2016 Canadian Championship
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The 2016 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 ninth edition of the annual Canadian Championship, and took place in the cities of Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2016. The participating teams were Ottawa Fury FC and FC Edmonton of the second-division North American Soccer League, and the Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer, the first-level of Canadian club soccer. The Vancouver Whitecaps were the reigning champions; having won their first title in the 2015 competition.
The winner, Toronto FC, was awarded the Voyageurs Cup and was supposed to become Canada's sole entry into the group stage of the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League. However, due to that tournament's restructuring, it was later announced that the Canadian representative at the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League would be determined by a playoff match between Toronto FC and the 2017 Canadian Championship winner.cite-ref-1[1] Toronto FC went on to win the 2017 edition, however, and qualified without the need for a playoff.
Contents
• Matches
• Final
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Tournament bracket
The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs are seeded according to their final position in 2015 league play, with both NASL clubs playing in the preliminary round, the winner of which advances to the semifinals.cite-ref-2[2]
All rounds of the competition are played via a two-leg home-and-away knock-out format. The higher seeded team had the option of deciding which leg it played at home. The team that scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. Toronto FC, was declared champion and earns the right to play in the CONCACAF Champions League playoff match.
Each series was a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.
Matches
Preliminary round
First leg
May 11, 2016
19:00
MDT
(
UTC-6
)
Clarke Stadium
,
Edmonton
,
Alberta
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Alain Ruch
Second leg
May 18, 2016
19:30
EDT
(
UTC−4
)
TD Place Stadium
,
Ottawa
,
Ontario
Attendance: 3,946
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau
Ottawa won 3–2 on aggregate.
Semifinals
First leg
June 1, 2016
19:30
EDT
(
UTC−4
)
TD Place Stadium
,
Ottawa
,
Ontario
Attendance: 9,057
Referee: Yusri Rudolf
June 1, 2016
19:30
EDT
(
UTC−4
)
BMO Field
,
Toronto
,
Ontario
Attendance: 22,143
Referee: David Gantar
Second leg
June 8, 2016
19:00
PDT
(
UTC-7
)
BC Place
,
Vancouver
,
British Columbia
Attendance: 17,863
Referee:
Geoff Gamble
Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.
June 8, 2016
Saputo Stadium
,
Montreal
,
Quebec
Attendance: 18,964
Referee:
Silviu Petrescu
Toronto won 4–2 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
June 21, 2016
BMO Field
Attendance: 20,011
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau
Second leg
June 29, 2016
10:00PM ET
BC Place
Attendance: 19,376
Referee:
Drew Fischer
2–2 on aggregate. Toronto won on away goals.
Goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Nation | Team | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Osorio | CAN | Toronto FC | 2 |
| 1 | Jordan Hamilton | CAN | Toronto FC | 2 |
| 1 | Nicolás Mezquida | URU | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 2 |
| 4 | Dustin Corea | SLV | FC Edmonton | 1 |
| 4 | Didier Drogba | CIV | Montreal Impact | 1 |
| 4 | Adam Eckersley | ENG | FC Edmonton | 1 |
| 4 | Sebastian Giovinco | ITA | Toronto FC | 1 |
| 4 | Carl Haworth | CAN | Ottawa Fury | 1 |
| 4 | Will Johnson | CAN | Toronto FC | 1 |
| 4 | Pedro Morales | CHI | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 1 |
| 4 | Tim Parker | USA | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 1 |
| 4 | Paulo Jr. | BRA | Ottawa Fury | 1 |
| 4 | Octavio Rivero | URU | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 1 |
| 4 | Michael Salazar | BLZ | Montreal Impact | 1 |
| 4 | Jonny Steele | NIR | Ottawa Fury | 1 |
| 4 | Fernando Timbó | BRA | Ottawa Fury | 1 |
| 4 | Idan Vered | ISR | Ottawa Fury | 1 |
References
cite-note-11. ↑ "Canadian Championship Kicks off 10th Edition in May with more Canadian Content". CanadaSoccer.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
cite-note-22. ↑ "2016 Amway Canadian Championship schedule announced". canadasoccer.com. Canadian Soccer Association. Archived from the original on January 10, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.