2015 Canadian Championship

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2015 Canadian Championship
2015 Amway Canadian Championship (in English)
Championnat Canadien Amway 2015 (in French)
Tournament details
CountryCanada
DatesApril 22 – August 26, 2015
Teams5
Final positions
Champions Vancouver Whitecaps FC (1st title)
Runner-up Montreal Impact
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Goals scored25 (3.13 per match)
Attendance88,844 (11,106 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Tomi Ameobi (4 goals)
Awards
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.

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The winner, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and qualified for 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

TeamLeaguePositionAppearance
Vancouver Whitecaps FC MLS 9th8th
Toronto FC MLS 13th8th
Montreal Impact MLS 19th8th
Ottawa Fury FC NASL 6th1st
FC Edmonton NASL 9th5th

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
                
4
FC Edmonton [a] 		112
1
Vancouver Whitecaps FC [a] 		123
FC Edmonton 336
Ottawa Fury FC 112
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 224
Montreal Impact 202
2
Toronto FC 		033
3
Montreal Impact (a)		123
  1. 1 2 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

Ottawa Fury FC 1–3 FC Edmonton
Oliver Soccerball shade.svg1' Report Fordyce Soccerball shade.svg83'
Laing Soccerball shade.svg87'
Ameobi Soccerball shade.svg90+4'
TD Place Stadium, Ottawa, Ontario
Attendance: 2,402
Referee: Geoff Gamble
FC Edmonton 3–1 Ottawa Fury FC
Ameobi Soccerball shade.svg9'
Nyassi Soccerball shade.svg15'
Fordyce Soccerball shade.svg81' (pen.)		 Report Wiedeman Soccerball shade.svg32'
Clarke Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
Attendance: 1,858
Referee: Drew Fischer

FC Edmonton won 6–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Montreal Impact 1–0 Toronto FC
McInerney Soccerball shade.svg68' Report
Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Attendance: 12,518
Referee: Silviu Petrescu
Toronto FC 3–2 Montreal Impact
Altidore Soccerball shade.svg22'
Cheyrou Soccerball shade.svg56'
Giovinco Soccerball shade.svg58'		 Report Cooper Soccerball shade.svg25'
Oduro Soccerball shade.svg84'
BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 21,069 [4]
Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau

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

FC Edmonton 1–2 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Ameobi Soccerball shade.svg90+1' (pen.) Report Morales Soccerball shade.svg9' (pen.)
Laba Soccerball shade.svg90+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

Vancouver won 4–2 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Flag of England.svg Tomi Ameobi FC Edmonton 4
2 Ulster Banner.svg Daryl Fordyce FC Edmonton 2
Flag of Chile.svg Pedro Morales Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4 Flag of the United States.svg Jozy Altidore Toronto FC 1
Flag of France.svg Benoît Cheyrou Toronto FC
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Laurent Ciman Montreal Impact
Flag of the United States.svg Kenny Cooper Montreal Impact
Flag of Italy.svg Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Anthony Jackson-Hamel Montreal Impact
Flag of Ghana.svg Gershon Koffie Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Flag of Argentina.svg Matías Laba Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Flag of Jamaica.svg Lance Laing FC Edmonton
Flag of Jamaica.svg Darren Mattocks Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Flag of the United States.svg Jack McInerney Montreal Impact
Flag of The Gambia.svg Sainey Nyassi FC Edmonton
Flag of Ghana.svg Dominic Oduro Montreal Impact
Flag of Brazil.svg Oliver Ottawa Fury FC
Flag of the United States.svg Tim Parker Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Flag of Uruguay.svg Octavio Rivero Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Flag of the United States.svg Andrew Wiedeman Ottawa Fury FC

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Schedule for 2015 Amway Canadian Championship set" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. February 4, 2015. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Canada Soccer announces move to new time-frame for future Amway Canadian Championships" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. March 21, 2014. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Canada Soccer confirms Amway Canadian Championship kick off times" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Match Timeline". mlssoccer.com. Soccer United Marketing LLC. May 13, 2015. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Eddies Fall Short 2-1 In Dramatic ACC Semifinal Thriller". fcedmonton.com. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Storify: Snowed out in Edmonton". Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
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