{"id":787731,"date":"2026-07-08T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:12:35","slug":"preview-whitecaps-fc-kick-off-telus-canadian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787731\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Whitecaps FC kick off TELUS Canadian Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boundary Road, Take Me Home:\u00a0For the first time in the club&#8217;s MLS era, Vancouver Whitecaps FC will play a competitive match at Swangard Stadium. The Burnaby, BC venue served as the club&#8217;s home from 1987 to 2010, where the &#8216;Caps, then known as the Vancouver 86ers, captured four Canadian Soccer League championships (1988-91) and the North American Club Championship (1990), before returning back to Vancouver Whitecaps FC and winning two USL First Division titles (2006, 2008). Now, the &#8216;Caps return to their historic home in pursuit of an unprecedented fifth consecutive Voyageurs Cup and sixth TELUS Canadian Championship title overall (2015, 2022-25).  <\/p>\n<p>Familiar Foes Meet Again: Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Cavalry FC renew their TELUS Canadian Championship rivalry for the fourth time. Cavalry FC claimed the first meeting in the 2019 qualifying round, but the &#8216;Caps have responded by advancing past the side from Calgary, Alberta in both the 2022 and 2024 quarterfinals. Cavalry FC booked another showdown with the &#8216;Caps after defeating Pacific FC 3-1 in the preliminary round back in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boundary Road, Take Me Home:\u00a0For the first time in the club&#8217;s MLS era, Vancouver Whitecaps FC will play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-787731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787731","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=787731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}