2018 Campeones Cup

The 2018 Campeones Cup was the first edition of the Campeones Cup, an annual North American football competition contested between the champions of the previous Major League Soccer season and the winner of the Campeón de Campeones from Liga MX.

2018 Campeones Cup

BMO Field in Toronto hosted the match
Event	Campeones Cup
Toronto FC UANL 1 3
Date	September 19, 2018 (2018-09-19)
Venue	BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Man of the Match	Jesús Dueñas (UANL)[1]
Referee	Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)[2]
Attendance	14,823[3]
Weather	Clear 18 °C (64 °F) 73% humidity[4]
2019 →

The match featured Canadian side Toronto FC, winners of the 2017 MLS Cup, and UANL, winners of the 2018 Campeón de Campeones, for which they qualified by winning the 2017 Liga MX Torneo Apertura. Toronto FC hosted the match at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada, on September 19, 2018.

UANL won the match 3–1 to win the inaugural Campeones Cup.^[5]

Teams

Team	Qualification
Toronto FC	MLS Cup 2017 winners
UANL	2018 Campeón de Campeones winners

Venue

As the MLS team, Toronto FC hosted the match, which took place at BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a seating capacity of 30,000. The stadium opened in 2007 and was renovated in 2016.^[6]

Broadcasting

The match's English broadcast was aired in Canada on TSN and the United States on ESPN2. A French broadcast was aired in Canada on TVA Sports 2, while Univision and Univision Deportes Network carried the Spanish broadcast in the United States.^[7] The Univision broadcast was watched by an audience of 1.1 million.^[8]

Match

Details

Toronto FC	1–3	UANL
Janson 87' (pen.)	Report	Dueñas 36', 64' Zavaleta 66' (o.g.)

September 19, 2018 (2018-09-19)

20:15 EDT

BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario

Attendance: 14,823

Referee: Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica)

Toronto FC

UANL

GK 25 Alex Bono CB 15 Eriq Zavaleta CB 4 Michael Bradley (c) CB 6 Nick Hagglund RM 9 Gregory van der Wiel  65' CM 14 Jay Chapman CM 18 Mark Delgado CM 21 Jonathan Osorio LM 2 Justin Morrow CF 17 Jozy Altidore  57' CF 10 Sebastian Giovinco  40' Substitutes: GK 1 Clint Irwin DF 5 Ashtone Morgan DF 12 Jason Hernandez DF 96 Auro Jr.  65' MF 7 Víctor Vázquez FW 16 Lucas Janson  40' FW 87 Tosaint Ricketts  57' Manager: Greg Vanney

GK 1 Nahuel Guzmán RWB 28 Luis Rodríguez LWB 29 Jesús Dueñas CB 4 Hugo Ayala CB 3 Juninho (c) CB 6 Jorge Torres Nilo CM 5 Rafael Carioca CM 19 Guido Pizarro  85' AM 8 Lucas Zelarayán  88' CF 9 Eduardo Vargas  64' CF 10 André-Pierre Gignac Substitutes: GK 30 Miguel Ortega DF 2 Israel Jiménez DF 14 Juanjo Purata MF 25 Jürgen Damm  85' FW 13 Enner Valencia  64' FW 17 Rafael Durán FW 18 Ismael Sosa  88' Manager: Ricardo Ferretti

Man of the Match: Jesús Dueñas (UANL)[1] Assistant referees:[2] Juan Carlos Mora (Costa Rica) Octavio Jara (Costa Rica) Fourth official:[2] Henry Bejarano (Costa Rica)

Match rules[2] 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Statistics

Statistic[9]	Toronto FC	UANL
Goals scored	1	3
Total shots	15	8
Shots on target	4	3
Saves	1	3
Ball possession	48%	52%
Corner kicks	6	1
Fouls committed	14	11
Offsides	0	2
Yellow cards	0	0
Red cards	0	0