1983 North American Soccer League season

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North American Soccer League 1983 season
Season1983
Champions Tulsa Roughnecks
Premiers New York Cosmos
(7th title) most total points
*Vancouver
best Won/Loss record
Matches played180
Goals scored708 (3.93 per match)
Top goalscorer Roberto Cabañas
(25 goals)
Highest attendance60,342
Seattle at Vancouver
(June 20)
Lowest attendance3,079
Toronto at San Diego
(May 25)
Average attendance13,258
← 1982
1984 →

Statistics of North American Soccer League in season 1983. This was the 16th and penultimate season of the NASL.

Contents

Overview

There were 12 teams in the league. The Tulsa Roughnecks won the championship. Though Vancouver won two more games than any other club, for the fourth time in league history, the team with the most wins did not win the regular season due to the NASL's system of awarding points.

Changes from the previous season

New teams

Teams folding

Teams moving

Name changes

Regular season

W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system

6 points for a win in regulation and overtime, 4 point for a shootout win, 0 points for a loss, 1 bonus point for each regulation goal scored, up to three per game. [1]

 -Premiers (most points).  -Best record.  -Other playoff teams.
Eastern DivisionWLGFGAPT
New York Cosmos (1)2288749194
Chicago Sting (5)15156673147
Toronto Blizzard (7)16145148135
Montreal Manic (8)12185871124
Southern DivisionWLGFGAPT
Tulsa Roughnecks (3)17135649145
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (6)14166063136
Tampa Bay Rowdies 723488783
Team America 1020335479
Western DivisionWLGFGAPT
Vancouver Whitecaps (2)2466334187
Golden Bay Earthquakes (4)20107154169
Seattle Sounders 12186261119
San Diego Sockers 11195365106

NASL All-Stars

First Team [2] [3]   Position  Second TeamHonorable Mention [4] [5]
Jan van Beveren, Fort Lauderdale G Tino Lettieri, Vancouver Hubert Birkenmeier, New York
David Watson, Vancouver D Ray Evans, Seattle Gregg Thompson, Tampa Bay
Franz Beckenbauer, New YorkD Bruce Wilson, Toronto Dave Huson, Chicago
Andranik Eskandarian, New YorkD Frantz Mathieu, Montreal Mihalj Keri, Golden Bay
Barry Wallace, TulsaD Cho Young-Jeung, Chicago Bruce Miller, Fort Lauderdale
Vladislav Bogićević, New York M Karl-Heinz Granitza, Chicago Fran O'Brien, Vancouver
Stan Terlecki, Golden BayM Steve Daley, Seattle Rick Davis, New York
Frans Thijssen, VancouverM Kaz Deyna, San Diego Ray Hudson, Fort Lauderdale
Roberto Cabañas, New York F Giorgio Chinaglia, New York David Cross, Vancouver
Steve Zungul, Golden BayF Ricardo Alonso, Chicago Peter Ward, Seattle
Pato Margetic, ChicagoF David Byrne, Toronto Peter Beardsley, Vancouver

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarterfinals
(Best-of-3)		Semifinals
(Best-of-3)		 Soccer Bowl '83
(Single match)
             
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
4 Golden Bay Earthquakes 0(3)0 –
7 Toronto Blizzard 1(5)2–
2 Vancouver Whitecaps 13 0
7 Toronto Blizzard 0 41

Quarterfinals

Higher seedLower seedGame 1Game 2Game 3*(higher seed hosts Games 1 and 3)
New York Cosmos - Montreal Manic 2–40–1 (SO, 2–3)xSeptember 6 • Giants Stadium • 17,202
September 12 • Olympic Stadium • 20,726
Tulsa Roughnecks - Fort Lauderdale Strikers 3–2 (OT)4–2xSeptember 6 • Skelly Stadium • 7,826
September 10 • Lockhart Stadium • 8,873
Golden Bay Earthquakes - Chicago Sting 6–10–15–2September 7 • Spartan Stadium • 16,572
September 12 • Soldier Field • 5,852
September 14 • Spartan Stadium • 17,361
Vancouver Whitecaps - Toronto Blizzard 1–03–40–1September 8 • BC Place Stadium • 22,015
September 12 • Exhibition Stadium • 7,958
September 15 • BC Place Stadium • 24,545

Semifinals

Higher seedLower seedGame 1Game 2Game 3*(higher seed hosts Games 1 and 3)
Tulsa Roughnecks - Montreal Manic 2–1 (SO, 9–8)0–13–0September 18 • Skelly Stadium • 10,625 [6]
September 26 • Olympic Stadium • 16,185
September 28 • Skelly Stadium • 18,090 [7]
Golden Bay Earthquakes - Toronto Blizzard 0–1 (SO, 3–5)0–2xSeptember 17 • Spartan Stadium • 19,027
September 22 • Exhibition Stadium • 15,556

Soccer Bowl '83

Tulsa Roughnecks 2–0 Toronto Blizzard
Pesa Soccerball shade.svg55:36' (Wallace, Danaeifard)
Futcher Soccerball shade.svg61:37' (Wallace, Moore)		 Report
BC Place Stadium, Vancouver
Attendance: 53,326 [10]
Referee: Ed Bellion (USA) [11]

1983 NASL Champions: Tulsa Roughnecks

Post season awards

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