Canadian Soccer News has learned that plans are well underway to bring a USL-Pro team to the Toronto suburbs.
TFC executives, including General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko, met with representatives last week to hammer out details that would see a USL-Pro team operate out of a renovated stadium at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan.
Currently, the stadium there is in bad need of an upgrade. That upgrade is supposed to break ground this fall, with an expected finish date of June 2015.
The plan is for the OSA to partner with TFC to run the game day operations for the club, which would act as the TFC reserve side.
As reported by CSN yesterday, the CSA has approved the sanctioning of USL-Pro teams that are attached to MLS teams. Those clubs will be required to have a roster of 50 percent Canadian players and to start six of 11 Canadians each game.
TFC is currently looking for a temporary location to start the 2015 season while waiting for the upgrade to be complete.
It's been suggested that TFC is also hoping to use the partnership with the OSA to repair relationships within the Toronto soccer community that had soured during the early years of the TFC academy. To that end, the plan is to allow free entry to USL-Pro games to any registered youth player in Ontario.