Pacific Coast Soccer League

The Pacific Coast Soccer League is a soccer league, currently featuring teams from British Columbia. In the past clubs from Washington and Oregon have competed.

PCSL is considered to be the premiere division (summer league) in the Canadian Soccer Pyramid. The winner of the Challenge Cup or league playoffs has a berth in the British Columbia Provincial Soccer Championship for the Provincial Cup. The Provincial Cup winner plays for The Challenge Trophy denoting the Canadian national amateur champion. The league has a short 2.5 month summer season. The PCSL comprises elite Canadian football players. Some players are ex-pros from Europe and North America, top NCAA players and others who are looking to become professional soccer players. Several clubs are focused on player development similar to the USL PDL and NPSL in the United States.

History

The name Pacific Coast Association Football League appears to have been chosen as the railway age had yet to mature to the point where rail travel superseded the steamships traversing the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada. The leagues for various sports of the highest level such as baseball in the summer; therefore, spanned along the Pacific Coast from California to British Columbia not inland.