Victoria Highlanders
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| Full name | Victoria Highlanders Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Highlanders |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Stadium | University of Victoria Centennial Stadium Victoria, British Columbia |
| Stadium capacity |
5,000 |
| Chairman | Marvin Diercks |
| Head Coach | David Dew |
| League | Premier Development League |
| 2016 | 5th, Northwest Division Playoffs: DNQ |
| Website | Club home page |
Victoria Highlanders FC are a Canadian soccer team based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2008 after the excitement of the FIFA U-20 World Cup saw crowds up to 11,500, the first team plays in the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the Canadian Soccer Pyramid. The Highlanders organization includes a U-21 reserve Highlanders team and a women's program. The Highlanders also co-ordinated an U-21 Vancouver Island Soccer League teams as a development pool for players ages 16 to 21. Highlanders FC players were Canadian CIS and NCAA Division I University and College players, Canadian U20 National Team Players, local Vancouver Island players, as well as imports from around the world.
The team played its home games in Bear Mountain Stadium in Langford, British Columbia from 2009–2011 and Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, British Columbia from 2011–2015. Owner Alex Campbell folded the PDL team late in January 2015 due to not finding financial partners prior to the 2014 season.
Marvin Diercks and Dave Dew, long time Victoria soccer advocates, purchased the licensing rights to the Highlanders from previous owner Alex Campbell in early 2015. Diercks and Dew announced on April 1, 2015 that the Highlanders will start operations again and will participate in the 2015 Pacific Coast Soccer League Summer season. After a successful season in the PCSL where they finished runners-up to Khalsa SC in the Challenge Cup Final, the club started making plans to return to the USL PDL. During the USL Winter meetings in December 2015, Diercks and Dew purchased the PDL franchise rights from the Puget Sound Gunners FC and rejoined the PDL on January 29, 2016.
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