1991 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season

The 1991 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the second season of the team in the American Professional Soccer League. It was the club's twenty-fifth season in professional soccer. The team finished in first place in the American Conference, went to the playoffs, and made it to the semifinals.

Fort Lauderdale Strikers

1991 season
Owner	Joe Robbie Noel Lemon
Manager	Thomas Rongen
Stadium	Lockhart Stadium
APSL American Conference	First place
APSL playoffs	Semifinalist
Home colors Away colors

Competitions

APSL regular season

American Conference

Place	Team	GP	W	L	WN	WE	WS	LN	LE	LS	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	21	15	6	11	0	4	3	1	2	39	21	+18	117
2	Albany Capitals	21	10	11	9	1	0	7	1	3	27	29	−2	92
3	Tampa Bay Rowdies	21	8	13	7	1	0	13	0	0	26	27	−1	69
4	Penn-Jersey Spirit	21	6	15	4	0	2	13	0	2	25	50	−25	61
5	Miami Freedom	21	6	15	5	0	1	14	1	0	19	53	−34	52

Western Conference

Place	Team	GP	W	L	WN	WE	WS	LN	LE	LS	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Maryland Bays	21	19	2	17	1	1	2	0	0	54	23	+31	158
2	San Francisco Bay Blackhawks	21	17	4	12	1	4	2	1	1	33	16	+17	126
3	Colorado Foxes	21	13	8	11	1	1	7	0	1	36	27	+9	111
4	Salt Lake Sting	20	3	17	3	0	0	14	1	2	12	22	−10	33

APSL Playoffs

Semifinal 1

September 6, 1991
7:35 PM EST

Albany Capitals (NY)	2–1 (OT)	Maryland Bays (MD)
Dave Smyth 2' Lee Tschantret  101'		77' Kevin Sloan

Bleecker Stadium, Albany, New York

Attendance: 1,809

September 14, 1991

Maryland Bays (MD)	2–1	Albany Capitals (NY)
Philip Gyau 20' Kevin Sloan 69' Kevin Sloan		89' Chris Szanto

Cedar Lane Park, Maryland

Attendance: 2,741

September 14, 1991

Maryland Bays (MD)	0–0	Albany Capitals (NY)
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Penalties
Jean Harbor Brian Haynes Omid Namazi John Abe Scott Cook	4–5	John Garvey Scott Cannon Zoran Savic Mike Masters Lee Tschantret

Cedar Lane Park, Maryland

Attendance: 2,741

Referee: (USA)

The Albany Capitals advanced to the final.

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Semifinal 2

September 8, 1991
10:30 PM EST

San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (CA)	1–0 (OT)	Fort Lauderdale Strikers (FL)
Eric Wynalda  89:59' Dominic Kinnear  96:33'  (Qin, Salazar)	report	Adrian Gaiten  79:31'

Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California

Attendance: 6,041

Referee: Brian Hall

September 14, 1991
7:30 PM EST

Fort Lauderdale Strikers (FL)	0–1 (OT)	San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (CA)
John Clare  24:25'	report	Lawrence Lozzano  83:00' Eric Wynalda  95:56'  (Isaacs)

Lockhart Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Attendance: 2,476

Referee: Raul Dominguez

The San Francisco Bay Blackhawks advanced to the final.