Voyageurs Cup 2014

[Yohan]

http://www.canadasoccer.com/2014-amway-canadian-championship-schedule-announced-p155637&t=championship_article

2014 Voyageurs Cup schedule
(home team listed first)


23 April 2014
Preliminary round - first leg
Ottawa Fury FC v FC Edmonton


30 April 2014
Preliminary round - second leg
FC Edmonton v Ottawa Fury FC


7 May 2014
Semi Final 1 - first leg
Semi Final 2 - first leg

Ottawa Fury FC/FC Edmonton v Montreal Impact
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps FC



14 May 2014
Semi Final 1 - second leg
Semi Final 2 - second leg

Montreal Impact v Ottawa Fury FC/FC Edmonton
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Toronto FC



28 May 2014
Final - first leg*




4 June 2014
Final - second leg



*this game will be played on 27 May if Vancouver Whitecaps FC plays at home.

[Yagbod]

Five teams and we get one home game. I dislike. Very boring.

[Gringo Starr]

We will get a second home game in the final against Mtl and then all the home games in the Champs League. I look very much forward to having the Voyageurs Cup back where it belongs....


Five teams and we get one home game. I dislike. Very boring.

[WestStandGeoff]

We will get a second home game in the final against Mtl and then all the home games in the Champs League. I look very much forward to having the Voyageurs Cup back where it belongs....

Yeah, really. So far the only teams with more than 1 home game are Ottawa and Edmonton since they have the preliminary round to see who qualifies, so no reason to panic just yet.

[pdogg]

That's a great start for Ottawa to jump right into the fire. Home and home with Edmonton and then if they win, they get to play against Montreal - who will likely bring a ton of travelling support.

Though I'd feel bad for Edmonton to go winless, again.

[MartinUtd]

I have to agree that the format is far from awe inspiring. I just hope it gets better with a few more teams.

[SilverSamurai]

I don't think it's that bad to be honest.

Assuming TFC make it to the finals, I'd rather have the 2nd leg at home instead of the opening one.

Still wish it was a round robin tourney though, but alas it's not. Hopefully with another 2 teams it might end up being a group stage qualification.

[Redcoe15]

The more, the merrier. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the preliminary round of the Cup, if Ottawa can pull off the upset against Edmonton to make things interesting.

[Yohan]

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/12/10/csa-president-victor-montagliani-says-full-canadian-open-cup-must-wont-happe

V Cup will be in current format until at least 2015

[pdogg]

The optomist in me interpreted it as they could do the early stages of the 2016 VCup in summer/fall of 2015 for the lower leagues and then have the upper league teams join in the spring (as they do now) in 2016. All it really takes is co-ordinating the lower leagues for qualification to play and moving to an 8 team cup, which only adds one more game home and away to the current structure.

TFC
Impact
Whitecaps
Edmonton
Ottawa
East Regional Champion
Central Regional Champion
West Regional Champion

3 rounds gets you a VCup Champions. As for costs, I'm sure some type of gate sharing formula could be put in place to help with that. Or they can do something like the USOC route and go to a one game elimination, but the upper team can 'pay off' the lower team to host the game instead.

[Yohan]

http://www.canadasoccer.com/2014-amway-canadian-championship-set-to-kick-off-next-wednesday-p156218&t=championship_article

Ottawa vs Edmonton on stream only (23 Apr for 1st leg)

[Yohan]

Stream for tonight's game at 730

http://www.canadasoccer.com/http://www.canadasoccer.com/amway-canadian-championship-preliminary-round-web-stream-p156220

[Oldtimer]

Stream for tonight's game at 730

http://www.canadasoccer.com/http://www.canadasoccer.com/amway-canadian-championship-preliminary-round-web-stream-p156220

Match thread will be here:

http://forums.redpatchboys.ca/showthread.php?35904-Canadian-Championship-game-1-Ottawa-Fury-vs-FC-Edmonton&p=1663733#post1663733

[Yohan]

Edmonton vs Ottawa 2nd leg at 930 tonight

[Red CB Toronto]

Edmonton vs Ottawa 2nd leg at 930 tonight

Hopefully the stream works better this time.

[Yohan]

http://www.canadasoccer.com/clubs-s15266

List of players registered for V Cup

[reggie]

maybe im going blind...but I don't see MORALES on the van city roster?

[ouderwien]

Looks like Vancouver have quite a few academy players on their roster.