{"id":874007,"date":"2025-09-18T23:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/vancouver-whitecaps-cruise-past-forge-fc-to-canadian-championship-final-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:11:57","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-cruise-past-forge-fc-to-canadian-championship-final-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/vancouver-whitecaps-cruise-past-forge-fc-to-canadian-championship-final-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps cruise past Forge FC to Canadian Championship final | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div role=\"main\" id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Page main content\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div data-bucket-name=\"main-content-before-middle-adv\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/vancouver-whitecaps-fc\/\">Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a> have reached the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/canadian-championship\/2025\/\">Canadian Championship<\/a> final, closing out a 6-2 aggregate semifinal victory over Canadian Premier League side Forge FC with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/canadian-championship\/2025\/matches\/vanvsfor-09-16-2025\/\">4-0 Leg 2 result<\/a> Tuesday night at BC Place.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Whitecaps are one win away from claiming the Voyageurs Cup for a fourth straight season, which would book their 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/\">Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> ticket. Vancouver will host the winner of the other semifinal series between the CPL&#8217;s Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa and Vancouver FC on Oct. 1 (Vancouver FC lead 3-1 on aggregate).<\/p>\n<p>After drawing the first leg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/canadian-championship\/2025\/matches\/forvsvan-08-13-2025\/\">2-2<\/a> last month in Hamilton, the Whitecaps scored early on Tuesday and never looked back. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tristan-blackmon\/\">Tristan Blackmon<\/a> netted in the seventh minute, when the All-Star center back headed home off a corner kick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jean-claude-ngando\/\">J.C. Ngando<\/a> moved the aggregate advantage to 4-2 with a 28th-minute strike, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\">USMNT<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/sebastian-berhalter\/\">Sebastian Berhalter<\/a> effectively put the series to bed with a penalty-kick finish in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jayden-nelson\/\">Jayden Nelson<\/a> added a fourth for good measure, rounding out the scoring in the 85th minute with a close-range finish off an assist from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/rayan-elloumi\/\">Rayan Elloumi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Goals<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>7&#8242; &#8211; VAN &#8211; Tristan Blackmon | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/1968138762107621610\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<li>29&#8242; &#8211; VAN &#8211; J.C. Ngando | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/1968144935737233546\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<li>49&#8242; &#8211; VAN &#8211; Sebastian Berhalter (PK) | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/onesoccer\/status\/1968152987085557820\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<li>85&#8242; &#8211; VAN &#8211; Jayden Nelson | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/onesoccer\/status\/1968161930373366119\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h3>Three Things<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THE BIG PICTURE:<\/strong> Coming off their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/vanvsphi-09-13-2025\">7-0 domination<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> last weekend, Vancouver kept the momentum rolling in CanChamp play with a professional performance that sends them to the final. The Whitecaps have already punched their Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs ticket and are still in the Supporters&#8217; Shield mix, so they could make this a truly historic season under first-year head coach Jesper S\u00f8rensen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MOMENT OF THE MATCH:<\/strong> The series was still up for grabs after Blackmon&#8217;s opener, then Vancouver pulled away for good with this well-taken finish from Ngando.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014 Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1968144935737233546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MAN OF THE MATCH:<\/strong> Blackmon&#8217;s goal was his second of the series, and he helped ensure there would be no comeback by anchoring a clean sheet. However, he exited the match late with a knee injury.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT A START! Berhalter sets up Blackmon perfectly to head &#8216;er home! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VWFC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VWFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanChamp?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CanChamp<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T5iSUScdRo\">pic.twitter.com\/T5iSUScdRo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 X &#8211; Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhitecapsFC\/status\/1968139585369804992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h3>Next Up<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VAN:<\/strong> Saturday, Sept. 20 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/sporting-kansas-city\/\">Sporting Kansas City<\/a> | 8:30 pm ET (<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/sporting-kansas-city-vs-vancouver-whitecaps-fc\/umc.cse.7408rpg41qn3bqeazrphq7nye\">MLS Season Pass<\/a>) | MLS regular season<\/li>\n<li><strong>FOR:<\/strong> Sunday, Sept. 21 at Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa | 3 pm ET | Canadian Premier League regular season<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                                <iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0qZz0GlNJOA?feature=oembed\" allowfullscreen title=\"HIGHLIGHTS: Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Forge FC | 2025 TELUS Canadian Championship (Sept. 16, 2025)\"><\/iframe>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/vancouver-whitecaps-cruise-past-forge-fc-to-canadian-championship-final\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Johnathon Roberie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Vancouver Whitecaps FC have reached the 2025 Canadian Championship final, closing out a 6-2 aggregate semifinal victory over Canadian Premier League side Forge FC with a 4-0 Leg 2 result Tuesday night at BC Place. The Whitecaps are one win away from claiming the Voyageurs Cup for a fourth straight season, which would book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2005,23566,105439],"tags":[18172,105438],"class_list":["post-874007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","category-vancouver","category-whitecaps","tag-vancouver","tag-whitecaps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}