1983 Golden Bay Earthquakes season

The 1983 Golden Bay Earthquakes season was the tenth for the Earthquakes franchise in the North American Soccer League. They finished second in the Western Division and defeated the Chicago Sting in the playoff quarterfinals. The Earthquakes' run came to an end in the semifinals when the Toronto Blizzard earned two shutout wins.^[3]

Golden Bay Earthquakes

1983 season
Coach	Dragan Popovic
Stadium	Spartan Stadium
NASL	Division: 2nd Overall: 3rd
NASL Playoffs	Semifinals
National Challenge Cup	Did not enter
Top goalscorer	Steve Zungul (16) [1]
Average home league attendance	11,933 [2]
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Squad

The 1983 squad ^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  USA Bob Rigby 2 DF  YUG Ned Verlasevic 3 DF  USA Mike Hunter 4 DF  USA Jim McAlister 5 DF  ENG Steve Litt 7 FW  ENG Chris Dangerfield 9 MF  USA Germain Iglesias 10 FW  NED Jan Goossens 11 FW  YUG Steve Zungul 12 MF  MEX Leonardo Cuellar

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  USA Eric Tate 13 MF  POL Stan Terlecki 14 DF  YUG Mihalj Keri 16 FW  ENG Godfrey Ingram 17 FW  USA Derek Sanderson 19 DF  CAN George Katakalidis 20 GK  USA Tim Hanley 21 DF  USA Fernando Clavijo 22 DF  USA Barney Boyce 31 GK  NIR Bill Irwin

Competitions

NASL

Main article: 1983 North American Soccer League season

Match results

Season

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
May 22, 1983	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	2–1	Terlecki, Zungul
May 25, 1983	New York Cosmos	A	1–5
May 27, 1983	Team America	A	1–0	Terlecki
May 30, 1983	Tulsa Roughnecks	H	3–1	Zungul (3)
June 4, 1983	Montreal Manic	H	7–1	Goossens, Zungul (3), Iglesias, Litt, Ingram
June 11, 1983	New York Cosmos	H	3–1	Terlecki, Ingram, Zungul
June 15, 1983	Seattle Sounders	A	1–1*	Dangerfield
June 18, 1983	Tampa Bay Rowdies	H	1–0	Goossens
June 22, 1983	Team America	H	3–0	Cuellar, Zungul (2)
June 26, 1983	Toronto Blizzard	A	1–5
June 29, 1983	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	A	2–3	Terlecki, Zungul
July 4, 1983	Tampa Bay Rowdies	A	2–1	Goossens (2)
July 6, 1983	Seattle Sounders	H	2–2*	Goossens (2)
July 9, 1983	San Diego Sockers	H	2–1	Goossens, Iglesias
July 13, 1983	Seattle Sounders	A	5–2	Dangerfield, Ingram, Terlecki, Iglesias, Goossens
July 17, 1983	Vancouver Whitecaps	A	1–2	Goossens
July 20, 1983	Tampa Bay Rowdies	H	2–1	Goossens, Ingram
July 23, 1983	Chicago Sting	A	0–2
July 27, 1983	Montreal Manic	A	3–3*	Ingram (2), Terlecki
July 30, 1983	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	A	1–3	Ingram
August 3, 1983	Toronto Blizzard	H	2–2*	Terlecki, Zungul
August 6, 1983	Tulsa Roughnecks	A	2–1	Ingram (2)
August 10, 1983	San Diego Sockers	A	1–2	Ingram
August 13, 1983	Chicago Sting	H	3–2	Ingram (2), Goossens
August 17, 1983	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	H	5–3	Terlecki, Ingram, Dangerfield (3)
August 20, 1983	San Diego Sockers	H	4–2	Terlecki (2), Ingram, Zungul
August 24, 1983	Vancouver Whitecaps	A	1–2	Zungul
August 27, 1983	San Diego Sockers	A	2–3	Goossens, Zungul
August 31, 1983	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	3–0	Ingram, Zungul, Terlecki
September 3, 1983	Seattle Sounders	H	2–1	Cuellar, Iglesias

Playoffs

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
September 7, 1983	Chicago Sting	H	6–1	Zungul (2), Goossens, Cuellar, Terlecki (2)
September 12, 1983	Chicago Sting	A	0–1
September 14, 1983	Chicago Sting	H	5–2	Terlecki (3), Zungul, Goossens
September 17, 1983	Toronto Blizzard	H	0–0*
September 22, 1983	Toronto Blizzard	A	0–2

* = Shootout
Source:^[4]

Standings

Western Division	W	L	GF	GA	PT
Vancouver Whitecaps	24	6	63	34	187
Golden Bay Earthquakes	20	10	71	54	169
Seattle Sounders	12	18	62	61	119
San Diego Sockers	11	19	53	65	106