Impact of Montreal

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" white" | |- | Club founded in | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1992 |- | preceding Name | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| None |- | professional Statute | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| December 1992 |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Blue, white and black |- | Nickname | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| The eleven montréalais |- | Stage | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Sports complex Claude-Robillard (9300 places) |- | Multitude absolute records | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 13.648 (September 18th, 2004, against Seattle in series of after-season) |- | Multitude record in regular season | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 13.450 (August 9th, 2006, against Rochester) |- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1000, rue Émile-Journault Tel.: (514) 328-3668 (514) 790-1245 |- | Center of drive | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Sports complex Claude-Robillard |- |bgcolor=" white" | |bgcolor=" white" | |} The Impact of Montreal is a Canadian professional team of soccer evolving/moving in the first division of USL (United Soccer Leagues). Its stage, the Sports complex Claude-Robillard, with Montreal (Quebec), Canada, has a capacity of 9300 seats. The club is currently chaired by Nick DeSantis.

History

  • 1992 : Foundation of the club by Joey Saputo

  • 1993: The May 14th, the Impact plays its first official match which was a defeat of 2-3 (with the shootings with the goals) against Los Angeles. The May 21st was the first official match in residence and it was a victory (the first in the history of the club) by the result of 4-2 against Tampa Bay.
  • 1994: First victory in championship
  • 1995: The team finishes first during the regular season, but inclines itself at the time of the first round of the eliminating heats
  • 1996: Even scenario that the previous year. Thanks to successes of the team, they succeed in integrating new players into the club
  • 1997: The league changes name for A-League. The team once again finished first and inclines itself with the second round of the eliminating heats
  • 1998: Paul Kitson becomes the new trainer of the team. The team finishes first and elimination still occurs with the second round.
  • 2000: The team does not qualify itself for the series, a first in seven years. Valerio Gazzola is the new trainer.
  • 2001: Financial problems come to strike the team which will be maintained in life by governmental subsidies and investors. The team comes to a victory to qualify itself. However the team gains the Cut of Montreal, small tournament gathering six teams.
  • 2002: With Bob Lilley like new trainer, the team returns in force, finishing in the forefront of the North-eastern section. The team finishes her eliminatory series with the second round against Raging Rhinos. Eduardo Sebrango will reach a new record by marking 18 goals.
  • 2004: The Impact finally gains the Championship of A-League 2 to 0 against Seattle.
  • 2005: Construction of a future stage in Technoparc announces.
  • 2006: The new stage will be built not in Technoparc but close to the Olympic stadium. The beginning of construction could start with the autumn 2006. The July 15th, the Impact gains the 200e victory of its history by beating Sounders 2 to 1 with Seattle. August 25th, the Impact reached the figure of 1 million spectators (during the regular season) and this since 1993.
  • 2006: Creation of a club of reserve announces, the Attak of Three-Rivers, which will play the season 2007 in the Canadian League of Soccer (Canadian Soccer League). The trainer-chief is Marc Dos Santos.
  • 2007: The May 11th Frederico Moojen registered the 500e goal of the history of the club and on this goal, Mauro Biello marked its 200e points of its career with the club (68 Goals and 64 Master keys).

Trainers

  1. Eddie Firmani - 1993
  2. Valerio Gazzola - 1994 - 1997
  3. Paul Kitson - 1998
  4. Zoran Jankovic - 2000
  5. Valerio Gazzola - 2000 - 2001
  6. Nick DeSantis - 2001
  7. Bob Lilley - 2002 - 2003
  8. Nick DeSantis - 2004 -…

Titles

Assessment season per season (regular season)

  • it did not have there season for the Impact of Montreal in 1999

  • dated September 15th, 2007

Assessment season per season (series of after-season)

  • it did not have there a season for the Impact of Montreal in 1999

season results per season

Results

Records

Player

  • More goals: Mauro Biello with 68 goals
  • More parts disputed with the Impact: Mauro Biello with 244 parts
  • More minutes played with the Impact: Mauro Biello with 22.775 minutes
  • More victories for a goalkeeper with the Impact: Greg Sutton with 72 victories
  • More white plays for a goalkeeper with the Impact: Greg Sutton with 67 white plays

Equip

  • greater sequence without defeat in one season: 15 matches (10 victories and 5 null) in 2005
  • greater sequence without defeat in residence in one season: 10 matches in 2006
  • greater number of white plays in one season: 10 white plays in 2006
  • More small number of goals granted to residence in one season: 4 goals of 14 matches in 2006

Outstanding goals in the history of the club

1st goal: May 14th 1993 (with the first match of the Impact) registered by Dino Lopez with the assistance of Marco Rizi against Salsa of Los Angeles

100e goal: September 10th 1995 (with the 68e match of the Impact) registered by Mauro Biello with the assistance of Paulinho against Centaurs of New York

200e goal: August 31st 1997 (with the 113e match of the Impact) registered by Darko Kolic without assistance against the Minnesota Thunder

300e goal: August 5th 2001 (with the 188e match of the Impact) registered by George Papandreou without assistance against the Lynx of Toronto

400e goal: May 29th 2004 (with the 257e match of the Impact) registered by Fred Commodore with the assistance of Mauro Biello against the Lynx of Toronto

500e goal: May 11th 2007 (with the 349e match of the Impact) registered by Frederico Moojen with the assistance of Mauro Biello against the Puerto Rico Islanders

progression (average of 1,43 drank by match)

  • 68 matches for the first 100 goals (from 1 to 100)
  • 45 matches for the 100 following (from 101 to 200)
  • 75 matches for the 100 following (from 201 to 300)
  • 69 matches for the 100 following (from 301 to 400)
  • 92 matches for the 100 following (from 401 to 500)

Individual prices

Manpower 2007

Guards

Défenseurs

Mediums

Assailing

Changes with the intersaison

To supplement

Players who played with the Impact

See the List of the players of the Impact of Montreal.

Assistances

regular season

series of after-season

  • in 1999, the team did not play the season

  • the boxes with --, mean that the team did not qualify itself for the series of after-season
  • the figures are based on the guide of press of the Impact of Montreal 2006

Future stage

It is expected that the club is equipped with a new stage as from the season 2008. It is about the Stade Saputo, whose construction started as from April 2007.

See too

  • Statistical of the Impact of Montreal

External bonds

  • Official site Impact of Montreal
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