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    "title": "2014 Amway Canadian Championship schedule announced",
    "modified_at": "2026-05-05 13:36:01",
    "published_at": "2013-12-05 15:50:00",
    "url": "https://news.canadasoccer.com/2014-amway-canadian-championship-schedule-announced",
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    "subtitle": "This seventh edition of the championship will see Ottawa Fury FC, Canada\u2019s newest NASL club, and FC Edmonton, play a preliminary knock-out home and away round. The winner, the team that scores the greater aggregate of goals over the two matches, will secure the fourth semi-final place and join the t\u2026",
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    "body": "<p>The schedule is set for the 2014 Amway Canadian Championship, the national competition featuring the country&rsquo;s five professional clubs that determines Canada&rsquo;s representative for the CONCACAF Champions League.</p><p>This seventh edition of the championship will see Ottawa Fury FC, Canada&rsquo;s newest NASL club, and FC Edmonton, play a preliminary knock-out home and away round. The winner, the team that scores the greater aggregate of goals over the two matches, will secure the fourth semi-final place and join the three Canadian MLS clubs, Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the next round.</p><p>The three MLS clubs have been seeded according to their final position in league play for 2013, with the winner of the preliminary round entering the competition seeded in fourth place.</p><p><strong>2014 Amway Canadian Championship seeding</strong><br>\u200b1. Montreal Impact<br>\u200b2. Vancouver Whitecaps FC<br>\u200b3. Toronto FC<br>\u200b4. Winner of Ottawa Fury FC/FC Edmonton</p><p>As per previous years, the semi-final stage of the competition is played on a home and away knock-out format in which the highest ranked team will play at home in the second leg. The team which scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches qualifies for the final.</p><p>The final will also be played on a home and away basis (two legs). The highest seeded team qualified for the final has the option of deciding which leg it plays at home. Once again, the team that comes on top on aggregate for the two matches is declared champion and earns the right to represent Canada in the 2014-2015 CONCACAF Champions League.</p><p><strong>2014 Amway Canadian Championship schedule</strong><br>\u200b<em>(home team listed first)</em></p>\n<div\n    class=\"table-container\"\n    style=\"\"\n>\n    <table\n        class=\"table table-bordered\"\n    >\n                            <tbody>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>23 April 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Preliminary round &ndash; first leg</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Ottawa Fury FC v FC Edmonton</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>30 April 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Preliminary round &ndash; second leg</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>FC Edmonton v Ottawa Fury FC</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>7 May 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Semi Final 1 &ndash; first leg</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Semi Final 2 &ndash; first leg</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Ottawa Fury FC/FC Edmonton v Montreal Impact</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps FC</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>14 May 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Semi Final 1 &ndash; second leg</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Semi Final 2 &ndash; second leg</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Montreal Impact v Ottawa Fury FC/FC Edmonton</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Toronto FC</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>28 May 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Final &ndash; first leg*</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>&nbsp;</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>4 June 2014</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>Final &ndash; second leg</p></div></td>                                            <td class=\"border\"><div class=\"text-default v-spacing\"><p>&nbsp;</p></div></td>                                    </tr>\n                        </tbody>\n            </table>\n</div>\n<p><em>*this game will be played on 27 May if Vancouver Whitecaps FC plays at home.</em></p><p>Once again this year the Amway Canadian Championship will be broadcast on Sportsnet.</p><p>Through the first six editions of the Amway Canadian Championship, Impact Montr&eacute;al were inaugural champions (2008) followed by Toronto FC who won the Voyageurs Cup in four successive seasons (2009 to 2012), before Impact Montreal won the championship again in 2013. In CONCACAF Champions League, Impact Montr&eacute;al (2008-09) reached the quarter-final phase while Toronto FC (2011-12) has participated in the semi-final round of continental club championship.<br>\u200b</p>",
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