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Vancouver Whitecaps

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«The Caps»

296 Matches

118 wins

78 draws

100 losses

455–412 Goals

+43 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Form W L W W D L

Alphonso Davies was fifteen when Vancouver Whitecaps sent him on for his first-team debut.

The name predates that academy by decades. A team called Vancouver Whitecaps first took the field in 1974 in the old North American Soccer League, built around a forward named Bob Lenarduzzi, who would later run the club from the boardroom instead of the pitch. That side won the Soccer Bowl in 1979, Alan Ball taking the play-off MVP award. NASL folded in 1984 and took the Whitecaps with it; what carried the badge through the lower divisions afterwards was a team called the Vancouver 86ers, who reclaimed the old name in 2001 and eventually walked it into MLS in 2011. The current club counts the 1979 title as its own, treating itself as a continuation rather than a fresh start.

Trophies since have come almost entirely in the Canadian Championship, not MLS itself: five wins, including three straight from 2022 to 2024 under Vanni Sartini before Jesper Sörensen took over the bench. Those Voyageurs Cup nights sit alongside an unofficial prize the fans care about just as much, the Cascadia Cup, contested every year against Seattle Sounders in a rivalry.

Home matches are played at BC Place, though "home" only stretches to the lower bowl — 22,120 seats carved out of a stadium that holds roughly 54,500 for other events. The club rents the building from the provincial government and has said the arrangement leaves it without the commercial rights, sponsorship and concessions among them, that clubs elsewhere take for granted. Talks over a longer lease, or a ground of its own near Hastings Park, have dragged without resolution.

Latest results

All matches

6 Sep	Major League Soccer	St. Louis City SC H	1:3	L
3 Sep	Canadian Championship	Montréal Impact H	1:1	D
30 Aug	Major League Soccer	Sporting Kansas City A	3:0	W
23 Aug	Major League Soccer	FC Dallas H	5:0	W
20 Aug	Major League Soccer	Houston Dynamo H	0:1	L
17 Aug	Major League Soccer	Seattle Sounders A	2:0	W

Standing

Major League Soccer

Group stage · Major League Soccer - Western Conference

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Vancouver Whitecaps	22	13	4	5	49:21	43
2	Houston Dynamo	23	12	4	7	30:26	40
3	Los Angeles FC	24	10	7	7	38:24	37
4	FC Dallas	23	10	7	6	45:40	37
5	St. Louis City SC	23	10	7	6	36:31	37

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 296

296 Matches

118 wins

78 draws

100 losses

455–412 Goals

+43 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 296

118 78 100

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	296	149	147
Scored	455	263	192
Conceded	412	173	239
Scored per game	1.5	1.8	1.3
Conceded per game	1.4	1.2	1.6
Difference	+43	+90	−47

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Ryan Ellumi Forward 26 Matches

Mathías Nicolás Laborda Malseñido Defender 26 Matches

Isaac Boehmer Goalkeeper 26 Matches

T. Johnson Defender 26 Matches

Oliver Larraz Midfielder 25 Matches

J. Badval Midfielder 25 Matches

Yohei Takaoka Goalkeeper 25 Matches

Mikhail Gerasimencov Defender 24 Matches

Squad of Vancouver Whitecaps

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
19	Ryan Ellumi	Forward	26
2	Mathías Nicolás Laborda Malseñido	Defender	26
32	Isaac Boehmer	Goalkeeper	26
28	T. Johnson	Defender	26
8	Oliver Larraz	Midfielder	25
59	J. Badval	Midfielder	25
1	Yohei Takaoka	Goalkeeper	25
29	Mikhail Gerasimencov	Defender	24
33	Tristan Blackmon	Defender	24
18	Edier Ocampo	Defender	24
13	Thomas Müller	Midfielder	23
24	Brian Michael White	Forward	23
11	Emmanuel Afriyie Mario Sabbi	Midfielder	21
7	Cheikh Tidiane Sabaly	Forward	21
20	Adrián Andrés Cubas	Midfielder	21
26	Jean-Claude Ngando Mbende	Midfielder	18
41	Nikola Đorđević	Defender	17
16	Sebastian Berhalter	Midfielder	17
22	Aziel Jackson	Midfielder	17
17	Kenji Cabrera	Midfielder	16
14	B. Caicedo	Midfielder	14
6	Ralph-William Johnson Priso-Mbongue	Midfielder	14
3	Sam Adekugbe	Defender	9
25	Ryan Stewart Gauld	Midfielder	9
30	Adrían Zendejas Rodríguez	Goalkeeper	8
4	R. Veselinovic	Defender	8
15	Sebastian Schonlau	Defender	6
97	L. Mackenzie	Midfielder	4
63	J. Selmani	Forward	3
43	Trevor Wright	Defender	2
23	A. Tsvetković	Midfielder	1
70	Rui Modesto	Midfielder	1
77	Yadaly Diaby	Forward	1