2015 Canadian Championship

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2015 Canadian Championship
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Tournament details
Country Canada
Dates April 22 – August 26, 2015
Teams 5
Final positions
Champions Vancouver Whitecaps FC (1st title)
Runner-up Montreal Impact
Tournament statistics
Matches played 8
Goals scored 25 (3.13 per match)
Attendance 88,844 (11,106 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Tomi Ameobi (4 goals)
George Gross Memorial Trophy Russell Teibert
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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.

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

Team League Position Appearance
Vancouver Whitecaps FC MLS 9th 8th
Toronto FC MLS 13th 8th
Montreal Impact MLS 19th 8th
Ottawa Fury FC NASL 6th 1st
FC Edmonton NASL 9th 5th

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 round Semifinals Final
 
                                
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
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FC Edmonton[lower-alpha 1]		 1 1 2
 
  
 
1
Vancouver Whitecaps FC[lower-alpha 1]		 1 2 3
 
 FC Edmonton 3 3 6
 
  
 
 Ottawa Fury FC 1 1 2
 
1
Vancouver Whitecaps FC		 2 2 4
 
 
3
Montreal Impact		 2 0 2
 
 
  
 
 
2
Toronto FC		 0 3 3
 
 
3
Montreal Impact (a)		 1 2 3
 
 
 
 
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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

April 22, 2015
19:30 EDT (UTC-04)[3]
Ottawa Fury FC 1–3 FC Edmonton
Oliver Goal 1' Report Fordyce Goal 83'
Laing Goal 87'
Ameobi Goal 90+4'
TD Place Stadium, Ottawa, Ontario
Attendance: 2,402
Referee: Geoff Gamble

April 29, 2015
20:00 MDT (UTC-06)[3]
FC Edmonton 3–1 Ottawa Fury FC
Ameobi Goal 9'
Nyassi Goal 15'
Fordyce Goal 81' (pen.)		 Report Wiedeman Goal 32'
Clarke Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
Attendance: 1,858
Referee: Drew Fischer

FC Edmonton won 6–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

May 6, 2015
19:30 EDT (UTC-04)[3]
Montreal Impact 1–0 Toronto FC
McInerney Goal 68' Report
Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Attendance: 12,518
Referee: Silviu Petrescu

May 13, 2015
19:30 EDT (UTC-04)[3]
Toronto FC 3–2 Montreal Impact
Altidore Goal 22'
Cheyrou Goal 56'
Giovinco Goal 58'		 Report Cooper Goal 25'
Oduro Goal 84'
BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 21,069[4]
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau

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

May 13, 2015
19:00 PDT (UTC-07)[3]
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 1–1 FC Edmonton
Koffie Goal 87' Report Ameobi Goal 4'

May 20, 2015[†]
20:00 MDT (UTC-06)
FC Edmonton 1–2 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Ameobi Goal 90+1' (pen.) Report Morales Goal 9' (pen.)
Laba Goal 90+7'
Clarke Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
Attendance: 3,803[5]
Referee: Silviu Petrescu

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

  1. ^ 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

August 12, 2015[1]
Montreal Impact 2–2 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Ciman Goal 84'
Jackson-Hamel Goal 85'		 Report Mattocks Goal 65'
Morales Goal 72'
Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Attendance: 12,395
Referee: David Gantar

August 26, 2015[1]
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2–0 Montreal Impact
Rivero Goal 40'
Parker Goal 53'		 Report
BC Place, Vancouver, British Columbia
Attendance: 19,616
Referee: Silviu Petrescu

Vancouver won 4–2 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

Rank Player Team Goals
1 England Tomi Ameobi FC Edmonton 4
2 Northern Ireland Daryl Fordyce FC Edmonton 2
Chile Pedro Morales Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4 United States Jozy Altidore Toronto FC 1
France Benoît Cheyrou Toronto FC
Belgium Laurent Ciman Montreal Impact
United States Kenny Cooper Montreal Impact
Italy Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC
Canada Anthony Jackson-Hamel Montreal Impact
Ghana Gershon Koffie Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Argentina Matías Laba Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Jamaica Lance Laing FC Edmonton
Jamaica Darren Mattocks Vancouver Whitecaps FC
United States Jack McInerney Montreal Impact
The Gambia Sainey Nyassi FC Edmonton
Ghana Dominic Oduro Montreal Impact
Brazil Oliver Ottawa Fury FC
United States Tim Parker Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Uruguay Octavio Rivero Vancouver Whitecaps FC
United States Andrew Wiedeman Ottawa Fury FC

References

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