2019 Canadian Championship

2019 Canadian Championship
Championnat Canadien 2019
Tournament details
CountryCanada
DatesMay 15 – September 25, 2019
Teams13 (from 5 leagues)
Final positions
ChampionsMontreal Impact (4th title)
Runner-upToronto FC
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored55 (2.29 per match)
Attendance156,268 (6,511 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Ignacio Piatti
(4 goals)
George Gross Memorial TrophyIgnacio Piatti
Best young playerZachary Brault-Guillard
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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]

  1. ^ "Impact wins Voyageurs Cup in Toronto". Montreal Impact. September 25, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2019.