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Select Cup PlayIn addition to regular league play, every season has a series of cup competitions. The main one that concern most teams are Provincial Cup, but there are also other "cup" titles such as Island Cup and Coastal Cup that involve different routes to qualify. We get a lot of questions from parents and coaches about how cup play works, so here are some short explanations: Provincial "A" Cup This is a BC championship for "metro" teams from the lower mainland, Vancouver Island, and the BC interior. CVUSC does not have a "metro" team, but Upper Island does through Upper Island Soccer Association (UISA), made up of players from district clubs. Provincial "B" Cup This is a BC championship for Select level teams in U13-U18. To get to the Provincial B Cup Finals tournament in July, your Select team has to win the B Cup "playdowns" for our district (UISA district). The playdowns are a series of single-knockout games with the other Select teams in your division, starting in early/mid February usually. If you win the playdowns within UISA, you still have to win one more game to be named Vancouver Island B Cup representative for the BC Provincials tournament -- you have to beat the B Cup playdown champion from the Lower Island district (e.g. Bays United, Cordova Bay, Gordon Head, Gorge Soccer, Juan de Fuca, Lakehill, or Peninsula usually). Island Cup This is not a "real" cup competition in the sense of having playdowns
and single knockout. Island Cup is simply one championship game for
"bragging rights" to the name of Island Champion, played between the
Gold division champion of LISA and the Select division champion of the
north island district. Other than the title, winning the Island Cup does
not award you entry into any further provincial or national
competitions. This game is usually played in late April/early May. Coastal Cup This is a quasi-cup competition. The lower mainland Gold teams around Vancouver use this as their qualifying tournament for Provincial B Cup (see above). The B Cup playdown winners of the various Vancouver-area districts playoff against each other, and they invite the Island B Cup representative to play as well. Win or lose, the Island B Cup representative still goes to the Provincial B Cup tournament in July, but the Coastal Cup may provide a sneak preview of some of the teams that could be faced there. Comox Valley United Select and C-Cup The unique history of soccer in our club and on the Island, Lower Main Land and BC has resulted in different terms to identify our representative team. CVUSC identifies our teams competing in UISA as "Select". Other UISA clubs call their teams "Select" or "Rep" while LISA and Lower Main Land call these teams "Gold". "Select", "Rep" and "Gold" all compete for the BC Provincial "B" Cup. Teams competing for the Provincial "A" Cup are identified as "Metro" by all three districts. Cup Cup explanation..... Comox Valley United Provincial Champions and Finalist Every season, CV United will usually have Select teams qualify for the Provincial B Cup finals in July. It's an extremely difficult road to even qualify for the final tournament of 8 regional BC teams, so these teams can already be considered "champions" of sorts. Many CV United teams have gone on to distinguish themselves at the Provincial finals, Coastal Cups, and Island Cups over the years. 2008 |
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