narduch Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 The CSA has confirmed the field for next year's Canadian Championship. Technically Edmonton is still in limbo. Kingston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 So we do get an L1BC team after all. That's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Here is the article from the CSA. https://canadasoccer.com/news/canadian-championship-welcomes-league1-bc-as-new-entrant-for-2023/ As narduch mentioned, Edmonton is still in limbo, no confirmation in that article that Edmonton will be involved, just mentions that all CPL teams will be involved. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpursFlu Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 4 BC 3 Prairies 5 Ontario 3 Quebec/Atlantic How is this gonna work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 37 minutes ago, SpursFlu said: 4 BC 3 Prairies 5 Ontario 3 Quebec/Atlantic How is this gonna work? West Group - Whitecaps, Vancouver (CPL), Pacific, TSS Rovers Central Group - EDM, Calvery, Valour Ontario Group - TFC, York United, Forge, Vaughn East Group - Ottawa, CF Montreal, HFX , Blainville A `16th team would be helpful, but where does it come from, the easiest would be a second L1O entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Cblake said: West Group - Whitecaps, Vancouver (CPL), Pacific, TSS Rovers Central Group - EDM, Calvery, Valour Ontario Group - TFC, York United, Forge, Vaughn East Group - Ottawa, CF Montreal, HFX , Blainville A `16th team would be helpful, but where does it come from, the easiest would be a second L1O entry. Whitecaps will likely get a bye as defending champions. So they'll probably combine your West and Central for 6 teams for 3 winners + Caps. Then combine Ontario and east (8 teams = 4 winners). If Edmonton folds, it messes that up a bit though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 44 minutes ago, rydermike said: Whitecaps will likely get a bye as defending champions. So they'll probably combine your West and Central for 6 teams for 3 winners + Caps. Then combine Ontario and east (8 teams = 4 winners). If Edmonton folds, it messes that up a bit though I do not see the D3 teams being sent out of province in the first round, so what they could do is, draw the first round BC CPL/L1BC match up and the other CPL team either Pacific or VFC being drawn into the group with EDM, Cal and Valour. That way you could keep the Ontario and East Groups intact. I am sure some sort of travel subsidy would be in place if a D3 team every advanced far enough to play across the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, Cblake said: I do not see the D3 teams being sent out of province in the first round, so what they could do is, draw the first round BC CPL/L1BC match up and the other CPL team either Pacific or VFC being drawn into the group with EDM, Cal and Valour. That way you could keep the Ontario and East Groups intact. I am sure some sort of travel subsidy would be in place if a D3 team every advanced far enough to play across the country. I would agree with that, but it's not what they did in prior years. In 2022, Mont-Royal had to go to Hamilton, while Guelph would've had to go to Halifax if they didn't draw them at home. In 2019, Vaughan had to go to Halifax and Blainville went to Halifax in 2018 Winnipeg is much further though, so maybe they make an exception where TSS can't face them on the road. Edited November 5, 2022 by rydermike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 7 minutes ago, rydermike said: I would agree with that, but it's not what they did in prior years. In 2022, Mont-Royal had to go to Hamilton, while Guelph would've had to go to Halifax if they didn't draw them at home. In 2019, Vaughan had to go to Halifax and Blainville went to Halifax in 2018 Winnipeg is much further though, so maybe they make an exception where TSS can't face them on the road. I was just thinking now that you have D3 in BC, teams of that level will never have to criss cross the country unless they advance to a later round. I should have not said out of province, just something that would be within reason. I mean the US Open Cub will drives down the regional thing in the early rounds but then I am not even sure some of the USADA level teams have the infrastructure of our L1 sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 TSS used to travel to Calgary for games back in their USL PDL days, so I think that trip would still likely be reasonable for them if it happened. Winnipeg might be tougher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amac09 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I would like to see a different approach than last year... Round 1 3 league one teams draw against bottom 3 cpl teams from last season. Since Van FC aren't ranked it would be easiest to assign them 9th place for this year's cup. Round 2 5 cpl teams + 3 winners from round one. Top 4 teams are seeded. Round 3 - 1/4 final 1 cpl champ + 3 MLS teams vs 4 winners from round 2 Round 4 - semi final Round 5 - final Unnamed Trialist and Jedi Ram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 I posted this thought on the USports thread but here goes: if one of the university affiliated clubs in L1BC ever wins the league, like say last year's finalist Varsity, which is UBC.... We'll have a Canadian university soccer team playing the Voyageurs Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue and White Army Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Seems strange that a new CPL club is entered into an inter-league cup competition before they've even kicked a ball, but perhaps that's just my familiarity with the FA Cup coming into play, in which you have to complete at least one league season before you can enter. I suppose 2019 set the Canadian precedent of going straight in. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted November 21, 2022 Author Share Posted November 21, 2022 Well FC Edmonton won't be in this next year nfitz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 On 11/8/2022 at 1:27 PM, Amac09 said: I would like to see a different approach than last year... Round 1 3 league one teams draw against bottom 3 cpl teams from last season. Since Van FC aren't ranked it would be easiest to assign them 9th place for this year's cup. Round 2 5 cpl teams + 3 winners from round one. Top 4 teams are seeded. Round 3 - 1/4 final 1 cpl champ + 3 MLS teams vs 4 winners from round 2 Round 4 - semi final Round 5 - final Something like this would work. I guess it depends whether you prefer to see teams enter at different rounds based on performance or you prefer the geographic arrangement we've seen recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 Draw in 2 weeks. TFC and Whitecaps will get byes Kent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 From the article: "The full details for the draw, including how clubs will be divided into pots, will be revealed on Jan. 24." I'm looking forward to seeing how they divide things up this year. I'm always excited for this tournament. I'm also wondering about the chances of upsets. On one side, we've got a couple of solid D3 teams and an expansion CPL club. On the other side, none of the MLS teams are coming into this in solid form. As always, it will be fun! narduch, Watchmen and Kent 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Kingston said: From the article: "The full details for the draw, including how clubs will be divided into pots, will be revealed on Jan. 24." I'm looking forward to seeing how they divide things up this year. I'm always excited for this tournament. I'm also wondering about the chances of upsets. On one side, we've got a couple of solid D3 teams and an expansion CPL club. On the other side, none of the MLS teams are coming into this in solid form. As always, it will be fun! 14 teams, with Whitecaps and Toronto getting the first round bye. That leaves 12 teams - dividing into 3 groups by geography makes sense? West: Pacific, Rovers, Vancouver FC, Cavalry Central: Valour, Forge, Vaughan, York East: Ottawa, Laval, Montreal, HFX Edited January 18, 2023 by K Edgar MM3/MM2/MM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpursFlu Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) 4 teams from BC makes for some fun matchups out here Would love for Rovers to host someone just to get a game at Swangard Edited January 19, 2023 by SpursFlu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 2023 A home game for York United would be nice! 2022 away to Atletico Ottawa, away to Pacific FC, semi-final away to MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 2021 home to L1O Masters FA, away to Toronto FC 2020 CPL finalist decided during play in PEI in Island Games 2019 wow home and away: PLSQ AS Blainville, FC Edmonton, MLS Montreal Impact Kent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 12:02 PM, Kingston said: From the article: "The full details for the draw, including how clubs will be divided into pots, will be revealed on Jan. 24." I'm looking forward to seeing how they divide things up this year. I'm always excited for this tournament. I'm also wondering about the chances of upsets. On one side, we've got a couple of solid D3 teams and an expansion CPL club. On the other side, none of the MLS teams are coming into this in solid form. As always, it will be fun! Ah bold statement, considering the season hasn't started yet. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 Would the thought of inviting a team from abroad to give the Cup a bit of international category be something out of place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 50 minutes ago, The Ref said: Would the thought of inviting a team from abroad to give the Cup a bit of international category be something out of place? Yes. Kent, RS, Kingston and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 14 hours ago, Rocket Robin said: 2023 A home game for York United would be nice! 2022 away to Atletico Ottawa, away to Pacific FC, semi-final away to MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 2021 home to L1O Masters FA, away to Toronto FC 2020 CPL finalist decided during play in PEI in Island Games 2019 wow home and away: PLSQ AS Blainville, FC Edmonton, MLS Montreal Impact This is why I'm a big fan of the home and away format instead of single game knock outs. Kent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) https://canpl.ca/article/2023-canchamp-draw-what-you-need-to-know-pots-dates-venue-availability-more "Halifax Wanderers, Valour FC, Cavalry FC and Vancouver FC would not be able to host in the preliminary round of Canadian Championship play because of stadium availability and weather considerations." Edited January 24, 2023 by K Edgar NVsoccer, narduch and RS 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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