Montreal Castors

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| fullname = Les Castors de Montreal

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| founded = 1975

| dissolved = 1979

| stadium = Claude-Robillard Stadium

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| chairman = Tony Iammatteo

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| league = National Soccer League

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Montreal Castors was a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1975. The team played in the National Soccer League, winning the championship in 1978 and 1979 before withdrawing from the league in 1979.

The Castors played their home games at the Claude-Robillard Stadium in Montreal, which was built for the 1976 Summer Olympics.

History

Italian-born businessman, Tony Iammatteo, founded the club in 1975.{{cite web|publisher=Montreal Gazette|title=Obituary: Tony Iammatteo|url=http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/avisdeces/avis/pdf?id=655591|date=June 15, 2006|access-date=June 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714231201/http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/avisdeces/avis/pdf?id=655591|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=dead}} The Castors featured several star soccer players from Europe and South America, including Brito, Cané, Aguinaldo Moreira, Lima, Toninho Guerreiro, Franco Gallina and Igor Bachner, and Canada men's national soccer team regulars such as Tino Lettieri and Gordon Wallace.{{cite web|publisher=The Ottawa Journal|title=Castors feature international soccer stars|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49472680/|date=June 17, 1976}} In 1978, the team compiled a 15-1-4 record as they won the National Soccer League for the first time. The following season, the team had a 16-1-3 record as it won the league a second consecutive time.{{cite web|publisher=Montreal Gazette|title=Soccer Castors cut ties with pro league|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19790202&id=35QuAAAAIBAJ&pg=6137,5190747|date=February 2, 1979}}

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{{cite web|author=Litterer, David A.|title=Canada - Canadian National Soccer League|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/usadave/cnsl.html|date=7 June 2013}}

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Year !Division !League !Regular Season !Playoffs
1976 \|"2" \|NSL, 2nd Division \|2nd \|
1977 \|"1" \|NSL \|2nd \|
1978 \|"1" \|NSL \| style="background:#b3b7ff;"\|1st \|
1979 \|"1" \|NSL \| style="background:#b3b7ff;"\|1st \|

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Year

!Division

!League

!Regular Season

!Playoffs

1976

|"2"

|NSL, 2nd Division

|2nd

1977

|"1"