2012 Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic Explained

Year:2012
Dates:February 24 – March 3
Country:United States
Num Teams:8
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion Other:Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Count:1
Second Other:Toronto FC
Third Other:FC Dallas
Matches:14
Goals:32
Top Scorer: Sébastien Le Toux (3 goals)
Prevseason:2011
Nextseason:2013

The 2012 Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic was a preseason soccer tournament held at Walt Disney World's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. The tournament, the third edition of the Pro Soccer Classic, was held from February 24 to March 3 and featured six Major League Soccer clubs along with one USL Pro club and one Swedish Allsvenskan club.

The tournament was won by the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, who defeated Toronto FC 1–0 in the final.

Teams

The following eight clubs competed in the tournament:

Matches

Group stage

Tie-breaking criteria
If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria would be applied to determine the rankings:

  1. winner of head-to-head match;
  2. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
  3. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
  4. lowest number of goals allowed from all group matches played;
  5. single point deduction per red card or send off;
  6. coin toss with the club whose home city is list first alphabetically calling the toss;
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners advance to Final
Group runners-up advance to Consolation

Pool 1

TeamPldWLDGFGAGDPts
Vancouver Whitecaps FC330070+79
Houston Dynamo301212–12
Montreal Impact301225–32
Sporting Kansas City301214–32

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Pool 2

Team PldWLDGFGAGDPts
Toronto FC320183+57
FC Dallas311154+14
BK Häcken31114404
Orlando City302128–61

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Championship Round

Consolation match


Final

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