- 1991–92 National Soccer League
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Statistics of National Soccer League in season 1991/1992.
Contents
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 future 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.[1]Agostino, at age sixteen, would make seventeen appearances and score six goals with West Adelaide before heading to Switzerland to play for BSC Young Boys[2] and John Aloisi would make one appearance for Adelaide City before heading to Standard Liege in Belguim. 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.
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.[3][4]
Regular season
Pos Club P W D L GF GA Pts 1 Melbourne Croatia 26 14 7 5 45 26 35 2 Sydney Olympic 26 12 10 4 38 27 34 3 South Melbourne 26 13 5 8 51 28 31 4 Adelaide City 26 10 9 7 26 23 29 5 Wollongong City 26 9 10 7 24 17 28 6 Brisbane United 26 8 10 8 31 35 26 7 Marconi Fairfield 26 10 5 11 33 31 25 8 A.P.I.A. Leichhardt Tigers 26 7 11 8 26 28 25 9 Heidelberg United 26 8 8 10 28 33 24 10 Parramatta Eagles 26 6 11 9 24 24 23 11 Newcastle Breakers 26 7 8 11 28 39 22 12 Sydney Croatia 26 6 9 11 22 33 21 13 West Adelaide 26 7 7 12 25 46 21 14 Preston 26 5 10 11 21 32 20 Championship playoff
Elimination final
- Adelaide City 1-0 Wollongong City
Qualifying final
Minor semi final
Major semi final
- South Melbourne 0-0 (pen 3-5) Melbourne Croatia
Preliminary final
Grand final
- Melbourne Croatia 0-0 (pen 2-4) Adelaide City
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)
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)
References
- ^ "Australian Player Database". ozfootball.net. http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/B/BOS.html. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
- ^ "Australian Player Database". ozfootball.net. http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/A/AG.html. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
- ^ "1993 NSW Super League final table". ozfootball.net. http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/NSW/1993/1993SLT.html. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
- ^ "1991-92 Season Final Table". ozfootball.net. http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/9192/NSLTable.html. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
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