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Alliance United FC

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ97159448
Source-derived summary

Alliance United Futbol Club was a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Markham and Scarborough, Ontario. It fielded teams in both the men's and women's divisions of League1 Ontario.

The club was founded in 2017 to compete in League1 Ontario, originally as a partnership between two youth clubs - Markham FC and Wexford SC. It then became a partnership between Markham FC and Toronto High Park FC.

Founders

The club was founded in 2017 as a joint partnership between clubs Markham FC and Wexford SC with the team playing out of Centennial College. The name Alliance United was initially meant to be a temporary with a 'name the team' initiative planned, but it ultimately remained the official name.

Markham FC is a youth soccer club in Markham, Ontario. It was founded in 1971 as the Markham Minor Soccer Club, before changing its name to the Markham Youth Soccer Club. Wexford SC is a youth soccer club in Scarborough in Toronto. It was founded in 1967 as the Buchanan Soccer Club and is the longest running club in Scarborough.

In November 2023, the club became a joint partnership between Markham FC and Toronto High Park FC, with Wexford leaving the program.

History

Alliance United joined the men's division of League1 Ontario for the 2018 season.

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The public source identifies “Alliance United FC” as football club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alliance, United and football.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 1971, 1967, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alliance, United and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Alliance United FC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.