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The 2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season was the club's 24th year of existence (or 34th if counting the NASL Whitecaps), as well as their 17th and 2nd last year as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. Vancouver was officially named an MLS expansion city on March 18, 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MLS awards Vancouver team for 2011 )〕 Following the end of the 2010 season, the Whitecaps FC joined MLS, becoming the second Canadian club and 19th overall (counting contracted franchises) to enter the league. The 2009 season started in an up and down fashion including three game winning and losing streaks before ending the season with only one loss in their last ten games. The USL-1 league was a closely contested affair with the Whitecaps a member of an intermediate trifecta in the standings separated by less than three points. The Whitecaps overcame the Railhawks and Timbers in tight, hard won playoff series before finishing as runners-up to the Montreal Impact in a dramatic playoff final series. The Whitecaps also finished second in the 2009 Voyaguers Cup in a controversial fashion after Montreal rested important players for their following USL-1 league match against the Whitecaps. == 2009 Montreal Controversy == *18–06–2009 : After losing any chance to win the round robin, the Impact lose 1-6 to TFC giving the Voyageurs Cup to TFC over Vancouver on goal difference while coach Marc Dos Santos rests key players for the league match against Vancouver two days later. The Vancouver Whitecaps team attended the TFC-Impact game. *20–06–2009 : Two days later Montreal Impact win their USL-1 league game 2-1 against Vancouver. The Montreal Ultras protest against Impact management's unsportsmanlike behaviour two days earlier during the first half. *18–09–2009 : End of the season league standings...the extra 3 pts Montreal got against Vancouver is also the difference between 5th and 7th putting the Whitecaps at a lower seed in the USL season ending playoff tournament. *17–10–2009 : Montreal Impact win the league playoff final's second leg 3-1 at home with the Whitecaps playing shorthanded due to a second sending off in a row, and Montreal wins the USL-1 Championship 6-3 on aggregate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vancouver Whitecaps Year in Review: Introduction )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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