Sports Entertainment in Victoria BC

People who are living in
Victoria BC are active and love
to participate in and follow
their favorite sports or any
high quality athletic
endeavours! And because of our mild climate, there are
sporting activities happening
throughout the calendar year,
providing year round sports
entertainment for fans in
Victoria.

We may have the warmest
weather in the country, but
hey, it's still Canada! So one of
the most popular spectator
sports in Victoria has to be
Hockey, and there are two teams that fans in Victoria love
to watch and support:

The Victoria Royals are a
major junior hockey team
playing in the Western Hockey
League (WHL). They relocated
in 2011 from Chilliwack, and
play out of the Save-On-Foods Arena (SOFA), and

The Victoria Grizzlies are a Tier
II Junior A team playing in the
BCHL (Island Division). These
young guns with aspirations to
play professional hockey play
a fast-paced entertaining game, always looking to prove
themselves to scouts who lurk
in the audience.

Lacrosse, that other
quintessentially Canadian
sport, has a long and storied
history in Victoria because of
the Victoria Shamrocks of the
WLA. The team has been in operation continuously since
1950, and has won eight Mann
Cup Canadian Senior 'A'
championships!

Football (aka the beautiful
game, or soccer as we call it
here) is just getting established
on a professional level. The
Victoria Highlanders Football
Club was founded in 2008 as the United Soccer League (USL)
awarded rights to a Premier
Development League franchise
to the City of Victoria. The
inaugural season was 2009,
and in 2010 a womens team, the Victoria Highlanders
Women, began play as well,
both teams play out of Bear
Mountain Stadium. Soccer is
hugely popular here, with
thousands of children, youth and adults playing at various
skill levels within the region,
so watch for this franchise to
grow!