1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season

Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1983 season
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
Home colors	Away colors

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, where they lost to the Tulsa Roughnecks.^[1] 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.

Background

Review

Competitions

NASL regular season

Results summaries

Results by round

Match reports

NASL Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Higher seed		Lower seed	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Tulsa Roughnecks	-	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	3–2 (OT)	4–2	x	September 6 • Skelly Stadium • 7,826 September 10 • Lockhart Stadium • 8,873

Bracket

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

Statistics

Transfers

References

^ Newman, Mark (September 12, 1983). "Tulsa ousts Strikers, 4-2". The Miami Herald. p. B1, B8 – via Newspapers.com.

[1] Newman, Mark (September 12, 1983). "Tulsa ousts Strikers, 4-2". The Miami Herald. p. B1, B8 – via Newspapers.com.

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Seasons	1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Soccer Bowls	1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Predecessors	USA 1967 Final NPSL 1967 Final
Indoor seasons	1971 1975 1976 1978 1979 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1983 1983–84
Conferences	1968 East West 1976–1977 Atlantic Pacific 1978–1980 American National
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