{"id":734638,"date":"2026-06-13T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734638\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:53:09","slug":"hurricanes-soccer-team-enters-surrey-sports-hall-of-fame-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734638\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes soccer team enters Surrey Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricanes soccer team enters Surrey Sports Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

Published 6:20 am Saturday, June 13, 2026<\/p>\n

Tenth in a series of 10 profiles of 2026 Surrey Sports Hall of Fame inductees, celebrated as the hall\u2019s inaugural class during a June 2 ceremony<\/a> at Surrey City Hall.<\/p>\n

BC Tigers Hurricanes of 2018, Game Changer<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes\u2019 journey began in 2005 when the Punjab Hurricanes entered the Vancouver Metro Soccer League (VMSL) in Division 3. Made up largely of first-generation Canadians of South Asian descent, the team steadily rose through the ranks, reaching the Premier Division by 2010 and establishing Newton Athletic Park as their home.<\/p>\n

Their breakthrough came in 2018, when they captured a rare triple: the VMSL Premier Division title, the BC Provincial \u201cA\u201d Cup, and a berth at the Canada Soccer National Championships. Their A Cup victory followed an exciting extra-time win over Langley United.<\/p>\n

At nationals in Saskatoon, the Hurricanes drew their opener before winning three straight matches to reach the final against unbeaten Caledon SC. On October 8, 2018, they delivered a historic 7\u20133 victory to claim the Challenge Trophy\u2014the first senior men\u2019s national club title for a BC team in 14 years and the first ever by a South Asian team in the event\u2019s history. They also earned the Fair Play Award and were later inducted as a Team of Distinction by the BC Soccer Hall of Fame in 2025.<\/p>\n

Their victory resonated far beyond the field, inspiring South Asian communities in Surrey and across Canada while marking a milestone for representation in Canadian soccer.<\/p>\n

Source: Surrey Sports Hall of Fame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricanes soccer team enters Surrey Sports Hall of Fame Published 6:20 am Saturday, June 13, 2026 Tenth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-734638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734638","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=734638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}