The 2014 Canadian Championship (officially the Amway Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association that took place in the cities of Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2014. For the first time in the history of the tournament, the Ottawa Fury FC participated in addition to FC Edmonton, Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The winner, Montreal Impact, was awarded the Voyageurs Cup and became Canada's entry into the Group stage of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League. It was the seventh edition of the annual Canadian Championship.
Matches
Bracket
The three Major League Soccer Canadian clubs are seeded according to their final position in 2013 league play. The fourth seed was allocated to the winner of the preliminary round between the participating NASL clubs.
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. As in previous years, the team that came on top on aggregate for the two matches, Montreal Impact, was declared champion and earned the right to represent Canada in the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League.
Each round is a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.
Preliminary Round
FC Edmonton won 3–1 on aggregate.
Semifinals
Montreal Impact won 5–4 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate, Toronto FC won 5–3 on penalties.
Final
First leg
Second leg
GK 30 Evan Bush RB 6 Hassoun CamaraCB 44 Heath Pearce CB 34 Karl OuimetteLB 55 Wandrille Lefevre MF 15 Andrés Romero MF 23 Hernán Bernardello MF 21 Justin Mapp MF 8 Patrice Bernier (c)FW 99 Jack McInerney FW 9 Marco Di VaioSubstitutes:GK 1 Troy PerkinsDF 26 Adrián LópezDF 13 Matteo Ferrari DF 17 Maxim Tissot MF 51 Calum Mallace MF 16 Felipe FW 7 Santiago GonzálezManager: Frank Klopas GK 12 Joe BendikDF 15 Doneil HenryDF 2 Justin MorrowDF 28 Mark BloomDF 13 Steven Caldwell (c) MF 35 Daniel Lovitz MF 25 Jeremy Hall MF 8 Kyle BekkerMF 23 Álvaro Rey FW 18 Jermain Defoe FW 27 Luke MooreSubstitutes:GK 1 Chris KonopkaDF 5 Ashtone Morgan MF 17 Nick HagglundMF 14 Dwayne De Rosario MF 21 Jonathan Osorio FW 32 Andrew WiedemanFW 9 Gilberto Manager: Ryan Nelsen George Gross Memorial Trophy: Justin Mapp (Montreal Impact) Assistant referees: Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho Richard Gamache Fourth official: Justin TasevMatch rules Home and away 90 minutes match. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions.
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Jack McInerneyMontreal Impact32 Frank JonkeFC Edmonton2 Daryl FordyceFC Edmonton Doneil HenryToronto FC5 Hanson BoakaiFC Edmonton1 Tomi AmeobiFC Edmonton Michael NonniFC Edmonton Jeb BrovskyMontreal Impact Patrice BernierMontreal Impact Justin MappMontreal Impact Felipe Campanholi MartinsMontreal Impact Vini DantasOttawa Fury FC Jermain DefoeToronto FC Michael BradleyToronto FC Kekuta MannehVancouver Whitecaps FC Erik HurtadoVancouver Whitecaps FC Pedro MoralesVancouver Whitecaps FC
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