Toronto Raiders aim to rebound after frustrating 2025 season
Toronto enters 2026 carrying the kind of collapse that cannot be brushed off as a bad stretch. The Raiders finished 0-12 in the 2025 North Division with a minus-55 goals/points margin, a sharp drop after going 3-9 in 2024 and 6-2 in 2023.
The fixable part of that failure was obvious. Major League Quadball’s commissioners later said player shortages helped force forfeits by the Ottawa Black Bears, Toronto Raiders and Cleveland Riff, and 42 matches across 14 originally scheduled series were not played that summer. Toronto did not just lose games, it lost continuity, and the absence of bodies turned a competitive problem into a structural one.
That is why the reset matters more than a normal offseason. MLQ says the Raiders began in 2019 under manager Jess Tsang and the coaching tutelage of Quadball Canada Executive Director Yara Kodershah, and Toronto remains the league’s only Canadian franchise. That identity gives the club a clear brand, but it also means the Raiders do not get to hide behind reputation or geography when the North Division turns brutal. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Minneapolis are the standard again, and Toronto has to answer them on the field.
The early signs of that reboot were already public. Toronto held an info session at The Hangar in North York, Ontario, on January 18, a small but useful marker of a club trying to rebuild rhythm as well as personnel. MLQ then released all 12 franchises’ 2026 rosters on May 7, putting the Raiders’ next version in front of the league before the summer window opened.
The test for Toronto is simple to state and hard to fake. If the Raiders are real about recovery, the 2026 version has to show up with enough depth to avoid the shortage problem that wrecked 2025, enough organization to stay clean in physical North Division series, and enough consistency to move back toward the league’s play-in and best-of-three championship bracket. The 2025 season exposed how quickly a roster can unravel. The first signs of a real reboot will be whether Toronto can hold together when the matches get tight again.