In addition to unveiling the Inter Toronto branding, the club also revealed some other ways in which they intend to connect with the city.
Namely, the ownership group is bullish on their intent to find a home for the team closer to the city centre. Eduardo Pasquel, the club’s CEO, told OneSoccer that the club has had conversations with the City of Toronto around potentially converting Lamport Stadium into a future venue for Inter Toronto as well as a key asset for the local soccer community.
“We’ve been in conversations with the city, they’ve been amazing to us,” he said. “They want us to be a part of the city, and of course we want to be a part of the city as well. Conversations are going pretty well. We’re working on Lamport Stadium to make it a better facility, not only for the club or the CPL, but for the community and for the city. We want to grow with the sport, we want to bring Torontonians together with the World Cup.”
Although the club will continue to play at York Lions Stadium in the 2026 CPL season, they confirmed that they are exploring alternative options for seasons beyond.
Ricardo Pasquel also confirmed the club’s ambition with regard to its academy; they launched a youth structure within the past couple years, and will soon be expanding it to more age groups.
The CPL’s Executive Vice of Football, Costa Smyrniotis, offered his support for the new era of Toronto’s club.
“It’s tremendous,” Smyrniotis told OneSoccer. “What a great statement of intent from the club, to show their ambition to be a big club within our league, to be a big club within Canada, but also just [be] grounded in community, which is, I think, the biggest statement of intent here: to show how important community is, how important it is to build a club around a community, and how important it is to make Toronto home, going forward for this club.”
Smyrniotis added that he’s glad to see the team taking steps toward a stadium solution, pointing out that infrastructure and facilities have been one of the biggest challenges facing the Canadian soccer landscape.
“I’m so happy that that is part of the whole intent of this group,” he said. “We all know the challenges we have in this country when it comes to infrastructure; we just don’t have enough. We’re going into a World Cup year, and when you start thinking legacy, and you start thinking, what are we going to leave behind, not only for the current generation but the generations going forward, what’s going to be the legacy of this World Cup? Infrastructure is right at the forefront.”