Hamilton City SC

Hamilton City 1 Soccer Club is a Canadian soccer team founded in 2016 that played in the Canadian Soccer League, and played their home games at Cardinal Newman Secondary School multi-sport athletic field in the community of Stoney Creek, Hamilton. In 2021, they merged with fellow CSL club Brantford Galaxy to form BGH City FC.

Hamilton City 1

Full name	Hamilton City 1 Soccer Club
Founded	2016
Stadium	Heritage Field Hamilton, Ontario
Manager	Kathleen Nurse
Coach	Saša Vuković
League	Canadian Soccer League
2020	Regular season: 3rd Playoffs: Did not qualify
Home colours Away colours

History

 

Original team logo

In May 2016, Andrew Crowe, the owner of London City, sold his share to his partner Zoran Kliseric, and relocated the club to Hamilton, Ontario marking the return of professional soccer to the city since Hamilton Croatia competed in the Canadian Soccer League in 2010.^[1][2][3][4] The organizations territory was located at Stoney Creek with Cardinal Newman Secondary School multi-sport athletic field as their home venue.^[5] Former London City manager Josip Dzale assumed the responsibilities of head coach, and assembled a roster of players with European and CSL experience. Dzale brought in Dražen Vuković, Nikola Stanojević, Josip Keran, Miroslav Čabrilo, Igor Krmar, Haris Fazlagić, and Zdenko Jurcevic.^[6]

Hamilton City made its league debut on May 27, 2016 against Milton SC, where Santiago Pestrepo scored the club's first historic goal in a 2-1 defeat.^[7] Hamilton secured a postseason berth by finishing sixth in the standings. In the first round of the playoffs they faced Scarborough SC, where Hamilton advanced to the next round by a score of 3-0 with goals coming from Timotej Zakrajsek, Jurcevic, and Frane Grbesa.^[8] Hamilton faced the regular league champions York Region Shooters and reached the CSL Championship final after a 4-1 victory in a penalty shootout.^[9] Their opponents in the final were the Serbian White Eagles, where Domagoj Zubac recorded the first goal with Serbia tying the match later and scoring the final goal at the last minutes of the match to win the championship.^[10][11] On February 20, 2017 it was announced that the owners of Hamilton SC decided not to field a team for the 2017 season.^[12]

After a one-year hiatus, Hamilton returned for the 2018 season.^[13] After a third place finish during the 2020 season, they were disqualified from the playoffs for being "Not-in-Good Standing" at the conclusion of the season.^[14]

Ahead of the 2021 season, they merged with Brantford Galaxy to form BGH City FC.^[15]

Roster

As of July 24, 2023^[16]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   SRB Dragan Antanasijević — DF    Sava Arsic — GK    Stefan Avramovic — MF    Nemanja Backovic — MF   CAN Donart Beqiri ^[17] — FW   SRB Aleksandar Bozovic — MF   CAN Miroslav Cabrilo — MF   MNE Nebojsa Cetkovic — DF   SRB Nikola Gavrilovic ^[18] — DF    Luka Jankovic — DF    Nemanja Jolic — FW   SRB Vukasin Kovacevic ^[19] — MF   SRB Nemanja Jankovic ^[20] — DF    Nemanja Krkotic

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF    Aleksandar Lasic — FW   CAN Aleksa Marković — DF    Janko Milosevic — MF   MNE Miljan Milovic — GK   MNE Aleksandar Nikolic ^[21] — DF    Tomislav Pinjuh — FW   CAN Arsen Platis ^[22] — DF    Danilo Simic — MF   BIH Saša Vidović — DF   BIH Uroš Vidović — DF   SRB Đorđe Vukobrat — MF    Milos Vuruna — GK   CAN Obrad Bejatovic

Head coaches

Years	Name	Nation
2016	Josip Dzale	Croatia
2018	Sasa Vukovic	Serbia

Seasons

Season	League	Teams	Record	Rank	Playoffs	Ref
2016	Canadian Soccer League (First Division)	8	6–5–10	6th	Finals	^[23]
2018		9	8–1–7	5th	Quarterfinals	^[23]
2019		10	6–3–9	6th	Quarterfinals	^[23]
2020		5	4–2–2	3rd	did not qualify	^[23]

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