2015 Canadian Championship
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.
| 2015 Amway Canadian Championship (in English) Championnat Canadien Amway 2015 (in French) | |
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Dates | April 22 – August 26, 2015 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Champions | Vancouver Whitecaps FC (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Montreal Impact |
| Matches played | 8 |
| Goals scored | 25 (3.13 per match) |
| Attendance | 88,844 (11,106 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | Tomi Ameobi (4 goals) |
| George Gross Memorial Trophy | Russell Teibert |
← 2014 2016 → | |
The winner, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and will become Canada's entry into 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]
Matches
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 | |||||
| FC Edmonton | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa Fury FC | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 1 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | FC Edmonton | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | Montreal Impact | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| 2 | Toronto FC | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 3 | Montreal Impact (a) | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
First leg
| Ottawa Fury FC | 1–3 | FC Edmonton |
|---|---|---|
Oliver  1'Alves  28' |
Report | Jones 76' Fordyce 83'Laing 87'Ameobi 90+4' |
Second leg
| FC Edmonton | 3–1 | Ottawa Fury FC |
|---|---|---|
| Ameobi 9' Nyassi 15'Watson 56'Fordyce 81' (pen.) |
Report | Wiedeman 32' Beckie 66' |
Edmonton won 6–2 on aggregate.
First leg
| Montreal Impact | 1–0 | Toronto FC |
|---|---|---|
| Lefevre 30' McInerney 68'Bernier 78' |
Report |
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 1–1 | FC Edmonton |
|---|---|---|
| Flores 51' Koffie 59' 87' |
Report | Ameobi 4' Smith 26' |
Second leg
| Toronto FC | 3–2 | Montreal Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Altidore 22' Cheyrou 56'Giovinco 58' 73' |
Report | Oduro 16' 84' Cooper 25'Bernier 63'Kronberg 90+5' |
3–3 on aggregate. Montreal Impact won on away goals.
| FC Edmonton | 1–2 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |
|---|---|---|
| Van Oekel 8' Granitto 38'Ameobi 90+1' (pen.)Edward 90+6' |
Report | Morales 9' (pen.) Mezquida 19'Mattocks 60'Sampson 70'Dean 73'Laba 90+7' |
Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate
- ^ Edmonton had originally been scheduled to host the first leg of their semi-final against Vancouver in Edmonton on May 6, 2015 but the match was postponed due to snow.
First leg
| Montreal Impact | 2–2 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |
|---|---|---|
| Ciman 84' Jackson-Hamel 85' |
Report | Waston 19' Mattocks 65'Morales 72'Tornaghi 90+1' |
Second leg
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 2–0 | Montreal Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Rivero 40' Parker 53' |
Report | Cabrera 22'  30'Ciman 23'Oduro |
Vancouver won 4–2 on aggregate
Goalscorers
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References
- "Schedule for 2015 Amway Canadian Championship set" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. February 4, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- "Canada Soccer announces move to new time-frame for future Amway Canadian Championships" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. March 21, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- "Canada Soccer confirms Amway Canadian Championship kick off times" (Press release). Canadian Soccer Association. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- "Match Timeline". mlssoccer.com. Soccer United Marketing LLC. May 13, 2015.
- "Match Timeline". mlssoccer.com. Soccer United Marketing LLC. May 13, 2015. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015.
- "Storify: Snowed out in Edmonton". Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- "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.