AFC Toronto To Represent Canada’s Northern Super League In Seven-A-Side Football Tournament

In what will be the first opportunity to play international opposition, Northern Super League side AFC Toronto will contest the upcoming World Sevens tournament, set to take place from December 5th to December 7th in Fort Lauderdale, as Canada’s representative. 

(Image Credit to the Northern Tribune)

Following a successful inaugural season for AFC Toronto in the first-year Northern Super League, Canada’s domestic women’s football league, the Toronto-based side will represent Canada in the upcoming World Sevens tournament, which will see a total of eight North American women’s football clubs compete in a seven vs seven football tournament. 

In their inaugural season, AFC Toronto finished first in the Northern Super League table with a total of 51 points and a goal difference of +18 (42 goals for and 24 goals against). The postseason would see the club qualify for the first-ever Northern Super League Final, contested at Toronto’s BMO Field, however, they would lose the final 2-1 to the Vancouver Rise. 

AFC Toronto will qualify for the World Sevens courtesy of their first-place finish in the regular season standings. 

The tournament will see the eight teams - AFC Toronto (Canada), Flamengo (Brazil), Club America (Mexico), Tigres UANL (Mexico), Kansas City Current (United States), San Diego Wave (United States), Deportivo Cali (Colombia), and Nacional (Uruguay) - divided into two groups of four teams, with the group stage matches divided over the course of the first two days of the tournament. Each team will play all three of the other teams in their respective groups. 

The knockout stage, which will take place on December 7th and see the top-two teams from each group qualify, will see the winner of Group 1 face the runner-up of Group 2, with the runner-up of Group 1 playing the winner of Group 2. The winners of each semi-final tie will play each other in the final, while the losers will play a third-place match.  

AFC Toronto was drawn into Group 1 for the group stage. They will play Tigres UANL, who won the women’s Liga MX seven times and made it to a CONCACAF Women’s Champions Cup Final, on the first matchday. The second matchday will see Toronto play Flamengo, the nine-time winners of the Campeonato Carioca (Brazil’s domestic women’s football cup), while the third matchday will see the Canadian side take on the Kansas City Current, the Patrick and Brittany Mahomes-owned NWSL side that finished runner-up in the 2022 NWSL final. 

All matches will be available to stream for free on DAZN. 

Article written by Noah Guttman © Noah Guttman 2025