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Victoria Riptides
Full nameVictoria Riptides
Nickname'Tides
FoundedMay 3, 1984
DissolvedNovember 6, 1985; 40 years ago (November 6, 1985)
StadiumRoyal Athletic Park
Capacity3,800
ChairmanDave Davies (1984)
Harry Kuiack (1985)
ManagerDavid Keith (1984)
Brian Hughes & Buzz Parsons (1985)
LeaguePCSL (1984)
WSA (1985)

Victoria Riptides (also known as the RipTides and Riptide) were a professional soccer team based out of Victoria, British Columbia. The team played for two seasons; the 1984 season of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, and 1985 season of the Western Alliance Challenge Series. Their home games were played at Royal Athletic Park.

History

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David Keith was coach of the Riptides for their first season during which the Riptides secured a record of 7 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss. The team featured several prominent players including former Vancouver Whitecap, Frank Woods; Simon Keith, who joined the 'Tides after playing in the second tier of the British league for Millwall F.C.; Brian Mousley (Portland Timbers); local stand-out Rob Wallace who signed his first professional contract with the Riptides; as well as several Canada national team pool players: Doug Adlem, Glen Johnson and Scott Weinberg (University of Victoria).

In 1985, four independent west coast soccer clubs joined to create an informal challenge series. The challenge cup pitted the Riptides against F.C. Seattle, F.C. Portland and the San Jose Earthquakes in a home and away series. The cup also included games against the Canada national soccer team which was training for the 1986 World Cup in Vancouver, BC. The national team was not included in the standings.[1]

Brian Hughes was the head coach to start the 1985 season, but was replaced mid-season by real-estate agent Buzz Parsons who also failed to produce winning results. The 1985 Riptides had a 3-1-3 record, finishing second from the bottom in the final standings.[1] The challenge series led to a discussion among the four teams about forming a permanent league or alliance. The Riptides management at the time, disagreed with this approach and did not participate in future games in what became known as the Western Soccer Alliance. They also backed out of joining the newly forming Canadian Soccer Association.[2] The Western Soccer Alliance became the Western Soccer League in 1989 which merged with the American Soccer League in 1990 to form the American Professional Soccer League.

Year-by-year

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Year League Record Regular season Postseason
1984 Pacific Coast Soccer League 7-2-1 2nd runners-up
1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series 3-1-3 3rd N/A

1984 Pacific Coast Soccer League

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League final standings

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GP = Games Played, W = Wins, T = Ties, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts= point system

2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.

 -League Premiers (most points).  -Other playoff teams.
Team[3] GP W T L GF GA Pts
New Westminster QPR 10 8 1 1 28 12 17
Victoria Riptides 10 7 2 1 25 8 16
Nanaimo Regal 10 4 3 3 22 13 11
Richmond Olympic 10 1 4 5 13 35 6
Vancouver Pegasus 10 1 4 5 8 17 6
Richmond Club Ireland 10 0 4 6 10 27 4

Regular season results

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Date Opponent Venue Result Attendance Goal Scorers Ref.
June 10, 1984 New Westminster QPR H 2–3 937 George Pakos, Simon Keith [4]
June 17, 1984 Vancouver Pegasus H 3–0 907 John Hughes, Simon Keith, Brain Mousley [5]
June 24, 1984 Richmond Club Ireland A 0–1 Glenn Johnston [6]
June 30, 1984 Nanaimo Regal H 4–0 100 Ken Garraway (2), Rob Wallace, Mike Collis [7]
July 7, 1984 Richmond Olympic H 4–1 982 Simon Keith (2), Doug Adlem, Ken Garraway [8]
July 14, 1984 New Westminster QPR A 1–2 Scott Weinberg, Glenn Johnston [9]
July 22, 1984 Nanaimo Regal H 1–1 700 Scott Weinberg [10]
July 29, 1984 Vancouver Pegasus A 2–2 Glenn Johnston, Brain Mousley [11]
August 6, 1984 Richmond Club Ireland H 3–0 600 Ian Klitze (2), Glenn Johnston [12]
August 12, 1984 Richmond Olympic A 0–2 Ken Garraway, Doug Adlem [13]

Victoria Cup Final results

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Date Opponent Venue Result Attendance Goal Scorers Ref.
August 23, 1984 New Westminster QPR A 6–2 George Pakos, Ken Garraway [14]
August 26, 1984 New Westminster QPR H 3–0 907 George Pakos, Doug Adlem, Glenn Johnston [15]

Exhibition results

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Date Opponent Venue Result Attendance Goal Scorers Ref.
July 17, 1984 Canada Men's National Team H 0–4 1,105 none [16]

Team management

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1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series

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Series final standings

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Pos Team Pld W T L GF GA GD Pts
1 San Jose Earthquakes 7 4 1 2 10 9 +1 13
2 F.C. Seattle 7 3 1 3 16 11 +5 10
3 Victoria Riptide 7 3 1 3 12 13 −1 10
4 F.C. Portland 7 1 2 4 8 15 −7 5
Source: [18]

Results by round

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June 15, 1985 WACS 1 Victoria Riptide 3–2 FC Portland Victoria, British Columbia
14:00 John Noble File:Soccerball shade.svg 45+', 83'
Ken Andrews File:Soccerball shade.svg 78'		 Report Tim Newton File:Soccerball shade.svg 33'
Brent Goulet File:Soccerball shade.svg 65'		 Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 200
July 6, 1985 WACS 2 Victoria Riptide 0–1 San Jose Earthquakes Victoria, British Columbia
14:00 Report John Catliff File:Soccerball shade.svg 76' (o.g.) Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 600
July 13, 1985 WACS 3 Victoria Riptide 4–2 FC Seattle Victoria, British Columbia
14:00 George Pakos File:Soccerball shade.svg 33', File:Soccerball shade.svg
Nick Gilbert File:Soccerball shade.svg 38'
Ken Garraway File:Soccerball shade.svg 49'		 Report Bruce Raney File:Soccerball shade.svg
Brian Schmetzer File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'		 Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 450
July 20, 1985 WACS 4 Victoria Riptide 2–1 FC Portland Victoria, British Columbia
14:00 Ken Garraway File:Soccerball shade.svg 16'
Greg Kern File:Soccerball shade.svg 67' (pen.)		 Report Brent Goulet File:Soccerball shade.svg 37' Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 400
July 28, 1985 WACS 5 Victoria Riptide 2–2 Canada Victoria, British Columbia
14:00 Ian Baird File:Soccerball shade.svg 65'
Carey Cleaver File:Soccerball shade.svg 75'		 Report John Catliff File:Soccerball shade.svg 3'
Greg Ion File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'		 Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 600
August 9, 1985 WACS 6 FC Seattle 3–0 Victoria Riptide Seattle, Washington
19:30 Bruce Raney File:Soccerball shade.svg 9'
Robbie Zipp File:Soccerball shade.svg 18'
Brian Schmetzer File:Soccerball shade.svg 34'		 Report 1
Report 2		 Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 1,628
August 17, 1985 WACS 7 San Jose Earthquakes 2–1 Victoria Riptide San Jose, California
19:30 Fred Hamel File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' (Dangerfield)
Carlos Morales Red card 76'
Chris Dangerfield File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'		 Report 1
Report 2		 Lou Garraway File:Soccerball shade.svg 21' (McGuire, Hood) Stadium: Spartan Stadium
Attendance: 3,489

Exhibition match results

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May 26, 1985 friendly Upper Island Selects 1–2 Victoria Riptide Nanaimo, British Columbia
Tony Leach File:Soccerball shade.svg 44' Report Ken Andrews File:Soccerball shade.svg 35'
Tony Ensons File:Soccerball shade.svg 85' (pen.)		 Stadium: Caledonian Park
May 29, 1985 friendly Victoria Riptide 2–1 Upper Island Selects Victoria, British Columbia
Nick Gilbert File:Soccerball shade.svg 21'
Tony Ensons File:Soccerball shade.svg 86' (pen.)		 Report Doug Muirhead File:Soccerball shade.svg 46' Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 150
June 2, 1985 friendly Victoria Riptide 3–2 Mean Green (Dallas, TX) Victoria, British Columbia
17:00 Jamie Lowery File:Soccerball shade.svg 20'
Ken Andrews File:Soccerball shade.svg 30'
Greg Kern File:Soccerball shade.svg		 Report Manny Servantes File:Soccerball shade.svg
David Easterly File:Soccerball shade.svg 75'		 Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 300
June 21, 1985 friendly Victoria Riptide 1–3 Edmonton Brick Men Victoria, British Columbia
19:30 David McGill File:Soccerball shade.svg 24' (o.g.) Report Carlos Marquez File:Soccerball shade.svg 4', 54', 67' Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 400
July 21, 1985 friendly Edmonton Brick Men 5–0 Victoria Riptide Edmonton, Alberta
16:00 Peter Stepaniak File:Soccerball shade.svg
Ross Ongaro File:Soccerball shade.svg
Carlos Marquez File:Soccerball shade.svg
Norm Odinga File:Soccerball shade.svg
Victoria File:Soccerball shade.svg 90' (o.g.)		 Report A
Report B		 Stadium: Clarke Stadium
Attendance: 967
August 24, 1985 friendly Victoria Riptide 1–2 PCL All-Stars Victoria, British Columbia
Lou Garraway File:Soccerball shade.svg 12' Report John Connor File:Soccerball shade.svg 8'
Rick Douglas File:Soccerball shade.svg 45' (pen.)		 Stadium: Royal Athletic Park
Attendance: 400
Referee: Graham Cope

1985 Roster

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Grant Darley[19]
— GK File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Sven Habermann[20]
— GK File:Flag placeholder.svg  Gary Smith[21]
— GK File:Flag placeholder.svg  Tobin Walker[22]
— DF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Randy Samuel[20]
— DF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Iain Baird[21]
— DF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Greg Kern[23]
— DF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Carey Cleaver[22]
— DF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Dan Sudeyko[24]
— DF File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg WAL John Hughes[25]
— DF File:Flag placeholder.svg  Ken Andrews[23]
— DF File:Flag placeholder.svg  John Noble[25]
— DF File:Flag placeholder.svg  Gordie Horth[20]
— MF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Jamie Lowery[23]
— MF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN John Catliff[20]
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN George Pakos[26]
— MF File:Flag placeholder.svg  John McGuire[27]
— FW File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Doug Muirhead[26]
— FW File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Nick Gilbert[25]
— FW File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Ken Garraway[26]
— FW File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Lou Garraway[27]
— FW File:Flag placeholder.svg  Lance Hollett[22]
— File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Buzz Parsons[28]
— File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Keith Bridge[24]
— File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg CAN Steve Moss[23]
— File:Flag placeholder.svg  Tony Ensons[28]
— File:Flag placeholder.svg  Demetre Gilbert[28]
— File:Flag placeholder.svg  Mike McStravich[28]
— File:Flag placeholder.svg  Dan Hood[27]

Team management

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See also

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References

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