1984 Golden Bay Earthquakes season

Golden Bay Earthquakes

1984 season
Coach	Dragan Popović
Stadium	Spartan Stadium
NASL	Division: 5th Overall: 8th
NASL Playoffs	Did not qualify
National Challenge Cup	Did not enter
Top goalscorer	Steve Zungul (20) [1]
Average home league attendance	10,676 [2]
← 1983 1985 →

The 1984 Golden Bay Earthquakes season was the club's eleventh as a franchise in the North American Soccer League, then the top tier of American soccer. The Earthquakes finished in fifth place in the Western Division. The League folded at the end of the season, and the team would then participate in the four-team 1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series, which led to the formal establishment of the Western Soccer Alliance in 1986.^[3]

Squad

The 1984 squad^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Bob Rigby 3 DF Mike Hunter 4 MF Charlie Fajkus 5 DF Steve Litt 6 MF Mike Sweeney 7 FW Chris Dangerfield 9 MF Germain Iglesias 10 FW Jan Goossens 11 FW Steve Zungul 12 MF Leonardo Cuellar 13 FW Tim Bartro 14 DF Mihalj Keri

No. Position Player MF Eric Tate 16 FW Godfrey Ingram 17 FW Ricardo Alonso 17 DF Hayden Knight 18 MF Manny Rojas 19 DF George Katakalidis 20 FW Branko Šegota 21 MF Fernando Clavijo 22 DF Barney Boyce 23 FW Igor Vrablic 25 MF Tim Schulz 26 DF Edgardo Lopez 27 GK Chris Sigler 31 GK Bill Irwin

Competitions

NASL

Season

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
May 19, 1984	San Diego Sockers	H	2–2*	Hunter, Zungul
May 23, 1984	Vancouver Whitecaps	A	3–5	Rojas, Zungul (2)
May 27, 1984	Chicago Sting	H	2–3	Zungul (2)
June 3, 1984	San Diego Sockers	A	2–2*	Rojas, Zungul
June 8, 1984	Minnesota Strikers	A	1–2	Sweeney
June 13, 1984	New York Cosmos	H	1–3	Rojas
June 22, 1984	Tulsa Roughnecks	A	1–3	Segota
June 30, 1984	Tampa Bay Rowdies	H	9–0	Vrablic (2), Zungul (4), Segota (2), Sweeney
July 4, 1984	Tampa Bay Rowdies	A	1–2	Zungul
July 8, 1984	Tulsa Roughnecks	H	4–1	Zungul, Goossens (2), Vrablic
July 11, 1984	Toronto Blizzard	H	2–0	Goossens, Segota
July 14, 1984	Minnesota Strikers	H	2–3	Zungul (2)
July 21, 1984	Chicago Sting	A	2–4	Alonso, Segota
July 25, 1984	Tulsa Roughnecks	H	1–3	Zungul
August 8, 1984	Chicago Sting	A	6–3	Segota (3), Zungul, Alonso, Vrablic
August 12, 1984	Toronto Blizzard	A	3–5	Segota (3)
August 18, 1984	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	2–2*	Ingram, Segota
August 22, 1984	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	3–2	Segota, Lopez, Ingram
August 25, 1984	Toronto Blizzard	H	2–2*	Segota (2)
August 29, 1984	Tampa Bay Rowdies	A	4–5	Segota, Zungul (3)
September 1, 1984	Minnesota Strikers	A	2–1	Segota, Fajkus
September 3, 1984	New York Cosmos	H	3–4	Clavijo, Zungul, Segota
September 8, 1984	San Diego Sockers	H	1–2	Cuellar
September 12, 1984	New York Cosmos	A	1–0	Ingram

* = Shootout
Source:^[5]

Western Division

Western Division	W	L	GF	GA	BP	Pts	Home	Road
San Diego Sockers	14	10	51	42	40	118	9-3	5-7
Vancouver Whitecaps	13	11	51	48	43	117	10-2	3-9
Minnesota Strikers	14	10	40	44	35	115	8-4	6-6
Tulsa Roughnecks	10	14	42	46	38	98	8-4	2-10
Golden Bay Earthquakes	8	16	61	62	49	95	4-8	4-8

References

1. "North American Soccer League Jerseys". NASLJerseys.com. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
2. "North American Soccer League Standings". NASLJerseys.com. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
3. http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1985.html
4. "San Jose Earthquakes rosters". North American Soccer League Jerseys. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
5. "San Jose Earthquakes Game Results". Retrieved March 24, 2014.

External links

• The Year in American Soccer – 1984 | NASL
• San Jose Earthquakes All-time Game Results | Soccerstats.us
• San Jose Earthquakes Rosters | nasljerseys.com