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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. Toronto FC went on to win the 2017 edition, however, and qualified without the need for a playoff.

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 had 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 play in the CONCACAF Champions League playoff match.

Each series was a two-game aggregate goal series with the away goals rule.

Matches

Preliminary round

First leg

FC Edmonton	0–3	Ottawa Fury FC
Ledgerwood  60' Fordyce  75'	Report	Timbó 13' Bailey  31' Haworth 69' Vered 74' Olivera  86'

Second leg

Ottawa Fury FC	0–2	FC Edmonton
Steele  54' Bailey  55' Timbó  90+1'	Report	Diakite  15' Corea 26' Watson  38' Eckersley 45'

Ottawa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

First leg

Ottawa Fury FC	2–0	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Steele 3' Obasi  16' Paulo Jr. 41' Haworth  63' Eustáquio  90+2'	Report

Toronto FC	4–2	Montreal Impact
Osorio 13', 36' Hamilton 60', 80' Lovitz  84' Irwin  90+2'	Report	Bernier  45+2' Salazar 86' Drogba 90+1'

Second leg

Vancouver Whitecaps FC	3–0	Ottawa Fury FC
Morales 3' (pen.) Mezquida 20' Rivero 52' Parker  67'	Report	Alves  2' de Guzman  73'

Vancouver won 3–2 on aggregate.

Montreal Impact	0–0	Toronto FC
Drogba  50' Ontivero  60' Oduro  88'	Report	Zavaleta  45'

Toronto won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

Toronto FC	1–0	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Giovinco 43'	Report	Bolaños  88'

Second leg

Vancouver Whitecaps FC	2–1	Toronto FC
Waston  32' Mezquida 47' Manneh  62' Parker 68'	Report	Johnson 90+5'

2–2 on aggregate. Toronto won on away goals.

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Nation	Team	Goals
1	Jonathan Osorio	CAN	Toronto FC	2
	Jordan Hamilton	CAN	Toronto FC
	Nicolás Mezquida	URU	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
4	Dustin Corea	SLV	FC Edmonton	1
	Didier Drogba	CIV	Montreal Impact
	Adam Eckersley	ENG	FC Edmonton
	Sebastian Giovinco	ITA	Toronto FC
	Carl Haworth	CAN	Ottawa Fury
	Will Johnson	CAN	Toronto FC
	Pedro Morales	CHI	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Tim Parker	USA	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Paulo Jr.	BRA	Ottawa Fury
	Octavio Rivero	URU	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
	Michael Salazar	BLZ	Montreal Impact
	Jonny Steele	NIR	Ottawa Fury
	Fernando Timbó	BRA	Ottawa Fury
	Idan Vered	ISR	Ottawa Fury

References

1. "Canadian Championship Kicks off 10th Edition in May with more Canadian Content". CanadaSoccer.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
2. "2016 Amway Canadian Championship schedule announced". canadasoccer.com. Canadian Soccer Association. Archived from the original on January 10, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.

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