The Ottawa Fury, the Montreal Impact’s USL Championship affiliate, announced Friday morning the team will cease operations for the 2020 season. In addition, the Fury will not join the Canadian Premier League.
The club from the Canadian capital spent six seasons in professional soccer with the NASL and the USL Championship from 2014 to 2019. Fury president John Pugh cited political reasons for Friday’s announcement.
“Fury’s participation in the USL requires sanctioning from soccer’s governing bodies — Canada Soccer, US Soccer Federation and Concacaf,” Pugh said in a press release. “Despite our best efforts over a period of many months, we were unable to obtain full sanctioning and since schedules must be developed, players signed and tickets sold, we simply ran out of time.