{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.canadian-soccer-league","code":"thing-q923316","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q923316/","name":"Canadian Soccer League","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"","entryKind":"","plane":"","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A name used by two Canadian soccer leagues: the original Canadian Soccer League of 1987 to 1992, a national professional league that was then the top level in Canada, and a later league founded in 1998 as the Canadian Professional Soccer League, renamed the Canadian Soccer League in 2006, based mainly in Ontario, which lost sanctioning from Canada Soccer in 2013 and has since operated outside the official pyramid; the Canadian Premier League, founded in 2019, is now the top professional league. 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