2016 Canadian Championship

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2016 Canadian Championship
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Tournament details
Country Canada
Dates May 11 – June 29, 2016
Teams 5
Final positions
Champions Toronto FC (5th title)
Runner-up Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Tournament statistics
Matches played 8
Goals scored 20 (2.5 per match)
Attendance 114,360 (14,295 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Jordan Hamilton
Nicolás Mezquida
Jonathan Osorio
(2 goals each)
George Gross Memorial Trophy Benoît Cheyrou
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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.[1] Toronto FC went on to win the 2017 edition, however, and qualified without the need for a playoff.

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.[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.

  Preliminary round     Semifinals     Final
                           
        3  Toronto FC    
          2  Montreal Impact      
              3  Toronto FC (a)  
      1  Vancouver Whitecaps FC  
        4  Ottawa Fury FC      
        1  Vancouver Whitecaps FC    

Matches

Preliminary round

First leg

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

Second leg

May 18, 2016
19:30 EDT (UTC−4)
Ottawa Fury FC 0–2 FC Edmonton
Steele Booked 54'
Bailey Booked 55'
Timbó Booked 90+1'
Report Diakite Booked 15'
Corea Goal 26'
Watson Booked 38'
Eckersley Goal 45'
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)
Ottawa Fury FC 2–0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC

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

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

Second leg

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.


Toronto won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

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

Second leg

June 29, 2016
10:00PM ET
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2–1 Toronto FC
Waston Booked 32'
Mezquida Goal 47'
Manneh Booked 62'
Parker Goal 68'
Report Johnson Goal 90+5'
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
Jordan Hamilton  CAN Toronto FC
Nicolás Mezquida  URU Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4 Dustin Corea  SLV FC Edmonton 1
Didier Drogba  CIV Montreal Impact
Adam Eckersley  ENG FC Edmonton
Sebastian Giovinco  ITA Toronto FC
Carl Haworth  CAN Ottawa Fury
Will Johnson  CAN Toronto FC
Pedro Morales  CHI Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Tim Parker  USA Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Paulo Jr.  BRA Ottawa Fury
Octavio Rivero  URU Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Michael Salazar  BLZ Montreal Impact
Jonny Steele  NIR Ottawa Fury
Fernando Timbó  BRA Ottawa Fury
Idan Vered  ISR Ottawa Fury

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