1991–92 National Soccer League

Australian soccer season November 2015 November 2015 NSL 1991-92 National Soccer League Association football 1991–92 14 NSL season Adelaide City Champions Tim BredburyKimon Taliadoros (15 each) List of NSL seasons National Soccer League 1990–91 National Soccer League 1990–91 1992–93 National Soccer League 1992–93 The 1991–92 National Soccer League season, was the 16th season of the National Soccer League in Australia. Overview The 1991/92 National Soccer League season saw fourteen teams compete with Adelaide City winning the championship after defeating Melbourne Croatia in the grand final on a penalty shootout 4-2 after the scores were locked at 0-0 after full-time and extra time at Olympic Park, Melbourne in front of 15,463 fans. Melbourne Croatia were named premiers after finishing the home-and-away season on top of the table one point clear ahead of Sydney Olympic. This was the only season socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, strikers Paul Agostino and John Aloisi would compete in the National Soccer League. Bosnich, signed from Manchester United, would make five appearances for his junior club Sydney Croatia before heading back to England to play for Aston Villa.http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/B/BOS.html Australian Player Database ozfootball.net 2008-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20080803081119/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/B/BOS.html 3 August 2008 liveAgostino, at age sixteen, would make seventeen appearances and score six goals with West Adelaide before heading to Switzerland to play for BSC Young Boyshttp://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/A/AG.html Australian Player Database ozfootball.net 2008-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20080719174701/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/A/AG.html 19 July 2008 live and John Aloisi would make one appearance for Adelaide City before heading to Standard Liège in Belgium. Other significant signings included former Hong Kong international striker Tim Bredbury signing with Sydney Olympic who would finish the season joint top goal scorer with fifteen goals, and Albanian Fadil Muriqi signing with Sydney Croatia, becoming the first ever Albanian to play in the National Soccer League. This would be the final season in the National Soccer League for A.P.I.A. Leichhardt as they fell into financial troubles and went down to the NSW Super League in 1993.http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/NSW/1993/1993SLT.html 1993 NSW Super League final table ozfootball.net 2008-08-25http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/9192/NSLTable.html 1991-92 Season Final Table ozfootball.net 2008-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20080722174324/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/9192/NSLTable.html 22 July 2008 live Regular season League table main WDL QR 2 FS FS FS FS FS REL MEL, SOL, SOU, ADE, WOL, BRI, MAR, API, HEI, PAR, NEW, SCS, WES, PRE 10 9 7 26 23 7 11 8 26 28 8 10 8 31 35 8 8 10 28 33 10 5 11 33 31 14 7 5 45 26 7 8 11 28 39 6 11 9 24 24 5 10 11 21 32 13 5 8 51 28 6 9 11 22 33 12 10 4 38 27 7 7 12 25 46 9 10 7 24 17 C R Adelaide City APIA Leichhardt Brisbane United Heidelberg United Marconi Fairfield Melbourne Croatia Newcastle Breakers Parramatta Eagles Preston Makedonia South Melbourne Sydney Croatia Sydney Olympic West Adelaide Wollongong City yellow1 Qualification for the Finals series red1 Relegation to the NSW Division 1 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. rsssf.com Finals series Elimination and qualifying Finals Semi-finals Preliminary Final Grand Final 2 Sydney Olympic 0 3 South Melbourne 2 4 Adelaide City 1 5 Wollongong Wolves 0 1 Melbourne Croatia (p) 0 (5) 3 South Melbourne 0 (3) 2 Sydney Olympic 1 4 Adelaide City 2 3 South Melbourne 0 4 Adelaide City 2 1 Melbourne Croatia 0 (2) 4 Adelaide City (p) 0 (4) Individual awards Player of the Year: Josip Biskic (Melbourne Croatia) U-21 Player of the Year: Kevin Muscat (Heidelberg United) Top Scorer(s): Tim Bredbury (Sydney Olympic) and Kimon Taliadoros (South Melbourne) – 15 goals Coach of the Year: David Ratcliffe (Wollongong City) References External links Australia - List of final tables (RSSSF) All scores and match details of 1991/92 NSL season (ozfootball.net) 1991/92 final season table including notes (ozfootball.net) 1991–92 Category:1991–92 in Australian men's soccer leagues Australia Category:October 1991 sports events in Australia Category:November 1991 sports events in Australia Category:December 1991 sports events in Australia Category:January 1992 sports events in Australia Category:February 1992 sports events in Australia Category:March 1992 sports events in Australia Category:April 1992 sports events in Australia Category:May 1992 sports events in Australia