CPL Shield

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Not to be confused with North Star Shield.

The Canadian Premier League Shield or CPL Shield is a trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Premier League (CPL) club with the best regular season finish. Although this award does not signify a league championship, as that is decided during the Canadian Premier League Finals, the winning team is awarded an equal monetary prize to the eventual playoff champions, and a berth in the next season’s CONCACAF Champions Cup.[1]

History

At the end of the 2022 Canadian Premier League season, the league announced that they would begin to recognize the regular season accomplishments of its member clubs to have more similarity with soccer competitions around the world, which put less emphasis on post-season results.[2] At the time, the Canadian Premier League did not recognize a regular season winner. The CPL Shield was first unveiled near the end of the 2023 Canadian Premier League regular season.[3][4] Cavalry FC were the first team to hoist the trophy following their 2023 regular season championship. The CPL Shield was also awarded retroactively to the clubs with the best regular season records from all previous seasons, meaning that Cavalry FC were also the first de-facto winners of the trophy for their first place finish in the inaugural 2019 season. Due to the unconventional format used for a shortened season in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league did not retroactively award the trophy to any team for that year.[5]

Design

The trophy is a silver shield measuring about 46 centimetres in diameter and weighing nine kilograms. The CPL Shield has 13 edges to represent each of the provinces and territories of Canada and features a gold CPL logo (which is a stylized maple leaf) in the centre.[3] The trophy sits on a removable wooden base.

Winners

dagger – Trophy awarded retroactively

Season Teams Winner Record Playoff result Coach
Pld W D L Pts Ppg
dagger 2019 dagger 7 Cavalry FC 28[lower-alpha 1] 19 5 4 62 2.21 Runner-up England Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
2020 8 Not awarded
dagger 2021 dagger 8 Forge FC 28 16 2 10 50 1.79 Runner-up Canada Bobby Smyrniotis
dagger 2022 dagger 8 Atlético Ottawa 28 13 10 5 49 1.75 Runner-up Spain Carlos González
2023 8 Cavalry FC (2) 28 16 7 5 55 1.96 Runner-up England Tommy Wheeldon Jr. (2)

Records

Shield wins by club

Team Winners Runners-up Year(s) won Year(s) runners-up
Cavalry FC 2 1 2019, 2023 2021
Forge FC 1 3 2021 2019, 2022, 2023
Atlético Ottawa 1 0 2022

Winner's records in the CONCACAF Champions Cup

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See also: Canadian soccer clubs in international competitions

Starting in 2023, the CPL Shield winner earned Canada's berth in the following year's CONCACAF Champions Cup.[4]

Year Club Starting round Result
2022 Forge FC[lower-alpha 2] Round of 16 Round of 16
2024 Cavalry FC First Round TBD

See also

References

Notes
  1. ↑ The 2019 season used a split-season format with 10 matches played in the spring season, and 18 played in the fall season.
  2. ↑ Although Forge was the regular season champion in 2021, they qualified to the Champions League due to their placement in the 2021 CONCACAF League, as the CPL Shield berth was only first awarded in 2023.[6]
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