Canadian Championship 2014

Canadian Championship 2014
Amway Canadian Championship 2014
winner	Montreal Impact (3rd title)
venue	Canada
Opening game	April 23, 2014
Endgame	4th June 2014
Games	8th
Gates	22  (⌀: 2.75 per game)
spectator	91,937  (⌀: 11,492 per game)
Top scorer	Jack McInerney (3 goals)
Best player	Justin Mapp
yellow cards	32  (⌀: 4 per game)
Yellow-red cards	0
Red cards	0

The Canadian Championship 2014 (officially: Amway Canadian Championship ) was a soccer tournament which was organized by the Canadian Soccer Association and was used to determine the Canadian participants in the CONCACAF Champions League 2014/15 .

The field of participants consisted of the Canadian clubs Toronto FC , Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact from Major League Soccer and FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury , which played in the North American Soccer League , which are participating in professional game operations in North America .

The tournament was played in knockout mode with semi-finals and finals. Three of the semi-final places were awarded to the teams from the MLS. The fourth place in the semifinals was played in a qualifier between Ottawa Fury and FC Edmonton. The matches were played back and forth, with the better seeded team having home rights in the second leg or in the final, in which of the two games it wanted to exercise home rights.

The first leg of the qualification took place on April 24, 2014, the semi-finals were on May 7 and 14. The finals were played on May 28th and June 4th.

Tournament course

qualification							Semifinals							final
							3	Toronto FC	2	1	3 (5)
							2	Vancouver Whitecaps	1	2	3 (3)
															Toronto FC	1	0	1
	Ottawa Fury	0	1	1											Montreal Impact	1	1	2
	Edmonton FC	0	3	3			4th	Edmonton FC	2	2	4th
							1	Montreal Impact	1	4th	5

Qualifying round

First leg

April 23, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Ottawa Fury	0-0	Edmonton FC	Keith Harris Stadium , Ottawa Spectators: 2,411 Umpire: Geoff Gamble
	Beckie 33 ′ Dantas 51 ′ Davies 70 ′ Mayard 80 ′	report	Edward 28 ′ Ameobi 72 ′

Return leg

April 30, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Edmonton FC	3: 1	Ottawa Fury	Clarke Stadium , Edmonton Spectators: 2,001 Referee: Drew Fisher
	Edward 24 ′ Fordyce 30 ′ 61 ′ 62 ′ Jones 34 ′ Boakai 48 ′	report	Ryan 40 ′ Dantas 90 ′

Semifinals

First leg

May 7, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Edmonton FC	2: 1	Montreal Impact	Clarke Stadium , Edmonton Spectators: 1,946 Referee: Silviu Petrescu
	Jones 45 ′ Moses 55 ′ Ameobi 60 ′ Nonni 90 ′	report	Camara 41 ′ McInerney 56 ′ Pearce 82 ′

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May 7, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Toronto FC	2: 1	Vancouver Whitecaps	BMO Field , Toronto Spectators: 22,591 Referee: Mathieu Bourdeau
	Defoe 28 ′ Bradley 28 ′ 89 ′ De Rosario 90 ′	report	Mitchell 48 ′ Reo-Coker 60 ′ Manneh 90 ′ 90 ′

Return leg

May 14, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Vancouver Whitecaps	2: 1 a.d.	Toronto FC	BC Place , Vancouver Spectators: 18,470 Referee: David Gantar
	Mitchell 16 ′ Hurtado 43 ′ Salgado 78 ′ Morales 86 ′	report	Henry 4 ′ 58 ′ Bekker 16 ′ Orr 89 ′ Bloom 90 + 2 ′

		penalties shoot
	Laba Manneh Fernández Teibert	3: 5	Orr Moore De Rosario Bradley Nakajima-Farran

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May 14, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Montreal Impact	4: 2	Edmonton FC	Stade Saputo , Montreal Spectators: 12,826 Referee: Drew Fisher
	McInerney 10 ′ 17 ′ Brovsky 47 ′ Bernier 90 + 7 ′ ( penalty kick )	report	Edward 45 + 3 ′ Jonke 67 ′ 70 ′ ( penalty ) Boakai 79 ′ Hlavaty 90 + 6 ′

final

First leg

May 28, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Toronto FC	1: 1	Montreal Impact	BMO Field , Toronto Spectators: 18,269 Referee: Silviu Petrescu
	Henry 20 ′ Rey 35 ′	report	Map 73 ′ Lefèvre 85 ′

Return leg

June 4, 2014 7:30 p.m. (local time)	Montreal Impact	1-0	Toronto FC	Stade Saputo , Montreal Spectators: 13,423 Referee: David Gantar
	Bernardello 4 ′ Felipe 90 + 1 ′ 90 + 2 ′	report

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2014 Amway Canadian Championship schedule announced . Retrieved December 6, 2013.