2016 Canadian Championship

2016 Canadian Championship
2016 Amway Canadian Championship (in English); Championnat Canadien Amway 2016 (in French)
Tournament details
Country	Canada
Dates	May 11 – June 29, 2016
Teams	5
Final positions
Champions	Toronto FC (5th title)
Runners-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)
Awards
George Gross Memorial Trophy	Benoît Cheyrou
	← 2015 2017 →

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	4	0	4

				2	Montreal Impact	2	0	2



									3	Toronto FC (a)	1	1	2

									1	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	0	2	2
FC Edmonton	0	2	2

Ottawa Fury FC	3	0	3
				4	Ottawa Fury FC	2	0	2

				1	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	0	3	3

Matches

Preliminary round

First leg

May 11, 2016

19:00 MDT (UTC-6)

FC Edmonton	0–3	Ottawa Fury FC
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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
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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
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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
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BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario

Attendance: 22,143

Referee: David Gantar

Second leg

June 8, 2016

19:00 PDT (UTC-7)

Vancouver Whitecaps FC	3–0	Ottawa Fury FC
Morales File:Soccerball shade.svg 3' (pen.) Mezquida File:Soccerball shade.svg 20' Rivero File:Soccerball shade.svg 52' Parker 67'	Report	Alves 2' de Guzman 73'

BC Place, Vancouver, British Columbia

Attendance: 17,863

Referee: Geoff Gamble

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

First leg

June 21, 2016

Toronto FC	1–0	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Giovinco File:Soccerball shade.svg 43'	Report	Bolaños 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 32' Mezquida File:Soccerball shade.svg 47' Manneh 62' Parker File:Soccerball shade.svg 68'	Report	Johnson File:Soccerball shade.svg 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	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN	Toronto FC	2
	Jordan Hamilton	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN	Toronto FC
	Nicolás Mezquida	File:Flag of Uruguay.svg URU	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4	Dustin Corea	File:Flag of El Salvador.svg SLV	FC Edmonton	1
	Didier Drogba	File:Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg CIV	Montreal Impact
	Adam Eckersley	ENG	FC Edmonton
	Sebastian Giovinco	ITA	Toronto FC
	Carl Haworth	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN	Ottawa Fury
	Will Johnson	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN	Toronto FC
	Pedro Morales	CHI	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Tim Parker	Error creating thumbnail: USA	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Paulo Jr.	File:Flag of Brazil.svg BRA	Ottawa Fury
	Octavio Rivero	File:Flag of Uruguay.svg URU	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Michael Salazar	File:Flag of Belize.svg BLZ	Montreal Impact
	Jonny Steele	File:Ulster Banner.svg NIR	Ottawa Fury
	Fernando Timbó	File:Flag of Brazil.svg BRA	Ottawa Fury
	Idan Vered	File:Flag of Israel.svg ISR	Ottawa Fury

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2016 Canadian Championship

Contents

Tournament bracket