As soon as you enter TFC's KIA Training Grounds north of Toronto, your head will tilt skyward to see three clear-glass cabinets in the middle of a red wall. These cabinets serve as a constant reminder to every staff member of what this club is striving for. Each is meant to house a trophy, but only one is occupied: the Canadian Championship trophy, won by TFC this season and six times since 2009. To its right is an empty cabinet for the MLS Cup, which could be full by the end of the week.

To the right of that is another empty cabinet that speaks to the grand, perhaps audacious, visions of a club that as recently as 2014 couldn't even make the MLS playoffs.

"CONCACAF Champions League" the cabinet reads. The CONCACAF Champions League, bringing together the best clubs from across North and Central America, is akin to its much more celebrated European counterpart, in that it's rare for anyone outside of a handful of elite super clubs to raise the trophy. Since the current format was adopted in 2008, only five different Mexican clubs have won.

Ambitious? Undoubtedly. But possible? Given TFC's historic MLS regular season, in which they ravaged the competition with a new league-record 69 points, it's certainly more believable now.

Though Toronto FC will enter their second straight MLS Cup final on Saturday, looking to avenge last season's loss to the Seattle Sounders at BMO Field, the club is thinking bigger.

"It was very clear to the team," said TFC general manager Tim Bezbatchenko, "that it wasn't just [an] MLS Cup [they were after]."

Those ambitions have quickly changed the landscape of what an MLS club can be.

As late as 2015, there were still concerns that TFC were not making in-roads with the many local soccer clubs in the Greater Toronto Area that make soccer the most participated-in team sport in Canada. There was, according to some, a mountain of untapped talent.