1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor season

Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1983 season
Manager India David Chadwick
Stadium Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion
Bayfront Center
Montreal Forum
NASL indoor Indoor Grand Prix: Fourth place
Top goalscorer Canada Branko Šegota (10)
Home colors
Away colors
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The 1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the Team's third season of indoor soccer in the North American Soccer League. It was part of the club's seventeenth season in professional soccer. Previously, the NASL indoor league was held during the winter season between two years such as the 1981-82 season in which the team did not participate. This year, because five NASL teams elected not to play indoor while three others played in the MISL, the format changed to a round-robin tournament known as the 1983 NASL Grand Prix of Indoor Soccer. The Strikers finished the tournament in fourth place. This would be the last year of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor team as it sat out the 1983–84 NASL Indoor season and the club moved to Minnesota.

Club

Roster

No. Position Player Nation
00 Goalkeeper Scarpelli, CraigCraig Scarpelli      United States
2 Defender Szatmari, AlexanderAlexander Szatmari      Romania
8 Defender Fowles, ColinColin Fowles      United States
10 Midfielder Cubillas, TeófiloTeófilo Cubillas      Chile
11 Forward Kidd, BrianBrian Kidd      England
12 Midfielder Strong, CarlCarl Strong      United States
13 Goalkeeper Tietjens, JimJim Tietjens      United States
14 Midfielder Weller, KeithKeith Weller      England
14 Forward Wegerle, SteveSteve Wegerle      South Africa
18 Forward Meschbach, RobertRobert Meschbach      Canada
20 Forward Šegota, BrankoBranko Šegota      Canada
21 Defender Whelan, TonyTony Whelan      England
24 Defender Bolitho, BobBob Bolitho      Canada
25 Defender Miller, BruceBruce Miller      Canada
unk Forward Parkinson, AndrewAndrew Parkinson      United States
unk Defender Kadupski, CharlieCharlie Kadupski      United States

Competitions

Preliminary round results

Round 1

played at Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma[1]

January 21 Montreal Manic 6 – 3 Tampa Bay Rowdies Attendance: 3,522
Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 8 – 4 Tulsa Roughnecks
January 22 Montreal Manic 8 – 6 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 4,341
Tampa Bay Rowdies 7 – 2 Tulsa Roughnecks

Round 2

played at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida[2]

February 4 Montreal Manic 6 – 3 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 4,450
Tampa Bay Rowdies 7 – 6 Tulsa Roughnecks
February 5 Tulsa Roughnecks 7 – 4 Montreal Manic Attendance: 5,545
Tampa Bay Rowdies 10 – 6 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers

Round 3

played at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma

February 11 Tampa Bay Rowdies 7 – 5 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 2,064
Tulsa Roughnecks 8 – 7 Montreal Manic
February 12 Montreal Manic 5 – 4 Tampa Bay Rowdies Attendance: 3,245
Tulsa Roughnecks 5 – 4 (OT) Ft. Lauderdale Strikers

Standings

G = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal Differential, PTS= point system

6 points awarded for a win. Beginning with the fourth goal, 1 bonus point awarded for each goal scored. Maximum of 5 bonus points per game.

Pos Team G W L GF GA GD PTS
1* Montreal Manic 6 4 2 36 31 +5 42
2 Tampa Bay Rowdies 6 4 2 38 31 +7 42
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 6 3 3 33 37 -4 33
4 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 6 1 5 32 40 -8 20

*Montreal wins top seed based on 2-0 head-to-head edge over Tampa Bay

Playoffs rounds

Semifinals Championship
      
1 Montreal Manic 11
4 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 4
1 Montreal Manic 4
2 Tampa Bay Rowdies 5
2 Tampa Bay Rowdies 8
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 6

Semi-finals

played at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec

February 18 Tampa Bay Rowdies 8 – 6 Tulsa Roughnecks Attendance: 6,049[3]
February 18 Montreal Manic 11 – 4 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers

Third place match

played at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec (1:30 PM EDT)

February 20 Tulsa Roughnecks 9 – 4 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 7,895

Statistics

Leading Scorers Goals Assists Points
Laurie Abrahams (Tulsa) 12 6 30
Dale Mitchell (Montreal) 12 4 28
Branko Šegota (Ft. Lauderdale) 10 8 28
Dragan Vujovic (Montreal) 9 7 25
Teófilo Cubillas (Ft. Lauderdale) 8 9 25
Hugo Pérez (Tampa Bay) 10 4 24
Tatu (Tampa Bay) 9 5 23
Keith Weller (Ft. Laud./Tulsa) 8 7 23
Wes McLeod (Tampa Bay) 5 13 23
Njego Pesa (Tulsa) 9 4 22
Alan Willey (Montreal) 8 6 22
Steve Wegerle (Ft. Lauderdale) 7 6 20
Leading Goalkeepers Minutes GA GAA
Mehdi Cerbah (Montreal) 330 24 4.36
Jürgen Stars (Tampa Bay) 377 32 5.09
Craig Scarpelli (Ft. Lauderdale) 330 33 5.99
Winston DuBose (Tulsa) 486 49 6.05

Final Grand Prix Rankings

Pos Team G W L GF GA GD
1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 8 6 2 51 41 +10
2 Montreal Manic 8 5 3 51 40 +11
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 8 4 4 48 49 -1
4 Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 8 1 7 40 60 -20

Transfers

Date Position Player From club
4 February 1983 GK United States Craig Scarpelli[4] St. Louis Steamers
Date Position Player To club
4 February 1983 MF England Keith Weller[5] Tulsa Roughnecks

References

  1. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8sJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IVkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3587,1993858&dq=rowdies+win+grand+prix&hl=en
  2. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G6pOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dfsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5178,2386478&dq=rowdies+win+grand+prix&hl=en
  3. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qMJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4630,1434887&dq=power+play+went+rowdies&hl=en
  4. ↑ "Weller Transferred To Tulsa Roughnecks". Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Weller Transferred To Tulsa Roughnecks". Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

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