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White sheets are used to artificially reduce the capacity of BC Place for Whitecaps FC matches. The Whitecaps plays its home matches at BC Place in Vancouver, which it shares with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. [34] [35] The 54,500-seat multi-purpose domed opened in 1983 and was designed for both Canadian football and soccer.
Swangard Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Central Park in Burnaby, British Columbia.Primarily used for soccer, rugby, football, and athletics, the stadium also used to be home to the Simon Fraser Clan football team and the Vancouver Whitecaps while they were in the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) and various US-based Division 2 leagues.
For the third year in a row, it was hosted at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, by two-time defending champions Vancouver Whitecaps FC, who faced Toronto FC. It was the sixth final played between the two clubs. [2] The match was tied 0–0 and decided in a penalty shoot-out, which the Whitecaps won 4–2 for a third consecutive title.
They won 2–1 against Los Angeles FC. After the Whitecaps joined MLS and moved into the renovated BC Place, the team only sold seats in the lower bowl. They drew a record of 27,683 spectators for a regular season match against Seattle Sounders FC in 2018 without opening the upper bowl. [61]
Vancouver Whitecaps FC is a Canadian professional soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS). The Whitecaps are the 17th team of Major League Soccer and replaced the USSF Division 2 team of the same name, which was owned and managed by the same group that operates the MLS team, and which played through the conclusion of that league's 2010 season.
The 2024 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season was the club's thirteenth season in Major League Soccer, the top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. Including previous iterations of the franchise , this was the 47th season of professional soccer being played in Vancouver under a variation of the "Whitecaps" name.
In 2001, the team began to use the old Vancouver Whitecaps moniker (signifying both the 'white caps' of the nearby mountains, and the waves of the Pacific Ocean). [13] [14] In 2003, the name was again changed, albeit only slightly, to Whitecaps FC, which encompasses the men's, women's, and youth development teams within the organization.
After playing at Vancouver's 32,000-seat Empire Stadium for most of their existence, the team moved into the brand new 60,000-seat BC Place Stadium in 1983. The Whitecaps set a then highest all-time Canadian attendance record of 60,342 spectators for a professional soccer game, on June 20, 1983, Vancouver Whitecaps FC – Seattle Sounders at BC ...