Canadian Championship 2011

Canadian Championship 2011
Nutrilite Canadian Championship 2011
winner	Toronto FC (3rd title)
venue	Canada
Games	6th
Gates	12  (⌀: 2 per game)
Top scorer	Maicon Santos (3 goals)
Best player	Joao Plata

The Canadian Championship 2011 (officially: Nutrilite Canadian Championship) is a soccer tournament, which is organized by the Canadian Soccer Association and serves to determine the Canadian participants in the CONCACAF Champions League 2011/12 .

The field of participants consists of the Canadian clubs Toronto FC , which take part in professional game operations in North America, and the Vancouver Whitecaps from Major League Soccer, as well as FC Edmonton and Montreal Impact , which play in the North American Soccer League .

Due to the first participation of FC Edmonton and the associated increase in the field to four teams, the mode will be changed. The tournament is to be played in knockout mode with semi-finals and finals. The winner of the previous year seeded at 1 meets the newcomer seeded at 4. The matches are played as a return game, the better seeded team has home rights in the return leg or in the final can choose in which of the two games it would like to exercise home rights.

The first legs of the semi-finals will take place on April 27, the second legs on May 4. The finals will take place on May 18th and July 2nd.

Tournament course

	Semifinals							final
	1	Montreal Impact	0	1	1
	4th	Vancouver Whitecaps	1	1 a.d.	2
									Vancouver Whitecaps	1	1	2
									Toronto FC	1	2	3
	2	Edmonton FC	0	0	0
	3	Toronto FC	3	1	4th

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association announces title partner for new Nutrilite Canadian Championship . May 23, 2008. Archived from the original on June 21, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 17, 2010. 
2. ↑ Association Confirms 2011 Nutrilite Canadian Championship schedule , canadasoccer.com. February 18, 2011. Archived from the original on February 28, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 19, 2011.  
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