A new professional men’s soccer team based out of Vancouver Island will begin competition in Spring 2019. The official announcement that was made July 20 at the E&N Roundhouse near downtown Victoria actually launches a professional soccer showcase that spawns out of Langford.
Pacific Football Club (Pacific FC) will play out of a redesigned Westhills Stadium in Langford. The venue will feature steep intimate seating for 6,500 spectators overlooking a world-class grass pitch. Top-tier training facilities are nearby in the Rugby Canada training facility that opened earlier this year.
“We are incredibly excited to welcome Pacific FC into the Canadian Premier League – truly making the CPL a coast-to coast league for Canadians,” said David Clanachan, Canadian Premier League Commissioner. Pacific FC President is Josh Simpson of Victoria.
Canada’s domestic men’s soccer league will play in world-class and unique venues, partnering with strong community-led ownership groups and bringing professional soccer to communities across the country. All of this is ahead of the FIFA World Cup coming to North America in 2022. This gives today’s young athletes a few years to gear up, and an opportunity for the Canadian league to include their best players in the process toward 2022.
The Pacific FC logo was apparently developed by the league’s “sport cultural experts” following consultation with supporters, players, volunteers, politicians and business leaders.
While there is no green in the logo (perhaps to avoid visual confusion with the Langford-based Victoria Shamrocks lacrosse team), the Pacific PC logo nevertheless includes the impression of the tall Douglas Fir tree as an echo of the viewscape at Westhills Stadium, plus the general shape of Vancouver Island, the spear shape of the ocean trident, and ocean-wave angles. The colours are promoted as starfish purple, lagoon blue, and lighthouse white.