2015 Première Ligue de soccer du Québec season

The 2015 Première Ligue de soccer du Québec season is the fourth 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).

Première Ligue de soccer du Québec
Season2015
ChampionsMont-Royal Outremont
Cup championsLakeshore SC
Matches played63
Goals scored218 (3.46 per match)
Top goalscorerFrederico Moojen
(18 goals)
Biggest home winL'Assomption 4-0 Lakeshore
(31 May 2015)
L'Assomption 4-0 Gatineau
(18 October 2015)
Biggest away winGatineau 1-7 Mont-Royal Outremont
(20 Sept 2015)
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The season began on May 2, 2015 and ended on October 18, 2015, with the cup final taking place on October 24, 2015. CS Longueuil is the defending champion.

Changes from 2014

Two new teams joined the league for this season, while ACP Montréal-Nord did not return due to administrative difficulties.[1] Joining the league are Lakeshore SC, which is based in the southwestern portion of the island of Montreal, while the other is an academy team of Ottawa Fury FC, whose primary team competes in the Division 2 North American Soccer League. This expansion into Ottawa marks the first time a team from outside Québec will take part in the PLSQ, with Fury FC citing the proximity of other teams as making the PLSQ a logical choice.[2]

This season will also feature the arrival of a reserve division, which will allow PLSQ teams to establish a youth development pathway. In addition, the league commissioned Montreal composer Vincent Duhaime-Perreault to compose an anthem for the league, which will be played prior to all season and cup matches.[3]

Teams
Blainville
Lakeshore SC
L'Assomption-Lanaudière
Longueuil
MR-Outremont
Locations of teams within Greater Montreal for the 2015 PLSQ season.
Team City Stadium Founded Head Coach
AS Blainville Blainville, Laurentides Stade du Parc Blainville 2012 Jean-Pierre Ceriani
FC Gatineau Gatineau, Outaouais Terrain Mont Bleu 2013 Josy Madelonet
Lakeshore SC Kirkland, Montréal Bénévoles Park 2015
FC L'Assomption-Lanaudière L'Assomption, Lanaudière Stade André-Courcelles 2012 Marco Torrens
CS Longueuil Longueuil, Montérégie Centre Multi Sport 2014 Mathieu Rufié
CS Mont-Royal Outremont Mont-Royal, Montréal REC Mont-Royal 2013 Luc Brutus
Ottawa Fury FC Academy Ottawa, Ontario Algonquin College 2015 Phillip Dos Santos

Source:[4]

Standings

Each team will play 18 matches as part of the season; three matches against each other team in the league split home and away. There are no playoffs at the end of the season; the first-place team will be crowned as league champion and will face the L1O league champion in the Inter-Provincial Cup.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 CS Mont-Royal Outremont 18 11 3 4 44 24 +20 36 Inter-Provincial Cup vs L1O Champion
2 Lakeshore FC 18 10 5 3 36 21 +15 35
3 AS Blainville 18 8 6 4 32 26 +6 30
4 CS Longueuil 18 7 5 6 27 28 −1 26
5 Ottawa Fury FC Academy 18 6 0 12 23 32 −9 18
6 FC L'Assomption-Lanaudière 18 5 2 11 32 41 −9 17
7 FC Gatineau 18 4 3 11 24 46 −22 15
Source: http://www.tsisports.ca/soccer/ligue14/index_.htm

Cup
2015 PLSQ Cup
Coupe PLSQ
Country Canada
 Quebec
DatesJune 14 - October 24, 2015
Teams7
ChampionsLakeshore
Runners-upMont-Royal Outremont
Matches played11
Goals scored31 (2.82 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Hicham Makhoukh (3)

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 2015 PLSQ Cup will maintain the same format as the previous season, as a two-game aggregate knockout tournament with a single match final. As defending champion, FC Gatineau will obtain a bye for the first round.[5]

  First Round Semifinals Finals
                             
Gatineau        
(BYE)        
  Gatineau 0 0 0 (3)  
  Lakeshore (pen.) 0 0 0 (5)  
Lakeshore 2 1 3
  Ottawa Fury Academy 1 0 1  
    Lakeshore (aet) 4
  Mont-Royal Outremont 2
  Longueuil 1 0 1  
Blainville 2 2 4  
  Blainville 0 1 1
  Mont-Royal Outremont 4 2 6  
FC L'Assomption-Lanaudière 2 1 3
  Mont-Royal Outremont 3 3 6  

First Round
14 June 2015 (2015-06-14) Ottawa Fury Academy1 – 2LakeshoreRaven Road Field, Carleton University
3:30 pm Schroeter  66' Report Saidi  7'
El Ali  36'		 Attendance: 91
Referee: Timothy Wong
11 July 2015 (2015-07-11) Lakeshore1 – 0Ottawa Fury AcademyBénévoles Park
7:00 pm Kaniki  2' Report Referee: Gilmar Hernandez
14 June 2015 (2015-06-14) Blainville2 – 1LongueuilParc Blainville 1
4:00 pm Makhoukh  83'
Sylla  87'		 Report Hasnat Kashem  4' Referee: Pierre-Luc Lauziere
11 July 2015 (2015-07-11) Longueuil0 – 2BlainvilleCentre Multi-sports 1
4:00 pm Report Makhoukh  36'
Sylla  46'		 Referee: Marie-Han Gagnon-Chretien


14 June 2015 (2015-06-14) Mont-Royal Outremont3 – 2L'Assomption-LanaudièreTMR REC 3
6:30 pm Anastasopoulos  35'
Dagrou  69'
de Souza  81' (pen.)		 Report Fournier  33' (pen.), 88' (pen.) Attendance: 300
Referee: Okba Benbaka
12 July 2015 (2015-07-12) L'Assomption-Lanaudière1 – 3Mont-Royal OutremontAndré Courcelles
1:00 pm Romero  48' Report Dias  31'
Sissoko  67'
Rosa  73'		 Referee: Mathieu Asselin

Semifinals
8 August 2015 (2015-08-08) Lakeshore0 – 0GatineauBénévoles Park
8:00 pm Report Referee: Younes Cherid
6 September 2015 (2015-09-06) Gatineau0 – 0 (a.e.t.)
(3 – 5 p)		LakeshoreMont-Bleu 4
4:00 pm Report Referee: Christopher Grabas


8 August 2015 (2015-08-08) Mont-Royal Outremont4 – 0BlainvilleTMR REC 3
5:00 pm Moojen
Rosa
Téoli
Sissoko 		Report Attendance: 101
Referee: Taras Lesiuk Pokynboroda
5 September 2015 (2015-09-05) Blainville1 – 2Mont-Royal OutremontParc Blainville 1
7:00 pm Makhoukh Report Dagrou
Djema 		Referee: Francis LaTulippe

Final
24 October 2015 (2015-10-24) Lakeshore4 – 2 (a.e.t.)Mont-Royal OutremontBois-de-Boulogne, Laval
4:00 pm Carrié  34'
Fénélon  59'  62'
Sisti  68'
Kaniki  91' (pen.)
Antwi  117'		 Report Moojen  66' (pen.)
Reale  85'		 Referee: Christopher Grabas

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Frederico Moojen CS Mont-Royal Outremont 18
2 Pierre-Rudolph Mayard FC L'Assomption-Lanaudière 15
3 Dex Kaniki Lakeshore SC 11
4 Berlin Jean-Gilles AS Blainville 8
Cédric Carrié Lakeshore SC
Paymon Kabiri Lakeshore SC
7 Mohamed Dagnogo Ottawa Fury FC Academy 6
Pierre Rancy AS Blainville
9 Sean Rosa CS Mont-Royal Outremont 5
El Mehdi Ibn Brahim CS Longueuil

Last updated October 21, 2015. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150504193829/http://www.tsisports.ca/soccer/ligue14/index_.htm

References
  1. "SEPT ÉQUIPES AMORCERONT LA SAISON 2015 EN PREMIÈRE LIGUE DE SOCCER DU QUÉBEC". Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. "Fury FC to Feature in PLSQ". Ottawa Fury FC. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. "COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE" (PDF). federation-soccer.qc.ca. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. "LES CALENDRIERS 2015 de la Première Ligue de Soccer du Québec" (PDF). publicationsports.com. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  5. "RÉSULTATS DU TIRAGE AU SORT DES ÉQUIPES POUR LA COUPE PLSQ 2015". Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
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