Championnat Canadien 2019 | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | Canada |
Dates | May 15 – September 25, 2019 |
Teams | 13 (from 5 leagues) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Montreal Impact (4th title) |
Runner-up | Toronto FC |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 24 |
Goals scored | 55 (2.29 per match) |
Attendance | 156,268 (6,511 per match) |
Top goal scorer(s) | Ignacio Piatti (4 goals) |
George Gross Memorial Trophy | Ignacio Piatti |
Best young player | Zachary Brault-Guillard |
The 2019 Canadian Championship was the twelfth edition of the Canadian Championship, contested from May 15 to September 25, 2019. Montreal Impact won their fourth Canadian Championship title (their tenth Voyageurs Cup) and earned a berth in the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League.
The competition expanded to thirteen teams with the introduction of the seven Canadian Premier League (CPL) clubs, the most in the competition's history. The 2019 tournament also marked the first time that clubs from Manitoba and Nova Scotia were represented in the Canadian Championship, and the return of clubs from Alberta after none participated in 2018.
Cavalry FC's 2–1 aggregate defeat of Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the tournament's third qualifying round marked the first time in the history of the Canadian Championship that an MLS team was defeated by a non-MLS team in a home-and-away series.
Ignacio Piatti was the tournament's top scorer with four goals and won the George Gross Memorial Trophy, while Zachary Brault-Guillard received the inaugural Best Young Canadian Player award for the best Canadian player of the tournament aged 21 or younger.[1]