# 2022 Pacific FC season

The 2022 Pacific FC season was the fourth season in the history of Pacific FC. In addition to the Canadian Premier League, the club competed in the Canadian Championship and the CONCACAF League.
Pacific FC were the defending CPL champions, having defeated Forge FC in the 2021 Canadian Premier League Final. This was the club's first season led by James Merriman, who was announced as the club's new head coach on January 21, 2022.

## Overview

As the defending champions, Pacific FC came into the 2022 Canadian Premier League season with high expectations. However, there was significant turnover from the 2021 season. Championship-winning head coach Pa-Modou Kah departed to lead North Texas SC, leaving assistant coach James Merriman in charge. As a result of their impressive performances in the previous season, both Kadin Chung and Lukas MacNaughton signed deals with MLS club Toronto FC; both are tough losses for Pacific's backline. Additionally, forward Terran Campbell and midfielder Alessandro Hojabrpour, who scored the winning goal in the 2021 championship final, both signed with 2021 runners-up Forge FC, to the dismay of Pacific. These changes raised questions about Pacific's capability at repeating last season's success. However, the club retained several of its most important performers, including 2021 MVP Marco Bustos, starting goalkeeper Callum Irving, and prolific striker Alejandro Diaz. The Tridents also signed some new talent, most notably Canadian international defender Amer Đidić from FC Edmonton.

## Current squad

    As of August 22, 2022
| No. | Name | Position(s) | Date of birth (age) | Previous club |
| Goalkeepers ||||||
| 1 | Callum Irving | GK | (1993-03-16)March 16, 1993 (aged 29) | Ottawa Fury |
| 21 | Emil Gazdov | GK | (2003-09-11)September 11, 2003 (aged 19) | FC Nürnberg |
| Defenders ||||||
| 2 | Georges Mukumbilwa | RB | (1999-09-23)September 23, 1999 (aged 23) | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |
| 3 | Jordan Haynes | LB / LW | (1996-01-17)January 17, 1996 (aged 26) | Vancouver TSS Rovers |
| 5 | Abdou Samake | CB | (1996-10-07)October 7, 1996 (aged 26) | University of Michigan |
| 13 | Kunle Dada-Luke | FB / RW | (2000-01-12)January 12, 2000 (aged 22) | Atlético Ottawa |
| 26 | Thomas Meilleur-Giguère | CB | (1997-11-13)November 13, 1997 (aged 25) | Montreal Impact |
| 33 | Nathan Mavila | LB | (1995-10-15)October 15, 1995 (aged 27) | Wingate & Finchley |
| 55 | Amer Didic | CB | (1994-12-28)December 28, 1994 (aged 28) | FC Edmonton |
| Midfielders ||||||
| 6 | Umaro Baldé | CM / AM | (2002-10-07)October 7, 2002 (aged 20) | Rangers Academy |
| 8 | Matteo Polisi | AM / FW | (1998-04-15)April 15, 1998 (aged 24) | SFU Athletics |
| 11 | Josh Heard | AM | (1994-11-29)November 29, 1994 (aged 28) | Real Monarchs |
| 14 | Luca Ricci | CM | (1998-02-23)February 23, 1998 (aged 24) | FC Lanaudière |
| 20 | Sean Young | CM | (2001-04-20)April 20, 2001 (aged 21) | Victoria Highlanders |
| 22 | Jamar Dixon | CM | (1989-06-05)June 5, 1989 (aged 33) | Ottawa Fury |
| 28 | Cédric Toussaint | CM / AM | (2001-03-29)March 29, 2001 (aged 21) | York United |
| 34 | Manny Aparicio | CM | (1995-09-17)September 17, 1995 (aged 27) | York9 FC |
| Forwards ||||||
| 10 | Marco Bustos | RW / AM | (1996-04-22)April 22, 1996 (aged 26) | Valour FC |
| 15 | Jordan Brown | ST | (1996-11-10)November 10, 1996 (aged 26) | Electric City FC |
| 19 | Abdul Binate | CF | (2003-01-24)January 24, 2003 (aged 19) | CF Montréal Academy |
| 23 | Djenairo Daniels | CF | (2002-01-07)January 7, 2002 (aged 20) | FC Utrecht |
| 24 | Gianni dos Santos | CF | (1998-11-21)November 21, 1998 (aged 24) | FC Dordrecht |
| 30 | Kamron Habibullah | LW | (2003-10-23)October 23, 2003 (aged 19) | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | From club | Fee/notes | Date |
| DF | Amer Đidić | FC Edmonton | Free | February 9, 2022 |
| FW | Abdul Binate | CF Montréal Academy | Free | February 16, 2022 |
| FW | Djenairo Daniels | FC Utrecht | Free | February 18, 2022 |
| DF | Nathan Mavila | Wingate & Finchley F.C. | Free | March 7, 2022 |
| MF | Umaro Baldé | Rangers Academy | Free | March 16, 2022 |
| DF | Georges Mukumbilwa | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Free | March 18, 2022 |
| MF | Simon Triantafillou | Forge FC | Free, signed and loaned to FC Edmonton | April 15, 2022 |
| MF | Bicou Bissainthe | Sevan FC | Free, signed and loaned to FC Edmonton | April 22, 2022 |
| MF | Luca Ricci | Montreal Carabins | Selected 8th overall in the 2022 CPL–U Sports Draft | May 12, 2022 |
| MF | Cédric Toussaint | York United | Undisclosed sell-on clause, and loan of Matthew Baldisimo | August 11, 2022 |
| FW | Jordan Brown | Electric City FC | Free | August 22, 2022 |

#### Loans in

| No. | Pos. | Player | Loaned from | Fee/notes | Date | Source |
| | FW | Kamron Habibullah | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Season-long loan | March 11, 2022 | |

#### Draft picks

Pacific FC made the following selections in the 2022 CPL–U Sports Draft. Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in.
| Round | Selection | Pos. | Player | Nationality | University |
| 1 | 8 | MF | Luca Ricci | Canada | Université de Montréal |
| 2 | 16 | DF | Rees Goertzen | Canada | University of Victoria |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | To club | Fee/notes | Date |
| | DF | Duran Lee | | Released | January 14, 2022 |
| 2 | DF | Kadin Chung | Toronto FC | Undisclosed | February 23, 2022 |
| 6 | DF | Lukas MacNaughton | Toronto FC | Undisclosed | February 23, 2022 |
| 7 | MF | Victor Blasco | Vida | Undisclosed | December 16, 2021 |
| 14 | FW | Terran Campbell | Forge FC | Free | January 7, 2022 |
| 18 | DF | Robert Boskovic | | Released | January 14, 2022 |
| 21 | MF | Alessandro Hojabrpour | Forge FC | Free | January 7, 2022 |
| 23 | MF | Ollie Bassett | Atlético Ottawa | Free | January 14, 2022 |
| 31 | GK | Isaac Boehmer | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Loan ended | January 14, 2022 |
| 9 | FW | Alejandro Díaz | Sogndal | Undisclosed fee & sell-on clause | August 10, 2022 |

#### Loans out

| Pos. | Player | Loaned to | Fee/notes | Date |
| DF | Paul Amedume | North Texas SC | Season-long loan | February 10, 2022 |
| MF | Simon Triantafillou | FC Edmonton | Season-long loan | April 15, 2022 |
| MF | Bicou Bissainthe | FC Edmonton | Season-long loan | April 22, 2022 |
| MF | Matthew Baldisimo | York United | Season-long loan | August 11, 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions

Matches are listed in Langford local time: Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−7) until November 5, and Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8) otherwise.

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Canadian Premier League | April 10 | October 8 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 046.43 |
| CPL Playoffs | October 15 | October 23 | Semifinals | Semifinals | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Canadian Championship | May 24 | May 24 | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 000.00 |
| CONCACAF League | July 26 | August 23 | Preliminary Round | Round of 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 35 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 46 | 39 | +7 | 042.86 |
Last updated: October 23, 2022 Source: Competitions

### Canadian Premier League
#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Atlético Ottawa (S) | 28 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 49 | Advance to playoffs |
| 2 | Forge (C) | 28 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 47 | 25 | +22 | 47 | Advance to playoffs |
| 3 | Cavalry | 28 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 47 | Advance to playoffs |
| 4 | Pacific | 28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 46 | Advance to playoffs |
| 5 | Valour | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 34 | +2 | 37 | |
| 6 | York United | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 37 | −6 | 34 | |
| 7 | HFX Wanderers | 28 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 24 | 38 | −14 | 29 | |
| 8 | FC Edmonton | 28 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 31 | 51 | −20 | 20 | |

#### Results by match

| Match | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| Result | W | W | W | D | L | W | W | D | D | L | L | D | L | D | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | L | D | D | W | W | W | L |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |

#### Playoffs
##### Semifinals
### CONCACAF League
#### Preliminary round
#### Round of 16
## Statistics
### Squad and statistics

As of June 18, 2022
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Canadian Premier League | Canadian Premier League | Canadian Championship | Canadian Championship | CONCACAF League | CONCACAF League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | CAN | Callum Irving | 13 | 0 | 12+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | CAN | Georges Mukumbilwa | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | CAN | Jordan Haynes | 6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | MLI | Abdou Samake | 10 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | POR | Umaro Baldé | 1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | NED | Gianni dos Santos | 10 | 1 | 2+7 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | CAN | Matteo Polisi | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | MEX | Alejandro Díaz | 13 | 6 | 11+1 | 6 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | CAN | Marco Bustos | 13 | 0 | 12+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | WAL | Josh Heard | 12 | 3 | 9+2 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | CAN | Kunle Dada-Luke | 10 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | CAN | Luca Ricci | 6 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | CAN | Sean Young | 8 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | CAN | Emil Gazdov | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | CAN | Jamar Dixon | 10 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | NED | Djenairo Daniels | 11 | 0 | 2+8 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | CAN | Thomas Meilleur-Giguère | 12 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | CAN | Kamron Habibullah | 7 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ENG | Nathan Mavila | 9 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | CAN | Manny Aparicio | 8 | 2 | 8+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | CAN | Amer Đidić | 13 | 3 | 11+1 | 1 | 1+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | CAN | Matthew Baldisimo | 9 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |

### Top scorers

| Rank | Nat. | Player | Pos. | Canadian Premier League | Canadian Championship | CONCACAF League | TOTAL |
| 1 | | Alejandro Díaz | FW | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | | Josh Heard | MF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | | Amer Đidić | DF | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | | Manny Aparicio | MF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | | Gianni dos Santos | FW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 13 | 2 | 0 | 15 |

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Canadian Premier League | Canadian Premier League | Canadian Championship | Canadian Championship | CONCACAF League | CONCACAF League | TOTAL | TOTAL |
| 33 | DF | | Nathan Mavila | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | | Djenairo Daniels | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Abdou Samake | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | | Kunle Dada-Luke | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | | Josh Heard | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | | Amer Đidić | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | | Gianni dos Santos | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | | Manny Aparicio | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Georges Mukumbilwa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | | Sean Young | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | | Jamar Dixon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | | Thomas Meilleur-Giguère | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | | Kamron Habibullah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | | Matthew Baldisimo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |