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| Full name | Forge Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Hammers | ||
| Founded | May 6, 2017 | ||
| Stadium | Tim Hortons Field, Hamilton, Ontario | ||
| Capacity | 23,218 | ||
| Owner | Hamilton Sports Group | ||
| Chairman | Bob Young | ||
| Coach | Bobby Smyrniotis | ||
| League | Canadian Premier League | ||
| 2023 | Regular season: 2nd Playoffs: Champions | ||
| Website | http://forgefc.canpl.ca/ | ||
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Forge FC, also known as Forge Football Club, Forge FC Hamilton, or Hamilton Forge FC, is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Hamilton, Ontario, that competes in the Canadian Premier League, the top tier of Canadian soccer. The club plays its home matches at Tim Hortons Field. Forge FC joined the CPL in 2019 as one of the league's seven inaugural teams.
The club is four-time CPL champions, winning back-to-back league titles in 2019 and 2020, before doing the same in 2022 and 2023. Forge was the first CPL side to compete in a continental competition when it played in the 2019 CONCACAF League, and the first to compete in the highest tier of continental competition in the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League. Forge became the first Canadian Premier League club to reach the final of the Canadian Championship, which they did in 2020.