Deep North Division News Today

With the departure of FC Manitoba, the Chill are the only Canadian team left in the USL League 2.

The Deep North Division champions are in Des Moines for the first two rounds of the USL League 2 playoffs.

Brian Aninias scored twice to earn Thunder Bay its first division title since 2017, when it won the Heartland Division and advanced to the USL League 2 final.

Steevenson Lamarre scored a pair of second-half goals, including one in injury time, to prevent the Chill from clinching the Deep North Division on Friday night.

Jamie Wynne and Edoardo Calzola, with a spectacular bicycle kick goal, scored for Thunder Bay in Friday night's 2-0 win over their expansion rivals.

Elliott Cutts scored twice to lead Thunder Bay to a 5-1 win on Sunday afternoon.

Former Des Moines Menace goal scorer has switched allegiances this summer as Thunder Bay looks to return to USL2 glory in 2023.

Des Moines will move back to the Heartland Division in 2023, while Thunder Bay will have three expansion teams join them in the Deep North Division.

De Vincenzi, Bricker score for Thunder Bay, who are now three points back of the second and final playoff spot in the USL 2's Deep North Division.

Thunder Bay is nine back of a playoff spot, but holds four games in hand on second-place Peoria City.