Impact to face Toronto
The Impact will have to go through Toronto if it wants to represent the Canada in the 2012-2013 CONCACAF Champions League.
Montreal will face MLS rival Toronto FC in the semifinal round of this year’s Amway Canadian Championship, formerly the Nutrilite Canadian Championship.
The MLS Vancouver Whitecaps FC will take on FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League in the other semifinal.
Clubs were seeded based on their 2011 league results in MLS and the NASL.
The Impact will play the first game of the home and away aggregate-goal series at Olympic Stadium on May 2 with the return match at BMO Field in Toronto May 9.
Semifinal winners will advance to a two-game, aggregate-goal final for the Voyageurs Cup set for May 16 and May 23.
The Canadian champion will represent the country in a 24-team tournament contested by clubs from North America, Central America and the Caribbean, starting in the summer and continuing through the spring of next year.
The Impact won the inaugural Canadian Championship in 2008 with a 2-1-1 record to finish two points ahead of Toronto FC and eventually reached the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals. The club defeated Mexican first-division side Santos Laguna in front of a crowd of 55,571 at
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