1993 Vancouver 86ers season

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Vancouver 86ers
1993 season
ChairmanMilan Ilich
Head coach Bob Lenarduzzi
Stadium Swangard Stadium
1993 APSL Regular season: 1st
Playoffs: Semifinals
Average home league attendance4,866 [1]
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The 1993 Vancouver 86ers season was the club's eighth year of existence (or 19th if counting the NASL Whitecaps), as well as their first as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of U.S.-based soccer leagues. After their 1992 CSL season, the CSL folded and the Whitecaps joined the American Professional Soccer League for the 1993 season. They continued the tradition of excellence from the CSL capturing the Commissioner’s Cup (regular season) but losing the playoff semifinal in a shootout to the Los Angeles Salsa.

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The 86ers also changed their colours from yellow/red/blue to white/black/red and created a new logo of a soccer ball striking a goal net. [2] They were familiar with the league's teams as two others were Canadian teams (Toronto Blizzard and the Montreal Supra resurrected as Montreal Impact), [3] Vancouver lost a 1992 North American Club Championship series to the 1992 APSL Champion Colorado Foxes, and Vancouver had played preseason matches against Seattle Sounders, Los Angeles, and San Francisco based teams through the CSL years.

Schedule and results

The competition was a single table on the league principle with a balanced schedule home and away where each of the seven teams plays the other six four times. The league`s regular season was played over twenty weeks, beginning April 30 and concluding September 12. The top four in the table qualified for a single-elimination tournament held in September. The league was a generally close competition, given the unique points system adopted all teams were still in the playoff race into early August or about 70% of the season. The unique rules includes 6pts for a win, 4pts for a shootout win, 2pts for a shootout loss, and bonus points for goals to a maximum of three. If the game was tied instead of following FIFA rules of two sudden death thirty-minute extra halves followed by penalty kicks, the APSL did two 7.5 minute extra halves followed by the NASL shootout. The shootout consisted of the player starting at midfield, goalkeeper in net, and five seconds for the player to score (essentially a timed five second break-away skills competition). In 1993 before the USSF chose MLS as Division 1, a couple teams had significant capital backing, had local TV and radio deals, and many of the players were U.S. national team hopefuls or Canadian internationals. Game day rosters had to have eleven of the eighteen as domestic players.

The 86ers were at the top of the table most of the year with a significant lead in the league table until the last six games. At the start of the season, until the sixth match versus Ft. Lauderdale, the team was without its coach, Bob Lenarduzzi, and six members of the Canada men's national soccer team as they were in the national team camp and playing 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying games. [4] Due to Canada's loss to Mexico 1–2 in World Cup qualifying and subsequent second place final round finish, the 86ers were also missing players for the CONCACAF–OFC play-off versus Australia at the end of the season during the start of their swoon in league results. To save on travel costs, the teams played back-to-back on consecutive days, for example the games versus the Tampa Bay Rowdies were the day after Ft. Lauderdale Strikers games all season. At the end of the season the 86ers allowed a number of late goals extending games as draws were not officially recognized including in the playoff game where they were eliminated in an NASL style shootout.

Tables

Points:

PlaceTeamGPWLWNWEWSLNLELSGFGAGDPoints
1 Vancouver 86ers 2415911228014335+8126
2 Colorado Foxes 2415912036304034+6121
3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 241212102010115347+6118
4 Los Angeles Salsa 2412128139034137+4109
5 Toronto Blizzard 24101482011123541−697
6 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2491580111133952−1394
7 Montreal Impact 24111390211112833−590

Expanded table

OverallHomeAway
PldPtsWLTGFGAGDWLTGFGAGDWLTGFGAGD
223611833932 +76312011 +95521921 −2

Last updated: April 26, 2010
Source: [5]
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Pre-season

  Win  Draw  Loss

Source [6]

These games were sixty-minute exhibitions, not full ninety-minute contests.

APSL

Results by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324
Ground H H H A A A A A H H H A H H A A H H H A A A A H
ResultWLWWWWLWWWLWWWLLWWLLDDLD
Source: a-leaguearchive.tripod.com [7]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
April 30, 19931 Vancouver 86ers 2–1 Toronto Blizzard Burnaby, BC
22:05 ET Geoff Aunger Soccerball shade.svg3', 48' Report Fernando Aguiar Soccerball shade.svg90'Stadium: Swangard Stadium
Attendance: 4,220
August 14, 199320 Toronto Blizzard 1–0 Vancouver 86ers Toronto, Ontario
14:05 ET Nigel Sparks Soccerball shade.svg90' Report Stadium: Lamport Stadium
Attendance: 300
Referee: Russ Hepworth

Post-season

Current roster


Goalkeeper stats

No.Nat.PlayerTotal APSL Playoffs
MINSVGAGAASOMINSVGAGAASOMINSVGAGAASO
29 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Paul Dolan 223112 351.424207011231.4354105122.000
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Cory Breure 340.0003400.000

Last updated: January 27, 2007.
Source:

Player statistics

No.Pos.NameAppsMinutesGoalsAssistsShotsFouls Yellow card.svg Red card.svg
GK Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Cory Breure (1)34000
2DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Rick Celebrini 131073210
FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nick Gilbert 4267100
3DFFlag placeholder.svg Tom Kim6(3)723000
4MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mark Watson 8(1)787000
5DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Steve MacDonald 211913000
6FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Geoff Aunger 11(2)856300
8MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jim Easton Jr. 15(1)1330200
9FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg John Catliff 9744200
10FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Domenic Mobilio 1613171100
11DF Flag of Fiji.svg Ivor Evans 232128410
12DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jean-Paul Knezevic(2)49000
DF Flag of the United States.svg Doug Morrill2130000
13DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg David Norman 131130010
14MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Dale Mitchell 13(5)12745200
15MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Doug Muirhead 17(5)1712300
16DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Doug McKinty 15(5)1572000
DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Norm Odinga 8(1)633000
17FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Carlo Corazzin 23(1)1985700
20FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Scott Munson 5(1)487400
21FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Carl Valentine 11(4)11291200
23MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mike Dodd 1(2)205000
24DF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Steve Millar5395000
29GK Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Paul Dolan 25221600000
MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Guido Titotto 2180000
MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Scott Macey 190000
FW Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Carlos Batista
GK Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Rob Merkl(1)1
—–Opponent Own goals ––1–––––
Updated January 27, 2007 [8]
  • Note: this list includes only players that actually played.
  • Note: brackets indicate substitute appearances.
  • Note statistics are for league and playoffs (not preseason).
  • Note: 2011 and 2012 MLS Whitecap media guides and Miami's Sun Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times newspaper archives were used to augment game times, player statistics, and attendance.
  • Note statistics are incomplete for player numbers, assists, shots, fouls, and cards. Minutes played also appear not to have included the five 15-minute overtime periods during the season or the playoff game.

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  3. ↑ "Montreal Impact 1993". impactmontreal.com. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ Brosseau, Dave (May 30, 1993). "Strikers Smarting From Injury Plague". Sun Sentinel Newspaper. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Litterer, David (May 30, 2008). "The Year in American Soccer, 1993". The US Soccer History Archives. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ "1993 Results". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com. January 27, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ "1993 Results" . Retrieved March 10, 2014.; These results have been verified where possible with review of the RSSSF email newsgroup archives and Miami's Sun Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times newspaper archives.
  8. ↑ "1993 Statistics" . Retrieved March 11, 2014.
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