The 2024 Canadian Premier League final was the sixth edition of the CPL Finals, the post-season championship of the

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, the top level of Canadian soccer, which determined the winner of the

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. It was played on November9, 2024 at

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, Alberta between

Cavalry FC Cavalry Football Club is a Canadian professional soccer club based in the Calgary metropolitan region of Alberta. The club competes at the top of the Canadian soccer league system in the Canadian Premier League, and plays their home matches ...

and

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. The 2024 final was a rematch of the 2023 final which was hosted and won by

. Cavalry defeated Forge 2–1 to win their first CPL title. Tobias Warschewski and Sergio Camargo scored first half goals to give Cavalry a 2–0 half-time lead; Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson responded for Forge in the second half. Following the match, Warschewski was named the inaugural CPL Final MVP. Cavalry was awarded the North Star Cup as CPL champion and earned a spot in the

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Path to the final

The 2024 CPL season was contested by eight teams. Each team played four games against each of the seven opponents for a total of 28 matches. The top-five teams from the regular season qualified for the

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which begin on October23. The playoffs featured a Page playoff format where teams entered in different rounds depending on their finishing position. All matches in the playoffs were played as single legs. The finals were contested by the winner of the playoffs' first semifinal and the winner of the second semifinal.

Regular season standings

Notes

Playoff bracket

Background

Cavalry FC

Cavalry reached the CPL final for third time in six seasons.

Forge FC

Forge qualified for the CPL playoffs on September21 and clinched first place and the top seed in the playoffs on October6. Following a 1–0 win against

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on November 2, Forge FC qualified for a record-extending sixth consecutive CPL final. Forge attempted to win their fifth CPL championship and tried to become the first CPL team to win the double by winning the

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and the

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in the same season.

Head-to-head

The 2024 CPL final was the sixth meeting of the season between these two teams and the twenty-sixth overall. Forge had the advantage in the 2024 regular season against Cavalry, leading the head-to-head with two wins, one draw, and one loss and finishing two points ahead in the standings. This was the second consecutive CPL final between Cavalry and Forge and the third overall. The previous occurrences in 2019 and 2023 were both won by Forge FC. As the top-two teams in regular season, Forge hosted Cavalry in the first semifinal which was a non-elimination game. Cavalry won the game and earned the right to host the CPL final while Forge qualified to the second semifinal as losers. The match was the 29th of 31 games between the teams that was decided by one goal or fewer.

Venue

, Alberta, home of Cavalry FC, was the host stadium for the final. This was determined by the outcome of the playoffs' first semifinal on October27 between regular season winner

and second seed

; Cavalry won the match 1–0. ATCO Field has previously hosted the second leg of the 2019 Canadian Premier League finals.

Broadcasting

The CPL final continued to be broadcast on

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. On October9, the CPL and

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jointly announced that the CBC would also broadcast the final for the first time since

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on its platforms CBC TV,

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, and cbcsports.ca.

Pre-match

As part of its broadcasting announcement, the CPL announced that the final would be played on November9 at 3:00pm ET. The CPL confirmed the date and time following Cavalry's win in the first semifinal. Associated with the final, the annual Canadian Premier League Awards took place on November7 in Calgary. Matchday will feature a "FanFest" headlined by singer Lu Kala.

Match

Post-match

Following the match, Cavalry was awarded the North Star Cup and crowned CPL champions, while striker Tobias Warschewski was named the CPL Final MVP. Although the CPL champion team is awarded a spot in the next year's

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, Cavalry had already qualified for the 2025 edition as a result of both them and Forge qualifying for the final. Cavalry and Forge faced

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and

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respectively in round one of the Champions Cup; neither club advanced to the competition's round of 16.

Notes

References

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Path to the final

Regular season standings

Playoff bracket

Background

Cavalry FC

Forge FC

Head-to-head

Venue

Broadcasting

Pre-match

Match

Post-match

See also

Notes

References