The 2021 Canadian Championship was the fourteenth edition of the
Canadian Championship
The Canadian Championship (french: Championnat canadien) is an annual soccer tournament contested by premier Canadian professional teams. The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and Canada's berth in the CONCACAF Champions League. It is contest ...
, contested from August 15 to November 21, 2021.
The winners of the tournament,
CF Montréal
CF Montréal is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1992 as the Montreal Impact (french: Impact de Montréal, links=no), ...
, were awarded the
Voyageurs Cup
The Voyageurs Cup (french: Coupe des Voyageurs) is the domestic trophy for professional soccer in Canada, awarded to the best men's and women's clubs in the country.
The Cup was conceived and commissioned by fans of the Canada men's nationa ...
and earned a berth in the
2022 CONCACAF Champions League
The 2022 CONCACAF Champions League (officially the 2022 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League) was the 14th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current name, and overall the 57th edition of the premier football club competition org ...
.
Format
The competition follows a similar format to the originally proposed 2020 edition with four rounds and regional pairings in the first two rounds. For the first time in the Canadian Championship, each tie will be played as a single-leg fixture. CF Montréal, Forge FC, and Toronto FC enter the tournament in the quarter-finals due to their placements in the 2019 and 2020 editions of the competition. All other teams enter in the preliminary round of the tournament.
A.S. Blainville and
Master's FA
Master's Futbol Academy, commonly known as Master's FA, is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario. The club was founded in 2009 as a soccer academy and added its team in the semi-professional League1 Ontari ...
were originally supposed to participate in the 2020 edition of the competition, as they won the 2019 editions of the
Première ligue de soccer du Québec
The Première ligue de soccer du Québec (PLSQ) is a semi-professional soccer league created in 2012. The Quebec Soccer Federation operates both men's and women's divisions at the pro-am tier of the Canadian soccer league system. The league is pa ...
and
League1 Ontario
League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association as a pro-am league in the Canadian so ...
, respectively. As the format of the 2020 edition was revised, their participation was postponed to the 2021 tournament.
Distribution
Qualified clubs
Note
* Statistics include previous incarnations of FC Edmonton, Montreal Impact, and Vancouver Whitecaps
* Appearances in the 2020 Canadian Championship are included for Toronto FC and Forge FC even though the championship was not played until following the start of the 2021 edition
Schedule
Bracket
The bracket was announced on July 19, 2021.
Preliminary round
Summary
The preliminary round matches were held between August 15 and 26, 2021.
Matches
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Quarter-finals
Summary
Matches
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Semi-finals
Summary
Matches
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Final
Match
Top goalscorers
Awards
*
George Gross Memorial Trophy
The George Gross Memorial Trophy is awarded to the most valuable player of the Canadian Championship. It is named after George Gross, a highly respected sports journalist who covered soccer for the ''Toronto Telegram'' and ''Toronto Sun''.
Th ...
:
Sebastian Breza
* Best Young Canadian Player Award:
Jacob Shaffelburg
Jacob Everett Shaffelburg (born November 26, 1999) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Nashville SC and the Canadian national team.
Early life
Shaffelburg played youth soccer for Valle ...
References
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