What a season it’s been for the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Written off by a lot of media pundits at the beginning of the 2025 MLS regular season, the Whitecaps proved them all wrong by finishing second in the Western Conference and fifth overall in the league standings.

Vancouver enters the MLS Cup playoffs as the lone Canadian club, looking to join Toronto FC (in 2017) as the only club from north of the border to hoist the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy.

Here’s what you need to know about the Whitecaps’ first-round playoff series against FC Dallas.

How this playoff series works

The first round of the MLS playoffs in the Western and Eastern Conferences is made up of best-of-three series (rather than single-elimination contests). In the best-of-three, no games can end in draws. If a match is tied

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