Oakland Stompers

Oakland Stompers

Full name	Oakland Stompers
Nickname(s)	Stompers
Founded	1978
Dissolved	1978
Ground	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (Capacity: 50,000)
Chairman	Milan Mandaric
League	North American Soccer League
Home colours Away colours

The Oakland Stompers were a soccer team in the North American Soccer League (NASL) which played the 1978 season in the NASL. The Stompers played in the Western Division of the American Conference and finished the year with a 12-18 record. This placed them in third place out of the four teams in their conference, and out of playoff contention.

Team history

At the end of the 1977 NASL season, the Connecticut Bicentennials relocated to Oakland where the team renamed itself as the Stompers. While in Oakland, the team's home field was Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. At the end of the 1978 season, the team was sold and moved to Edmonton, Alberta where the team was renamed the Edmonton Drillers.

Year-by-year

Year	League	W	L	T	Pts	Regular Season	Playoffs	Average Attendance
1978	NASL	12	18	—	103	3rd, American Conference, Western Division	Did Not Qualify	11,929

Roster

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Shep Messing 2 MF Joe Raduka 3 DF Alec Lindsay 4 DF Volker Fass 4 DF John Rowlands 5 MF Blagoje Paunović 6 MF Peter Enders 6 DF Bruce Twamley 7 FW Geoff Wegerle 8 MF Andy Atuegbu 9 FW Ehud Ben-Tovim 9 MF Miro Djordjevic 9 FW Mike Flater 10 MF Karl-Heinz Mrosko

No. Position Player 11 FW Mark Liveric 12 FW Andy McCulloch 13 FW Bogdan Turudija 14 MF Alex Lesh 15 DF Lee Atack 16 FW Tony Graham 17 MF Mike Dokich 17 DF Franciszek Smuda 18 FW Božidar Ban 19 GK Gene DuChateau 20 FW Archie Roboostoff 21 MF Shmuel Rosenthal 22 FW Johnny Moore

Coach

• Ken Bracewell^[1]

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Roster