2016 Canadian Championship

2016 Canadian Championship

2016 Amway Canadian Championship (English) Championnat Canadien Amway 2016 (French)
Country	Canada
Dates	11 April – 29 June 2015
Teams	5
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The 2016 Canadian Championship (officially the Amway Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association. It is the ninth edition of the annual Canadian Championship, and will take place in the cities of Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2016. The participating teams will be 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 are the reigning champions; having won their first title in the 2015 competition.

The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and will become Canada's sole entry into the Group Stage of the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.

Tournament Bracket

The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs have been 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.^[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 plays at home, usually the second leg. The team which scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. As previous years, the team that comes on top on aggregate for the two matches is declared champion and earns the right to represent Canada in the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.

Each series is a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.

Matches

Preliminary Round

Semifinals

Final

References