2016 Canadian Championship

2016 Canadian Championship
2016 Amway Canadian Championship (English)
Championnat Canadien Amway 2016 (French)
Country Canada
Dates 11 May – 29 June 2016
Teams 5
Champions Toronto FC (5th title)
Runners-up Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Matches played 8
Goals scored 20 (2.5 per match)
Attendance 114,360 (14,295 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Canada Jordan Hamilton
Canada Jonathan Osorio
Uruguay Nicolás Mezquida
(2 goals each)
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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 will become Canada's sole entry into the Group Stage of the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.

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.[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. Toronto FC, was declared champion and earns the right to represent Canada in the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.

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

  Preliminary Round
           
4  Ottawa Fury FC 3 0 3
5  FC Edmonton 0 2 2
  Semifinals Final
                         
1  Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0 3 3  
4  Ottawa Fury FC 2 0 2  
    1  Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0 2 2
  3  Toronto FC (a) 1 1 2
2  Montreal Impact 2 0 2
3  Toronto FC 4 0 4  

Matches

Preliminary round

May 11, 2016
19:00 MDT (UTC-6)
FC Edmonton 0–3 Ottawa Fury FC
Ledgerwood  60'
Fordyce  75'		 Report Timbó  13'
Bailey  31'
Haworth  69'
Vered  74'
Olivera  86'
Clarke Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Alain Ruch (BC)

May 18, 2016
19:30 EDT (UTC−4)
Ottawa Fury FC 0–2 FC Edmonton
Steele  54'
Bailey  55'
Timbó  90+1'		 Report Diakite  15'
Corea  26'
Watson  38'
Eckersley  45'
TD Place Stadium, Ottawa, Ontario
Attendance: 3,946
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau

Ottawa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

June 1, 2016
19:30 EDT (UTC−4)
Ottawa Fury 2–0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Steele  3'
Obasi  16'
Paulo Jr.  41'
Haworth  63'
Eustáquio  90+2'		 Report
TD Place Stadium, Ottawa, Ontario
Attendance: 9,057
Referee: Yusri Rudolf

June 8, 2016
19:00 PDT (UTC-7)
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 3–0 Ottawa Fury
Morales  3' (pen.)
Mezquida  20'
Rivero  52'
Parker  67'		 Report Alves  2'
de Guzmán  73'
BC Place, Vancouver, British Columbia
Attendance: 17,863
Referee: Geoff Gamble

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

June 1, 2016
19:30 EDT (UTC−4)
Toronto FC 4–2 Montreal Impact
Osorio  13', 36'
Hamilton  60', 80'
Lovitz  84'
Irwin  90+2'		 Report Bernier Red card 45+2'
Salazar  86'
Drogba  90+1'
BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 22,143
Referee: David Gantar

June 8, 2016
Montreal Impact 0–0 Toronto FC
Drogba  50'
Ontivero Red card 60'
Oduro  88'		 Report Zavaleta  45'
Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Attendance: 18,964
Referee: Silviu Petrescu

Toronto won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

June 21, 2016
Toronto FC 1–0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Giovinco  43' Report Bolaños  88'
BMO Field
Attendance: 20,011
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau

June 29, 2016
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2–1 Toronto FC
Waston  32'
Mezquida  47'
Manneh  62'
Parker  68'		 Johnson  90+5'
BC Place
Attendance: 19,376
Referee: Drew Fischer

2–2 on aggregate. Toronto won on away goals.

Top scorers

Rank Player Team Goals
1 Canada Jonathan Osorio Toronto FC 2
Canada Jordan Hamilton Toronto FC
Uruguay Nicolás Mezquida Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4 El Salvador Dustin Corea FC Edmonton 1
Ivory Coast Didier Drogba Montreal Impact
England Adam Eckersley FC Edmonton
Italy Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC
Canada Carl Haworth Ottawa Fury
Canada Will Johnson Toronto FC
Chile Pedro Morales Vancouver Whitecaps FC
United States Tim Parker Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Brazil Paulo Jr. Ottawa Fury
Uruguay Octavio Rivero Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Belize Michael Salazar Montreal Impact
Northern Ireland Jonny Steele Ottawa Fury
Brazil Fernando Timbó Ottawa Fury
Israel Idan Vered Ottawa Fury

References

  1. ↑ "2016 Amway Canadian Championship schedule announced". canadasoccer.com. Canadian Soccer Association. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
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