CPL to make an announcement tomorrow at 1PM ET to update on the status to the season. https://canpl.ca/article/cpl-to-make-announcement-on-july-29-at-100-pm-et-update-on-2020-season
Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Island I can confirm that the 2020 #CanPL season/tournament will start Aug 15 in Charlottetown, PEI. Teams will start to arrive starting Aug 7.— Duane Rollins (@24thminute) July 28, 2020
8 day turnaround from when the teams arrive in PEI before the competition starts.. Hopefully none of the teams end up arriving infected. Of course, the good news is Canada has significantly less infected circulating around, so the odds of players arriving virus free are significantly better than the US based MLS and NHL teams had.
Canadian Championship to be played after the CPL tournament is still planned. Depending on what MLS has planned for the Canadian clubs will determined what happens with them. They would not be allowed to travel back and forth from the US, Atlantic Canada being in it's own bubble, is unlikely to allow it Tenititive plan remains to play a tournament style Canadian Championship immediately after the #CanPL tournament ends. How to incorporate the MLS teams is still TBD.— Duane Rollins (@24thminute) July 28, 2020
Regarding COVID All teams, save Halifax, will be flown to Charlottetown by charter and tested immediately upon arrival.Teams will be responsible for the flights back to their home market. #CanPL— Duane Rollins (@24thminute) July 29, 2020
2020 CPL Island Games 35 Matches. 8 Teams. 1 Champion#CanPL l 🔗: https://t.co/fif0gue6iz pic.twitter.com/izlWFUuTNs— Canadian Premier League (@CPLsoccer) July 29, 2020 Location The Island Games will be played behind closed doors in a sequestered environment at Alumni Field at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) Alumni Field in Charlottetown, PEI. The complex features a full-size FIFA quality turf surface that can accommodate soccer and is equipped with stadium night lights. Format The season will begin with an 8-club first stage where each CPL team will play each other once (28 game total first phase), the top 4 clubs will advance to the second round 6 match group phase that will culminate with the top two clubs competing in a single match Final to be crowned the 2020 Canadian Premier League Champion. Since there is no home-field advantage it will be a one-match Final to crown the 2020 Canadian Premier League Champion who will be awarded the North Star Shield and a 2021 CONCACAF League berth.
Any info or rumors on whether the Canadian Championship will be held at a single location and, if so, where?
We have no news from Soccer Canada exempt that they want to organize it right after the CPL tournament. It's too early to say if it will be in a bubble or not. I still think that PEI should be a favorite
I would imagine they are holding things up to find out what is going on with the MLS teams? MLS is allegedly going to be restarting the season at the end of August and playing 18 games. If it actually happens, it's going to be broken up into two phases. the first phase would be 8 games with the Canadian teams in Canada just playing each other. I'm not sure what the plan is for the second teams as the US MLS teams aren't going to be allowed in Canada, so either the Canadian teams relocate down to the US for the rest of the season or something else would need to be worked out...
Most expeditious thing in this unique year might be to simply award the Voyageurs Cup to the team that wins this upcoming set of Montreal/Toronto/Vancouver matches - similar to how it used to be done in 2007 and earlier. And give the 2021 Concacaf League spot to the winder of this PEI tournament. Neither perfect nor fair - but that's 2020 for you.
I'm not sure why you'd lock the CPL clubs out of the Voyageurs Cup considering CPL is Canada's D1 league... More likely to see the MLS clubs get the shaft, IMHO.
For the same reason we've already locked out the Quebec and Ontario champions. There's a pandemic on, and we need to be pragmatic. It's unlikely to change the league that the winner comes from. And likely moot given the likelihood that the 2021 Champions League (not to mention the rest of the 2020 event and the 2020 Concacaf League) actually go ahead. Alternatively, let the winner of the current CPL tournament, and this upcoming round of Canadian MLS games play each other in November or December after MLS Cup, in a single match for the Voyageurs Cup.
Or just say f**k it and have the 2019 winner represent Canada as the 2020 representative. If they aren't going to do a proper Canadian Championship, it would be better to not even one and put an asterisk. They did it when CONCACAF changed CCL's format, might as well accept that this is a lost year and move on.
This has way more to do about provincial authorities stomach for risk, location and timing than putting the entire thing on hold to hear back from MLS. The CSA wants to hold it right after CPL, which makes sens because things will get cold. I'm more of the opinion that either MLS finds a way to let the clubs take part of it or they forfeit.
Not happening in a million year. CPL's influence within the CSA took a huge leap and will now have way more weight than people think. CSB & CSA are for all an purposes "partners" and CPL is helping the Canadian program in huge ways. No way the CSA takes such a decision with CPL owners just accepting it
This being a precedent is more like happen, especially if the current Champions League takes longer to resume.
I'd rather have no Canadian Championship this year than one that omits either the MLS or CPL teams. But I think it will be possible to work something out that includes both sets of teams. Everyone is used to being flexible this year.
Away kits will be revealed this afternoon ICYMI - We'll be unveiling our 2020 @MacronSports Away Kits live on Twitter today at 2 PM ET ⏰#CanPL pic.twitter.com/C4yJ1BCyqi— Canadian Premier League (@CPLsoccer) July 30, 2020
2020 Away Kits are out New at @CPLsoccer Away kits for 2020 CPL season unveiled for all 8 clubshttps://t.co/sIEUGbu8Pb— John Molinaro (@JohnMolinaro) July 30, 2020
How much say does CSA have over the Voyageurs Cup? If no tournament, then surely it's up to the Voyageurs to decide how it's awarded. What were the terms of the 2008 agreement? It's the 2021 representative that's the issue (as unlikely as that is. We want the best current team representing. For 2020, if they continue, I'd simply change everything to single legs in a neutral location, and have semis with Olimpia playing UANL, and America playing the winner of Cruz Azul/LAFC, and be done with it in 4 matches. Montreal and NYFC have already lost their home legs, and perhaps that is slightly unfair to Atlanta, they are down 3-0 after the leg at Azetca.
I was only referring to the cup. The CSA has the cup on loan, and awards it to the Canadian Championship. If the Championship doesn't take place, I don't think anything precludes the Voyageurs from choosing an alternate way of awarding the cup - and what immediately jumps to mind, is reverting to the methodology used before the CSA became involved.
I thought they "gave" it to the CSA. If there was no CONCACAF berth attached to the trophy in your example, it would be doubtful that CPL or MLS teams would play that tournament like before
Everything I can see says loaned. They never did play for it before there were berths. They simply awarded it to the top Canadian team in inter-Canadian games in the top league with multiple Canadian teams. Very similar to the Cascadia Cup ... which didn't transition from USL to MLS until 2 years after Settle left USL, leaving them ineligible for the Cascadia Cup from 2009 and 2010 similar to how Toronto wasn't eligible for the Voyageurs Cup in 2007.