March to the Match Route

  • 2018-02-28

First kick is upon us and what would the home match day experience be without a March to the Match?!

After our partner pub announcement, many of you had questions about the March and we are happy to report that earlier today we were finally able to finalize the route!

On Sunday March 4th, the Southsiders will be marching from Victory Square  with special guest March Leader, Whitecaps Legend Carl Valentine!  The March to the Match will depart at 1:45pm from the corner of Hamilton & West Pender, heading southbound on Hamilton to Robson Street / Whitecaps Way and into BC Place via Terry Fox Plaza.

As we will not be marching from Blarney Stone directly, members are encouraged to settle their tabs at the pub by 1:30pm on Sunday so they can make their way over to Victory Square to meet up with their fellow supporters and get ready to cheer the boys in Blue and White to 3 points and victory!

2018 First Kick – Getting You Ready for Sunday

  • 2018-02-26

New Southsiders Pub The Blarney Stone

The day we’ve all been waiting for is FINALLY here! First kick for the 2018 season is Sunday March 4th as your Vancouver Whitecaps take on the Montreal Impact at BC Place!

The Southsiders will officially kick off the season at The Blarney Stone starting at 11am. All-ages welcome!

Membership and Merchandise tables will be open at Blarney Stone from 11am to 1:30pm. If you have any questions regarding either, please contact Brendan at membership@vancouversouthsiders.ca or
merchandise@vancouversouthsiders.ca.

Let’s give the Blarney Stone an official Southsiders welcome and fill it to capacity on Sunday!

Let’s get LOUD, cheer our boys in Blue and Whi….err, GREY on to victory and bring home 3 points!

March to the Match

First kick is upon us and what would the home match day experience be without a March to the Match?!

After our partner pub announcement, many of you had questions about the March and we are happy to report that earlier today we were finally able to finalize the route!

On Sunday March 4th, the Southsiders will be marching from Victory Square with special guest March Leader, Whitecaps Legend Carl Valentine! The March to the Match will depart at 1:45pm from the corner of Hamilton & West Pender, heading southbound on Hamilton to Robson Street / Whitecaps Way and into BC Place via Terry Fox Plaza.

As we will not be marching from Blarney Stone directly, members are encouraged to settle their tabs at the pub by 1:30pm on Sunday so they can make their way over to Victory Square to meet up with their fellow supporters and get ready to cheer the boys in Blue and White to victory.

Food and Drink Specials

Need a little extra incentive to come check out our new Home of the Southside, the Blarney Stone, on Sunday March 4th?

  • Stuffed French Toast: Sourdough stuffed with cream cheese and strawberries, fried golden brown. Served with real maple Syrup and whipped cream | $11
  • Breakfast Poutine: Crispy hash browns covered with mixed cheese, tomatoes, green onions, & 2 sunny side up eggs | $10
  • Irish BAP: Fried egg, Irish back bacon, cheddar, on an english muffin. Served with home fries | $8
  • Beggars Breakfast: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or poached) served with home fries, and your choice of Irish bacon, bacon or sausage | $8
  • Irish Breakfast: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or poached), served with home fries, grilled tomato, banger sausage, Irish bacon, black pudding | $12
  • Seared Ahi Tuna Salad: Sesame crusted Ahi loin on a bed of mixed greens w/ tomato cucumber & a sherry vinaigrette | $14
  • Pesto Chicken Flatbread: Pulled chicken with tomatoes, feta, & mozzarella cheese on basil pesto crispy flat bread | $13
  • FREE PANCAKES FOR ALL KIDS 13 AND UNDER!

Drink Specials

  • SouthCIDER: Sunday’s Gulf Island Cider | $6.50
  • Steamworks IPA | $6.25
  • Guinness | $7.25
  • Red Truck Lager | $6.25
  • Budweiser | $5.75
  • Alexander Keith’s IPA | $5.75
  • Shots of Jameson | $5.75
  • Irish Caesars (Traditional Caesar kicked up a notch with a splash of Guinness) | $5.75

First Kick Parking Situation

Worried about parking for first kick? Here’s some info for you:

The parking partnership with Advance Parking is still valid at Metropolitan Towers on Nelson and Seymour for $6 from 10am to midnight on match days. There are Southsider rates for non-match days as well. Please check our Membership benefits page when logged into the site for full details. If you need a code, please contact Aaryn at events@vancouversouthsiders.ca

If you’re looking for parking close to our new partner pub in Gastown, the Easy Park lot at 107 East Cordova offers a $6.50 rate for 6am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays ($8 flat rate from 6pm to 6am.) The Easy Park lot is gated from midnight on Saturday nights to 8am Sunday mornings and from 10pm Sunday night to 8am on Monday so please be aware that if you park there for first kick, you WILL have to pick up your vehicle before 10pm.

We will keep you updated on whether Advance Parking is able to open up any additional spots closer to Blarney Stone as information becomes available to us.

Southsiders GA – Single Game Tickets

The Southsiders are selling single game tickets to the Southsiders GA section $37 for members $39.50 for non-members. (this is matching TM face value with as minimal fee for non-members as possible) There will be a members only pre-sale period for each game, Montreal is open for public now.

http://vancouversouthsiders.ca/shop/matchticket

Home match tickets in the Southsiders section of BC Place Section 252-253 in our GA area. Tickets will be available for download 2-3 days before the game. Individual ticket holder names must be registered for each ticket. The GA “section” is the majority of seats (120+) from the following area: Section 252 Row G-V Seats 101-107 and Section 253 Row G-V Seats 1-7.

Vancouver Southsiders 2018 MLS Fantasy Leagues

  • 2018-02-24

The Vancouver Southsiders 2018 MLS Fantasy Leagues is back for another season!! We will be offering prizes to be determined for the winner of the Spring and Fall Classic League.

Southsiders Leagues

Classic League: Vancouver Southsiders  (Click Link to Auto Join)
Code to join this league: AZMHSWJR

H2H League: League is Full 

If you’ve got any questions on how to join give VanCityVilla on Twitter a shout.

MLS Fantasy Resource Sites
MLS Fantasy Boss
MLS Fantasy Reddit
Essential MLS Fantasy Links

Twitter Accounts
MLS Fantasy Twitter
MLS Fantasy Boss Twitter

Facebook Accounts
MLS Fantasy Boss
MLS Fantasy Insider

Previous Southsiders Classic League Winners
2017 – Anna Namshirin
2016 – Peter Lahay
2015 – Duncan Nicol

2018 Partner Pub Announcement!

  • 2018-02-17

The Vancouver Southsiders Soccer Supporters Society Executive Board is excited to announce the Blarney Stone as the official ‘Home of the Southsiders’ for the 2018 season!  Located in the heart of Gastown, the Blarney Stone was established in 1972 and is the longest running Irish Pub in the City of Vancouver.   

New and returning members of the Vancouver Southsiders can expect the following membership perks through Blarney Stone for the 2018 season:

  • 25% off food, 7 days per week (Includes Blarney Stone and their other venue Portside Pub)
  • VIP entry to Blarney Stone & Portside (Skip the line – any day, any time)
  • All ages access until 7pm!
  • Free pop & juice for kids under 13
  • Priority viewing on their 240” HD screen for ALL Whitecaps matches, home & away over all other sports events
  • Customized Southsiders match day menu, including at least 1 food special per match
  • Rotating local Craft Beer & Cider specials
  • Burn Your Bill for EVERY match, home & away
  • Match day prize giveaways
  • Two annual giveaways of a Trip for 2 to an international football event (UEFA, etc.)
  • And much more!

Our first event at Blarney Stone will be first kick on Sunday March 4th.  Doors will open at 11am and, in addition to the new membership perks, all kids under 13 will be served FREE PANCAKES until the March to the Match!  We look forward to uniting the membership under one roof (and in one room!) for the first time in many years!

We will have updates on the March to the Match as first kick approaches.  We are working closely with the community of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) to find a route that provides the Southsiders with maximum visibility while being respectful of our new neighbourhood.  Updates will be emailed out and posted on our social media pages as soon as they become available.  We thank you for your patience.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact Director of Events & Partnerships, Aaryn Vivian, at events@vancouversouthsiders.ca.  Please check back to the “Friends of the Southside” portion of our website regularly as we are adding new information on discounts and membership perks often.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Doolin’s Irish Pub for their years of service to the Vancouver Southsiders.  They took a chance on us, giving us sound & viewing priority at a time when hockey was the hottest ticket in town and for that we will be forever indebted to them.  A special thank you to Barry Walsh, James Young, and Kieran Baldwin for making last year such a fantastic success.  A massive thank you to all of our bartenders, servers, bar backs, and everyone on the Doolin’s team over the last 7 years for making Doolin’s truly feel like home.  We will miss each and every one of you and wish you all the best!

Sincerely,

The Vancouver Southsiders Soccer Supporters Society Executive Board

Cat Alderson, Treasurer
Brendan Beynon, Member At Large
Peter Czimmermann, Vice President and Secretary
Darcie Kerr, Member At Large
Aaryn Vivian, President and Member at Large
Aidan Rantoul, Ombudsman

Vancouver Southsiders’ 2018 Season Launch Party!

  • 2018-02-14

 

We are mere weeks away from being back at BC Place cheering on the boys in Blue and Whi…..errr, Grey & Silver! To celebrate the upcoming Caps’ season, we are kicking off OUR season on Saturday February 17th at Doolin’s!

 

Where: Doolin’s Irish Pub – 654 Nelson Street, Vancouver
When: Saturday February 17th at 4:00pm
What: 2018 Membership Package pick up / #CapsOnTV viewing / + Much more!
Who: This is a 19+ event, no minors* permitted. See below for all-ages pick up details.

Food & drink specials TBA.

In addition to picking up your membership packages, we have at least one special guest appearance and some BIG announcements lined up for this event so make sure you get to Doolin’s early, grab a seat, meet some of our new servers & get caught up with your fellow supporters! Kickoff for the Caps match against Las Vegas Lights FC is scheduled for 7pm. We will be showing this match in the Back Bar at Doolin’s, providing a stream is made available to us.

REMINDER: We will be collecting cash donations for our #Talk4Erin fundraising campaign for @CrisisCentreBC. This is an organization that is doing tremendous work in our community, and we are proud to support their efforts. Every little bit helps, so let’s round up those loonies and toonies for a very worthwhile cause!

Questions? Please contact Aaryn at events@vancouversouthsiders.ca

* All-ages membership package pick up will be available at Roxy Burger on Saturday February 17th from 2pm to 3pm.

Your 2018 Executive Board

  • 2017-12-09

Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual General Meeting. Your newly elected executive board for 2018 is as follows:

Secretary: Peter Czimmerman

Treasurer: Catherine Alderson

Members At Large: Brendan Beynon, Darcie Kerr, Aaryn Vivian

Ombudsperson: Aidan Rantoul

Your President is Aaryn Vivian and your Vice President is Peter Czimmerman.

Thank you to departing board members Dylan Callow and John Knox. They along with member Greg Petrie were unsuccessful candidates this time around, and we appreciate them for stepping forward.

Final thanks go to outgoing Ombudsperson Andrew Van Eden, who did not seek re-election. Thank you for your guidance and for representing our members so well!

Scarves Up (PART 4)

  • 2017-11-24

Almost year ago, the 2016 executive board asked the members to make significant changes to our leadership structure, reducing the number of board positions in an attempt to entrust some of their responsibilities to the membership, and to encourage everybody to step up. And step up you all did!

Nothing pleases me more than reading heartfelt thank you notes (PART 1, PART 2, and PART 3) written by the three key board members to conclude their season and acknowledge members for giving their valuable time to make the Southside a successful community and a strong group, rising to new heights. I’d also like to thank Mike Perzel, Axel Gustav, Dim McNami for pitching in with the IT Crowd and Rebecca Contant for her help with away ticket arrangements.

Having the 2017 closing on us, I would like to express my utmost gratitude and appreciation, and thank Aaryn Vivian, Andrew Van Eden, Darcie Kerr, Dylan Callow and John Knox for their hard work and support throughout this challenging year. Despite what happened on the pitch, we can all look back at 2017 with a smile and a sense of accomplishment, because of YOU.

Thank you & köszönöm.

Peter Czimmermann
President & Club Secretary
Vancouver Southsiders

Vancouver Southsiders AGM

  • 2017-11-22

The Vancouver Southsiders Soccer Supporters Society will be holding its Annual General Meeting and executive board elections on Saturday December 9, 2017 at The Belmont Bar (1006 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC).

Please click here to view the official notice of the AGM.

Registration and breakfast buffet will commence at 10:00 a.m.

The meeting will be called to order at 11:00 a.m.

A viewing of the MLS Cup Final television broadcast will commence upstairs at Doolin’s Irish Pub at the conclusion of official society business.

 

MEETING AGENDA:

Please click here to view the meeting agenda.

 

RULES FOR NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION PROCEDURES:

Please click here to view our official rules for nominations and election procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

Scarves Up For Our Volunteers (PART 3)

  • 2017-11-17

To Our Southsiders Volunteer Team:
 
How we are approaching the end of 2017 is still beyond me. It feels like I haven’t had a chance to look up since our AGM last December, but in the best of possible ways! To say it’s been a busy year is an absolute understatement and without each of you helping and guiding me along the way, none of it would have been possible.
 
From the Membership side of things, I want to take this opportunity to personally thank Joann Bessler for getting me into this (I’ll get you back for it one of these days, I promise haha) and to Dan Olson, Dan Emerson, and Janna Gabrek for their support at the Membership table at Doolin’s throughout the season. Without their help, it would’ve been complete and utter scarf chaos, so kudos to them for keeping me in line!
 
Events & Partnerships have been a bit of a whirlwind this year. We had many things to accomplish in 2017 to get us back on course with our Partners and am happy to report we made excellent headway. Re-building our Match Day events was a HUGE goal of ours this year, and we’ve seen numbers in the 75+ range show up to Doolins for away viewings. That is a colossal step forward and I hope we can keep that momentum going into next season and beyond.
 
Another one of my goals at the beginning of the season was to plan at least one event per month that wasn’t solely match-day related and am happy to report we pulled off sixteen (16!!!) of them! From our Launch Party in February, to our 2nd annual Blue & White Navy trip to Bowen Island, to Ousted Appreciation Night and everything in between, we’ve accomplished so much and I truly cannot wait to see what 2018 brings. Events would not work without each and every supporter who comes out and celebrates with us. Thank you to everyone who made an effort, both on match days and at other events, to come out and show their Support with the Southsiders.
 
I’d like to take a moment to thank Rob Wheeler for passing the torch and being an amazing sounding board for some of my hairbrained event ideas. Special thanks are owed to Gail Embree & Brendan Beynon for bringing their enthusiasm our way over the course of the year and helping out with events whenever I needed some extra hands on deck. Thank you to Ryan Burns for holding down the fort and making sure the other volunteers were taken care of when I needed extra help. Thank you to Julian Anderson, Darren Alexander and the SouthIslanders for hosting our crew at Yates Street Taphouse in Victoria. Thank you to Chris Corrigan for all his help with Blue & White Navy as well as some awesome suggestions over the course of the season. Thank you to the Pigeon Casuals for bringing their enthusiasm over to Doolin’s in the latter portion of the season and getting the supporters pumped up with a few new chants. And finally, a massive thanks to James Young, Kieran Baldwin, Barry Walsh and the crew at Doolin’s for taking care of us this year. Our demands were high and they did a great job hosting us (Read: Sorry about the shout-y emails. I only meant *some* of it).
 
Thank you to each and every member and volunteer for making 2017 one of my proudest to be a Southsider.
 
Bring on 2018!
 
Aaryn Vivian
Vancouver Southsiders Events, Membership and Partnerships

Scarves Up For Our Volunteers (PART 2)

  • 2017-11-12

On behalf of Vancouver Southsiders Operations, I want to thank everyone who came out to volunteer this year. We have been very lucky to have so many members stand up and make the Southside great in 2017. Thank you for your creativity, painting skills, and storytelling abilities. Thank you for your selling skills and marketing skills. Thank you for being loud, for cheering, clapping, and for your extraordinary ability to encourage others to support loudly with us.

Thank you for knowing how to use the elastic dongles and the pitfalls that goes along with them. Thank you for hauling flags, drums, and banners all over the city. Thank you for cleaning up and rolling every single flag at the end of the matches.  Thank you for your time, effort, hard work, and love of the Whitecaps. Thank you for supporting our team to into a second round playoff position!

I do really try and personally see everyone who comes out and to thank volunteers who spend so much time doing stadium set up, tifo design and painting, merchandise, stadium clean up, and with the march to the match. We had over 50 different people come out and help, and I hope each and every one of you knows how appreciated it was.  The entire gameday experience was what drew me to the Southside, and I was honoured to help pull it all together.  I would like to think we brought that feeling to others.  From the start to the end of the season we had incredible, creative, and often hilarious fun year together. Your willingness to use your gifts and abilities has strengthened our support of our team and of the Southside.

I had an amazing, crazy time, and learnt so much from you all. I truly hope that we get to work together again in the 2018 season.

Thank you, you make the Southside great.

 

Darcie Kerr

Vancouver Southsiders Operations