Yukon Selects Soccer Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in

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. The club's senior team was to begin playing in the Last Frontier Division of the

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in 2020; however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this has been delayed.

Stadium

The team's home venue is the stadium of F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse which meets UPSL National Division I standards.

History

Yukon Selects was founded in 1998. The club went on to represent the Yukon Territory in the Canadian Club National Championships in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2017. It has also participated in the State Cup of neighbouring

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, United States approximately six times, including a title-winning year in 1999. The team were runners-up in the same tournament in 2009, losing on penalty kicks, after earning the championship in the Yukon A-Division that year. The team originally began competing in Alaskan competitions because no high-level opponents from outside of the territory were willing to travel to Whitehorse for matches. On June 9, 2020 it was announced that the club would become the first Canadian team to compete in the

, the fifth tier of the

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. The club was placed in The Last Frontier Division of the league, a division which previously consisted exclusively of teams from Alaska. At that time, it was announced that the team would begin play during the 2020 Spring Season. However, because of the 2020

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travel restrictions delayed their first appearance, with a new target debut set for the UPSL Cup in August 2020, pending approval by

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. They later hoped to debut in 2021, but their debut has continued to be delayed. At the time of the team's unveiling, Ash Jordan was introduced as head coach with Jacob Hanson serving as General Manager. Jordan had already been with the club for a number of years, coaching at different age levels including at the 2018 Canada Soccer National Championships U15 Cup. The team's 2–0 victory over Team

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that year was called "historic" by the

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. That year Jordan's U15 team was named Team of the Year by Sport Yukon.

Record

Honours

*Yukon A-Division: :Champions: 2009 *Alaska Cup: 1 :Champions: 1999 ::Runners-Up: 2006, 2009 :::Appearance: 2007, 2008, 2017

References

External links

Official FacebookUPSL profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yukon Selects Football Club Association football clubs established in 1998 Soccer clubs in Yukon Sport in Whitehorse United Premier Soccer League teams