2016 Canadian Championship

The 2016 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 ninth edition of the annual Canadian Championship, and took place in the cities of Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2016. The participating teams were Ottawa Fury FC and FC Edmonton of the second-division North American Soccer League, and the Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer, the first-level of Canadian club soccer. The Vancouver Whitecaps were the reigning champions; having won their first title in the 2015 competition.

The winner, Toronto FC, was awarded the Voyageurs Cup and was supposed to become Canada's sole entry into the group stage of the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League. However, due to that tournament's restructuring, it was later announced that the Canadian representative at the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League would be determined by a playoff match between Toronto FC and the 2017 Canadian Championship winner.^[1] Toronto FC went on to win the 2017 edition, however, and qualified without the need for a playoff.

Bracket

The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs were seeded according to their final position in 2015 league play, with both NASL clubs playing in the preliminary round, the winner of which advanced to the semi-finals.^[2]

All rounds of the competition were played via a two-leg home-and-away knock-out format. The higher seeded team had the option of deciding which leg it played at home. The team that scored the higher aggregate of goals in the two matches advanced. Toronto FC was declared champion and would have earned the right to play in a CONCACAF Champions League playoff match; however, this became no longer necessary after they also won the 2018 Canadian Championship.

Each round was a two-legged series with the away goals rule.

Preliminary round

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Jordan Hamilton	Toronto FC	2
	Nicolás Mezquida	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Jonathan Osorio	Toronto FC
4	Dustin Corea	FC Edmonton	1
	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact
	Adam Eckersley	FC Edmonton
	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC
	Carl Haworth	Ottawa Fury FC
	Will Johnson	Toronto FC
	Pedro Morales	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Tim Parker	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Paulo Jr.	Ottawa Fury FC
	Octavio Rivero	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Michael Salazar	Montreal Impact
	Jonny Steele	Ottawa Fury FC
	Fernando Timbó	Ottawa Fury FC
	Idan Vered	Ottawa Fury FC

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