1991 American Professional Soccer League

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American Professional Soccer League
Season1991
Champions San Francisco Bay Blackhawks
(1st Title)
Premiers Maryland Bays
(1st Title)
1992 CONCACAF Champions' Cup San Francisco Bay Blackhawks
Matches played94
Goals scored271 (2.88 per match)
Best Player Flag of the United States.svg Jean Harbor Tampa Bay Rowdies
Top goalscorer Flag of the United States.svg Jean Harbor Tampa Bay Rowdies
(17 goals)
Best goalkeeper Flag of the United States.svg Mark Dougherty San Francisco Bay Blackhawks
← 1990
1992 →

The 1991 American Professional Soccer League season was the 2nd season of the American Professional Soccer League. Only 9 out of 22 teams that competed in 1990 returned for a second season.

Contents

Regular season

The point system used by the Western Conference (and previously the Western Soccer Alliance) was adopted league-wide this season:

American Conference

PlaceTeamGPWLWNWEWSLNLELSGFGAGDPts
1 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2115611043123921+18117
2 Albany Capitals 2110119107132729−292
3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 2181371013002627−169
4 Penn-Jersey Spirit 2161540213022550−2561
5 Miami Freedom 2161550114101953−3452

Western Conference

PlaceTeamGPWLWNWEWSLNLELSGFGAGDPts
1 Maryland Bays 2119217112005423+31158
2 San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 2117412142113316+17126
3 Colorado Foxes 2113811117013627+9111
4 Salt Lake Sting 2031730014121222−1033

Playoffs

Bracket

Semifinals
Best-of-3		1991 APSL Championship
Best-of-3
          
1 Maryland Bays 21 0(4)
4 Albany Capitals 1 20(5)
4 Albany Capitals 30 0(3)
3 San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 1 20(4)
2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 0 0 -
3 San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 11-

Semifinal 1

Albany Capitals (NY)2–1 (OT) Maryland Bays (MD)
Dave Smyth Soccerball shade.svg2'
Lee Tschantret Soccerball shade gold.svg101'		 Report Soccerball shade.svg77' Kevin Sloan
Bleecker Stadium, Albany, New York
Attendance: 1,809


Maryland Bays (MD)2–1 Albany Capitals (NY)
Philip Gyau Soccerball shade.svg20' (Jackson)
Kevin Sloan Soccerball shade.svg69', Yellow card.svg		 Report Soccerball shade.svg89' Chris Szanto
Cedar Lane Park, Maryland
Attendance: 2,741


The Albany Capitals advanced to the final.

Semifinal 2

San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (CA)1–0 (OT) Fort Lauderdale Strikers (FL)
Eric Wynalda Yellow card.svg 89:59'
Dominic Kinnear Soccerball shade gold.svg96:33' (Qin, Salazar)		 Report Adrian Gaiten Yellow card.svg 79:31'
Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California
Attendance: 6,041
Referee: Brian Hall
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (FL)0–1 (OT) San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (CA)
John Clare Yellow card.svg 24:25' Report Lawrence Lozzano Yellow card.svg 83:00'
Eric Wynalda Soccerball shade gold.svg95:56' (Isaacs)
Lockhart Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Attendance: 2,476
Referee: Raul Dominguez

The San Francisco Bay Blackhawks advanced to the final.

Final

Albany Capitals (NY)3–1 San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (CA)
Mark Dougherty Soccerball shade.svg4:36' (o.g.)
Ramiro Borja Soccerball shade.svg34:13' (Savic, Mariner)
Mike Masters Soccerball shade.svg63:57' (Cannon)
Paul Mariner Yellow card.svg 72'
Lee Tschantret Yellow card.svg		 Report 1
Report 2 		Derek Van Rheenen Soccerball shade.svg36:13' (Wynalda)
Bleecker Stadium, Albany, New York
Attendance: 4,061



The San Francisco Bay Blackhawks win the APSL Championship.

Points leaders

RankScorerClubGoalsAssistsPoints
1 Jean Harbor Maryland Bays 171145
2 Kevin Sloan Maryland Bays 14432
3 Zico Doe Colorado Foxes 12226
4 Derek Sanderson Fort Lauderdale Strikers 10323
Bryan Haynes Maryland Bays 9523
6 Andrew McKay Fort Lauderdale Strikers 6820
7 Paul Dougherty Fort Lauderdale Strikers 7519
Mike Masters Albany Capitals 7519
9 Townsend Qin San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 6618
10 Ramiro Borja Albany Capitals 7317
11 Scott Benedetti Colorado Foxes 5616
12 Chance Fry San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 6214
13 Dzung Tran San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 5313
Chad Ashton Colorado Foxes 3713
15 Philip Gyau Maryland Bays 3612
16 Ken Snow Miami Freedom 5111

Honors

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