It's over.

It took more than two years, 734 days, and 41 games, but London City has finally won a Canadian Soccer League regular season game.

They did it in grand style.

City scored six goals in the first half and then controlled the game to defeat TFC Academy 6-3 last night in front of about 200 at Cove Road field.

City's last win was Aug. 10, 2007 against Portuguese Supra. Since then they've lost just about every way a soccer team can lose.

Last night, there would be no new way to lose.

"I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm just happy," said City general manager Ryan Gauss, who has lived through the two-year slump. "This proved that anything can happen. I'm so proud of the players, the way they kept coming out and working. They left everything on the field."

"I don't have any words right now," coach Andrew Loague said.

City scored early and scored often. They took advantage of a horrendous display of goaltending by Soitiri Varlokostas, a leaking defence and well-taken goals that would make some of the best goalscorers in the league envious.

City's six first-half goals were two more than they've scored all season. Varlokostas was replaced at the start of the second half by Jarrett Humphreys.

It was stunning. For a team that had scored four goals all season, everything they hit at the net went in.

"There hasn't been a team that we've played that I thought was hands down better than us," two-goal scorer Patrick Bueno said. "It's always been us killing ourselves in the final third or cramping in the final 15 minutes when the game opens up. We finally came through tonight and put everything together."

It didn't take long to figure out how the evening was going to go. Everything that could go wrong, did for TFC, taking the script that's usually reserved for City.

But Loague, who may be out for the season with an Achilles injury, made some changes with some younger players in the lineup and a veteran in Scott Patriquin at the back.

"Some players might have been upset at the changes but 10 games in and we were winning," Loague said.

Patriquin, a player-coach for Windsor Border Stars came back because he wanted to help City win.

"It was because of Harry," Patriquin said of ailing City owner Harry Gauss. "I wanted to get him a win. This is a good group of guys. All they needed was a little organization at the back."

Patriquin is 44 and had a strong game.

"I don't have the legs I used to but there weren't many of those younger kids who beat me," he laughed.

City was terrific. They had more movement than they usually do and took advantage of their chances.

By the sixth minute, Brian Abidakun struck a pure shot from 18-yards to the top of the net to give City a 1-0 lead.

Seven minutes later, Varlokostas misjudged an easy bouncing ball allowing it to go over his head. City's Patrick Bueno nodded it into the empty net.

And so it went, TFC made it 2-1 but Kuba Waszkowski drilled a shot to the low corner to make it 3-1.

TFC drew to 3-2 but Bueno converted a 29th minute penalty to make it 4-2 and match the year goal scoring total.

Gentjian Buzali and Jagger Hassan made it 6-2 before Allando Matheson scored his third goal of the half for TFC.