2015 York Region Shooters season

In the off season significant changes occurred in the team management initially with the arrival of former Ajax A1 manager Bob de Klerk as the club's Technical Director.^[1] Team owner Tony De Thomasis replaced Darryl Gomez as head coach, and Carlos Rivas was another addition to the technical staff.^[2] The roster selection was partially influenced by the easing of import restrictions decided at the 2015 CSL annual team owners meeting.^[3][4] The Shooters used the opportunity by recruiting more overseas talent with the reliance of the organization's veteran core players.

York Region entered the season with a 21 match undefeated streak, but experienced their first defeat since October, 2013 in the opening match against Toronto Croatia.^[5] Initially York Region failed to achieve sufficient results as they only recorded one victory in their opening six matches. After recording a victory over Scarborough SC on June 21, 2015 they managed to produce a nine game undefeated streak.^[6] At the conclusion of the regular season they clinched a postseason berth by finishing third in the First Division with the second highest scoring record. In the preliminary round of the playoffs they defeated Burlington SC, but were eliminated in the second round to Toronto Croatia.^[7][8]

In the Second Division their reserve team was under the guidance of Gilbert Amaral, where the team managed to secure a postseason berth by finishing second in the division. Unfortunately the team was eliminated from the competition after recording a loss to Niagara United B in the quarterfinals.^[7] Once the season came to a conclusion the organization received two awards at the 2015 annual CSL awards ceremony with striker Richard West winning the CSL Golden Boot, and Cyndy De Thomasis was honored with the Harry Paul Gauss award.^[9]

As of June 12, 2015.^[11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Emanuelle Ameltonis [12] 2 DF  CAN Gerard Ladiyou [13] 4 DF   Marcelo Capozzolo 6 DF  CAN Fitzroy Christie [14] 7 MF  JAM Richard Edwards 9 FW  JAM Michael Binns 10 MF   Babjide Fatoba 11 FW  JAM Ashton Bennett 12 MF  CAN Mehdi Barati Mahvar [15] 13 FW   William De Oliveira 14 FW  CAN Tristan Jackman [16] 15 MF   Andrei Spatary 17 FW  MKD Aleksander Stojanovski 19 FW  CAN Oswald Adu [17] 20 FW  JAM Richard West 21 FW   Luis Navarro 22 DF   Justin Soscia 23 DF  JAM Ricky Herron 25 DF   Larry Miller 26 MF   Michael Lazzarotto 28 DF  ITA Nicola Di Sanza 30 GK  CHI Camilo Benzi [18]

No. Pos. Nation Player 77 DF  CAN Desmond Humphrey [19] 99 DF  CAN Ryan Dummett [20] - MF   Vinicius Argenton Silva Abreu - MF  CAN Dylan Bams [21] - MF  JAM Marcelino Blackburn [citation needed] - MF   Kevin Blackford - DF  CAN Dino Gardner - MF   Alexander Rodrigues De Carvalho - GK  CAN Adrian Ibanez [22] - MF  SCO Hector Mackie [23] - MF  SCO Steven McDougall 21 FW   Luis Navarro - FW  CAN Adrian Pena [24] - MF  COL Asher Quave-Robinson [25] - MF  ESP Xavi Pérez - MF   Paolo Henrique Oliva Da Silva - FW  JAM Odain Simpson - MF  CAN Jamil Thompson [26] - MF   Shezan Singh - DF   Nathan Smith - MF   Acha Wisdom

As of June 22, 2015.^[27]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CAN Adam Majer [28] 2 FW   Nathan Smith 3 DF   Kyle Coelho 4 MF  CAN Winston Crozier [29] 5 DF  CAN Joshua Kiselyov [30] 6 DF   Junior Casinha 7 DF   Fedy Valcin 8 MF   Massi Kohgadai 9 MF   Joshua Amaral 11 MF   Apollo Tsoulos 12 FW  CAN Kevin Ghatine [31] 14 MF   Tyler Dawell Terrault 15 MF   Levi Deglau 16 DF  DOM Wilson Martinez 17 MF   Brandon Simon 18 FW   Mohamad Habib 19 MF   Michael Anobile 20 MF   Albert Moshi

No. Pos. Nation Player 77 DF   Marcus Malcom Orville - FW  CAN Anthony Bahadur - GK   Christian Campanico - DF   Dean Campbell - MF  CAN Daniele Clemente [32] - MF   Felipe Cschack - MF   Raphael Barboza Da Silva - MF   Allan Pereira De Melo - GK   Andre Domingues - DF   Triston Frankson - MF   James Giraldo - MF   Niaran Goodie - MF   Nicholas Goodie - MF   Ahmed Hussein - MF   Sean Isaacs - GK  CAN Damon Naghavi [33] - MF  USA David Schipper

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee/notes	Source
	FW	Anthony Bahadur	FC Edmonton	Free Agent
9	FW	Michael Binns	Portmore United	Loan	[34]
11	FW	Ashton Bennett	Portmore United	Free Transfer	[citation needed]
28	DF	Nicola Di Sanza	ASD Rotunda Maris	Free Transfer	[35]
	MF	Steven McDougall	Clyde F.C.	Free Transfer	[citation needed]
	MF	Odain Simpson	Kingston FC	Free Transfer	[36]