The Westminster Royals is a Canadian soccer club. It has the distinction of winning the Canadian National Challenge Cup

Canadian National Challenge Cup

The Challenge Trophy is a national amateur football cup in Canada contested by the champions of individual provincial soccer competitions. It is one of the oldest football competitions in Canada, being held since 1913...

 eight times, setting the existing record for most domestic cup championships by a team in Canada.

The 1928-29 team was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame.

The 1927-28 team was inducted into the Soccer Hall of Fame (Ontario).

In 1961, the Royals lost to a Mexican Select team 3-0 in the first Pacific international soccer tournament in Los Angeles.

The team along with the Vancouver St. Andrew's club both dropped out of the Pacific Coast Soccer League

Pacific Coast Soccer League

The Pacific Coast Soccer League is a soccer league featuring teams from British Columbia, although the league has also featured teams from Washington in the past as well...

 in 1962.

Honours

• Canadian National Challenge Cup Winners: 1928, 1930 , 1931, 1936, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960
• Canadian National Challenge Cup Runner-ups: 1952, 1959

Notable players

• Ken Pears
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• George Russell
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• Austin Delany
• Dickie Stobbart
• George Anderson
• Stanley Ball
• Harry Chapman
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• Jack Coulter
• Stuart Crossan
• Adam Kerr
• Robert McDougall
• Les Rimmer
• Andy Roots
• Aubrey Sanford
• Jimmy Smith
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• Sandy Stang
• Tom Taylor
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• Tom Trotter
• Dave Turner
• Errol Crossan
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