Country Canada Teams 5 Runners-up Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Dates 11 May – 29 June 2016 Champions Toronto FC (5th title) Matches played 8 | |
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.
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The winner, Toronto FC, was awarded the Voyageurs Cup and will become Canada's sole entry into the Group Stage of the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.
Tournament bracket
The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs are seeded according to their final position in 2015 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 played at home. The team that scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. Toronto FC, was declared champion and earns the right to represent Canada in the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League.
Each series was a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.
Preliminary round
Ottawa won 3–2 on aggregate.
Semifinals
Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.
Toronto won 4–2 on aggregate.
Final
2–2 on aggregate. Toronto won on away goals.