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The Victoria Royals are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia. The Royals play in the B.C. Division of the Western Conference in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team began play during the 2011–12 season after the league announced the relocation of the Chilliwack Bruins to Victoria. It marked the return of the WHL to Vancouver Island, 17 years after the departure of the Victoria Cougars. The Royals play their home games at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
While two minority owners of the Chilliwack Bruins hoped to purchase the team and keep it in Chilliwack following the 2010–11 season, they were outvoted by the remaining partners who opted to sell the team to a group planning to relocate the franchise. On April 20, 2011, the WHL announced the approval of the sale and the relocation of the Bruins to Victoria. The relocation was brought about partially by the WHL's desire to protect the Victoria market, as the league feared that a potential summer relocation of the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg could result in the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose moving to Victoria.
The Royals got off to a relatively strong start in Victoria, making the playoffs in each of the team's first eight seasons; the team was on track to make the playoffs for a ninth straight year in 2019–20 when the season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. The team's best season came in 2015–16. The Royals reached the 50-win mark for the first time and secured their first Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy as the league's best team in the regular season. They ultimately lost their second-round playoff series against the defending champion Kelowna Rockets; the Royals were leading in the seventh and deciding game when the Rockets tied the game with less than a second remaining in regulation, going on to win in overtime.
| Playoffs |
| Lost Western Conference quarter-final (0–4, Kamloops Blazers) |
| Lost Western Conference quarter-final (2–4, Kamloops Blazers) |
| Won Western Conference quarter-final (4–0, Spokane Chiefs) Lost Western Conference semi-final (1–4, POR) |
| Won Western Conference quarter-final (4–1, PRG) Lost Western Conference semi-final (1–4, Kelowna Rockets) |
| Won Western Conference quarter-final (4–2, Spokane Chiefs) Lost Western Conference semi-final (3–4 Kelowna Rockets) |
| Lost Western Conference quarter-final (2–4, EVT) |
| Won Western Conference quarter-final (4–3, Vancouver Giants) Lost Western Conference semi-final (0–4, TRI) |
| Won Western Conference quarter-final (4–2, Kamloops Blazers) Lost Western Conference semi-final (0–4, Vancouver Giants) |
| Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| No playoffs due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| Did not qualify |
| Did not qualify |
| Lost Western Conference quarter-final (0–4, POR) |
| Won Western Conference quarterfinal (4–1, TRI) Lost Western Conference semifinal (2–4, Spokane Chiefs) |
On November 6, 2023, following a 6–3 loss to the Wenatchee Wild, the Royals dismissed Price and named former Winnipeg Ice head coach James Patrick the fifth head coach in franchise history.
| 2011–2012 | 72 | ||
| 2 | Dave Lowry | 2012–2017 | 360 |
| 3 | Dan Price | 2017–2023 | |
| 4 | James Patrick | 2023–present |
St. Clair Group Trophy
WHL Marketing/Business Award
Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy
WHL Rookie of the Year
Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy
WHL Coach of the Year
Lloyd Saunders Memorial Trophy
WHL Executive of the Year
WHL Western Conference Second All-Star Team
WHL B.C. Division First All-Star Team
WHL B.C. Division Second All-Star Team
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