Forge FC
professional soccer team in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Forge FC (full name Forge Football Club), also known as Forge FC Hamilton, or Hamilton Forge FC, is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Hamilton, Ontario, that competes in the Canadian Premier League, the top tier of Canadian soccer. The club plays its home matches at Hamilton Stadium. Forge FC joined the CPL in 2019 as one of the league's seven inaugural teams.
The club is four-time CPL champions, winning back-to-back league titles in 2019 and 2020, before doing the same in 2022 and 2023. Forge was the first CPL side to compete in a continental competition when it played in the 2019 CONCACAF League, and the first to compete in the highest tier of continental competition in the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League. Forge became the first Canadian Premier League club to reach the final of the Canadian Championship, which they did in 2020.
History
Hamilton was linked to a professional soccer team as early as June 2013, when reports first emerged of a professional soccer league launching in Canada. Hamilton Tiger-Cats owner Bob Young was part of a group of investors, predominantly from the Canadian Football League, working with the Canadian Soccer Association and president Victor Montagliani.
Young and CEO Bob Mitchell originally met with executives from the MLS, USL and NASL to launch a Hamilton team in an American league. Executives from the Ti-Cats showed that the local fans wouldn't be interested in watching teams from southern USA playing in Hamilton, and the costs of running a MLS team would be too high.
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