Pacific Football Club held a launch party Friday for its flagship store in Victoria.

The store is the go-to headquarters for everything Pacific FC, including merchandise, ticketing and more.

The store follows the announcement earlier this year that Vancouver Island is the new home of a Canadian Premier League (CPL) team.

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Pacific FC is one of the inaugural teams in the Canadian Premier League alongside Hamilton, Winnipeg, York, Halifax, Edmonton, Ottawa and Calgary, and will begin its inaugural season in April 2019.

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Founded in 2018, Pacific Football Club is bringing professional football to Vancouver Island. Playing out of a renovated, 6000-seat Westhills Stadium in Langford, the club will provide an outlet for Canadian youth to realize their dreams of playing at the professional level.

The club has announced the signing of Kadin Chung, one of the top young players in Canada, with 10 other high-calibre players to be signed in the next week.

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馃搮Friday, Nov. 30
馃搷665 Fort St.,
鈴癘fficial Festivities get underway from 12-6
馃憵 Team merch will be available for purchase
馃懃 Meet , & ownership
馃師Ticket pricing/Stadium renders

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The new Pacific FC flagship store is located at 665 Fort Street in the heart of downtown Victoria.