1981 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season
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| 1981 season | |||
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| Owner |  Elizabeth Robbie | ||
| General manager | Tim Robbie | ||
| Manager |  Eckhard Krautzun | ||
| Stadium | Lockhart Stadium | ||
| NASL | Southern Division: Second place Semifinalist | ||
| Top goalscorer | League:  Teófilo Cubillas (17 goals) All: Teófilo Cubillas (19 goals) | ||
| Average home league attendance | 13,345 | ||
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The 1981 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the fifth season of the Fort Lauderdale Striker's team, and the club's fifteenth season in professional soccer. This year the team made it to semifinals of the North American Soccer League playoffs.
Competitions
[edit]NASL regular season
[edit]Results summaries
[edit]Results by round
[edit]Match reports
[edit]NASL Playoffs
[edit]First round
[edit]| Lower seed | Higher seed | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale Strikers | - | Calgary Boomers | 3–1 | #2–0 | x | August 23 • Lockhart Stadium • 12,196 #August 26 • Lockhart Stadium • 11,494 |
#Due to a scheduling conflict between the Calgary Boomers and the Billy Graham Crusade, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers hosted both Games 1 and 2 (instead of Game 1 only), there-by gaining home field advantage even though they were the lower seed.[1]
Quarterfinals
[edit]| Lower seed | Higher seed | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale Strikers | - | Minnesota Kicks | 3–1 | 3–0 | x | September 2 • Lockhart Stadium • 11,918 September 6 • Memorial Stadium • 10,278 |
Semifinals
[edit]| Lower seed | Higher seed | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale Strikers | - | New York Cosmos | 3–4 | 1–4 | x | September 12 • Lockhart Stadium • 18,814 September 16 • Giants Stadium • 31,172[2] |
Bracket
[edit]| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Soccer Bowl '81 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | New York | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Tampa Bay | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Vancouver | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Tampa Bay | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | New York | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Fort Lauderdale | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Tulsa | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Fort Lauderdale | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Calgary | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Fort Lauderdale | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | New York | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Chicago | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Chicago | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Seattle | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Chicago | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Montreal | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Los Angeles | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Montreal | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Chicago | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | San Diego | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | San Diego | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Portland | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | San Diego | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Jacksonville | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Atlanta | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Jacksonville | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Match reports
[edit]Statistics
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Transfers
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References
[edit]- ^ Scheiber, Dave (September 1, 1981). "Rowdies cashing in on their new underdog label". St. Petersburg Times. p. 3, sec. 4. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ^ Bonapace, Ruth (September 17, 1981). "Chinaglia Pulls It Out Of The Hat For Cosmos". Evening Independent. p. 4, sec. C. Retrieved July 4, 2016.