1993 Vancouver 86ers season

Vancouver 86ers
1993 season
Chairman Milan Ilich
Manager Bob Lenarduzzi
Ground Swangard Stadium
1993 APSL 1st
Playoff Semifinals
Average home league attendance 4,866[1]
Home colours
Away colours
← 1992 1994 →

The 1993 Vancouver 86ers season was the club's eighth year of existence (or 19th if counting the NASL Whitecaps), as well as their first as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. After their championship 1992 CSL season, the CSL folded and the Whitecaps joined the American Professional Soccer League for the 1993 season. They continued the tradition of excellence from the CSL capturing the league title and losing a somewhat controversial playoff semifinal in a shootout to the Los Angeles Salsa given inconsistent refereeing.

The 86ers also changed their colours from yellow/red/blue to white/black/red and created a new logo of a soccer ball striking a goal net.[2] They were familiar with the league's teams as two others were Canadian teams (Toronto Blizzard and the Montreal Supra resurrected as Montreal Impact[3]), Vancouver lost a 1992 North American Club Championship series to the 1992 APSL Champion Colorado Foxes, and Vancouver had played preseason matches against Seattle Sounders, Los Angeles, and San Francisco based teams through the CSL years.

Vancouver 86ers new 1993 logo

Schedule and results

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 unique points system adopted all teams were still in the playoff race into early August or about 70% of the season. The unique rules includes 6pts for a win, 4pts for a shootout win, 2pts for a shootout loss, and bonus points for goals to a maximum of three. If the game was tied instead of following FIFA rules of two sudden death thirty-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 at midfield, goalkeeper in net, and five seconds for the player to score (essentially a timed five second break-away skills competition). 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. Game day rosters had to have eleven of the eighteen as domestic players.

The 86ers were at the top of the table most of the year with a significant lead in the league table until the last six games. At the start of the season, until the sixth match versus Ft. Lauderdale, the team was without its coach, Bob Lenarduzzi, and six members of the Canada men's national soccer team as they were in the national team camp and playing 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying games.[4] Due to Canada's loss to Mexico 1–2 in World Cup qualifying and subsequent second place final round finish, the 86ers were also missing players for the CONCACAF–OFC play-off versus Australia at the end of the season during the start of their swoon in league results. To save on travel costs, the teams played back-to-back on consecutive days, for example the games versus the Tampa Bay Rowdies were the day after Ft. Lauderdale Strikers games all season. At the end of the season the 86ers allowed a number of late goals extending games as draws were not officially recognized including in the playoff game where they were eliminated in an NASL style shootout.

Tables

Points:

Place Team GP W L WN WE WS LN LE LS GF GA GD Points
1 Vancouver 86ers 24 15 9 11 2 2 8 0 1 43 35 +8 126
2 Colorado Foxes 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 Salsa2412128139034137 +4109
5 Toronto Blizzard 24101482011123541 −697
6 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2491580111133952 −1394
7 Montreal Impact 24111390211112833 −590

Expanded table

OverallHomeAway
PldPtsWL TGFGAGDWL TGFGAGDWL TGFGAGD
22 36 11 8 3 39 32  +7 6 3 1 20 11  +9 5 5 2 19 21  −2

Last updated: April 26, 2010
Source: [5]
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss

Source[6]

These games were sixty-minute exhibitions, not full ninety-minute contests.

APSL

Results by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324
GroundHHHAAAAAHHHAHHAAHHHAAAAH
Result W L W W W W L W W W L W W W L L W W L L D D L D

Last updated: January 27, 2007.
Source:
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: T = Tie; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results by Round Source[7] These results have been verified where possible with review of the RSSSF email newsgroup archives and Miami's Sun Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times newspaper archives.

Post-season

Current roster


Goalkeeper stats

No. Nat. Player Total APSL Playoffs
MIN SV GA GAA SO MIN SV GA GAA SO MIN SV GA GAA SO
29 Canada Paul Dolan 2231 12 35 1.42 4 2070 11 23 1.435 4 105 1 2 2.00 0
Canada Cory Breure 34 0.00 0 34 0 0.00 0

|} Last updated: January 27, 2007
Source:
* Note: Minutes played and saves statistics are incomplete (see notes below).

Player statistics

No. Pos. Name Apps Minutes Goals Assists Shots Fouls
GKCanada Cory Breure (1)340 00
2 DFCanada Rick Celebrini 1310732 10
FWCanada Nick Gilbert 42671 00
3 DF Tom Kim 6(3)7230 00
4MFCanada Mark Watson 8(1)7870 00
5 DFCanada Steve MacDonald 2119130 00
6 FWCanada Geoff Aunger 11(2)8563 00
8MFCanada Jim Easton Jr. 15(1)13302 0 0
9 FWCanada John Catliff 97442 00
10 FWCanada Domenic Mobilio 16131711 00
11DFFiji Ivor Evans 2321284 10
12 DFCanada Jean-Paul Knezevic (2)490 00
DFUnited States Doug Morrill 21300 00
13 DFCanada David Norman 1311300 10
14MFCanada Dale Mitchell 13(5)127452 00
15 MFCanada Doug Muirhead 17(5)17123 00
16 DFCanada Doug McKinty 15(5)15720 00
DFCanada Norm Odinga 8(1)6330 00
17FWCanada Carlo Corazzin 23(1)19857 00
20 FWCanada Scott Munson 5(1)4874 00
21 FWCanada Carl Valentine 11(4)112912 00
23 MFCanada Mike Dodd 1(2)2050 00
24 DFCanada Steve Millar 53950 00
29GKCanada Paul Dolan 252216000 00
MFCanada Guido Titotto 21800 00
MFCanada Scott Macey 1900 00
FWCanada Carlos Batista
GKCanada Rob Merkl (1) 1
—–Opponent Own goals ––1–––––

Updated January 27, 2007[8]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Soccer United Marketing – Major League Soccer p. 150. "2011 Whitecaps Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ "History". whitecapsfc.com. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Montreal Impact 1993". impactmontreal.com. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ Brosseau, Dave (May 30, 1993). "Strikers Smarting From Injury Plague". Sun Sentinel Newspaper. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Litterer, David (May 30, 2008). "The Year in American Soccer, 1993". The US Soccer History Archives. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ "1993 Results". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com. January 27, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ "1993 Results". Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  8. ↑ "1993 Statistics". Retrieved March 11, 2014.

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