The 1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the seventh season of the Fort Lauderdale Striker's team, and the club's seventeenth season in professional soccer. This year the team made it to the quarterfinals of the North American Soccer League playoffs. It would be the last year of the club's incarnation as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the original NASL. The following year they relocated to Minnesota for the 1984 season and became the Minnesota Strikers.
1983 season | |||
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Owner | Elizabeth Robbie | ||
General manager | Tim Robbie | ||
Manager | David Chadwick | ||
Stadium | Lockhart Stadium | ||
NASL | Southern Division: Second place Quarterfinalist | ||
Top goalscorer | League: Brian Kidd (18 goals) All: Brian Kidd (18 goals) | ||
Average home league attendance | 10,823 | ||
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Background edit
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Review edit
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Competitions edit
NASL regular season edit
Results summaries edit
Results by round edit
Match reports edit
NASL Playoffs edit
Quarterfinals edit
Higher seed | Lower seed | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | ||
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Tulsa Roughnecks | - | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 3–2 (OT) | 4–2 | x | September 6 • Skelly Stadium • 7,826 September 10 • Lockhart Stadium • 8,873 |
Bracket edit
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Soccer Bowl '83 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | New York Cosmos | 2 | 0(2) | – | ||||||||||||||
8 | Montreal Manic | 4 | 1(3) | – | ||||||||||||||
8 | Montreal Manic | 1(8) | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
3 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 2(9) | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
3 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 3 | 4 | – | ||||||||||||||
6 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 2 | 2 | – | ||||||||||||||
3 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
7 | Toronto Blizzard | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Golden Bay Earthquakes | 6 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
5 | Chicago Sting | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
3 | Golden Bay Earthquakes | 0(3) | 0 | – | ||||||||||||||
7 | Toronto Blizzard | 1(5) | 2 | – | ||||||||||||||
2 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
7 | Toronto Blizzard | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Match reports edit
Statistics edit
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Transfers edit
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