{"id":181730,"date":"2025-10-01T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:46:07","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-fc-get-ryan-gauld-back-for-first-ever-604-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181730\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps FC get Ryan Gauld back for first-ever &#8216;604 Derby&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhitecapsFC\/status\/1973145993068814801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">words of Vancouver Whitecaps FC on social media<\/a>, announcing the highly anticipated return of captain Ryan Gauld. The Scottish international hasn\u2019t played since March 8 due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Gauld will be in the lineup for a rather unique match at BC Place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Caps are in the Canadian Championship Final, facing Vancouver FC, a Canadian Premier League club that plays out of Langley. It\u2019s the first-ever meeting between the two teams, with the match being dubbed the \u201c604 Derby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We asked, you voted \ud83e\udee1<\/p>\n<p>The 604 Derby was the most popular name for this Wednesday\u2019s TELUS Canadian Championship Final! \ud83c\udfc6 <\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UMsIzdcza9\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/UMsIzdcza9<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanChamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CanChamp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanfootballclub?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@vanfootballclub<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onesoccer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@onesoccer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TpVFDQXKoU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TpVFDQXKoU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 X \u2013 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhitecapsFC\/status\/1972872554084966504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver FC features a number of former Whitecaps FC players, including their interim head coach, Martin Nash. Nicol\u00e1s Mezquida also plays for Vancouver FC, as do nine graduates from the Whitecaps FC academy system.<\/p>\n<p>Whitecaps FC are looking to lift the Voyageurs Cup for a fourth consecutive year. If they do, it would put the club into the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup \u2014 the continental championship that the \u2018Caps reached the final of earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/telus-canadian-championship-final-whitecaps-fc-vancouver-british-columbia-10-01-2025\/event\/110062F6AD2538FA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cLimited tickets\u201d remain for the match at BC Place<\/a>, Whitecaps FC have announced. The club says that $1 from every ticket sold will go to BC Soccer, in support of the future of the sport in the province.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also free T-shirt night, as the first 5,000 fans get a \u201c4 Ever \u2018Caps\u201d commemorative T-shirt, a nod to Whitecaps FC making four-straight Canadian Championship Finals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2197712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2197712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/muller-whitecaps.jpg\" alt=\"thomas muller vancouver whitecaps\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2197712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Frid\/Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/p>\n<p>Tickets have been flying off the shelves for Whitecaps FC matches ever since Thomas M\u00fcller signed with the club, and that momentum appears to be continuing down the stretch. More than 22,500 tickets have already been sold for each of the final two MLS home matches at BC Place \u2014 Oct. 5 against San Jose Earthquakes and Oct. 18 against FC Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bit of history on the line for M\u00fcller, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/whitecaps-muller-change-vancouver-loser-mentality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who was hyping up the Canadian Championship on Monday<\/a>. The German superstar won his 34th trophy of his career on Saturday, when Whitecaps FC won the Cascadia Cup in Seattle. The Voyageurs Cup would mark his 35th trophy, breaking Toni Kroos\u2019 record as the most decorated German soccer player of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>You might also like:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/whitecaps-muller-change-vancouver-loser-mentality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vancouver Whitecaps FC star Thomas M\u00fcller ready for Canadian Championship Final<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s back.\u201d Those are the words of Vancouver Whitecaps FC on social media, announcing the highly anticipated return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-181730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181730","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=181730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}