CF Montréal

Club de Foot Montréal, or simply C. F. Montréal, is a football club from Canada from the city of Montreal, in Quebec. It was founded in 2010 by the Saputo family as Impact de Montréal and has played in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer since the 2012 season.

In 2010 MLS, the main football competition of the United States and Canada, granted it an expansion franchise starting from the 2012 season; it also qualified for the MLS postseason for the first time in 2013. After winning the 2014 Canadian Championship, it qualified for the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League for the 3rd time, as it finished unbeaten in its group. In the quarter-finals it eliminated C. F. Pachuca on the away goals rule, and in the semi-finals it likewise eliminated Alajuelense of Costa Rica on the away goals rule. In the final, it drew 1–1 against América and, in the second leg at the Estadio Azteca, lost 4–2, but it was the best performance by a team from that country up to that point.

It plays its home matches at Estadio Saputo, opened in 2008 and with a capacity of 20,341 spectators.

The team is inspired by a previous franchise, also called Impact de Montréal, which had been founded in 1992 and took part in three different competitions: the American Professional Soccer League, of which it became champion in 1994; the A-League, of which it won the last season in 2004, and the North American Soccer League until 2011. It is also the team that has received the Voyageurs Cup on the most occasions, the top trophy of professional football in Canada. From the 2021 season it was renamed Club de Foot Montréal.