2023 League1 Ontario season

The 2023 Men's League1 Ontario season was the ninth of League1 Ontario, a Division 3 men's soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario. Following the 2023 season, the league will split into three divisions with promotion and relegation between them.

Simcoe County Rovers FC were the league champions, having defeated Scrosoppi FC in the final to capture their first title.

Clubs
With the exception of Pickering FC, 21 of the 22 clubs that took part in the 2022 season participated in 2023. Because of the format changes planned for the following year, the league imposed a one-year moratorium on any new teams joining the league.

Premier Division
On March 7, 2023, League1 Ontario announced that the Men's Premier Division season would begin on April 13 (later revised to April 12). Each team will play 20 matches this season, one match against each opponent.

Playoffs
The top two seeds will earn a bye directly to the second round. After the first round, the teams will be re-seeded with the top seed playing the lowest ranked remaining seed.



 Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers
(regular season only) Source: League1 Ontario

Top goalkeepers
(regular season only) Minimum: 810 minutes played Source: League1 Ontario

League All-Stars
The following players were named League1 Ontario Premier Division All-Stars for the 2023 season:

First Team All-Stars

Second Team All-Stars

Future format and changes
Starting in 2024, the league will split into a multi-division format with promotion and relegation between them. Twelve teams will take part in the first-tier League1 Premier, ten teams in the second-tier League1 Championship, and all new expansion teams as well as reserve sides in a third-tier League2 Ontario.

The initial assignment of teams in the 2024 season is done by using the points obtained in the previous two years. The points from the 2022 season (weighted at 75%) will be added to the points teams obtain in the 2023 season (weighted at 100%) to determine the placements.

U21 Reserve Division
The Reserve Division will return with each Premier Division club fielding one or more teams, as well as some other OPDL clubs that do not operate a League1 Ontario team.

Summer Division
Each team will play every team in their division once, as well as two games against teams from the opposite division.