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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 successful seasons; the 1984 season of the, at-the-time amateur Pacific Coast Soccer League, and 1985 season of the Western Alliance Challenge Series. Their home games were played at Royal Athletic Park.

Victoria Riptides

Full name	Victoria Riptides
Nickname(s)	'Tides
Founded	May 3, 1984
Dissolved	November 6, 1985; 36 years ago (November 6, 1985)
Stadium	Royal Athletic Park
Capacity	3,800
Chairman	Dave Davies (1984) Harry Kuiack (1985)
Manager	David Keith (1984) Brian Hughes & Buzz Parsons (1985)
League	PCSL (1984) WSA (1985)

History

David Keith was coach of the Riptides for their first season. The team had a record of 7 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss, finishing second in the league table. In the Victoria Cup championship series they fell to regular season champions New Westminster Queens Park Rangers, 6–5, on aggregate.[1]

In 1985, four independent west coast soccer clubs joined together 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 Canadian national soccer team which was training for the 1986 World Cup in Vancouver, BC. The national team was not included in the standings.

Brian Hughes was the head coach to start the 1985 season, but by mid-June assistant coach and player Buzz Parsons had taken over those duties. The 1985 Riptides had a 3-1-3 record, finishing second to the Earthquakes in the final standings.[2] The success of 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.[3] 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

Year	League	Record	Regular Season	Post Season
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

League final standings

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[4]	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

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

Victoria Cup Final results

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goal Scorers	Ref.
August 23, 1984	New Westminster QPR	A	6–2		George Pakos, Ken Garraway	[15]
August 26, 1984	New Westminster QPR	H	3–0	907	George Pakos, Doug Adlem, Glenn Johnston	[1]

Exhibition results

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

• Joe Stott - president[17]
• Dave Davies - general manager[5]
• David Keith - head coach[5]

1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series

Series final standings

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

Results by round

Exhibition match results

1985 Roster

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  CAN Grant Darley[19] — GK  CAN Sven Habermann[20] — GK   Gary Smith[21] — GK   Tobin Walker[22] — DF  CAN Randy Samuel[20] — DF  CAN Iain Baird[21] — DF  CAN Greg Kern[23] — DF  CAN Carey Cleaver[22] — DF  CAN Dan Sudeyko[24] — DF  WAL John Hughes[25] — DF   Ken Andrews[23] — DF   John Noble[25] — DF   Gordie Horth[20] — MF  CAN Jamie Lowery[23] — MF  CAN John Catliff[20]

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  CAN George Pakos[26] — MF   John McGuire[27] — FW  CAN Doug Muirhead[26] — FW  CAN Nick Gilbert[25] — FW  CAN Ken Garraway[26] — FW  CAN Lou Garraway[27] — FW   Lance Hollett[22] —  CAN Buzz Parsons[28] —  CAN Keith Bridge[24] —  CAN Steve Moss[23] —   Tony Ensons[28] —   Demetre Gilbert[28] —   Mike McStravich[28] —   Dan Hood[27]

Team management

• Harry Kuiack - president[19]
• Drew Finerty - general manager[19]
• Brian Hughes - head coach[24]
• Bruce Twamley - assistant coach[24]
• Buzz Parsons - assistant coach,[24] (became head coach in June)[29]

References

External links

• Seattle Storm (soccer)
• Portland Timbers (1985–1990)
• Victoria Vistas (1989-1990)
• http://davfal.powweb.com/museum/FCSeattleStorm.htm
• http://a-leaguearchive.tripod.com/1985/1985.htm

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