 2010, when the north end also gained 1,400 seats, and a 2014 to 2016 expansion added a new upper deck on the east side and lengthened the field so the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts could groundshare from 2016, taking capacity to 30,000 for soccer. The playing surface changed again to a hybrid grass in 2019. The permanent capacity now stands at 28,351, with renovation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup adding a rooftop patio and lounge, new dugouts, LED videoboards and a sound system, plus temporary seating that can lift capacity to 45,736 for the tournament. The stadium is owned by the City of Toronto and operated by MLSE. The club's colours are red and white as primary, with black, grey and dark grey as secondary. The record home attendance is 47,658, for a CONCACAF Champions League tie against LA Galaxy played at the Rogers Centre on 7 March 2012 because BMO Field could not host it.

The head coach is Robin Fraser, appointed on 10 January 2025 and in his second season with the club in 2026.

Recent seasons

Toronto FC have struggled across the first half of the 2020s. In 2021 they finished 26th overall on a 6-18-10 record and 28 points. In 2023 they had their worst season on record, 4-20-10 for 22 points and 29th overall. In 2025, their first season under Robin Fraser, they finished 12th in the Eastern Conference and 25th overall with 32 points from 34 matches, missing the playoffs; their biggest win that season was 6-1 at home to Montreal on 17 May 2025, and their top scorer across all competitions was Theo Corbeanu with seven goals. The 2025 squad saw Djordje Mihailovic arrive from the Colorado Rapids for eight million dollars plus up to a million in incentives, while Federico Bernardeschi and Lorenzo Insigne both had their contracts terminated in July 2025.

Honours and landmarks

Toronto FC won the Canadian Championship eight times, in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020, more than any other club in the competition's history. The 2020 edition was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and not settled until 4 June 2022, when Toronto beat Forge FC 1-1 after extra time, 5-4 on penalties, at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton.

The high point remains 2017, when Toronto FC completed an unprecedented domestic treble: the Canadian Championship, beating Montreal Impact 3-2 on aggregate in the final on 27 June; the Supporters' Shield, becoming the first Canadian team to win it, clinched on 30 September with a regular-season record of 69 points from a 20-5-9 record over 34 games, breaking the previous MLS record of 68 points held by the 1998 LA Galaxy; and the MLS Cup itself, beating Seattle Sounders 2-0 at BMO Field on 9 December, the first MLS Cup won by a Canadian club. No other MLS club has won all three trophies in the same season. Toronto also reached the MLS Cup final in 2016, losing to Seattle on penalties after a goalless draw, and again in 2019, losing 3-1 to Seattle. In 2018 they reached the CONCACAF Champions League final, drawing 3-3 on aggregate with Guadalajara of Mexico and losing the penalty shootout 4-2.

Jonathan Osorio holds the club appearance record with 413 appearances across all competitions since 2013. Sebastian Giovinco is the all-time leading goalscorer with 83 goals in all competitions between 2015 and 2018, 68 of them in MLS play; in his debut season, 2015, he became the first player in MLS history to lead the league in both goals and assists in a single campaign and won the league's Most Valuable Player award, the Golden Boot and Newcomer of the Year. Jozy Altidore, signed from Sunderland alongside Giovinco's arrival in a deal involving Jermain Defoe in January 2015, was the other forward at the centre of the 2017 treble, scoring in the CONCACAF Champions League final along with Giovinco the following year. Michael Bradley joined in 2014, was made captain for the 2015 season and captained the club to the 2017 treble; he retired after Toronto FC's final match of the 2023 season having made 308 total appearances and scored 19 goals in all competitions.

Notable scorelines

Toronto FC's biggest recorded win is 8-1 at home to CS Saint-Laurent in the Canadian Championship on 21 May 2024. Their heaviest defeat is 1-7 away to D.C. United on 3 July 2021. In their landmark 2017 season they scored 87 goals in 43 games across all competitions, and their 6-1 home win over CF Montreal on 17 May 2025 was their biggest win of that season. The 2017 MLS Cup final was won 2-0 over Seattle Sounders; the 2016 final was lost on penalties after a scoreless draw with Seattle; the 2019 final was lost 3-1, also to Seattle; and the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League final was drawn 3-3 on aggregate with Guadalajara, Guadalajara winning 4-2 on penalties.

Head-to-head notes

The rivalry with CF Montreal is known as the 401 Derby, named for Ontario Highway 401, the freeway that runs between Toronto and the wider corridor toward Montreal. The two clubs met in the 2017 Canadian Championship final, which Toronto won 3-2 on aggregate, and in the 2019 final, which Montreal Impact won on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate draw, their fourth Canadian Championship title. Toronto's 6-1 win over Montreal on 17 May 2025 was among the derby's most lopsided results. Head-to-head results against the Vancouver Whitecaps, the third Canadian MLS club, were not established from the sources read here.

Right now (2026/27)

Robin Fraser is the head coach, in his second season. The club made several roster moves ahead of 2026: striker Josh Sargent signed from Norwich City on a Designated Player contract on 27 February, winger Daniel Sallói arrived from Sporting Kansas City for allocation money on 19 February, centre-back Walker Zimmerman signed as a free agent on 2 January, goalkeeper William Yarbrough joined from Inter Miami on 16 January, and midfielder Nelson Palacio was acquired from Real Salt Lake on 6 July.

Through 23 August 2026, Toronto FC had 24 points from 21 matches, tied for ninth in the Eastern Conference with Orlando City and D.C. United, 23rd overall in the league. Notable results included a 3-2 home win over the Colorado Rapids on 4 April, a 1-0 away win at FC Cincinnati on 8 March, and home draws of 3-3 with both Austin FC and Philadelphia Union. Daniel Sallói was the club's leading scorer with five goals in all competitions as of that date. The full run-in and any Canadian Championship or playoff picture for the rest of 2026 were not established from the sources read here.

Sources

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