1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season

Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1983 season
OwnerUnited States Elizabeth Robbie
General managerUnited States Tim Robbie
ManagerEngland David Chadwick
StadiumLockhart Stadium
NASLSouthern Division: Second place
Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorerLeague:
England Brian Kidd
(18 goals)

All:
England Brian Kidd
(18 goals)
Average home league attendance10,823
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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.

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