{"id":941805,"date":"2026-10-22T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941805\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:42:22","slug":"cf-montreal-fall-to-forge-fc-in-canadian-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941805\/","title":{"rendered":"CF Montr\u00e9al fall to Forge FC in Canadian Championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"

CF Montr\u00e9al<\/a> fell to Forge FC 4-2 on penalty kicks in the 2026 Canadian Championship<\/a> final after the teams played to a 1-1 deadlock<\/a> through 120 minutes\u00a0on Wednesday night at Stade Saputo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was CF Montr\u00e9al’s ninth trip to the CanChamp final, and first since lifting the Voyageurs Cup in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Forge, who eliminated Montr\u00e9al from the Canadian Championship for a third straight year, became the first Canadian Premier League team to win the title and clinched a berth in the 2027 Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CF Montr\u00e9al had a golden chance to take an early lead when leading scorer Prince Owusu<\/a> stepped up to take a penalty kick. But Forge goalkeeper Dimitry Bertaud denied the Ghanaian striker, diving to his left to save the PK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, Forge entered halftime with the advantage. Antoine Batisse latched onto Noah Jensen’s corner kick at the near post and headed past Montr\u00e9al goalkeeper\u00a0S\u00e9bastian Breza<\/a>\u00a0deep into first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Four minutes into the second half, CFMTL leveled through\u00a0Daniel R\u00edos<\/a>, who headed in from the edge of the six-yard box.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hosts were reduced to 10 men in the 54th minute when Brayan Vera<\/a> was sent off for his second bookable offense.<\/p>\n

Bertaud was the hero during the shootout, making two more saves for Forge before Manjrekar James clinched the CPL side’s historic win in the fifth round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CF Montr\u00e9al fell to Forge FC 4-2 on penalty kicks in the 2026 Canadian Championship final after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,59191,16535,209591,59211,2338,322565,24855],"class_list":["post-941805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-championship","tag-cf-montreal","tag-forge-fc","tag-match-reaction","tag-montreal","tag-mtlvsfor-10-21-2026","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}