There are four games in the BC Premier this coming Saturday. Hosting will be Capilano, James Bay, Meraloma and Ravens. The Vikes are playing a university championship qualifier at TWU and the Pride don’t have a match scheduled as far as we know.
We had a chance to review the match footage of 3 games that were put up on YouTube, kudos to Westshore and UVic for putting up the live streams and archives of the matches, and to Burnaby for putting up the match video post game. We selected a few screen captures from the videos to highlight some outstanding performances. You can view the timestamp on the screen captures to watch on the videos which are included below. The players featured from Week 1 are Burnaby #10 Napolioni Bolaca, Westshore #10 Mark Balaski, UVic’s second row Brendan Kim and centre Morgan di Nardo. All Week 1 impact players.
A number of upsets in Week 1 as teams have recruited in the off season and the playing strengths for the new season become apparent. The biggest upset reported by the BCRU was the Bays over UBCOB Ravens. The Bays finished in the cellar last season and the Ravens won the Rounsefell Cup. In another match UVic were down 19 points at the half and upset the Rugby Canada Academy in a close battle. We have the full match video on both the UVic v Pride match and the Westshore v CW match, courtesy of the host clubs YouTube channels.
This article contains social media links and schedules for BC Premier clubs, as well as the updated standings.
Standings – April 11th 2026
| Team | Played | Wins | Draws | Losses | BP | Points | Ratio |
| Ravens | 16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 68 | 4.25 |
| UBC* | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 64 | 3.76 |
| Westshore | 17 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 64 | 3.76 |
| James Bay | 17 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 54 | 3.18 |
| Capilano | 17 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 51 | 3.0 |
| UVic | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 47 | 2.93 |
| Burnaby Lake | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 47 | 2.76 |
| Meraloma | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 22 | 1.29 |
| Pacific Pride | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 1.11 |
| CW# | 17 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 0.41 |
* UBC lose 4 points for defaulting Westshore match
# CW lose 4 points for defaulting Ravens match
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There’s 26 days before the BC Premier league begins on September 13th. The BCRU have the schedule up, we’ve included the link below. We’ve also listed the Premier schedule for each club and a preview video, entirely Ai created from the schedule link.
The BC Rugby season is about 2 months away but it’s never to early to start thinking about it, right? This year’s Premier season looks like it will kick off September 13th with the same 10 teams from last year. Last year due to weather cancellations the number of games played by each team varied from 12 to 15. In 2025-26 each team is scheduled to play 17 matches. There will be a single round against the Pacific Pride and a double, home and away round, against the other 8 teams.
The BCRU released their annual report with financials. The 2024-25 Annual Report in .pdf format is available for viewing online. We’ve highlighted some quotes below and a graph of their numbers. An overall evaluation, from my point of view, is that they’ve done well at the age-grade levels growing the game, the Kamloops 7s is a case in point. There’s work to do in the high performance end, especially with the senior men which has been quiet at the regional and provincial level. The reality is the financials are one of the major constraining factors which is why they brought in a new CEO to tackle that issue.
The BCRU continues to fine tune the balance of trying to raise the level of play in the BC Premier through import players with the responsibility of developing domestic players. Their latest decision is that a maximum of 7 import players can be in a match day 23, or in other words, 16 domestic players (ie. eligible to play for Canada) have to be in the roster. This applies to the BC Premier team and the team they enter in the Division One league.
On a bright May day in Abbotsford, with a gusty wind blowing straight through the pitch from the south, two worthy finalists met to determine who would take the spoils and who would suffer a first defeat in months. Having played to a tie in February it was anyone’s guess who would prevail, the grizzled club men or the finely tuned student cohort.
There weren’t any upsets on finals day as the predicted top ranked teams completed their championship titles. Ravens won the men’s Premier, Thunderbirds the women’s Premier. Other titles went to the Burnaby men’s Div 1, the Meraloma women’s Div 1, the Kamloops men’s Div 2, the Comox women’s Div 2 and the Langley men’s Div 3. The rosters below are from the BCRU Program.The live stream links are included below.
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