1984 Golden Bay Earthquakes season

The 1984 Golden Bay Earthquakes season was the club's eleventh as a franchise in the North American Soccer League, then the top tier of American soccer. The Earthquakes finished in fifth place in the Western Division. The League folded at the end of the season, and the team would then participate in the four-team 1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series, which led to the formal establishment of the Western Soccer Alliance in 1986.[3]

Golden Bay Earthquakes
1984 season
Coach Dragan Popović
StadiumSpartan Stadium
NASLDivision: 5th
Overall: 8th
NASL PlayoffsDid not qualify
National Challenge CupDid not enter
Top goalscorerSteve Zungul (20) [1]
Average home league attendance10,676 [2]

Squad

The 1984 squad[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  USA Bob Rigby
3 DF  USA Mike Hunter
4 MF  USA Charlie Fajkus
5 DF  ENG Steve Litt
6 MF  CAN Mike Sweeney
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
13 FW  USA Tim Bartro
14 DF  YUG Mihalj Keri
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF  USA Eric Tate
16 FW  ENG Godfrey Ingram
17 FW  ARG Ricardo Alonso
17 DF  USA Hayden Knight
18 MF  CHI Manny Rojas
19 DF  CAN George Katakalidis
20 FW  CAN Branko Šegota
21 MF  USA Fernando Clavijo
22 DF  USA Barney Boyce
23 FW  CAN Igor Vrablic
25 MF  USA Tim Schulz
26 DF  URU Edgardo Lopez
27 GK  USA Chris Sigler
31 GK  NIR Bill Irwin

Competitions

NASL

Season

DateOpponentVenueResultScorers
May 19, 1984 San Diego Sockers H 22* Hunter, Zungul
May 23, 1984 Vancouver Whitecaps A 35 Rojas, Zungul (2)
May 27, 1984 Chicago Sting H 23 Zungul (2)
June 3, 1984 San Diego Sockers A 22* Rojas, Zungul
June 8, 1984 Minnesota Strikers A 12 Sweeney
June 13, 1984 New York Cosmos H 13 Rojas
June 22, 1984 Tulsa Roughnecks A 13 Segota
June 30, 1984 Tampa Bay Rowdies H 90 Vrablic (2), Zungul (4), Segota (2), Sweeney
July 4, 1984 Tampa Bay Rowdies A 12 Zungul
July 8, 1984 Tulsa Roughnecks H 41 Zungul, Goossens (2), Vrablic
July 11, 1984 Toronto Blizzard H 20 Goossens, Segota
July 14, 1984 Minnesota Strikers H 23 Zungul (2)
July 21, 1984 Chicago Sting A 24 Alonso, Segota
July 25, 1984 Tulsa Roughnecks H 13 Zungul
August 8, 1984 Chicago Sting A 63 Segota (3), Zungul, Alonso, Vrablic
August 12, 1984 Toronto Blizzard A 35 Segota (3)
August 18, 1984 Vancouver Whitecaps H 22* Ingram, Segota
August 22, 1984 Vancouver Whitecaps H 32 Segota, Lopez, Ingram
August 25, 1984 Toronto Blizzard H 22* Segota (2)
August 29, 1984 Tampa Bay Rowdies A 45 Segota, Zungul (3)
September 1, 1984 Minnesota Strikers A 21 Segota, Fajkus
September 3, 1984 New York Cosmos H 34 Clavijo, Zungul, Segota
September 8, 1984 San Diego Sockers H 12 Cuellar
September 12, 1984 New York Cosmos A 10 Ingram

* = Shootout
Source:[5]

Western Division

Western Division W L GF GA BP Pts Home Road
San Diego Sockers14105142401189-35-7
Vancouver Whitecaps131151484311710-23-9
Minnesota Strikers14104044351158-46-6
Tulsa Roughnecks1014424638988-42-10
Golden Bay Earthquakes816616249954-84-8

References

  1. "North American Soccer League Jerseys". NASLJerseys.com. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  2. "North American Soccer League Standings". NASLJerseys.com. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2014-03-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "San Jose Earthquakes rosters". North American Soccer League Jerseys. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  5. "San Jose Earthquakes Game Results". Retrieved March 24, 2014.
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