Just four games into the 2021 Canadian Premier League season, one club has already filled its quota for U-21 minutes for the whole year. York United FC, with five Canadians under the age of 21 in their starting lineup on Wednesday night for a 2-1 win over Valour FC, passed the 1,500-minute mark to become the first club to meet the newly-increased threshold. As a result, they're well out in front of this year's CPL U-21 Minutes Leaderboard, presented by Jones Deslauriers/Navacord. No other club has passed 1,000 minutes yet, although a few are on pace to be at or near the 1,500-minute quota at the end of The Kickoff in Winnipeg later this month. Valour FC are the next-closest side to hitting their threshold, with 809 U-21 minutes so far. The full leaderboard is as follows, with a full club-by-club breakdown below.
York United FC -- 1,505 minutes
Terique Mohammed -- 347 minutes Lowell Wright -- 341 Isaiah Johnston -- 305 Max Ferrari -- 259 Cédric Toussaint -- 210 Ijah Halley -- 43 Jordan Faria -- 0 Ryan Lindsay -- 0 Félix N'sa -- 0
Valour FC -- 809 minutes
Jonathan Sirois -- 270 Sean Rea -- 212 Tony Mikhael -- 185 Jared Ulloa -- 142
Pacific FC -- 560 minutes
Alessandro Hojabrpour -- 208 Sean Young -- 196 Christopher Lee -- 90 Kunle Dada-Luke -- 66
Cavalry FC -- 497 minutes
Karifa Yao -- 180 Victor Loturi -- 166 Daniel Kaiser -- 146 José Hernández -- 5
HFX Wanderers FC -- 308 minutes
Jake Ruby -- 211 Kareem Sow -- 45 Samuel Salter -- 26 Scott Firth -- 26 Kieran Baskett -- 0
Atlético Ottawa -- 189 minutes
Keesean Ferdinand -- 180 Antoine Coupland -- 9 Teodor Obadal -- 0
FC Edmonton -- 116 minutes
Marcus Velado-Tsegaye -- 80 Antony Caceres -- 36 Darlington Murasiranwa -- 0 T-Boy Fayia -- 0 Tomas Giraldo -- 0 Joseph Holliday -- 0
Forge FC -- 99 minutes
Monti Mohsen -- 87 Robbie Cleary -- 12 Santiago Frias -- 0 Baj Maan -- 0 Johnny Son -- 0
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