1993 American Professional Soccer League
Introduction Statistics of American Professional Soccer League in season 1993.
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 home stadium of Englewood High School had a homecoming football game the night of the championship.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 Sept. 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 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, 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.PlaceTeamGPWLWNWEWSLNLELSGFGAGDPoints 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 Salsa2412128139034137 +4'''109'''5 Toronto Blizzard24101482011123541 -6'''97'''6 Fort Lauderdale Strikers2491580111133952 -13'''94'''7 Montreal Impact24111390211112833 -5'''90'''
Playoffs ===Bracket======Semifinal 1===----===Semifinal 2===----===Final===
Points leaders RankScorerClubGoalsAssistsPoints1 Paulinho Los Angeles Salsa157372 Paul Wright Los Angeles Salsa137303 Paul Dougherty Tampa Bay Rowdies811274 Zico Doe Fort Lauderdale Strikers12226 Hector Marinaro Toronto Blizzard712266 Taifour Diané Colorado Foxes10525 Pierre Morice Tampa Bay Rowdies97258 Domenic Mobilio Vancouver 86ers103239 Scott BenedettiColorado Foxes1012110 Fernando AguiarToronto Blizzard9119 Ted EckColorado Foxes8219 Carlo CorazzinVancouver 86ers751913 Alvin JamesFort Lauderdale Strikers7418 Steve TrittschuhTampa Bay Rowdies741815 Jean HarborTampa Bay Rowdies571716 Brad SmithTampa Bay Rowdies6416 Ivor EvansVancouver 86ers4816 Dale MitchellVancouver 86ers4816 Amadeo GaspariniToronto Blizzard481620 Grant NeedhamMontreal Impact631521 Eddy BerduscoToronto Blizzard5313
Honors * '''MVP:''' Paulinho* '''Leading goal scorer:''' Paulinho* '''Leading goalkeeper:''' Jim St. Andre* '''Rookie of the Year:''' Jason De Vos* '''Coach of the Year:''' Ken Fogarty*'''First Team All League'''**'''Goalkeeper:''' Paul Dolan**'''Defenders:''' Robin Fraser, Danny Pena, Mark Watson, Patrice Ferri**'''Midfielders:''' Paulinho, Ivor Evans, Paul Dougherty, Ted Eck**'''Forwards:''' Taifour Diané, Paul Wright*'''Second Team All League'''**'''Goalkeeper:''' Ian Feuer**'''Defenders:''' Jason De Vos, Steve MacDonald, Kim Roentved, Mark Santel**'''Midfielders:''' Chad Ashton, Bryan Haynes, Pierre Morice, Steve Trittschuh**'''Forwards:''' Domenic Mobilio, Hector Marinaro
References
External links *  The Year in American Soccer - 1993*  USA - A-League (American Professional Soccer League) (RSSSF)