1993 American Professional Soccer League

August 2023 March 2026 American Professional Soccer League 1993 Colorado Foxes (2nd Title) Vancouver 86ers (1st Title) 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Los Angeles Salsa 84 BRA Paulinho, Los Angeles Salsa BRA Paulinho, Los Angeles Salsa (15 goals) USA Jim St. Andre, Colorado Foxes 279 1992 1994 The 1993 American Professional Soccer League season was the 4th season of the American Professional Soccer League. Seven teams competed this season including four expansion teams and three teams returning from 1992. History In 1993, the league added three teams from Canada. The Canadian Soccer League had collapsed at the end of the 1992 season and the Vancouver 86ers and Toronto Blizzard along with a new club the Montreal Impact moved to the APSL. Vancouver topped the regular season standings, but fell in the playoff semifinals to the Los Angeles Salsa. In the other semifinal, the Colorado Foxes defeated the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Although the Foxes had a better record than the Salsa, the championship game took place in Los Angeles because the Foxes did not have an available home stadium. Their home venue at Englewood High School was planned to host a homecoming football game on the same day and an alternative venue, the Brooks Field in Golden, Colorado, was secured too late.October 2, 1993 Foxes become road warriors in title defense 2D The Denver Post The Foxes attempted unsuccessfully to move the championship to a neutral-site venue in Vancouver.Pearce Alan September 21, 1993 Homeless Foxes hit road for final 17B Rocky Mountain News In 1993 before the USSF chose MLS as Division 1, a couple teams had significant capital backing, had local TV and radio deals, and many of the players were US national team hopefuls or Canadian internationals. Regular season The competition was a single table on the league principle with a balanced schedule home and away where each of the seven teams plays the other six four times. The league's regular season was played over twenty weeks, beginning April 30 and concluding September 12. The top four in the table qualified for a single-elimination tournament held in September. The league was a generally close competition, given the points system adopted all teams were still in the playoff race into early August or about 70% of the season. The points system included 6 points for a win, 4 points for a shootout win, 2 points for a shootout loss, and bonus points for goals to a maximum of three. If the game was tied, then instead of following FIFA rules of two 15-minute extra halves followed by penalty kicks, the APSL did two 7.5 minute extra halves followed by the NASL shootout. The shootout consisted of the player starting 35 yards from the net, goalkeeper in net, and five seconds for the player to score (essentially a timed five second break-away skills competition). Game day rosters had to have eleven of the eighteen as domestic players. RankTeamGPWLWNWEWSLNLELSGFGAGDPts 1 Vancouver 86ers 24 15 9 11 2 2 8 0 1 43 35 +8 126 2 Colorado Foxes (C) 24 15 9 12 0 3 6 3 0 40 34 +6 121 3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 24 12 12 10 2 0 10 1 1 53 47 +6 118 4 Los Angeles Salsa 24 12 12 8 1 3 9 0 3 41 37 +4 109 5 Toronto Blizzard 24 10 14 8 2 0 11 1 2 35 41 -6 97 6 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 24 9 15 8 0 1 11 1 3 39 52 -13 94 7 Montreal Impact 24 11 13 9 0 2 11 1 1 28 33 -5 90 Playoffs Bracket Semifinals 1993 APSL Final 25 195px 1 Vancouver 86ers 2(1) 4 Los Angeles Salsa 2(3) 2 Colorado Foxes 1 3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 0 4 Los Angeles Salsa 1 2 Colorado Foxes 3 Semifinal 1 September 18, 19935:05 PM PST Vancouver 86ers (BC) Domenic Mobilio 41 pen.Dale Mitchell 80 67 Danny Pena 90+3 Paulinho 2–2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/328955407/?terms=APSL Los Angeles Salsa (CA) Swangard Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia 5,027 Carl Valentine Dale Mitchell Rick Celebrini Domenic Mobilio 1–3 Paul Wright Rich Ryerson Paulinho Thor Lee Semifinal 2 September 19, 19938:00 PM MST Colorado Foxes (CO) Brian Haynes 74:25 1–0 https://www.newspapers.com/image/325271177/?terms=Rowdies Tampa Bay Rowdies (FL) Englewood Stadium, Englewood, Colorado 5,005 Final October 2, 19935:05 PM PST Los Angeles Salsa (CA) Philip Gyau 67 Ted Eck 87:38 Taifour Diané 104:50 Lipp Robert Lipp 110 Diané 1–3 yes https://www.newspapers.com/image/151328960/?terms=APSL Colorado Foxes (CO) Titan Stadium, Fullerton, California 10,743 Points leaders RankScorerClubGoalsAssistsPoints1 BRA Paulinho Los Angeles Salsa157372 USA Paul Wright Los Angeles Salsa137303 ENG Paul Dougherty Tampa Bay Rowdies811274 LBR Zico Doe Fort Lauderdale Strikers12226 CAN Hector Marinaro Toronto Blizzard712266 GUI Taifour Diané Colorado Foxes10525 FRA Pierre Morice Tampa Bay Rowdies97258 CAN Domenic Mobilio Vancouver 86ers103239 USA Scott BenedettiColorado Foxes1012110 CAN Fernando AguiarToronto Blizzard9119 USA Ted EckColorado Foxes8219 CAN Carlo CorazzinVancouver 86ers751913 JAM Alvin JamesFort Lauderdale Strikers7418 USA Steve TrittschuhTampa Bay Rowdies741815 USA Jean HarborTampa Bay Rowdies571716 USA Brad SmithTampa Bay Rowdies6416 FIJ Ivor EvansVancouver 86ers4816 CAN Dale MitchellVancouver 86ers4816 ARG Amadeo GaspariniToronto Blizzard481620 CAN Grant NeedhamMontreal Impact631521 CAN Eddy BerduscoToronto Blizzard5313 Honors MVP: BRA Paulinho Leading goal scorer: BRA Paulinho Leading goalkeeper: USA Jim St. Andre Rookie of the Year: CAN Jason De Vos Coach of the Year: IRL Ken Fogarty First Team All League Goalkeeper: CAN Paul Dolan Defenders: USA Robin Fraser, USA Danny Pena, CAN Mark Watson, FRA Patrice Ferri Midfielders: BRA Paulinho, FIJ Ivor Evans, ENG Paul Dougherty, USA Ted Eck Forwards: GUI Taifour Diané, USA Paul Wright Second Team All League Goalkeeper: USA Ian Feuer Defenders: CAN Jason De Vos, CAN Steve MacDonald, DEN Kim Roentved, USA Mark Santel Midfielders: USA Chad Ashton, TRI Bryan Haynes, FRA Pierre Morice, USA Steve Trittschuh Forwards: CAN Domenic Mobilio, CAN Hector Marinaro References External links The Year in American Soccer - 1993 USA - A-League (American Professional Soccer League) (RSSSF) Category:APSL/A-League seasons APSL APSL