High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vancouver Whitecaps FC is a Canadian professional soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS). The Whitecaps are the 17th team of Major League Soccer and replace the USSF Division 2 team of the same name, which was owned and managed by the same group that operates the MLS team, and which played through the conclusion of that league`s 2010 season. The MLS team is the third to share the legacy of the Whitecaps name. In the 2012 season, the team`s second in the MLS, the Whitecaps became the first Canadian team to qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs