San Diego Sockers (1978)

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San Diego Sockers
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Basic data
Surname San Diego Sockers
Seat San Diego
founding 1978
Colours yellow blue
First soccer team
Head coach Ron Newman
Venue San Diego Stadium / Jack Murphy Stadium (1978–1984)
Valley View Casino Center (1980–1996)
Places 48.460,
12.920
league NASL (1978-1984)
MISL (1982-1983, 1984-1992)
CISL (1993-1996)
1996 1st place
home
Away

San Diego Sockers was an American soccer franchise based in San Diego . Originally founded as a "normal" football club, the club later took part in indoor tournaments more and more often and from 1984 played only indoor football , where it was also able to celebrate the most successes. In the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL for short), the national indoor soccer league , the team won ten championships, making it the most successful team in the competition.

history

In 1974 the franchise was founded as Baltimore Comets and was also based in Baltimore . In 1976 it moved to San Diego and renamed itself San Diego Jaws . From 1977 it played in Las Vegas under the name Las Vegas Quicksilvers , but returned to San Diego in 1978 and was henceforth called San Diego Sockers . The first owner of the team was from 1978 to 1987 Bob Bell. In 1979 the team won the Western Division of the North American Soccer League (NASL) and was eliminated in the 2nd round of the playoffs.

The San Diego Sockers played their indoor soccer games at the San Diego Sports Arena . The successes in indoor soccer were a long time coming for the franchise, but then came faster and more often until the team finally had more successes in indoor soccer than in grass soccer. In the 1981/82 season and in the 1983/84 season, the Sockers won the indoor soccer championships of the North American Soccer League.

After the NASL was dissolved in 1984, the franchise moved to the indoor soccer league Major Soccer League and won eight championships there. From 1987 to 1991, Sockers Management Inc. was owned by Ron Fowler. In 1991 Oscar Ancira sr. and Oscar Ancira jr. the franchise. After the Major Soccer League was dissolved in 1992, the Continental Indoor Soccer League was played from 1993 to 1995 . In 1994 the franchise was sold by the Anciras to the Arena Group 2000. It was disbanded after the 1996 season.

Subsequently, there have already been two attempts to revive the old Sockers . On the one hand, a franchise under the same name appeared in the World Indoor Soccer League in 2001 ; see San Diego Sockers (2001) . After the dissolution of the WISL, this completed three seasons in the MISL II and was then dissolved. After that, another indoor soccer franchise with the same name appeared in 2009; see San Diego Sockers (2009) . These initially played in the PASL-Pro or later only PASL , the forerunner of the MASL , in which the franchise is still in use today.

League affiliation

  • NASL : 1978-1984
  • NASL indoor soccer: 1980–1982, 1983–1984
  • MISL : 1982-1983, 1984-1992
  • CISL  : 1993-1996

owner

  • Bob Bell (1978-1987)
  • Ron Fowler (1987-1991)
  • Oscar Ancira, Sr. (1991-1994)
  • San Diego Sports Arena Management (1994–1996)

Trainer

  • GermanyGermany Hubert Vogelsinger (1978–1980)
  • United StatesUnited States Hank Liotart (1980)
  • EnglandEngland Ron Newman (1980-1993)
  • United StatesUnited States Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Brian Quinn (1994-1996)

Table placements

Outdoors

year Reg. Season Playoffs Remarks Audience numbers
1974 2nd place (east), 10–8–2 Quarter finalist as Baltimore Comets 4.139
1975 5th place (east), 9-13 not qualified as Baltimore Comets 2,641
1976 5th place (south), 9-15 not qualified as San Diego Jaws 6.152
1977 5th place (south), 11-15 not qualified as Las Vegas Quicksilvers 7,079
1978 1st place (American Conference West), 18-12 Semi-finalist first season as San Diego Sockers 5,146
1979 2nd place (American Conference West), 15–15 finalist 11,271
1980 3rd place (American Conference West), 16-16 finalist 12,753
1981 1st place (west), 21–11 finalist 14,802
1982 2nd place (west), 19-13 Semi-finalist 8,532
1983 4th place (west), 11-19 not qualified 4,685
1984 1st place (west), 14-10 Semi-finalist last season outdoors 5,702

In the hall

year Reg. Season Playoffs Remarks Audience numbers
1980/81 NASL 4th place (south), 6-12 not qualified 4,912
1981/82 NASL 1st place (west), 10–8 master 7,047
1982/83 MISL 1st place (west), 32-16 master 8,081
1983/84 NASL 1st place (NASL), 21–11 master 11,415
1984/85 MISL 1st place (west), 37–11 master 9,595
1985/86 MISL 1st place (west), 36-12 master 9,581
1986/87 MISL 3rd place (west), 27-25 Semi-finalist 9,748
1987/88 MISL 1st place (west), 42-14 master 8,996
1988/89 MISL 2nd place (MISL), 27-21 master 8,383
1989/90 MISL 2nd place (west), 25-27 master 8,131
1990/91 MSL 1st place (west), 34-18 master 7,231
1991/92 MSL 1st place (MSL), 26-14 master 9,348
1993 CISL 2nd place (CISL), 20-8 2nd place 5,583
1994 CISL 2nd place (west), 18-10 Quarter finalist 5,032
1995 CISL 3rd place (south), 17–11 Quarter finalist 5,366
1996 CISL 1st place (west), 17–11 Semi-finalist 4,830

successes

Championships: 10

  • NASL indoor soccer: 1981/82, 1983/84
  • MISL : 1982/83, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91, 1991/92

Regular season / division titles: 12

  • NASL : 1978, 1981, 1984
  • NASL indoor soccer: 1981/82, 1983/84
  • MISL : 1982/83, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1990/91, 1991/92
  • CISL : 1996

Conference title: 1

  • NASL Indoor Soccer: 1981/82 (Pacific)

Known players

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gap Stays Wide in NASL Cities , washingtonpost.com, July 29, 1979
  2. ↑ a b Bell Resigns; Fowler Group Controls Sockers , LA Times, October 15, 1987
  3. ↑ Ron Fowler , mlb.com
  4. ↑ Mexico-backed owners take over Sockers , upi.com, July 1, 1991
  5. ^ 1978-1996 San Diego Sockers , funwhileitlasted.net, February 10, 2013
  6. ^ Jo-Ryan Salazar: The San Diego Sockers: A Legacy Renewed , https://bleacherreport.com/ , July 26, 2010