Vancouver United FC

Vancouver United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Vancouver, British Columbia and presently playing in the British Columbia Football League's Division Three. It is one of fifteen clubs never to have been relegated from the BC Football League since its establishment in 1929.

Rivalries
Van United's rivalries with all clubs in the City of Vancouver run deep, but the deepest of all are those with Vancouver City (the City Derby), Kitsilano (the West Side Derby), and Vancouver Rowing Club (the Downtown Derby). There is also a significant antagonism between supporters of Van United and Burnaby Albion.

Due to their black and white striped kits, opposition supporters derisively call Van United the Skunks.

History
The Vancouver United Football Club was established in 1901 when the owners of the Vancouver Daily World newspaper decided to turn the company's amateur football club into a professional team; this is the source of their common nickname, the Printers. They began play in 1902 in a stadium on Keefer Street (on the site of today's Andy Livingstone Park, where Vancouver United FC Women play their home matches]]. They played in the Western Football League until its merger into the Mainland Football League in 1918, and was assigned to Division One of the BC Football League at its formation in 1929.

In 1930, with the Daily World looking to sell the Keefer Street site, the owners entered into a deal with Vancouver City to share the latter's stadium in Hastings Park, which had an official capacity of 23,235, though often saw 30,000 on derby days. After the completion of 32,375-seat Empire Stadium for the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in 1953, both clubs moved into the new stadium for the 1954 season; it was modernised and expanded to seat 42,729 in 1977.

United finally returned to a stadium of their own after the opening in 1983 of BC Place in the heart of downtown Vancouver; built for the 1986 World Exposition and seating 60,342 under an air-supported fabric roof, it is owned by the Dominion government and operated by the BC Pavilion Company, a Crown corporation that also operates Commonwealth Stadium in Victoria, home of Victoria Athletic and the men's and women's national football teams of BC. In 2007 the fabric roof collapsed due to snowfall, leading to the reconstruction of the stadium with a new retractable roof; whilst the work was being done in 2010 and 2011, United returned to play at Empire Stadium until work was completed and they could return to the new 54,500 seat, ultramodern BC Place stadium.

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

 * FA Cup
 * Winners: 1961, 1975, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1994
 * Runners-up: 1957, 1967, 1971, 1979, 1981


 * Division One
 * Winners: 1977, 1988
 * Runners-up: 1931, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
 * Third placed: 1957, 1958, 1963, 1970, 1982, 1990


 * Division Two
 * Runners-up: 1951, 1953


 * Division Three
 * Winners: 1940, 1946


 * Highest league position: 12
 * D1 (1977, 1988)


 * Lowest league position: 9th
 * D3 (1939)


 * Most points in a season: 74
 * D1, 1988


 * Fewest points in a season: 22
 * D1, 2000


 * Most goals scored in a season: 68
 * D1, 1976


 * Fewest goals scored in a season: 20
 * D1, 2000


 * Most goals conceded in a season: 64
 * D1, 1974


 * Fewest goals conceded in a season: 21
 * D1, 1982


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


 * Fewest wins in a season: 3
 * D1, 2000


 * Most draws in a season: 14
 * D1, 1983


 * Fewest draws in a season: 4
 * D1, 1984


 * Most losses in a season: 18
 * D1, 2000


 * Fewest losses in a season: 4
 * D1, 1989


 * Most games won in a row (to 2001): 11
 * D1, 1977


 * Most games lost in a row (to 2001): 7
 * D1, 1996


 * Most games without losing (to 2001): 14
 * D1, 1981


 * Most games without winning (to 2001): 18
 * D1, 2000


 * Biggest win: 6 goals
 * 6:0 v Bella Coola Utd, 1953 FA Cup 2nd Round
 * 6:0 v Aberystwyth, 1983 FA Cup 5th Round
 * 6:0 v Yellowhead, D1, 1999


 * Biggest league win (to 2001): 6 goals
 * 6:0 v Yellowhead, D1, 1999


 * Biggest defeat: 5 goals
 * 1:6 v Nanaimo Thistle, D1, 1960
 * 0:5 v Kelowna Central, D1, 1968


 * Highest scoring game: 10 goals
 * 6:4 v Regatta Club, D1, 1965


 * Highest scoring league game (to 2001): 10 goals
 * 6:4 v Regatta Club, D1, 1965


 * Deepest cup run: Final - 1957, 1961 (winner), 1967, 1971, 1975 (winner), 1976 (winner), 1979, 1981, 1984 (winner), 1985 (winner), 1988 (winner), 1994 (winner)