CF Montreal: 2024 schedule, players, manager, stadium & more

Having finished third in the overall MLS table in 2022, there was plenty of optimism around CF Montreal last term but a change of manager unsettled things en route to a 20th-place finish.

There have been numerous comings and goings ahead of the new campaign, though, with another new manager set to feature in the dugout.

Stadium: Saputo Stadium
Manager: Laurent Courtois
Captain: Victor Wanyama
Top league scorer last season: Mathieu Choiniere (five goals)
Last season's position: 10th in Eastern Conference, 20th Overall

Season schedule

Date	Home team	Away team
February 24	Orlando	CF Montreal
March 2	Dallas	CF Montreal
March 10	Inter Miami	CF Montreal
March 16	Chicago Fire	CF Montreal
April 6	Seattle	CF Montreal
April 13	CF Montreal	Cincinnati
April 20	CF Montreal	Orlando
April 27	Columbus Crew	CF Montreal
May 4	Nashville	CF Montreal
May 11	CF Montreal	Inter Miami
May 15	CF Montreal	Columbus Crew
May 18	Toronto	CF Montreal
May 25	CF Montreal	Nashville
May 29	CF Montreal	DC United
June 1	Philadelphia	CF Montreal
June 15	CF Montreal	Real Salt Lake
June 19	CF Montreal	NY Red Bulls
June 22	Colorado	CF Montreal
June 29	CF Montreal	Philadelphia
July 3	New York City	CF Montreal
July 6	CF Montreal	Vancouver
July 13	CF Montreal	Atlanta
July 17	NY Red Bulls	CF Montreal
July 20	CF Montreal	Toronto
August 24	CF Montreal	New England
August 31	Cincinnati	CF Montreal
September 14	CF Montreal	Charlotte
September 18	New England	CF Montreal
September 21	CF Montreal	Chicago
September 28	CF Montreal	San Jose
October 2	Atlanta	CF Montreal
October 5	Charlotte	CF Montreal
October 19	CF Montreal	New York City

Manager - Laurent Courtois

• Date Joined - January 2024
• Date of Birth - September 11, 1978
• Nationality - French
• Previous Clubs - LA Galaxy II (Assistant), Lyon Academy, Columbus Crew Academy, Columbus Crew 2

Stadium

• Name - Saputo Stadium
• Capacity - 19,619
• Record Attendance - 20,801 (CF Montreal v Toronto, October 2019)
• Opened - May 18, 2008

CF Montreal Team Roster

Goalkeepers	Nationality
Sebastian Breza	Canada
Logan Ketterer	USA
Jonathan Sirois	Canada
Defenders
Joaquin Sosa	Uruguay
Fernando Alvarez	Colombia
Joel Waterman	Canada
Ruan	Brazil
George Campbell	USA
Gabriele Corbo	Italy
Robert Orri Þorkelsson	Iceland
Raheem Edwards	Canada
Midfielders
Victor Wanyama	Kenya
Ilias Liadis	Greece
Samuel Piette	Canada
Dominik Yankov	Bulgaria
Bryce Duke	USA
Rida Zouhir	Canada
Nathan Saliba	Canada
Ousman Jabang	USA
Mathieu Choiniere	Canada
Forwards
Kwadwo Opoku	Ghana
Matias Coccaro	Uruguay
Ariel Lassiter	Costa Rica
Mason Toye	USA
Sunusi Ibrahim	Nigeria
Josef Martinez	Venezuela
Jules-Anthony Vilsaint	Canada
Lassi Lappalainen	Finland

CF Montreal transfers

In:

• Raheem Edwards (Undisclosed)
• Ruan (Undisclosed)
• Sebastian Breza (Free)
• Dominik Yankov (Undisclosed)
• Matias Coccaro (Undisclosed)
• Josef Martinez (Free)

Out:

• Aaron Herrera (Traded for Ruan)

Last season's performance

Hernan Losada's one and only season in charge of CF Montreal was underwhelming to say the least.

Losada took the reins at CF Montreal at the start of last season following Wilfried Nancy's departure to eventual 2023 MLS Cup winners Columbus Crew.

That alone was a move which raised plenty of eyebrows given that Nancy has long been considered one of the most promising head coaches in MLS, leading CF Montreal to third spot in the Supporters' Shield race in 2022.

The change was pretty jarring for the club with Losada's high-intensity, vertical approach failing to get the best out of his players.

April brought with it a run of four successive 2-0 wins but other than that, there was not a lot to shout about.

Despite a poor campaign, the club were still on the brink of making the playoffs on Decision Day, only for the New York Red Bulls to dispatch a 94th-minute penalty against Nashville SC to leapfrog CF Montreal into the playoffs.

Montreal's final regular-season game came against Nancy's Columbus Crew, who won the match 2-1 in Ohio.

There are plenty of lessons to be learned from last season and the club have once again shifted gears, drafting in Laurent Courtois as manager for 2024.

This season's prospects

New CF Montreal boss Courtois may have a modest CV but he has already enjoyed success in his career and has a knack for nurturing younger talent.

In January 2022, Courtois took charge of the Columbus Crew reserves team and led them to the MLS Next Pro title that same year.

He then oversaw the club claiming the regular season title in the MLS Next Pro division last year and looks ready to make the step up.

One of his primary objectives heading into the 2024 season will be improving CF Montreal's goalscoring threat with Mathieu Choiniere - a right wing-back - finishing as the club's top scorer on just five MLS goals last term.

The addition of former MLS top scorer Josef Martinez, who struck seven goals for Inter Miami in 2023, should go some way to helping the situation but building around CF Montreal's younger crop will also be key.

Retaining Choiniere is important and there is surely more to come from forwards Kwadwo Opoku and Mason Toye but expect another season of finishing on the cusp of the playoffs, for a team that is +50000 to win the MLS Cup.

Last five seasons

2023	10th Eastern Conference
2022	2nd Eastern Conference,
2021	10th Eastern Conference
2020	9th Eastern Conference
2019	9th Eastern Conference

Odds mentioned in this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.