| Competition: | Canadian Premier League |
| Season: | 2024 |
| Dates: | April 13 – October 19 |
| Shieldtitle: | CPL Shield |
| Continentalcup1: | CONCACAF Champions Cup |
| Matches: | 75 |
| Total Goals: | 203 |
| League Topscorer: | Rubén del Campo Brian Wright (9 goals each) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (April 14) (April 26) (May 25) (June 1) (July 26) (July 27) (August 10) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (June 23) |
| Highest Scoring: | (June 28) |
| Longest Wins: | 4 matches Cavalry (July 26 – present) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 10 matches Cavalry (April 20 – June 21) |
| Longest Winless: | 9 matches HFX Wanderers (April 13 – June 15) |
| Longest Losses: | 5 matches Valour (April 14 – May 10) |
| Highest Attendance: | 7,395 (April 13) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 843 (April 26) |
| Attendance: | 279,174 |
| Average Attendance: | 3,988 |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Updated: | August 18, 2024 |
The 2024 Canadian Premier League season is the sixth season of the Canadian Premier League, the top level of Canadian soccer. Forge FC are the defending champions, having beaten Cavalry FC in the 2023 final.[1]
The same eight teams that competed in the 2023 season are competing in the 2024 season. The CPL's total player compensation budget was increased by $87,500 to a total of $1,112,500 (or $1,212,500 for teams maximizing the U21 salary incentive).[2]
York United was bought by a new ownership group from Mexico, Game Plan Sports Group.[3]
| Club | Results | Location | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlético Ottawa | details | Ottawa, Ontario | TD Place Stadium | 24,000 | |
| Cavalry FC | details | Foothills County, Alberta | ATCO Field | 6,000 | |
| Forge FC | details | Hamilton, Ontario | Tim Hortons Field | 23,218 | |
| HFX Wanderers FC | details | Halifax, Nova Scotia | Wanderers Grounds | 6,500 | |
| Pacific FC | details | Langford, British Columbia | Starlight Stadium | 6,000 | |
| Valour FC | details | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Princess Auto Stadium | 33,000 | |
| Vancouver FC | details | Langley, British Columbia | Willoughby Community Park | 6,560 | |
| York United FC | details | Toronto, Ontario | York Lions Stadium | 4,000 |
| Atlético Ottawa | Carlos González | Maxim Tissot | Maple Lodge Farms[4] | CIBC[5] | |
| Cavalry | Tommy Wheeldon Jr. | Marco Carducci | WestJet | ||
| Forge | Bobby Smyrniotis | Kyle Bekker | Tim Hortons | ||
| Patrice Gheisar | Andre Rampersad | Volkswagen | |||
| James Merriman | Josh Heard | Telus[6] | |||
| Valour | Phillip Dos Santos | Raphael Ohin | OneSoccer | ||
| Vancouver | Afshin Ghotbi | Callum Irving | CIBC | Carlsberg 0.0%[7] | |
| York United | Benjamín Mora | Mo Babouli | Carlsberg 0.0%[8] | CIBC |
| 1 | Ontario | 3 | Atlético Ottawa Forge York United |
| 2 | British Columbia | 2 | Pacific Vancouver FC |
| 3 | Alberta | 1 | Cavalry |
| Manitoba | 1 | Valour | |
| Nova Scotia | 1 |
The regular season is being played as a quadruple round-robin, with each team playing the other seven teams twice at home and twice away between April and October. The regular season winner (the team ranked first after all 28 games) will qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup and the top five teams will qualify for the playoffs; the top two will get a bye to the semifinals.[11]
Notes
The 2024 season will use the Page playoff system. The team who finished first in the regular-season table would play the team who finished second, and the winner would host the final. The fourth- and fifth-placed teams would play in a play-in round, and the winner of this game would then play the third-placed team in a quarter-final. The quarter-final winner would play the loser of the game between the first and second-placed teams for the other spot in the final.
In playoffs, if the scores are equal when normal playing time expires, extra time will be played for two periods of 15 minutes each. This will be followed, if required, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.
The Gatorade Team of the Week was selected by the CPL's Kristian Jack and OneSoccer's Oliver Platt.
| Team of the Week | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards | Ref | |
| 1 | [15] | |||||
| 2 | [16] | |||||
| 3 | [17] | |||||
| 4 | [18] | |||||
| 5 | [19] | |||||
| 6 | [20] | |||||
| 7 | [21] | |||||
| 8 | [22] | |||||
| 9 | [23] | |||||
| 10 | [24] | |||||
| 11 | [25] | |||||
| 12 | [26] | |||||
| 13 | [27] | |||||
| 14 | [28] | |||||
| 15 | [29] | |||||
| 16 | [30] | |||||
| Manager of the Month | Player of the Month | Goalkeeper of the Month | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | Club | Player | Club | Goalkeeper | Club | |||
| April | Bobby Smyrniotis | Forge FC | Tristan Borges | Forge FC | Christopher Kalongo | Forge FC | [31] [32] [33] | |
| May | Carlos González | Atlético Ottawa | Rubén del Campo | Atlético Ottawa | Callum Irving | Vancouver FC | [34] [35] [36] | |
| June | Patrice Gheisar | HFX Wanderers FC | Kwasi Poku | Forge FC |  Thomas Vincensini | York United FC | [37] [38] [39] | |
| July | Benjamín Mora | York United FC |  Mo Babouli | York United FC |  Marco Carducci | Cavalry FC | ||
See main article: List of Canadian Premier League transfers 2024.
According to FIFA's worldwide registration periods calendar, the Canadian Soccer Association's (CSA's) 2024 pre-season transfer window opened on January 31 and closed on April 23; the mid-season transfer window would open on July 18 and close on August 14.[40] However, the CPL later announced that its mid-season transfer window would instead open on July 5 and close on August 2, contradicting FIFA's published dates. This discrepancy was resolved on July 11 when the CSA announced that the mid-season transfer window would open on July 12 and close on August 8 as a compromise between the CPL's and Major League Soccer's interests.[41] [42]
The 2024 CPL–U Sports Draft took place on December 14, 2023. Each team made two picks in the draft, for a total of 16 selections.[43]
See main article: List of foreign CPL players. Canadian Premier League teams can sign a maximum of seven international players, out of which only five can be in the starting line-up for each match.
The following international players are signed for the 2024 season. Note that players may be considered domestic for CPL purposes (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or refugees) while still representing other countries in international competitions.[44]
Players in italic denote players who were new to their respective clubs for the 2024 season, sorted chronologically by their announcement. Players in Bold indicate players who have represented their national teams at the senior level.
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