2013–14 Major Indoor Soccer League season

Major Indoor Soccer League
Season2013–14
ChampionsMissouri Comets
Top goalscorerIan Bennett
(27 goals)
Biggest home winBAL 29-0 PEN
(December 21)
Biggest away winMIS 28-7 STL
(November 23)
MIS 27-6 STL
(February 27)
Highest scoringMIS 26-21 STL
(February 22)
Longest winning runBaltimore, 9 wins
January 24, 2014 – March 2, 2014[1]
Longest losing runPennsylvania, 11 losses
November 15th, 2013 – January 11, 2014[1]
Highest attendance8,910, BAL @ ROC
(February 23)
Lowest attendance922, SYR @ PEN
(December 1)
Average attendance4,658[2]
final season →

The 2013–14 Major Indoor Soccer League season was the third under the United Soccer Leagues banner, fifth under the MISL name, and the sixth season overall. The season began on November 15 and concluded on March 2. Each team played a 20-game schedule.[3] This was the final season for this third incarnation of the MISL. Six of the seven teams joined the Professional Arena Soccer League, later renamed Major Arena Soccer League.

News

On December 4, the MISL Board of Governors approved video review of three-point goals. The decision states: "Referees will be able to use the reviews to determine the position of the ball in relation to the 3-point arc when the ball was struck. Reviews will not be used to determine if the ball crossed the goal line." The first game the new system was available was the December 6 game between the Pennsylvania Roar and the Rochester Lancers.[4]

Teams and arenas

New Teams

Team City/Area Arena Joined Head Coach
Pennsylvania Roar Reading, Pennsylvania Sovereign Center 2013 United States Eric Puls[5]
St. Louis Ambush St. Charles, Missouri (St. Louis area) Family Arena[6] 2013 United States Daryl Doran[7]

Teams that left the MISL

Team City/Area Arena Founded Joined MISL Left MISL New League
Chicago Soul Hoffman Estates, Illinois (Chicago area) Sears Centre 2012 2012 2013 Folded
Wichita Wings Park City, Kansas (Wichita area) Hartman Arena 2011 2011 2013 Folded

Stadiums and locations

Baltimore Blast Rochester Lancers Pennsylvania Roar Syracuse Silver Knights
Baltimore Arena Blue Cross Arena Santander Arena War Memorial at Oncenter
Capacity: 11,286 Capacity: 12,000 Capacity: 11,200 Capacity: 6,195
Milwaukee Wave Missouri Comets St. Louis Ambush
U.S. Cellular Arena Independence Events Center Family Arena
Capacity: 9,500 Capacity: 5,800 Capacity: 9,643
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Locations of teams for the 2013–14 Major Indoor Soccer League season.

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Incoming manager Date of appointment
Missouri Comets Denmark Kim Røntved[8] North Macedonia Vlatko Andonovski[9] Offseason
Rochester Lancers United States Jim Resch[10] United States Josh Rife[11] Offseason

Results table

Abbreviation and Color Key:
Baltimore Blast – BAL • Milwaukee Wave – MIL • Missouri Comets – MIS • Pennsylvania Roar – PEN
Rochester Lancers – ROC • St. Louis Ambush – STL • Syracuse Silver Knights – SYR
Win  • Loss  • Home
Club Match
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Baltimore Blast ROC MIL MIL ROC PEN PEN PEN MIS PEN STL SYR SYR ROC SYR STL MIS PEN SYR ROC PEN
19-8 0-8 10-12 12-0 21-2 29-0 24-0 14-6 16-5 14-2 8-9 10-5 17-2 12-10 12-6 18-4 23-6 10-9 22-5 18-2
Milwaukee Wave MIS BAL PEN BAL MIS STL SYC STL ROC MIS MIS STL STL SYC ROC PEN STL MIS STL MIS
23-21
(OT)		 8-0 21-4 12-10 6-15 24-4 20-10 13-11 28-12 4-22 16-4 21-9 19-12 15-13
(OT)		 15-7 30-4 20-9 9-15 16-12 4-9
Missouri Comets MIL STL STL MIL STL SYC ROC BAL ROC SYC PEN MIL MIL STL BAL PEN STL MIL STL MIL
21-23
(OT)		 28-7 12-10
(OT)		 15-6 24-13 15-18 19-17 6-14 11-9
(OT)		 8-11 13-5 22-4 4-16 26-2 4-18 24-4 26-21 15-9 27-6 9-4
Pennsylvania Roar SYR STL MIL SYR ROC BAL BAL ROC BAL BAL MIS STL ROC SYR MIS MIL ROC BAL SYR BAL
7-18 4-17 4-21 9-10 2-11 2-21 0-29 5-10 0-24 5-16 5-13 16-0 8-24 13-24 4-24 4-30 2-18 6-23 7-24 2-18
Rochester Lancers BAL SYR SYR PEN BAL STL SYR PEN MIS STL MIS MIL SYR PEN BAL MIL SYR PEN BAL SYR
8-19 8-21 8-20 11-2 0-12 16-7 7-10 10-5 17-19 12-14 9-11
(OT)		 12-28 16-14 24-8 2-17 7-15 10-17 18-2 5-22 16-17
St. Louis Ambush PEN MIS MIS SYR ROC MIS MIL SYR MIL ROC BAL PEN MIS MIL MIL BAL MIL MIS MIS MIL
17-4 7-28 10-12
(OT)		 10-6 7-16 13-24 4-24 14-12 11-13 14-12 2-14 0-16 2-26 9-21 12-19 6-12 9-20 21-26 6-27 12-16
Syracuse Silver Knights PEN ROC ROC PEN STL ROC MIS STL MIL MIS ROC BAL BAL PEN BAL MIL ROC BAL PEN ROC
18-7 21-8 20-8 10-9 6-10 10-7 18-15 12-14 10-20 11-8 14-16 9-8 5-10 24-13 10-12 13-15
(OT)		 17-10 9-10 24-7 17-16

MISL published schedule and results.[12][13]

Standings

  2013-14 League Champions   2013-14 Playoff Team

Team GP W L GB PCT PF PA Home Road
1 Baltimore Blast 20 17 3 --- .850 309 101 9-1 8-2
2 Milwaukee Wave 20 16 4 1 .800 324 203 8-2 8-2
3 Missouri Comets 20 14 6 3 .700 329 217 7-3 7-3
4 Syracuse Silver Knights 20 12 8 5 .600 278 223 7-3 5-5
5 Rochester Lancers 20 6 14 11 .300 216 280 4-6 2-8
6 St. Louis Ambush 20 4 16 13 .200 186 348 3-7 1-9
7 Pennsylvania Roar 20 1 19 16 .050 105 375 1-9 0-10

Updated to matches played on 3/2/2014[14]

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Games 2pt Goals 3pt Goals Assists Points
1 Liberia Leo Gibson Missouri Comets 20 21 3 25 76
2 Jamaica Kenardo Forbes Syracuse Silver Knights 20 19 5 14 67
3 Canada Ian Bennett Milwaukee Wave 20 23 4 6 64
4 Brazil Marcio Leite Milwaukee Wave 20 18 1 22 61
5 Jamaica Machel Millwood Syracuse Silver Knights 20 17 1 21 58
6 Canada Vahid Assadpour Missouri Comets 16 18 2 15 57
7 United States Mike Lookingland Baltimore Blast 20 13 4 18 56
8 Spain Nick Perera Milwaukee Wave 19 16 2 13 51
9 Uruguay Carlos Muñoz Milwaukee Wave 17 14 5 6 49
10 United States Tony Donatelli Baltimore Blast 20 18 1 9 48

Last updated on March 4, 2014. Source: MISL.com Statistics - Total Points

Top 2pt Goal Scorers

Rank Scorer Club Games 2pt Goals
1 Canada Ian Bennett Milwaukee Wave 20 23
2 Liberia Leo Gibson Missouri Comets 20 21
3 Jamaica Kenardo Forbes Syracuse Silver Knights 20 19
4 United States Tony Donatelli Baltimore Blast 20 18
Brazil Marcio Leite Milwaukee Wave 20 18
Canada Vahid Assadpour Missouri Comets 16 18
7 Jamaica Machel Millwood Syracuse Silver Knights 20 17
8 United States Gary Boughton Rochester Lancers 19 16
Spain Nick Perera Milwaukee Wave 19 16
10 Bosnia and Herzegovina Slaviša Ubiparipović Syracuse Silver Knights 17 15

Last updated on March 2, 2014. Source: MISL.com Statistics - Total Points

Playoffs

The MISL Playoffs began with the semifinals, featuring the No. 1 and No. 4 seeds and the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds meeting in home-and-home series with a 15-minute mini game to decide the series following the second game if needed. The championship followed the same format. The higher seed having the option to choose which game it hosts.

Semi-Finals Championship
      
1 Baltimore 2
4 Syracuse 1
1 Baltimore 1
3 Missouri 2
2 Milwaukee 1
3 Missouri 2

Semi-finals

Game 1

Syracuse Silver Knights7 – 20Baltimore Blast
Report
Attendance: 3,991
Referee: Shane Butler
Missouri Comets20 – 6Milwaukee Wave
Report
Attendance: 4,774
Referee: Ryan Cigich

Game 2

Milwaukee Wave12 – 9Missouri Comets
Report
Attendance: 4,236
Referee: Ryan Cigich
Baltimore Blast6 – 9Syracuse Silver Knights
Report
Attendance: 3,822
Referee: Mark Bailey

Mini-Game Tie Breaker

Milwaukee Wave2 – 6Missouri Comets
Report
Attendance: 4,236
Referee: Ryan Cigich
Baltimore Blast4 – 3Syracuse Silver Knights
Report
Attendance: 3,822
Referee: Mark Bailey

MISL Finals

Game 1

Missouri Comets15 – 8Baltimore Blast
Report
Report
Attendance: 4,524
Referee: Ryan Cigich

Game 2

Baltimore Blast19 – 4Missouri Comets
Report
Report
Attendance: 6,447
Referee: Ron Cory

Mini-Game Tie Breaker

Baltimore Blast4 – 6Missouri Comets
Report
Report
Attendance: 6,447
Referee: Ron Cory

Awards

Individual awards

[15]

Award Name Team
MVP Mike Lookingland Baltimore Blast
Coach of the Year Danny Kelly Baltimore Blast
Rookie of the Year Odaine Sinclair St. Louis Ambush
Defender of the Year Mike Lookingland Baltimore Blast
Goalkeeper of the Year William Vanzela Baltimore Blast
Championship MVP Brian Harris Missouri Comets

All-League First Team

[16]

Name Position Team
Mike Lookingland D Baltimore Blast
Nelson Santana D Syracuse Silver Knights
Kenardo Forbes M/F Syracuse Silver Knights
Leo Gibson M/F Missouri Comets
Marcio Leite M/F Milwaukee Wave
William Vanzela GK Baltimore Blast

All-League Second Team

[17]

Name Position Team
Brian Harris D Missouri Comets
Bozidar Jelovac D Syracuse Silver Knights
Vahid Assadpour M/F Missouri Comets
Ian Bennett M/F Milwaukee Wave
Machel Millwood M/F Syracuse Silver Knights
Marcel Feenstra GK Milwaukee Wave

All-Rookie Team

[17]

Name Position Team
Chad Vandegriffe D St. Louis Ambush
Tony Walls D Milwaukee Wave
Odaine Sinclair M/F St. Louis Ambush
Max Touloute M/F Missouri Comets
Diego Zuniga M/F Baltimore Blast
Scott Krotee GK Pennsylvania Roar

References

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  7. ^ "Coaching Staff". St. Louis Ambush. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  8. ^ "Vlatko Andonovski will coach both FC Kansas City and Comets". Kansas City Star. August 29, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
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  10. ^ "Lancers Name Hesch As Coach". MISL. October 12, 2012. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
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  13. ^ "Schedule/Results". uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
  14. ^ "MISL Standings". Major Indoor Soccer League.
  15. ^ "MISL Award Winners Announced". Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  16. ^ "All-League, Rookie Teams Announced". Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  17. ^ a b "All-League, Rookie Teams Announced". Archived from the original on March 16, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2014.