North Toronto Nitros is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario.

[2] Originally a youth soccer club, the team added a men's semi-professional team in League1 Ontario in 2016,[3] playing their home games at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium.

[4] They played their inaugural match on April 30, 2016, on the road against Vaughan Azzurri, which they lost by a score of 2–1.

[5] They defeated Aurora United by a score of 5–0 in their home debut.

[7] Two years later, they were set to return to the league for the 2020 season and also added a women's team to the League1 Ontario women's division for the first time, providing a full senior high-performance pathway for players based in downtown Toronto,[8] however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was cancelled, delaying their return (and the women's team's debut) to 2021.