The Juan de Fuca Plate is an annual trophy awarded by supporters to the best semi-professional team in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The trophy is currently awarded to the League1 British Columbia club who accrues the greatest number of combined points across the men's and women's divisions. From 2012 through 2019, it was awarded to the winner of the season series of matches played between British Columbian teams in the Premier Development League (later known as USL League Two).
 The Juan de Fuca Plate on display | |
| Founded | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Region | British Columbia |
| Number of teams | 8 (2023) |
| Current champions | Whitecaps FC Academy (3rd title) |
| Most successful club(s) | Whitecaps FC Academy (3 titles) |
| Website | http://www.juandefucaplate.ca/ |
History
editThe Juan de Fuca Plate was established in January 2012 by supporters of the Victoria Highlanders and Vancouver Whitecaps U-23 (Lake Side Buoys, Vancouver Southsiders, and Curva Collective),[1] inspired by the Voyageurs Cup and Cascadia Cup to recognize high-level soccer in the province of British Columbia.[2] The trophy was funded through the donations of 24 fans of the two clubs to purchase the plate, which has a base made of BC maple in the shape of the province, as well as a banner to be displayed at matches.[3] It was named after the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Juan de Fuca Plate, which are located just off the coast of British Columbia.[4] From its creation, the trophy was not tied to any specific league and meant to be awarded to the best British Columbia team in the top level non-professional league with multiple teams, based on their matches against each other, which at the time was the Premier Development League.[2]
The inaugural Juan de Fuca Plate was contested between the three BC-based PDL clubs - Victoria Highlanders, Vancouver Whitecaps U23, and the Fraser Valley Mariners.[5] The first match occurred on May 13, 2012 at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, British Columbia between the Victoria Highlanders and the Vancouver Whitecaps U-23. Whitecaps player Tan Long scored the first goal in Juan de Fuca Plate history in the 40th minute, while the first native British Columbian to score was Ben Fisk in the second match of the Plate. The actual Plate itself debuted for the first time July 8, 2012 in the match between the Whitecaps FC and Highlanders.[2] The Whitecaps U23 won the inaugural title.[6][7]
In 2013, the Plate became a two-team tournament following the Mariners decision to drop down to the Pacific Coast League.[3][8] The Whitecaps U23 once again won the title in 2013, while the Highlanders won their first title the following year in 2014.[3] After the 2014 season, the Whitecaps U23 PDL team was disbanded due to the creation of a professional second team, Whitecaps FC 2, in USL Pro, leaving the future of the tournament uncertain,[9] with the tournament going on hiatus for 2015 and 2016.[3]
Following the purchase of the PDL Washington Crossfire by a Vancouver-based group in December 2016,[10] which became the TSS FC Rovers, the Juan de Fuca Plate returned in 2017.[11][12] In the revived two-team tournament in 2017, the Highlanders claimed their second title.[13][14] In 2018, the TSS Rovers won their first title, defeating the Highlanders over the three legs.[15]
In December 2019, the Victoria Highlanders announced that they will be leaving USL League Two citing possible future sanctioning issues between club and federations involved in playing in cross-border leagues, departing for the Pacific Coast Soccer League for 2020, while plans were made for League1 BC inclusion for 2021.[16] However, the TSS Rovers and Victoria Highlanders announced that the Juan de Fuca Plate would be contested in 2020, even though both clubs were not in the same league,[17] however, it and a possible 2021 competition were both cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beginning in 2022, League 1 British Columbia was established as a new semi-professional league in British Columbia (with some of the former PDL clubs joining the league - TSS Rovers, Victoria Highlanders, and the Whitecaps FC Academy). It was announced that the club whose teams accrue the greatest number of points across both the men’s and women’s divisions in an aggregate table would win the Juan de Fuca plate.[18][19]
Participants
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Results
edit| Team | Titles | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| Whitecaps FC Academy / U–23 | 3 (2012, 2013, 2023) | 1 (2014) |
| TSS FC Rovers | 2 (2018, 2019) | 3 (2017, 2022, 2023) |
| Victoria Highlanders FC | 2 (2014, 2017) | 3 (2013, 2018, 2019) |
| Nautsa’mawt FC[a] | 1 (2022) | 0 |
Year-by-year results
editSummary
edit| Year | League | Teams | Champions | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | PDL | 3 | Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria Highlanders FC |
| 2013 | 2 | Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria Highlanders FC | |
| 2014 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Whitecaps FC U-23 | ||
| 2015 | 0 | Not awarded | ||
| 2016 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | 2 | Victoria Highlanders FC | TSS FC Rovers | |
| 2018 | TSS FC Rovers | Victoria Highlanders FC | ||
| 2019 | USL2 | TSS FC Rovers | Victoria Highlanders FC | |
| 2020 | N/A | Not awarded | ||
| 2021 | ||||
| 2022 | L1BC | 7 | Varsity FC | TSS Rovers FC |
| 2023 | 8 | Whitecaps FC Academy | TSS FC Rovers | |
PDL era
edit2012
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5 Whitecaps U-23 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 13 |
| #6 Victoria Highlanders | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 13 |
| #8 Fraser Valley Mariners | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 17 | –16 | 0 |
| May 13, 2012 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 1–1 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria |
Gorman  45' |
Report | Long 40' |
Stadium: Royal Athletic Park Attendance: 1,172 |
| May 23, 2012 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 4–0 | Fraser Valley Mariners | Burnaby |
| Fisk 31' Clarke 39'Long 74', 84' |
Report | Stadium: Simon Fraser University |
| June 2, 2012 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 4–0 | Fraser Valley Mariners | Victoria |
| Stephens 15', 27' Gorman 17'Plavsic 75' |
Report | Stadium: Royal Athletic Park |
| June 3, 2012 | Fraser Valley Mariners | 0–2 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Abbotsford |
| Report | Gorman 77' Amani 83' |
Stadium: Bateman Park |
| June 9, 2012 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 2–4 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria |
| Gorman 64' Stephens 90' |
Report | Fisk 60' Marousek 77'Jackson 83'Froese 90' |
Stadium: Royal Athletic Park |
| June 20, 2012 | Fraser Valley Mariners | 0–4 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | Abbotsford |
| Report | Farenhorst 33', 52' Hundal 75'Marquez 90' |
Stadium: Bateman Park |
| July 2, 2012 | Fraser Valley Mariners | 0–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Abbotsford |
| Report | Plavsic 90' |
Stadium: Bateman Park |
| July 8, 2012 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 1–2 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Richmond |
| Hundal 66' |
Report | Burbeary 6', 15' |
Stadium: Minoru Park |
| July 11, 2012 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 2–1 | Fraser Valley Mariners | Burnaby |
| Hundal 81' Dosanjh 83' |
Report | Isidro 63' |
Stadium: Swangard Stadium |
2013
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #3 Whitecaps U-23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 4 |
| #1 Victoria Highlanders | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | –1 | 4 |
| May 17, 2013 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 2–3 | Victoria Highlanders FC | UBC Endowment Lands |
| Cousens 52', 87' |
Report | Hughes 50', 81' O'Neill 53' |
Stadium: Thunderbird Stadium |
| May 31, 2013 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 3–5 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria |
| Hughes 9', 56' Levis 15' |
Report | Bassi 25' Cousens 37', 87'Abdallah 46'Dosanjh 58' |
Stadium: Royal Athletic Park Attendance: 2,044 |
| June 28, 2013 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 1–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | UBC Endowment Lands |
| Plavsic 23' |
Report | Levis 40' |
Stadium: Thunderbird Stadium |
2014
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2 Victoria Highlanders | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 6 |
| #3 Whitecaps U-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | –2 | 0 |
| May 4, 2014 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 3–2 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | Victoria |
| Basso 34' Barrett 84'O'Neill 90+2' (pen.) |
Report | Cook 29' Musse 82' |
Stadium: Royal Athletic Park Attendance: 1,412 |
| May 23, 2014 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 4–5 | Victoria Highlanders FC | UBC Endowment Lands |
| Froese 20' Steward 39'Cousens 49', 72' |
Report | Stokes 4' Ashlee 7'Basso 9', 34'Sturrock 89' |
Stadium: Thunderbird Stadium |
2017
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4 Victoria Highlanders | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 |
| #6 TSS FC Rovers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | –1 | 3 |
| June 23, 2017 | TSS FC Rovers | 0–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Burnaby |
| Report | Goto 88' |
Stadium: Swangard Stadium |
| June 25, 2017 | TSS FC Rovers | 3–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Burnaby |
| Davidson 55' Mat. Polisi 70', 86' |
Report | Goto 88' |
Stadium: Swangard Stadium |
| July 9, 2017 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 2–0 | TSS FC Rovers | Victoria |
| Nelson 29' Heath 53' |
Report | Stadium: Centennial Stadium |
2018
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4 TSS FC Rovers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 |
| #5 Victoria Highlanders | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | –1 | 3 |
| May 27, 2018 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 2–3 | TSS FC Rovers | Victoria |
| Hundal 38' Bent 44' |
Report | De Graaf 10' Glennon 42'Gardner 75' |
Stadium: Centennial Stadium |
| June 3, 2018 | TSS FC Rovers | 2–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Burnaby |
| Verhoven 17', 23' |
Report | Montgomery 90' |
Stadium: Swangard Stadium |
| June 29, 2018 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 1–0 | TSS FC Rovers | Victoria |
| Montgomery 85' |
Report | Stadium: Centennial Stadium |
2019
edit| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #6 TSS FC Rovers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3[b] | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| #4 Victoria Highlanders | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| June 7, 2019 | TSS Rovers FC | 0–1 | Victoria Highlanders FC | Burnaby |
| 19:00 | Report | Shumbusho 44' (pen.) |
Stadium: Swangard Stadium Referee: Seyed Mohammad Mohseni |
| July 5, 2019 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 2–3 | TSS Rovers FC | Saanich |
| 19:15 | Takano 6' (pen.) Davidson 60' |
Report | Pang 10' Rahieme 44'Polisi 45' (pen.) |
Stadium: Centennial Stadium Referee: Cole Shoemaker |
L1BC era
editBeginning in 2022, the Juan de Fuca Plate would be awarded to the League1 British Columbia club with the highest combined point total between the men's and women's divisions.
2022
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Varsity FC (C) | 24 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 58 | 20 | +38 | 61 |
| 2 | TSS FC Rovers | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 43 |
| 3 | Whitecaps FC Academy | 24 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 44 | 38 | +6 | 41 |
| 4 | Unity FC | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 36 |
| 5 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 24 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 35 | 50 | −15 | 21 |
| 6 | Altitude FC | 24 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 25 | 46 | −21 | 19 |
| 7 | Rivers FC | 24 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 24 | 54 | −30 | 17 |
2023
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitecaps FC Academy (C) | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 73 | 31 | +42 | 56 |
| 2 | TSS FC Rovers | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 55 | 35 | +20 | 50 |
| 3 | Nautsa’mawt FC | 28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 57 | 35 | +22 | 46 |
| 4 | Victoria Highlanders FC | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 34 | 35 | −1 | 45 |
| 5 | Unity FC | 28 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 61 | 40 | +21 | 44 |
| 6 | Altitude FC | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 26 |
| 7 | Harbourside FC | 28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 32 | 70 | −38 | 24 |
| 8 | Rivers FC | 28 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 35 | 86 | −51 | 19 |
2024
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitecaps FC Academy (C) | 24 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 70 | 29 | +41 | 51 |
| 2 | TSS FC Rovers | 24 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 51 | 43 | +8 | 41 |
| 3 | Unity FC | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 47 | 35 | +12 | 39 |
| 4 | Altitude FC | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 47 | −11 | 31 |
| 5 | Burnaby FC | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 42 | 55 | −13 | 26 |
| 6 | Harbourside FC | 24 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 25 |
| 7 | Rivers FC | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 30 | 48 | −18 | 20 |
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