Owner & President Joey Saputo Canadian Championship Champion | Coach Frank Klopas | |
Major League Soccer Conference: 10th (last)
Overall: 19th (last) Top goalscorer League: Di Vaio (9)
All: Di Vaio (13) Highest home attendance 27,207 v Seattle Sounders FC
(March 23, 2014) | ||
The 2014 Montreal Impact season was the club's third season Major League Soccer, the top flight of both American and Canadian soccer.
Contents
- Background
- International caps
- Review
- Table
- Results summary
- Fixtures results
- Reserve fixtures results
- Bracket
- Fixtures and results
- Group Stage
- Goals against average
- Top scorers
- Top assists
- Clean sheets
- Own goals
- Top minutes played
- Suspensions
- International roster slots
- Management
- References
For the 2014 season, outside of MLS, the Impact competed in the 2014 Canadian Championship, Canada's domestic cup competition and the CONCACAF Champions League.
Background
Alessandro Nesta retired after last season. Options were declined for Paolo DelPiccolo, Maximiliano Leonel Rodríguez, and Siniša Ubiparipović. Zarek Valentin left on a free transfer to FK Bodø/Glimt. Nelson Rivas became a free agent. Loans ended for Andrés Romero, Daniele Paponi, and Andrea Pisanu. Davy Arnaud was traded for an international roster slot in 2014 and 2015. Marco Schallibaum was fired as head coach. Frank Klopas replaced Schallibaum. Montreal opened pre–season training camp on January 28 and will participate in the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic.
International caps
Players called for senior international duty during the 2014 season while under contract with the Montreal Impact.
Review
March
The Montreal Impact started their season on March 8 against FC Dallas with a 3–2 loss. Sanna Nyassi and Andrew Wenger scored for Montreal and Fabián Castillo, Blas Pérez, and Mauro Díaz scored for Dallas. Marco Di Vaio and Andrés Romero are suspended for the first 3 matches of the season. Montreal went on to face Houston Dynamo on March 2. Houston won 1–0 from a deflected shot by Will Bruin. Patrice Bernier had a 30–yard shot "pushed" over the crossbar and Andrew Wenger had a shot cleared over the crossbar.
Table
Conference
Overall
Updated to matches played on October 26, 2014 11:36 PM, EDT. Source: MLSSoccer.com
Notation Key:
1 The highest ranked U.S.-based MLS club qualifies to the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League seeding Pot A (Canadian teams normally do not qualify for the Champions League through MLS, qualifying instead via the Canadian Championship, however see note 4.) The other U.S. representatives in the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League are:
5 If the same team qualifies multiple times and/or if a Canadian team occupies one or more of the MLS qualifying places, then the American MLS team(s) with the best regular-season record not otherwise qualified are entered.
6 For this season only, the highest placed Canadian team will be awarded Canada's place in the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League, as a result of the rescheduling of the Canadian Championship in 2015.
7 Montreal Impact qualified for the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League as winners of the 2014 Canadian Championship.
Results summary
Last updated: October 26, 2014
Source: 2014 Major League Soccer season
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference
Fixtures & results
Win Draw Loss
Reserve fixtures & results
Win Draw Loss
Bracket
The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs have been seeded according to their final position in 2013 league play, with both NASL clubs playing in the preliminary round, the winner of which advances to the semifinals.
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 plays at home, usually the second leg. The team which scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. As previous years, the team that comes on top on aggregate for the two matches is declared champion and earns 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.Semifinals
Fixtures and results
Win Draw Loss
Group Stage
Win Draw Loss
Goals against average
Last updated: October 23, 2014
Source: Montreal Impact
Top scorers
Last updated: October 25, 2014
Source: Montreal Impact
Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.
Top assists
Last updated: October 22, 2014
Source: Montreal Impact
Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.
Clean sheets
Last updated: October 5, 2014
Source: Montreal Impact
Own goals
Last updated: June 5, 2014
Source: Major League Soccer
Top minutes played
Last updated: October 25, 2014
Source: Montreal Impact
Suspensions
#(Concacaf Match)
International roster slots
Montreal has eleven MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2014 season. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated eight international roster spots and Montreal acquired the extra slots in trades with Colorado Rapids, Seattle Sounders FC and 2 from D.C. United. The Montreal Impact traded 1 of their slots to FC Dallas