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The North York Rockets were a professional soccer team that competed in the original Canadian Soccer League during its existence from 1987 to 1992. Upon the demise of the CSL, the Rockets joined the National Soccer League.

The Rockets's best result came in 1991 when they defeated the Nova Scotia Clippers

Nova Scotia Clippers

The Nova Scotia Clippers were a short-lived franchise in the old Canadian Soccer League. The Clippers record for the 1991 season was 7 wins, 7 ties, and 14 losses for 28 points. The team lost in the quarterfinals of the cup play-offs by losing two games, home and away, to North York.The team...

with a 9-1 goal aggregrate to advance to the league cup semi-finals.

After the team played in the NSL for the 1993 season, it replaced the Toronto Blizzard in the American Professional Soccer League

American Professional Soccer League

The American Professional Soccer League is a former professional men's soccer league which featured teams from both the United States and Canada. It was the first outdoor soccer league to feature teams from throughout the United States since the demise of the original North American Soccer League...

as the Toronto Rockets

Toronto Rockets

The Toronto Rockets were an American Professional Soccer League soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario. They played one season, 1994.The Toronto Rockets were a continuation of the North York Rockets, a Canadian Soccer League / Canadian National Soccer League franchise and the Toronto Blizzard, a...

for the 1994 season. The Rockets withdrew from the APSL only days before the start of the 1995 season due to a financial dispute with the league's front office.

Notable Players

Don Ferguson
Don Ferguson (soccer)
Don Ferguson is a retired Canadian soccer player who won 11 caps for the national side.-External links:*...
Peter Sarantopoulos
Peter Sarantopoulos
Peter Sarantopoulos is a former Canadian international soccer defender.-Club career:Sarantopolous was a two time first-team and one time second-team Canadian Interuniversity Sport All-Canadian with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues...
Steve Jansen
Steve Jansen (soccer)
Stephen Francis Jansen in is a retired Canadian association football player who earned 8 caps for the Canadian national side between 1988 and 1989. He played club football for North York Rockets. His sister is figure-skater Astrid Jansen.-External links:*...
Vladan Tomic
Vladan Tomić
Vladan Tomić is a former Cypriot international football midfielder.During his career he played with North York Rockets in the Canadian Soccer League, in 1990-91 with FK Radnički Niš in the Yugoslav First League, and afterwords in Cyprus where he represented Aris Limassol, Anorthosis Famagusta and...
Eddy Berdusco
Eddy Berdusco
Eddy Berdusco is a retired professional footballer from Canada.-Club career:The son of Italian immigrants, Berdusco was the original Canadian Soccer League's 3rd all-time highest goal scorer with 54 from 1988 through 1992 as a member of North York Rockets...
Cosimo Commisso
Peter Sloly
Peter Sloly
Peter Sloly is a retired Canadian association football player who earned 1 cap for the Canadian national side in 1985. He attended McMaster University, and after retiring as a player became a police officer with the Toronto Police Service, where he is Deputy Chief of the service's Executive Command...
Tomasz Radzinski
Tomasz Radzinski
Not to be confused with the Czech footballer Tomáš RosickýTomasz Radzinski is a Canadian association footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently unattached.-Club career:...
Nick Dasovic
Nick Dasovic
Nick Robert Dasovic is a retired professional Canadian soccer player of Croatian descent. He was most at Toronto FC, acting as interim head coach until January 2011 and North American head scout until May 2011....
Ian Bridge
Ian Bridge
Ian Christopher Bridge is a former member of the Canada men's national soccer team and last head coach of the national women's Under-17 national team.-Club career:...
Randy Ragan
Randy Ragan
Randolph "Randy" Lee Ragan is a former Canadian elite professional soccer player, who was considered one of the top midfield players in Canada in the 1980s.-Professional:...
Peter Zezel
Peter Zezel
Peter Zezel was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 15 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1984 and 1999. He was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.-Playing career:...

Sources

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