A familiar face scored the winning goal against Vancouver FC in Toronto Sunday, as Gabriel Bitar got past Eagle netminder Callum Irving to win the match for Inter Toronto, 1-0.
It was the third 1-0 loss for VFC, which has yet to win this season.
Bitar, who had been traded by VFC to Toronto in 2025, scored just five-and-a-half minutes into a game that pitted two teams in search of their first win of the season.
Bitar, who was with VFC from the beginning, signed with the Langley-based team in 2023.
During his two-season tenure with Vancouver, he became the club’s all-time leader in combined goals and assists.
He was traded to what then known as York United in a 2025 deal that gave VFC York United’s first pick in the 2026 CPL-U SPORTS draft.
The eastern team team was rebranded for the 2026 season.
Both Toronto and Vancouver had suffered late-in-the game losses going into Sunday’s match.
Vancouver fell to a 90th-minute Max Filion winner for Forge that saw them drop a 1-0 result for the second straight weekend.
Inter Toronto led twice against the Halifax Wanderers in their home opener before conceding an 86th-minute equalizer that cost them a winning start to the season.
It was the Eagle’s first road trip of the season, which also marked a return to York Lions Stadium for Vancouver FC head coach Martin Nash.
Nash was on the touchline for Inter Toronto for three-and-a-half seasons between 2021 and 2024. Sunday marked the first time he returned to his former stomping grounds with a different club.
Nash and Vancouver FC did face Inter Toronto in Langley at the end of last season, winning 2-1 on September 21 on a goal from another Inter Toronto alumnus, full-back Paris Gee.
The Eagles, however, have not won in Toronto since they picked up their first-ever victory as a club at York Lions Stadium in a 2-1 win on April 22, 2023.
Next up for VFC, another road game, a Sunday April 26 match against Ottawa.
Their next home game is Sunday May 17 against Cavalry at what is now called the Stadium at Langley Events Centre.