Swangard Stadium

Vancouver Whitecaps

• Junior football World Cup 2007

The Swangard Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Burnaby.

The stadium was built in 1969 is primarily used for soccer or football games, but also for athletics. The Vancouver Whitecaps use the stadium for their home games in the USSF D2 Pro League. In addition, the Canadian national soccer team took advantage of the stadium several times for the discharge of internationals.

At the Junior World Cup in 2007, the stadium was one of the six host cities. But the capacitance of actually 6,868 seats was increased by additional bleachers to 10,000.

It has its name stadium after Erwin Swangard, an influential sports presenter from Vancouver.