1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season

Fort Lauderdale Strikers

1983 season
Owner	Elizabeth Robbie
General manager	Tim Robbie
Manager	David Chadwick
Stadium	Lockhart Stadium
NASL	Southern Division: Second place Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorer	League: Brian Kidd (18 goals) All: Brian Kidd (18 goals)
Average home league attendance	10,823
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The 1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the seventh season of the Fort Lauderdale Striker's team, and the club's seventeenth season in professional soccer. This year the team made it to the quarterfinals of the North American Soccer League playoffs. It would be the last year of the club's incarnation as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the original NASL. The following year they relocated to Minnesota for the 1984 season and became the Minnesota Strikers.

Competitions

NASL Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Higher seed		Lower seed	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Tulsa Roughnecks	-	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	3–2 (OT)	4–2	x	September 6 • Skelly Stadium • 7,826 September 10 • Lockhart Stadium • 8,873

Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Soccer Bowl '83
	1	New York Cosmos	2	0(2)	–
	8	Montreal Manic	4	1(3)	–
								8	Montreal Manic	1(8)	1	0
								3	Tulsa Roughnecks	2(9)	0	3
	3	Tulsa Roughnecks	3	4	–
	6	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	2	2	–
															3	Tulsa Roughnecks	2
															7	Toronto Blizzard	0
	4	Golden Bay Earthquakes	6	0	5
	5	Chicago Sting	1	1	2
								3	Golden Bay Earthquakes	0(3)	0	–
								7	Toronto Blizzard	1(5)	2	–
	2	Vancouver Whitecaps	1	3	0
	7	Toronto Blizzard	0	4	1