2024 Canadian Premier League final

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2024 Canadian Premier League final
Event 2024 Canadian Premier League season
Cavalry FC Forge FC
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Date November 9, 2024
Venue ATCO Field, Foothills County, Alberta
Man of the Match Tobias Warschewski
Referee Renzo Villanueva
Attendance 7,052
Weather Cloudy
4 °C (39 °F)
65% humidity[1]
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The 2024 Canadian Premier League final was the sixth edition of the CPL Finals, the post-season championship of the Canadian Premier League, the top level of Canadian soccer, which determined the winner of the 2024 Canadian Premier League season. It was played on November 9, 2024 at ATCO Field in Foothills County, Alberta between Cavalry FC and Forge FC. The 2024 final was a rematch of the 2023 final which was hosted and won by Forge FC.[2]

Cavalry defeated Forge 2–1 to win their first CPL title. Tobias Warschewski and Sergio Camargo scored first half goals to give Cavalry a 2–0 half-time lead; Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson responded for Forge in the second half. Following the match, Warschewski was named the inaugural CPL Final MVP. Cavalry was awarded the North Star Cup as CPL champion and earned a spot in the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup.[3]

Path to the final

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Main article: 2024 Canadian Premier League season

The 2024 CPL season was contested by eight teams. Each team played four games against each of the seven opponents for a total of 28 matches. The top-five teams from the regular season qualified for the playoffs which begin on October 23. The playoffs featured a Page playoff format where teams entered in different rounds depending on their finishing position. All matches in the playoffs were played as single legs. The finals were contested by the winner of the playoffs' first semifinal and the winner of the second semifinal.[4][5]

Regular season standings

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Notes

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Playoff bracket

Play-in round First semifinal Second semifinal Final
October 27 November 9
1 Forge FC 0 2 Cavalry FC 2
2 Cavalry FC 1 November 2 1 Forge FC 1
1 Forge FC 1
Quarterfinal 3 Atlético Ottawa 0
October 27
October 23 3 Atlético Ottawa (p) 2 (5)
4 York United 2 4 York United 2 (4)
5 Pacific FC 0

Background

Cavalry FC

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Further information: 2024 Cavalry FC season

Cavalry reached the CPL final for third time in six seasons.

Forge FC

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Further information: 2024 Forge FC season

Forge qualified for the CPL playoffs on September 21[6] and clinched first place and the top seed in the playoffs on October 6.[7]

Following a 1–0 win against Atlético Ottawa on November 2, Forge FC qualified for a record-extending sixth consecutive CPL final. Forge attempted to win their fifth CPL championship and tried to become the first CPL team to win the double by winning the CPL Shield and the North Star Cup in the same season.

Head-to-head

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Further information: Cavalry FC–Forge FC rivalry

The 2024 CPL final was the sixth meeting of the season between these two teams and the twenty-sixth overall. Forge had the advantage in the 2024 regular season against Cavalry, leading the head-to-head with two wins, one draw, and one loss and finishing two points ahead in the standings. This was the second consecutive CPL final between Cavalry and Forge and the third overall. The previous occurrences in 2019 and 2023 were both won by Forge FC.

As the top-two teams in regular season, Forge hosted Cavalry in the first semifinal which was a non-elimination game. Cavalry won the game and earned the right to host the CPL final while Forge qualified to the second semifinal as losers. The match was the 29th of 31 games between the teams that was decided by one goal or fewer.[8]

Venue

ATCO Field in Foothills County, Alberta, home of Cavalry FC, was the host stadium for the final.[9] This was determined by the outcome of the playoffs' first semifinal on October 27 between regular season winner Forge FC and second seed Cavalry FC;[4][5] Cavalry won the match 1–0.[9] ATCO Field has previously hosted the second leg of the 2019 Canadian Premier League finals.

Broadcasting

The CPL final continued to be broadcast on OneSoccer. On October 9, the CPL and CBC jointly announced that the CBC would also broadcast the final for the first time since 2020 on its platforms CBC TV, CBC Gem, and cbcsports.ca.[10][11]

Pre-match

As part of its broadcasting announcement, the CPL announced that the final would be played on November 9 at 3:00 pm ET.[10][11] The CPL confirmed the date and time following Cavalry's win in the first semifinal.[9]

Associated with the final, the annual Canadian Premier League Awards took place on November 7 in Calgary.[9][12] Matchday will feature a "FanFest" headlined by singer Lu Kala.[9][12]

Match

November 9
1:00 pm MST (UTC−7)
Cavalry FC v Forge FC
https://canpl.ca/matchcentre/1rd71ovtw8pu2pji0ce56i5g4/highlights
ATCO Field
Attendance: 7,052
Referee: Renzo Villanueva


Cavalry
Forge
GK 1 Canada Marco Carducci (c)
RB 33 Canada Fraser Aird Substituted off 82'
CB 4 Netherlands Daan Klomp Booked 90+4'
CB 3 Canada Callum Montgomery
LB 5 France Bradley Kamdem
CM 26 Canada Shamit Shome
CM 27 Canada Diego Gutiérrez Booked 51'
RW 7 Somalia Ali Musse
AM 10 Canada Sergio Camargo Substituted off 58'
LW 11 New Zealand Jay Herdman Substituted off 71'
CF 9 Germany Tobias Warschewski Booked 40' Substituted off 82'
Substitutes:
GK 31 Canada Joseph Holliday
MF 6 Canada Charlie Trafford Substituted in 71'
DF 12 Republic of Ireland Tom Field
FW 14 Trinidad and Tobago Malcolm Shaw Booked 74' Substituted in 58'
FW 17 Germany Nicolas Wähling
MF 24 Canada Eryk Kobza Substituted in 82'
FW 80 Canada Lowell Wright Substituted in 82'
Manager:
England Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
GK 16 Czech Republic Jassem Koleilat
RB 2 Canada Malcolm Duncan Substituted off 81'
CB 13 Sweden Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson
CB 4 Canada Dominic Samuel
LB 81 England Malik Owolabi-Belewu
CM 10 Canada Kyle Bekker (c)
CM 21 Canada Alessandro Hojabrpour
RM 7 Canada David Choinière
AM 22 Canada Noah Jensen Substituted off 69'
LM 11 Ghana Nana Ampomah Substituted off 30'
CF 39 Belgium Béni Badibanga Booked 47'
Substitutes:
GK 29 Canada Christopher Kalongo
FW 9 Canada Jordan Hamilton
FW 14 Canada Terran Campbell Substituted in 81'
DF 17 Mexico Daniel Parra Substituted in 69'
FW 19 Canada Tristan Borges Booked 88' Substituted in 30'
MF 26 Cuba Orlendis Benítez
MF 64 Canada Khadim Kane
Manager:
Canada Bobby Smyrniotis

CPL Final MVP:
Tobias Warschewski (Cavalry FC)[13]

Assistant referees:
Marie-Han Gagnon-Chretien
Graham Forsyth
Fourth official:
Yusri Rudolf

Match rules

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if score still level
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time

Post-match

Following the match, Cavalry was awarded the North Star Cup and crowned CPL champions, while striker Tobias Warschewski was named the CPL Final MVP.[13][14] Although the CPL champion team is awarded a spot in the next year's CONCACAF Champions Cup,[4][10] Cavalry had already qualified for the 2025 edition as a result of both them and Forge qualifying for the final.[15][lower-alpha 1] Cavalry and Forge faced Pumas UNAM and Monterrey respectively in round one of the Champions Cup; neither club advanced to the competition's round of 16.[17][18]

See also

Notes

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References

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