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
ChampionsVancouver Whitecaps FC (1st title)
Runners-upMontreal Impact
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Goals scored25 (3.13 per match)
Attendance88,844 (11,106 per match)
Top goal scorerTomi Ameobi (4 goals)
Awards
George Gross Memorial TrophyRussell 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 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

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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

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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 roundSemifinalsFinal
                
4
FC Edmonton[a]		112
1
Vancouver Whitecaps FC[a]		123
FC Edmonton336
Ottawa Fury FC112
Vancouver Whitecaps FC224
Montreal Impact202
2
Toronto FC		033
3
Montreal Impact (a)		123
  1. ^ a b 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

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Preliminary round

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Ottawa Fury FC1–3FC Edmonton
Oliver File:Soccerball shade.svg 1' Report Fordyce File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'
Laing File:Soccerball shade.svg 87'
Ameobi File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+4'
Attendance: 2,402
Referee: Geoff Gamble
FC Edmonton3–1Ottawa Fury FC
Ameobi File:Soccerball shade.svg 9'
Nyassi File:Soccerball shade.svg 15'
Fordyce File:Soccerball shade.svg 81' (pen.)		 Report Wiedeman File:Soccerball shade.svg 32'
Attendance: 1,858
Referee: Drew Fischer

FC Edmonton won 6–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

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

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

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    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

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Montreal Impact2–2Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Ciman File:Soccerball shade.svg 84'
Jackson-Hamel File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'		 Report Mattocks File:Soccerball shade.svg 65'
Morales File:Soccerball shade.svg 72'
Attendance: 12,395
Referee: David Gantar
Vancouver Whitecaps FC2–0Montreal Impact
Rivero File:Soccerball shade.svg 40'
Parker File:Soccerball shade.svg 53'		 Report
Attendance: 19,616

Vancouver won 4–2 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

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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 Error creating thumbnail: Jozy Altidore Toronto FC 1
France Benoît Cheyrou Toronto FC
Belgium Laurent Ciman Montreal Impact
Error creating thumbnail: 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
Error creating thumbnail: Jack McInerney Montreal Impact
The Gambia Sainey Nyassi FC Edmonton
Ghana Dominic Oduro Montreal Impact
Brazil Oliver Ottawa Fury FC
Error creating thumbnail: Tim Parker Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Uruguay Octavio Rivero Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Error creating thumbnail: Andrew Wiedeman Ottawa Fury FC

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