Vancouver Rowing Club

Vancouver Rowing Club is a multi-discipline sports club based in Vancouver, British Columbia with sections dedicated to association football, rugby union, and rowing.

= Football = Vancouver Rowing Club's professional football club was founded in 1888 and presently plays in the British Columbia Football League's Division One. It is one of fifteen clubs never to have been relegated from the BC Football League since its establishment in 1929.

Rivalries
Rowing Club's greatest rivalry in football is with Royal City FC of New Westminster which dates back to the very first formal football match played in BC between the Rowers and members of the Westminster Club, a social club whose football section later became Royal City FC. Known as the Interurban Derby because of the BC Electric Railway's interurban railway line opened between Vancouver and New Westminster in 1891, it is widely regarded as the most historically significant sporting rivalry in BC.

A close second is the Waterfront Derby between the Rowers and Vancouver City, dating back to the latter's establishment in 1892 as the second football club in Vancouver north of False Creek and the first dedicated to football. Also very important is the Downtown Derby with Vancouver United, dating back to United's establishment in 1901; as the geographically closest to Rowing Club, United initially drew supporters from the same area as the Rowers', leading to the development of the rivalry between them. Before the establishment of the Football League, the Rowers' rivalry with Shaughnessy Shamrocks - the second football club in the City of Vancouver, established in 1891 - was also strong, but since 1929 meetings between the two have been rare.

History
Rowing Club began play in 1888 with the first-ever official football match played in BC with Royal City, and became one of the founding members of the Western Football League in 1895; they played in the WFL until its merger into the Mainland Football League in 1918, and were assigned to Division One of the BC Football League at its formation in 1929.

Season-by-season
This is a complete listing of the club's performances in British Columbia Football League competition.

Season-by-season
This is a listing of the club's performances in FA Cup competition since 1929.

Season-by-season
This is a listing of the club's performances in British Columbia Super Cup competition since 1991.

Honours and records

 * Super Cup
 * Runners-up: 2020


 * FA Cup
 * Winners: 1892, 1903, 1904, 1911, 1929, 1941, 1960, 2019
 * Runners-up: 1893, 1906, 1918, 1977, 2002


 * Division One
 * Winners: 1929, 1940
 * Runners-up: 1932, 1933, 1936, 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950
 * Third placed: 1930, 1937, 1938, 1962, 1966, 1969


 * Division Two
 * Winners: 1968, 1985, 1990
 * Runners-up: 1955, 1959


 * Highest league position: 1st
 * D1 (1929, 1940)


 * Lowest league position: 6th
 * D2 (1954)


 * Most points in a season: 86
 * D2, 1985


 * Fewest points in a season: 27
 * D1, 1984
 * D1, 1991


 * Most goals scored in a season: 73
 * D1, 1978


 * Fewest goals scored in a season: 24
 * D1, 1998


 * Most goals conceded in a season: 66
 * D1, 1984
 * D1, 1988


 * Fewest goals conceded in a season: 27
 * D2, 1985


 * Most wins in a season: 23
 * D1, 1988


 * Fewest wins in a season: 6
 * D1, 1986
 * D1, 1989


 * Most draws in a season: 14
 * D2, 1975


 * Fewest draws in a season: 3
 * D1, 1991


 * Most losses in a season: 23
 * D2, 1991


 * Fewest losses in a season: 2
 * D2, 1985


 * Most games won in a row (to 2001): 8
 * D2, 1985


 * Most games lost in a row (to 2001): 7
 * D1, 1988


 * Most games without losing (to 2001): 16
 * D2, 1985


 * Most games without winning (to 2001): 15
 * D1, 1989


 * Biggest win: 5 goals
 * 5:0 v Vancouver City, D1, 1929
 * 5:0 v Regatta Club, D1, 1931
 * 5:0 v Victoria Athletic, D1, 1950
 * 6:1 v Kitimat & Kemano Utd, D1, 1979
 * 5:0 v Victoria Athletic, D2, 1985
 * 5:0 v Quesnel Utd, D1, 1996


 * Biggest league win (to 2001): 5 goals
 * 5:0 v Vancouver City, D1, 1929
 * 5:0 v Regatta Club, D1, 1931
 * 5:0 v Victoria Athletic, D1, 1950
 * 6:1 v Kitimat & Kemano Utd, D1, 1979
 * 5:0 v Victoria Athletic, D2, 1985
 * 5:0 v Quesnel Utd, D1, 1996


 * Biggest defeat: 5 goals
 * 0:5 v Alberni Town, D1, 1981


 * Highest scoring game: 9 goals
 * 5:4 v Victoria Utd, D2, 1968
 * 4:5 v Victoria Athletic, D1, 1971
 * 4:5 v Royal City, D1, 1976


 * Highest scoring league game (to 2001): 9 goals
 * 5:4 v Victoria Utd, D2, 1968
 * 4:5 v Victoria Athletic, D1, 1971
 * 4:5 v Royal City, D1, 1976


 * Deepest cup run: Final - 1892 (winner), 1893, 1903 (winner), 1904 (winner), 1906, 1911 (winner), 1918, 1929 (winner), 1941 (winner), 1960 (winner), 1977, 2002, 2019 (winner)