Vancouver Eighty-Sixers

After the demise of the city's North American Soccer League team, the Whitecaps, a new club was founded in B.C.'s largest city. Originally, the team was going to be called the United. That name was rejected, though, in favor of Eighty-Sixers (also stylized as 86ers), which honored the year of the city's founding (1886), the team's founding (1986), as well as Expo '86, the World's Fair that ran in the city that same year. The team played in the Canadian Soccer League from its founding in 1987 until its demise in 1992. The 86ers went on to play in the American Professional Soccer League and subsequently the USL. In 2001, they changed their name to the Whitecaps.