2022 Canadian Championship

2022 Canadian Championship

Championnat Canadien 2022
Tournament details
Country	Canada
Date	May 10 – July 26, 2022
Teams	13 (from 4 leagues)
Final positions
Champions	Vancouver Whitecaps FC (2nd title)
Runner-up	Toronto FC
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	32 (2.67 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Myer Bevan Sunusi Ibrahim Brian White (3 goals each)
George Gross Memorial Trophy	Ryan Gauld
Best young player	Ryan Raposo
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The 2022 Canadian Championship was the fifteenth edition of Canada's national soccer cup tournament, awarding the Voyageurs Cup. It took place from May 10 to July 26, 2022. The winners of the tournament, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and earned a berth in the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.^[1]

Format

The competition followed a similar format to the 2021 edition with ten teams starting in the preliminary round and three teams receiving byes to the quarter-finals.^[1] CF Montréal and Toronto FC received byes for being the finalists of the 2021 tournament and Pacific FC received a bye for winning the 2021 Canadian Premier League season.^[2] Each tie of the four round tournament was played as a single-leg fixture.

Distribution

Distribution of teams for 2022 Canadian Championship

Round	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (10 teams)	1 champion of 2021 League1 Ontario season 1 champion of 2021 Première ligue de soccer du Québec season 7 Canadian Premier League teams 1 Major League Soccer team
Quarter-finals (8 teams)	1 winner of the 2021 Canadian Premier League season 2 finalists of the 2021 Canadian Championship	5 winners from the preliminary round
Semi-finals (4 teams)		4 winners from the quarter-finals
Final (2 teams)		2 winners from the semi-finals

Qualified clubs

Qualification to the Canadian Championship for 2022 was automatic for Canadian teams within Major League Soccer and for all teams within the Canadian Premier League, Canada's tier-one national league. The champions from Canada's two regional pro-am leagues (League1 Ontario and PLSQ) also qualified.^[1]

Club	Location	League	Round of entry	Previous best	Prior appearances
Atlético Ottawa	Ottawa, Ontario	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Preliminary round: 1	1
Cavalry FC	Foothills County, Alberta	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Semi-finals: 1	2
FC Edmonton	Edmonton, Alberta	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Semi-finals: 5	9
Forge FC	Hamilton, Ontario	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Runner-up: 1	3
Guelph United FC	Guelph, Ontario	League1 Ontario	Preliminary round	first appearance	0
HFX Wanderers FC	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Quarter-finals: 1	2
CF Montréal	Montreal, Quebec	Major League Soccer	Quarter-finals	Champions: 5	13
CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Mount Royal, Quebec	Québec Premier League	Preliminary round	first appearance	0
Pacific FC	Langford, British Columbia	Canadian Premier League	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals: 1	2
Toronto FC	Toronto, Ontario	Major League Soccer	Quarter-finals	Champions: 8	14
Valour FC	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Quarter-finals: 1	2
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Vancouver, British Columbia	Major League Soccer	Preliminary round	Champions: 1	13
York United FC	Toronto, Ontario	Canadian Premier League	Preliminary round	Quarter-finals: 1	2

Note

• Statistics include previous incarnations of FC Edmonton, Montreal Impact, and Vancouver Whitecaps
• Results from the 2020 Canadian Championship are included for Toronto FC and Forge FC even though the championship was played after the start of the 2022 edition

Schedule and draw

Teams were divided into four geographical pots for the draw. In the preliminary round, teams in pot 1 were drawn with teams in pot 1 while teams in pot 2 were drawn with a team in pot 2 or pot 3.^[3] For the quarter-finals, the winners from pot 1 faced off while the winners from pot 2 and 3 were drawn against teams from pot 4. The draw also determined hosting rights for all four rounds.^[4]

Pot 1 (West)	Pot 2 (East)	Pot 3 (East)	Pot 4 (Bye)
Vancouver Whitecaps FC Cavalry FC FC Edmonton Valour FC	Forge FC York United FC Atlético Ottawa HFX Wanderers FC	Guelph United F.C. CS Mont-Royal Outremont	Pacific FC Toronto FC CF Montréal

Schedule

Round	Date
First round	May 10–11
Quarter-finals	May 24–25
Semi-finals	June 21
Final	July 26

Bracket

The draw for the Canadian Championship was streamed live on OneSoccer on March 9, 2022.^[5][4]

Preliminary round May 10–11

Quarter-finals May 24–25

Semi-finals June 22

Final July 26

Foothills County, AB

Cavalry FC

2

Foothills County, AB

FC Edmonton

1

Cavalry FC

1 (3)

Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Whitecaps FC (p)

1 (5)

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

2

Vancouver, BC

Valour FC

0

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

2

York United

1

Langford, BC

Pacific FC

2 (3)

Ottawa, ON

York United (p)

2 (4)

Atlético Ottawa

1 (6)

Vancouver, BC

York United (p)

1 (7)

Vancouver Whitecaps FC (p)

1 (5)

Guelph, ON

Toronto FC

1 (3)

Guelph United

0

Halifax, NS

HFX Wanderers

2

HFX Wanderers

1

Toronto FC

2

Toronto, ON

Toronto FC

4

CF Montréal

0

Montreal, QC

CF Montréal

3

Hamilton, ON

Forge FC

0

Forge FC

2

Mont-Royal Outremont

0

Preliminary round

Summary

The preliminary round matches were played on May 10 and 11, 2022.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Guelph United	0–2	HFX Wanderers FC
Atlético Ottawa	1–1 (6–7 p)	York United
Cavalry FC	2–1	FC Edmonton
Forge FC	2–0	Mont-Royal Outremont
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	2–0	Valour FC

Matches

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Quarter-finals

Summary

The quarter-final matches were played on May 24 and 25, 2022.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cavalry FC	1–1 (3–5 p)	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Pacific FC	2–2 (3–4 p)	York United
CF Montréal	3–0	Forge FC
HFX Wanderers	1–2	Toronto FC

Matches

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Semi-finals

Summary

The semi-final matches were played on June 22, 2022.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	2–1	York United
Toronto FC	4–0	CF Montréal

Matches

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Final

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	By round
				PR	QF	SF	F
1	Myer Bevan	Cavalry FC	3	2	1
	Sunusi Ibrahim	CF Montréal			3
	Brian White	Vancouver Whitecaps FC				2	1
4	Ayo Akinola	Toronto FC	2			2
	Amer Đidić	Pacific FC			2

Awards

• George Gross Memorial Trophy: Ryan Gauld (Vancouver Whitecaps FC)^[6]
• Best Young Canadian Player Award: Ryan Raposo (Vancouver Whitecaps FC)^[6]

Discipline

Cautions

Rank	Player	Team	Cautions	By round
				PR	QF	SF	F
1	Alessandro Hojabrpour	Forge FC	2	1	1
	Chrisnovic N'sa	York United FC		1	1	YCA
	Aboubacar Sissoko	Forge FC		1	1
	Cédric Toussaint	York United FC		1		1
	Charlie Trafford	Cavalry FC		1	1
6	Ayo Akinola	Toronto FC	1		1
	Michael Bradley	Toronto FC					1
	Javain Brown	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Michael Baldisimo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Sebastian Berhalter	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Zachary Brault-Guillard	CF Montréal			1
	Rudy Camacho	CF Montréal				1
	Lucas Cavallini	Vancouver Whitecaps FC		1
	Nikolaos Giantsopoulos	York United FC			1
	Sebastián Gutiérrez	York United FC			1
	Mateo Hernández	York United FC			1
	Isaiah Johnston	York United FC			1
	Matko Miljevic	CF Montréal				1
	Shane O'Neill	Toronto FC			1
	Ralph Priso-Mbongue	Toronto FC			1
	Joaquín Torres	CF Montréal				1
	Noah Verhoeven	York United FC			1
	Ranko Veselinović	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Jordan Wilson	York United FC		1
	Dominick Zator	York United FC			1

Note: Players receive a one-match ban for yellow card accumulation based on two cautions in Canadian Championship.

Sending offs

No.	Date	Player	Club	Offense
1	May 10	Camilo Benzi[a]	York United FC	Violent conduct

References