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Pacific FC–Vancouver FC Rivalry
The Salish Sea Derby, also known as the BC Derby and Pacific FC–Vancouver FC rivalry, is a British Columbian intra-provincial soccer rivalry between Pacific FC of Langford, and Vancouver FC of Langley Township. They regularly compete with each other in the Canadian Premier League. History Pacific FC are an inaugural member of the Canadian Premier League, and played their first season in 2019. Despite having developed small and/or temporary rivalries with Cavalry FC and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, the rivalries were considered secondary, as Cavalry would view their rivalries with FC Edmonton and Forge FC as being more important, while the Whitecaps played in a different league (MLS) completely. However, this would change following the foundation of Vancouver FC, a Canadian Premier League expansion team that started play in 2023. The idea of a British Columbia derby or rivalry was quickly adopted by the league and supporters' groups of both clubs. In addition to their geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Coast
The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia. As the entire western continental coastline of Canada along the Pacific Ocean is in the province, it is synonymous with being the West Coast of Canada. While the exact boundaries are variously defined, the region is generally defined to include the 15 regional districts that have coastline along the Pacific Ocean or Salish Sea, or are part of the Lower Mainland, a subregion of the British Columbia Coast. Other boundaries may exclude parts of or even entire regional districts, such as those of the aforementioned ''Lower Mainland''. Boundaries While the term ''British Columbia Coast'' has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms. The term has historically been in popular usage for over a century to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Canadian Soccer
The following are events related to Canadian soccer in the year 2023. National teams Men's Senior = Friendlies = = 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League = Group C Finals = 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League = Quarter-finals = Gold Cup = Group D Knock out U-17 =Friendlies= = 2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship = Group F Knockout stage = 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup = The 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be hosted by Indonesia. Canada qualified for the tournament on February 22, 2023 by defeating Puerto Rico national under-17 football team, Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals of the 2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. On September 15, 2023, Canada were drawn into Group B with Spain national under-17 football team, Spain, Mali national under-17 football team, Mali, and Uzbekistan national under-17 football team, Uzbekistan. Group B Women's Senior . =Friendlies= =SheBelieves Cup= source =2023 FIFA Women's Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CPL Shield
The Canadian Premier League Shield or CPL Shield is a trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Premier League (CPL) club with the best regular season finish. Although this award does not signify a league championship, as that is decided during the Canadian Premier League Finals, the winning team is awarded an equal monetary prize to the eventual playoff champions, and a berth in the next season's CONCACAF Champions Cup. History At the end of the 2022 Canadian Premier League season, the league announced that they would begin to recognize the regular season accomplishments of its member clubs to have more similarity with soccer competitions around the world, which put less emphasis on post-season results. At the time, the Canadian Premier League did not recognize a regular season winner. The CPL Shield was first unveiled near the end of the 2023 Canadian Premier League regular season. Cavalry FC were the first team to hoist the trophy following their 2023 regular season champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Premier League Finals
The Canadian Premier League final is the annual championship game of the Canadian Premier League (CPL), the top level of Canadian soccer. It is played as a single match hosted by the winner of the first semifinal against the winner of the second semifinal at the conclusion of the league's annual playoff. The finals winner is awarded the North Star Cup trophy and earns a berth in round one of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The CPL uses a playoff tournament following the regular season to determine its annual league champion, a method common to every other major North American sports league. This format differs from most soccer leagues around the world, which consider the club with the most points at the end of the season to be the champion. Since 2023, the league has honoured the regular season winners with the CPL Shield. The inaugural finals were played as a two-legged tie on October 26 and November 2, 2019 in which Forge FC defeated Cavalry FC. Forge FC is the most success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Championship
The Canadian Championship () is an annual soccer tournament contested by Canadian professional teams. The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and a berth in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. It is contested by Major League Soccer sides Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, and CF Montréal, eight Canadian Premier League sides, and the champions of League1 Ontario, League1 British Columbia, Ligue1 Québec, and League1 Alberta. The tournament is organized by the Canadian Soccer Association and has been broadcast on OneSoccer since 2019. History The Canadian Championship is a domestic cup competition organized by the Canadian Soccer Association. The championship determines one of Canada's entries in the annual CONCACAF Champions Cup. Until the creation of the Canadian Premier League in 2019, all fully professional Canadian soccer teams played in United States–based leagues. Prior to the creation of the official competition in 2008, there was no domestic competition to determine the be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OneSoccer
OneSoccer is a Canadian Association football, soccer-oriented List of sports television channels, sports channel and subscription streaming service. The service was first established in 2019 as part of a 10-year agreement between Canadian Soccer Business—a company that represents the commercial rights of the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and Canadian Premier League (CPL)—and Mediapro. Initially distributed as a streaming service only, the network began to pursue linear television distribution as a Discretionary service, discretionary specialty channel in September 2021. The network serves as the main Canadian broadcaster of the CPL and Canada's Canada men's national soccer team, men's and Canada women's national soccer team, women's national teams, as well as CONCACAF competitions such as the CONCACAF Gold Cup and CONCACAF Champions Cup, Champions Cup. In 2024, amid contractual disputes between Canadian Soccer Business and Mediapro, the organization reached a settlement t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Bitar
Gabriel Walid Bitar (; born August 23, 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or midfielder for Canadian Premier League club York United FC. Born in Canada, he plays for the Lebanon national team. Early life Bitar began playing soccer with the Ottawa Internationals at age four. He later joined the Ottawa Fury Academy. University career In 2017, Bitar began attending Carleton University playing for the men's soccer team. In his first year, he was the top scorer in the country with 16 goals, as he won the OUA East Division Rookie of the Year, OUA East Division MVP, and U Sports Rookie of the Year awards and was named a First Team All-Canadian and First-Team OUA East All-Star, helping the Ravens to an OUA silver medal, scoring an additional four goals during the national tournament. In 2018, he finished third in the OUA in goals with 13 and added another 5 in the national tournament, while being named a Second Team All-Canadian and First Team OUA All-Star, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Province
''The Province'' is a daily newspaper published in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format in British Columbia by Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, alongside the ''Vancouver Sun'' broadsheet newspaper. Together, they are British Columbia's only two major newspapers. Formerly a broadsheet, ''The Province'' later became tabloid paper-size. It publishes daily except Saturdays, Mondays (as of October 17, 2022) and selected holidays. History ''The Province'' was established as a weekly newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria in 1894. A 1903 article in the ''Pacific Monthly'' described the ''Province'' as the largest and the youngest of Vancouver's important newspapers. In 1923, the Southam family bought ''The Province''. By 1945, the paper's printers went out on strike. ''The Province'' had been the best selling newspaper in Vancouver, ahead of the ''Vancouver Sun'' and ''The News-Herald (Vancouver, Canada), News Herald''. As a result of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Aparicio
Manuel "Manny" Aparicio (born September 17, 1995) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Canadian Premier League club Atlético Ottawa. Early life Aparicio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Toronto, Canada, with his family in 2004. He began his youth career with East York Dragons before switching to Unionville Milliken SC, where the talented youngster was scouted and recruited to the TFC Academy that competed in the Canadian Soccer League. Club career Toronto FC Aparicio signed his first professional contract in 2013 at the age of 17 years old, becoming the eighth TFC Academy graduate to the professional team. He appeared in two midseason friendlies for Toronto FC in 2015, against English Premier League teams Manchester City and Sunderland. Loan to Wilmington He was loaned out in early 2014 to USL PRO side Wilmington Hammerheads after the two clubs formed a partnership. He was loaned alongside Quillan Roberts and Daniel Lovit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callum Irving
Callum Ernest John Irving (born March 16, 1993) is a Canadian professional association football, soccer player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Canadian Premier League club Vancouver FC. He began his career playing for local clubs in Vancouver before joining the Whitecaps FC Academy in 2007. After attending the University of Kentucky, he went undrafted in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft and subsequently joined Rio Grande Valley FC Toros. After a short-term loan spell at Houston Dynamo, Irving joined Ottawa Fury FC, Ottawa Fury in December 2016. Irving has won a single Cap (sport), cap with the Canada men's national soccer team, Canada national team. Club career Youth and college Irving began playing soccer at the age of four and spent 10 years with Marpole SC. He also played for the Vancouver Selects for two seasons, and represented the British Columbia Soccer Association, British Columbia provincial team at U16 level. In 2007, he joined the Whitecaps FC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
