Historically speaking, Toronto's professional sports franchises have all rallied around the color blue, be it Major League Baseball's Blue Jays, the NHL's Maple Leafs, or the Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. But since 2007, large swaths of the city have been awash in a different shade, thanks to the arrival of The Reds - aka Toronto FC, the city's first Major League Soccer team (and the first Canadian team in the league).

Despite entering a crowded local sports market, Toronto FC have been a hit since day one, thanks in no small part to the city's traditionally large population of football-starved British expats. In fact, the Eastern Conference team's most vocal and visible supporters club, the Red Patch Boys, started rallying online back in 2006 before the team had even played its first match.

When BMO Field - the team's home stadium - opened, it already was the biggest soccer stadium in Canada; it since has expanded to accommodate some 30,000 fans. On game days, you'll be hard-pressed to find a soul within a 10-mile radius of the venue who isn't sporting the team's signature red scarves.

Toronto FC History

After some growing seasons as a new franchise, Toronto FC became a perennial MLS Cup playoff contender after adding Italian soccer star Sebastian Giovinco from 2015-19.

In his first year with the team, Giovinco became the first Toronto FC player to win MLS' Golden Boot (for most goals scored), MVP, and Newcomer of the Year awards, en route to the team's first-ever playoff berth. They'd repeat the feat in each of the next two years, making it to the MLS Cup Final in 2016 and then finally winning the championship in 2017.

That victory, coupled with their winning of the Canadian Championship and Supporters' Shield matches earlier in the year, made Toronto FC the first team in Major League Soccer history to complete the rare feat known as the domestic treble.