2015_Canadian_Championship

2015 Canadian Championship

2015 Canadian Championship

2015 professional soccer tournament


The 2015 Canadian Championship (officially the Amway Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association. It was the eighth edition of the annual Canadian Championship, and took place in the cities of Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2015. The participating teams were Ottawa Fury FC and FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League, the second-level of the Canadian Soccer Pyramid, and Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer, the first-level of Canadian club soccer. Montreal Impact were the two-time defending champions.

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The winner, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and will become Canada's entry into the Group stage of the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League. This is a permanent change from procedure used in the past, where the Canadian Champion qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League beginning the same year (in this case, 2015–16).

The tournament moved to an April–August timeframe from its usual April–June timeframe[1] to accommodate the schedule of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup held in Canada. It was permanently moved to a June/July timeframe in 2016.[2]

Qualified teams

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Bracket

The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs are seeded according to their final position in 2014 league play, with both NASL clubs playing in the preliminary round, the winner of which advance to the semifinals.[1]

All rounds of the competition are played via a two-leg home-and-away knock-out format. The higher seeded team has the option of deciding which leg it played at home. The team that scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. Vancouver Whitecaps FC, was declared champion and earned the right to represent Canada in the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League.[2]

Each series is a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.

Preliminary roundSemifinalsFinal
                
4
FC Edmonton[lower-alpha 1]
112
1
Vancouver Whitecaps FC[lower-alpha 1]
123
FC Edmonton336
Ottawa Fury FC112
Vancouver Whitecaps FC224
Montreal Impact202
2
Toronto FC
033
3
Montreal Impact (a)
123
  1. Although Vancouver was originally scheduled to host the second leg, the order of legs were reversed as heavy snow caused the match in Edmonton to be postponed.

Matches

Preliminary round

More information Ottawa Fury FC, 1–3 ...
Attendance: 2,402
Referee: Geoff Gamble
More information FC Edmonton, 3–1 ...
Attendance: 1,858
Referee: Drew Fischer

FC Edmonton won 6–2 on aggregate.


Semifinals

More information Montreal Impact, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 12,518
More information Toronto FC, 3–2 ...
Attendance: 21,069[4]
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau

3–3 on aggregate. Montreal Impact won on away goals.


More information Vancouver Whitecaps FC, 1–1 ...
More information FC Edmonton, 1–2 ...

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

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    Edmonton had originally been scheduled to host the first leg of the semi-finals against Vancouver in Edmonton on May 6, 2015 but the match was postponed due to snow.[6]

Final

More information Montreal Impact, 2–2 ...
Attendance: 12,395
Referee: David Gantar
More information Vancouver Whitecaps FC, 2–0 ...

Vancouver won 4–2 on aggregate.

Goalscorers


References

  1. "Schedule for 2015 Amway Canadian Championship set" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. February 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  2. "Canada Soccer announces move to new time-frame for future Amway Canadian Championships" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. March 21, 2014. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  3. "Canada Soccer confirms Amway Canadian Championship kick off times" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  4. "Match Timeline". mlssoccer.com. Soccer United Marketing LLC. May 13, 2015. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015.
  5. "Eddies Fall Short 2-1 In Dramatic ACC Semifinal Thriller". fcedmonton.com. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  6. "Storify: Snowed out in Edmonton". Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Retrieved May 10, 2015.

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