1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season

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Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1983 season
Owner Flag of the United States.svg Elizabeth Robbie
General manager Flag of the United States.svg Tim Robbie
Manager Flag of England.svg David Chadwick
Stadium Lockhart Stadium
NASL Southern Division: Second place
Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorerLeague:
Flag of England.svg Brian Kidd
(18 goals)

All:
Flag of England.svg Brian Kidd
(18 goals)
Average home league attendance10,823
  1983 Strikers (indoor)
1984 Strikers 

The 1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the seventh season of the Fort Lauderdale Striker's team, and the club's seventeenth season in professional soccer. This year the team made it to the quarterfinals of the North American Soccer League playoffs. It would be the last year of the club's incarnation as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the original NASL. The following year they relocated to Minnesota for the 1984 season and became the Minnesota Strikers.

Contents

Background

Review

Competitions

NASL regular season

Results summaries

Results by round

Match reports

NASL Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Higher seedLower seedGame 1Game 2Game 3
Tulsa Roughnecks -Fort Lauderdale Strikers3–2 (OT)4–2xSeptember 6 • Skelly Stadium • 7,826
September 10 • Lockhart Stadium • 8,873

Bracket

QuarterfinalsSemifinals Soccer Bowl '83
             
1 New York Cosmos 2 0(2)
8 Montreal Manic 41(3)
8 Montreal Manic 1(8)10
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 2(9)0 3
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 34
6 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2 2
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 2
7 Toronto Blizzard 0
4 Golden Bay Earthquakes 60 5
5 Chicago Sting 1 12
3 Golden Bay Earthquakes 0(3)0
7 Toronto Blizzard 1(5)2
2 Vancouver Whitecaps 13 0
7 Toronto Blizzard 0 41

Match reports

Statistics

Transfers

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