The 2024 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season was the club's fourteenth season in

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, the top division of

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and

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. Including previous iterations of the franchise, this was the 47th season of professional soccer being played in

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under a variation of the "Whitecaps" name. Having won the

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, the Whitecaps participated in the

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for a second consecutive season and fourth time overall. The Whitecaps also participated in the

2024 Canadian Championship The 2024 Canadian Championship () was the seventeenth edition of the Canadian Championship, the premier men's domestic cup competition in Canadian soccer, and the 23rd competition staged to determine the winner of the Voyageurs Cup. It featur ...

looking to win their third domestic cup championship in a row. They also participated in the

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. The Whitecaps had to play their first six regular season matches without their manager

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, due to him being

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and suspended for multiple league rules violations during the Whitecaps' last match of the 2023 season.

Current roster

Transfers

In

Transferred in

Loans in

Out

Transferred out

Loans out

MLS SuperDraft picks

Preseason and Friendlies

Competition overview

Major League Soccer

Regular season

League tables

= Western Conference

= Overall

Results

Matches

MLS Cup playoffs

Wild Card round

Round one

Canadian Championship

The Vancouver Whitecaps earned a bye into the quarter-finals, as they were a finalist of the 2023 tournament.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

CONCACAF Champions Cup

Round one

Leagues Cup

Group stage

Knockout stage

Cascadia Cup

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goalscorers

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

References

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