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The Canadian Championship is a domestic cup competition organized by the Canadian Soccer Association. The championship determines one of Canada's entries in the annual CONCACAF Champions Cup . Until the creation of the Canadian Premier League in 2019, all fully professional Canadian soccer teams played in United States–based leagues.
OneSoccer, a Canadian video streaming service owned by Mediapro, had been the Canadian Championship's broadcaster in recent editions of the tournament. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] This status was put into doubt on January 25, 2024 when Canadian Soccer Business launched legal action against Mediapro, taking back the broadcast rights of several properties ...
The Canadian Championship final is the championship match or two match aggregate series to determine the winner of the Canadian Championship.It was first held in 2011 following Canada Soccer's decision to replace the round-robin format with a knockout competition to reduce fixture congestion for the participating teams.
The 2021 Canadian Championship was the fourteenth edition of the Canadian Championship, contested from August 15 to November 21, 2021. [1] The winners of the tournament, CF Montréal , were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and earned a berth in the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League .
From 2002 to 2007, the cup was awarded annually to the Canadian team finishing with the best record in the USL First Division, from regular-season matches against other Canadian teams in the league. Since 2008, the trophy has been presented to the winner of the Canadian Championship , which also awards Canada's berth in the CONCACAF Champions Cup .
[3] [4] If the winner had already qualified for the Champions Cup via berths in the 2023 Major League Soccer, 2023 Leagues Cup or 2023 Canadian Premier League, the place would have gone to the runners-up in the final, and then to the "higher-ranked" semi-finalist based on league points totals, [5] if the runners-up had also already qualified. [4]
The 2024 Challenge Trophy (French: Trophée Challenge 2024, branded as the Toyota National Championships for sponsorship reasons) was the 100th edition of the Challenge Trophy, an annual cup competition contested as the national championship for amateur teams in men's Canadian soccer.
On 18 December 2013, Ethnic Channels Group announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with Al Jazeera Media Network, owners of the beIN Sports brand, to launch a Canadian version. [1] beIN Sports officially launched in Canada on 31 January 2014 via MTS, and later launched in March on Rogers and Bell Fibe TV. [2]