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Not to be confused with North Star Shield.
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LeagueCanadian Premier League
Awarded forFinishing the regular season with the best record
History
First award2023, 2019 (retroactively)
Most winsCavalry FC (2 shields)
Most recentCavalry FC (2023, 2nd 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

† – Trophy awarded retroactively

Season Teams Winner Record Playoff result Coach
Pld W D L Pts +/- PPG
† 2019 † 7 Cavalry FC 28 19 5 4 62 6 2.21 Runner-up England Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
2020 8 Not awarded
† 2021 † 8 Forge FC 28 16 2 10 50 0[a] 1.79 Runner-up Canada Bobby Smyrniotis
† 2022 † 8 Atlético Ottawa 28 13 10 5 49 2 1.75 Runner-up Spain Carlos González
2023 8 Cavalry FC (2) 28 16 7 5 55 32 1.96 Runner-up England Tommy Wheeldon Jr. (2)
  1. ^ 1st tiebreaker: total wins

Records and statistics[edit]

See also: List of soccer clubs in Canada by competitive honours won

Shield wins by club[edit]

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

Shield wins by province[edit]

Province Winners Runners-up
Ontario 2 3
Alberta 2 1

Winner's records in the CONCACAF Champions Cup[edit]

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[a] Round of 16 Round of 16
2024 Cavalry FC First Round TBD

Earlier best records[edit]

Before the Canadian Premier League's inauguration in 2019, the Canadian Soccer Association had sanctioned two other division 1 leagues in Canada, the Canadian Professional Soccer League in 1983, and the Canadian Soccer League from 1987 to 1992. Neither league officially recognized the team that finished the regular season with the most points. For reference, this is a list of teams that finished with the best regular season record in a Canadian 1st division league prior to 2019.

League Season Teams Top record Record Playoff result Coach
Pld W D L Pts +/- PPG
CPSL 1983 6[b] Edmonton Eagles 10 7 3 0 17[adj 1] 5 1.70 Champions Germany Dieter Hochheimer
CSL 1987 8 Calgary Kickers 20 11 5 4 27[adj 2] 1 1.35 Champions ?
1988 9 Vancouver 86ers 28 21 6 1 48[adj 3] 6 1.71 Champions Canada Bob Lenarduzzi
1989 10 Vancouver 86ers (2) 26 18 6 2 42[adj 4] 4 1.62 Champions Canada Bob Lenarduzzi (2)
1990 11 Vancouver 86ers (3) 26 17 6 3 40[adj 5] 1 1.54 Champions Canada Bob Lenarduzzi (3)
1991 8 Vancouver 86ers (4) 28 20 4 4 64 16 2.29 Champions Canada Bob Lenarduzzi (4)
1992 6 Vancouver 86ers (5) 20 11 3 6 36 6 1.80 Runner-up Canada Bob Lenarduzzi (5)
Note: from 1983 to 1990, a win was only worth 2 points.
  1. ^ 1983: 24 points (2.40 PPG) if conventional system used.
  2. ^ 1987: 38 points (1.90 PPG) if conventional system used.
  3. ^ 1988: 69 points (2.47 PPG) if conventional system used.
  4. ^ 1989: 60 points (2.31 PPG) if conventional system used.
  5. ^ 1990: 57 points (2.19 PPG) if conventional system used.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Notes
  1. ^ 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]
  2. ^ Two teams folded midway through the season, leaving the league with four teams, and causing teams to play an unequal amount of matches. Teams that remained active until the end of the season played between 10 and 13 regular season games. Despite playing the lowest amount of games for a surviving team, Edmonton still won the most points.
Sources
  1. ^ John Jacques (18 September 2022). "Prize Pool: CPL Regular Season Champion To Get Money, Trophy". Northern Tribune. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  2. ^ Charlie O’Connor-Clarke (18 September 2022). "Canadian Premier League announces plans to recognize regular season champions". Canadian Premier League. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Canadian Premier League revamps trophy case with new hardware up for grabs". CTV News. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Canadian Premier League announces new trophies". Canadian Premier League. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Canadian Premier League's Island Games: Everything you need to know". Sportsnet.ca. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  6. ^ Benedict Rhodes (14 February 2022). "Forge become first CPL team to play in the Concacaf Champions League: How did they get here?". Canadian Premier League. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
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