2022 Canadian Championship

The 2022 Canadian Championship was the fifteenth edition of Canada's national soccer cup tournament, awarding the Voyageurs Cup. It took place from May 10 to July 26, 2022. The winners of the tournament, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and earned a berth in the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League.

Format

The competition followed a similar format to the 2021 edition with ten teams starting in the preliminary round and three teams receiving byes to the quarter-finals. CF Montréal and Toronto FC received byes for being the finalists of the 2021 tournament and Pacific FC received a bye for winning the 2021 Canadian Premier League season. Each tie of the four round tournament was played as a single-leg fixture.

Teams

Qualification to the Canadian Championship for 2022 was automatic for Canadian teams within Major League Soccer and for all teams within the Canadian Premier League, Canada's tier-one national league. The champions from Canada's two regional pro-am leagues (League1 Ontario and PLSQ) also qualified.

Guelph United FC

Forge FC

Cavalry FC

Atlético Ottawa

Montréal

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Pacific FC

HFX Wanderers FC

Toronto

Valour FC

FC Edmonton

2022 Canadian Championship (Canada)

Montreal area clubs: CF Montréal; CS Mont-Royal Outremont
Toronto area clubs: Toronto FC; York United FC

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Note

• Statistics include previous incarnations of FC Edmonton, Montreal Impact, and Vancouver Whitecaps
• Results from the 2020 Canadian Championship are included for Toronto FC and Forge FC even though the championship was played after the start of the 2022 edition

Schedule and draw

Teams were divided into four geographical pots for the draw. In the preliminary round, teams in pot 1 were drawn with teams in pot 1 while teams in pot 2 were drawn with a team in pot 2 or pot 3. For the quarter-finals, the winners from pot 1 faced off while the winners from pot 2 and 3 were drawn against teams from pot 4. The draw also determined hosting rights for all four rounds.

Bracket

The draw for the Canadian Championship was streamed live on OneSoccer on March 9, 2022.

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	By round
				PR	QF	SF	F
1	Myer Bevan	Cavalry FC	3	2	1
	Sunusi Ibrahim	CF Montréal			3
	Brian White	Vancouver Whitecaps FC				2	1
4	Ayo Akinola	Toronto FC	2			2
	Amer Đidić	Pacific FC			2

Awards

• George Gross Memorial Trophy: Ryan Gauld (Vancouver Whitecaps FC)
• Best Young Canadian Player Award: Ryan Raposo (Vancouver Whitecaps FC)

Discipline

Cautions

  Team eliminated or did not play in specific round

  Suspension due to yellow card accumulation

  Suspension due to red card

Rank	Player	Team	Cautions	By round
				PR	QF	SF	F
1	Alessandro Hojabrpour	Forge FC	2	1	1
	Chrisnovic N'sa	York United FC		1	1	YCA
	Aboubacar Sissoko	Forge FC		1	1
	Cédric Toussaint	York United FC		1		1
	Charlie Trafford	Cavalry FC		1	1
6	Ayo Akinola	Toronto FC	1		1
	Michael Bradley	Toronto FC					1
	Javain Brown	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Michael Baldisimo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Sebastian Berhalter	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Zachary Brault-Guillard	CF Montréal			1
	Rudy Camacho	CF Montréal				1
	Lucas Cavallini	Vancouver Whitecaps FC		1
	Niko Giantsopoulos	York United FC			1
	Sebastián Gutiérrez	York United FC			1
	Mateo Hernández	York United FC			1
	Isaiah Johnston	York United FC			1
	Matko Miljevic	CF Montréal				1
	Shane O'Neill	Toronto FC			1
	Ralph Priso	Toronto FC			1
	Joaquín Torres	CF Montréal				1
	Noah Verhoeven	York United FC			1
	Ranko Veselinović	Vancouver Whitecaps FC			1
	Jordan Wilson	York United FC		1
	Dominick Zator	York United FC			1

Note: Players received a one-match ban for yellow card accumulation based on two cautions in Canadian Championship.

Sending offs

No.	Date	Player	Team	Offence
1	May 10	Camilo Benzi	York United FC	Violent conduct

1. ↑ Coaching staff

References