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. 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.
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
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.
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.
First round
FC Gatineau wins 5-2 on aggregate.
CS Mont-Royal Outremont wins 7-4 on aggregate.
AS Blainville wins 5-0 on aggregate.
Semifinals
FC Gatineau wins 4-2 on aggregate.
AS Blainville wins 5-3 on aggregate.
Final
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.
CS Mont-Royal Outremont won 3–2 on aggregate
Statistics
Top Goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoals 1 Frederico Moojen CS Mont-Royal Outremont 21 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 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:
Top Goalkeepers
RankPlayerClubMinutesGAA 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:
Awards AwardPlayer (club)Ref Ballon d'or (Best Player) Pierre-Rudolph Mayard (AS Blainville) 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.
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