Английская Википедия:Canadian Premier League Finals
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The Canadian Premier League Finals is the annual championship game of the Canadian Premier League (CPL), the top level of Canadian soccer. It is played as a single match hosted by the winner of the first semifinal against the winner of the second semifinal at the conclusion of the league's annual playoff. The finals winner is awarded the North Star Cup trophy and earns a berth in Round One of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
The CPL uses a playoff tournament following the regular season to determine its annual league champion, a method common to every other major North American sports league. This format differs from most soccer leagues around the world, which consider the club with the most points at the end of the season to be the champion. Since 2023, the league has honoured the regular season winners with the CPL Shield. Neither the CPL Shield or the North Star Cup are to be confused with a further national championship, the Canadian Championship which brings together teams from multiple leagues in a knock-out format. All three competitions provide direct entry to the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
The inaugural finals were played as a two-legged tie on October 26 and November 2, 2019 in which Forge FC defeated Cavalry FC. Forge FC is the most successful team in finals history, winning a second title in 2020, a third in 2022, and a fourth in 2023.
Format
Different formats and methods of qualification have been used for each of the first five CPL seasons.
2019
The 2019 finals were contested between the winners of the Spring and Fall seasons.[1] The championship was contested as a two-legged tie, with each team hosting one leg at home. The winner was determined by aggregate score but if the aggregate score was tied, the team with the most away goals wins the series. A penalty shoot-out was the final tiebreaker.
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2020
The 2020 season saw the end of the split season format, with the 2020 finals scheduled to be contested between the top-seeded regular season team and the winner of a playoff between the second and third-placed teams.[2] However, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season format was scrapped and replaced with a single-site tournament with a two-stage regular season. The 2020 final was contested in a single match between the two top-seeded teams from the four-team second stage.[3]
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2021–2022
The 2021 season brought in a new four-team single leg knockout playoff with the two first round winners advancing to the final.[4] The higher-seeded finalist hosts the single leg game. If a match is tied at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and, if necessary, followed by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.[5]
Prior to the start of the 2022 season, the league announced that playoff semi-finals would switch to a two-legged format but that the final would continue to be played as a single match hosted by the higher-seeded team.[6] Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-2
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2023
Beginning with the 2023 season, the league introduced a five-team Page playoff format.[7]
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Results
Season | Date | Champions | Score | Runners-up | Venue | Attendance | Television | |
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2019 | Leg 1 | October 26 | Forge FC | 1–0[8] | Cavalry FC | Tim Hortons Field | 10,486 | OneSoccer, CBC Sports |
Leg 2 | November 2 | 1–0[9] | ATCO Field | 5,831 | ||||
2020 | September 19 | Forge FC | 2–0 | HFX Wanderers FC | Alumni Field | 0Шаблон:Efn | OneSoccer, CBC Sports | |
2021 | December 5 | Pacific FC | 1–0 | Forge FC | Tim Hortons Field | 7,488 | OneSoccer | |
2022 | October 30 | Forge FC | 2–0 | Atlético Ottawa | TD Place Stadium | 14,992[10] | OneSoccer | |
2023 | October 28 | Forge FC | 2–1 Шаблон:Aet | Cavalry FC | Tim Hortons Field | 13,925 | OneSoccer |
Records and statistics
Finals wins
Club | Шаблон:Abbr | Шаблон:Abbr | Шаблон:Abbr | Years of appearance |
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Forge FC | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Cavalry FC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2019, 2023 |
Pacific FC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2021 |
HFX Wanderers FC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
Atlético Ottawa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
Champions records in CONCACAF competitions
From 2019 until 2021, the CPL champion earned Canada's berth in the following year's CONCACAF League.[11][12] Since 2023, the champion has qualified to CONCACAF Champions Cup.
Year | Club | Result |
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2019 | Forge FCШаблон:Efn | Round of 16 |
2020 | Forge FC | Quarter-finals |
2021 | Forge FC | Semi-finals |
2022 | Pacific FC | Round of 16 |
Year | Club | Result |
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2022 | Forge FCШаблон:Efn | Round of 16 |
2024 | Forge FC | TBD |
Scorers
Player | Club(s) | Goals | Appearances |
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Шаблон:Sort | Pacific FC, Forge FC | 2 (2021, 2022) | 3 (2021, 2022, 2023) |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC | 2 (2019, 2022) | 6 (2019Шаблон:Sup, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC | 2 (2019, 2023) | 5 (2019Шаблон:Sup, 2021, 2022, 2023) |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC, Atlético Ottawa | 1 (2020) | 2 (2020, 2022) |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC | 1 (2020) | 6 (2019Шаблон:Sup, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC | 1 (2023) | 1 (2023) |
Шаблон:Sort | Cavalry FC | 1 (2023) | 1 (2023) |
Trophy
Since 2023, the winning team has been presented with the North Star Cup. The trophy was designed by ÉPICO Studios, a design agency that had previously designed trophies for the Copa América Centenario, CONCACAF Champions Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup, CONCACAF Nations League, and MLS Cup. The North Star Cup replaced the North Star Shield which had been awarded from 2019 to 2022.[13][14]
Venues
Name | Location | Hosted | Years hosted |
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Tim Hortons Field | Hamilton, Ontario | 3 | 2019,Шаблон:Efn 2021, 2023 |
Alumni Field | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | 1 | 2020Шаблон:Efn |
ATCO Field | Foothills County, Alberta | 1 | 2019Шаблон:Efn |
TD Place Stadium | Ottawa, Ontario | 1 | 2022 |
Discipline
Yellow card suspensions
Rules concerning yellow card accumulation in regular season and playoff games and its impact on suspensions in the finals have changed over time. In 2019, yellow card accumulation in regular season games resulted in a suspension of Forge FC defender Bertrand Owundi for the first leg of that year's finals.[15] However, when the format changed in 2020, the finals had appeared to have become exempt from suspensions.[16]
The CPL's 2022 Competition Guidelines established that the league's "Championship matches" would be exempt from any yellow card accumulation suspensions and that a fines would replace any suspensions.[17] Although the league later announced changes to yellow card suspensions and their impact on playoffs games on the eve of the 2022 playoffs, this change did not affect the rules for the final.[18]
Red card suspensions
In the final match of the 2019 Canadian Premier League fall season, Dominic Samuel of Forge FC received a red card for two cautionable offences, and was subsequently suspended for the first leg of the finals.[19] Forge FC would suffer a similar fate in 2022 when their captain Kyle Bekker was sent off in the second leg of the 2022 CPL semifinals against Cavalry, and prevented him from participating in the final against Atlético Ottawa.
Players sent-off in the finals
Player | Club | Match | Minute | Type | Шаблон:Abbr | Шаблон:Abbr |
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Шаблон:Sort | Cavalry FC (a) | 2019 final (1st leg) | 37' | Шаблон:Sentoff | 0–0 | 1–0 |
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC (h) | 69' | Шаблон:SentoffШаблон:Efn | 1–0 | ||
Шаблон:Sort | Forge FC (h) | 2021 final | 90+1' | Шаблон:Sentoff | 0–1 | 0–1 |
See also
References
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