Thunder Bay Chill
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| Full name | Thunder Bay Chill |
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| Nickname(s) | The Chill |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Stadium |
Fort William Stadium Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| Stadium capacity |
1,600 |
| Owner | John Marrello |
| Head Coach | Giovanni Petraglia |
| League | Premier Development League |
| 2016 | 2nd, Heartland Division Playoffs: Conference Semifinals |
| Website | www |
Thunder Bay Chill is a Canadian soccer team based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2000, the team plays in the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference.
The team plays its home games at Chapples Park. The team's colours are white and blue.
Thunder Bay Chill joined the PDL in 2000 as the first ever soccer franchise from western Ontario. Their initial forays into competitive action were not hugely successful: they finished last in the Heartland Division in their debut season with a 4-13-1 record, improved to 6-13-1 in 2001 but still finished fourth of five in the Heartland, and repeated to 5-12-1 in 2002, finishing sixth of eight and still some way off the playoff standard set by regional rivals such as Des Moines Menace and Boulder Rapids Reserve.
The 2003 season actually started very promisingly for Chill, as they rattled off three back-to-back victories over Wisconsin Rebels and Kalamazoo Kingdom, thanks mainly to the goal scoring prowess of Liberian striker Doco Wesseh. Chill's problem was inconsistency - back-to-back wins would be followed by back-to-back defeats - and despite enjoying several impressive victories, including a 4-1 hammering of Wisconsin Rebels, a hard-fought 5-4 win on the road at Sioux Falls Spitfire, and a free-scoring 4-2 win over Des Moines Menace in which Wesseh scored a hat trick, Chill could never quite close the gap on the league-leading Chicago Fire Premier. Even a final day 1-0 home win over Des Moines was not enough, and the Chill finished the season a much closer 4th, six points off the playoffs. Wesseh and Ron Badanai were Chill's top scorers, with 17 goals between them, while Mike Kolinski contributed 5 assists.
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