1995 A-League

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A-League
Season1995
ChampionsSeattle Sounders
(1st title)
PremiersMontreal Impact
(1st title)
1996 CONCACAF Champions' CupSeattle Sounders
Top goalscorerPeter Hattrup
(11 goals)
← 1994
1996 →

The 1995 A-League season was the sixth A-League season and first after being renamed from the American Professional Soccer League.

Overview

In 1995, the American Professional Soccer League, which was the de facto highest level of U.S. soccer (officially sanctioned U.S. second division) until MLS commenced, changed its name to the A-League.

Vancouver 86ers defeated the Atlanta Ruckus. By the time the regular season ended on September 10, 1995, the Montreal Impact
had topped the chart. However, they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Ruckus. Seattle defeated Vancouver in the first round, then defeated Atlanta in the final to take their first championship. The league introduced a new scoring system for the regular season. No games ended in a tie. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, every game went to a shootout. A win gained a team three points, a shootout win two points, a shootout loss one point and a loss zero points.

Regular season

Pos Team Pld W SW SL L GF GA GD Pts
1 Montreal Impact 24 16 1 1 6 47 27 +20 51
2 Seattle Sounders 24 13 5 2 4 40 24 +16 51
3
Vancouver 86ers
 24 10 0 3 11 43 43 0 33
4
Atlanta Ruckus
 24 5 8 1 10 29 41 −12 32
5 Colorado Foxes 24 7 1 6 10 35 41 −6 29
6 New York Centaurs 24 5 1 3 15 21 39 −18 20
Source: [4]
Rules for classification: 3 points for win, 2 points for shootout win, 1 point for shootout loss, 0 points for normal time loss

Playoffs

Bracket

Semifinals
Best-of-3 		1995 A-League Finals
Best-of-3
          
1 Montreal Impact 1(1) 3 0(1)
4 Atlanta Ruckus 1(2) 0 0(3)
4 Atlanta Ruckus 1(3) 0 1(1)
2 Seattle Sounders 1(1) 3 1(2)
2 Seattle Sounders 1 0(3) -
3
Vancouver 86ers
0 0(2) -

Semifinals 1

Atlanta Ruckus (GA)
1–1Montreal Impact (QC)
Tom Wurdack Red card 43'
Lenin Steenkamp 71'		 Report 1
Report 2		 70'
Lloyd Barker
Penalties
? soccer ball with red X
? soccer ball with red X
Mo Suri soccer ball with check mark
Michael Araujo soccer ball with check mark
? soccer ball with red X		 2–1 soccer ball with red X ?
soccer ball with red X ?
soccer ball with red X ?
soccer ball with check mark
Lloyd Barker
soccer ball with red X Tom Kouzmanis
Adams Stadium Atlanta
Attendance: 2,114


Atlanta Ruckus (GA
)
Lloyd Barker 44'
Lyndon Hooper
78'		 Report 1
Report 2
Montreal, Canada
Attendance: 2,648


Atlanta Ruckus (GA
)
Report
Penalties
Lloyd Barker
soccer ball with red X		 1–3 soccer ball with check mark
Staale Soebye
soccer ball with red X Cato Solberg
soccer ball with check mark Brian Moore
soccer ball with red X Mo Suri
soccer ball with check mark John Doyle
Montreal, Canada

The Atlanta Ruckus advance to the finals.

Semifinals 2

Vancouver 86ers (BC)
0–1Seattle Sounders (WA)
Nico Berg Yellow card 62' Report 80' Gary Heale
Burnaby, British Columbia
Attendance: 4,036


Vancouver 86ers (BC
)
Dominic Kinnear Yellow card 39'
Neil Megson Yellow card 53'		 Report Yellow card 32' Geoff Aunger
Penalties
Peter Hattrup soccer ball with check mark
Neil Megson soccer ball with red X
Shawn Medved soccer ball with red X
Marco Rizi soccer ball with red X
Gary Heale soccer ball with check mark
David Hoggan soccer ball with red X
Jason Dunn soccer ball with red X
Billy Crook soccer ball with check mark		 3–2 soccer ball with check mark
Martin Nash
soccer ball with red X Doug McKinty
soccer ball with red X Nico Berg
Attendance: 4,339

The Seattle Sounders advance to the finals.

Final

Atlanta Ruckus (GA)
1–1Seattle Sounders (WA)
Greg Sheen Yellow card 34'
Lenin Steenkamp 58'
Bruce Murray Yellow card 69'
Michael Araujo Yellow card 73'		 Report 1
Report 2		 77' Jason Dunn
Penalties
Staale Soebye soccer ball with check mark
Michael Araujo soccer ball with check mark
John Doyle
soccer ball with check mark		 3–1 soccer ball with check mark Neil Megson
soccer ball with red X Peter Hattrup
soccer ball with red X Shawn Medved
soccer ball with red X Jason Farrell
Adams Stadium Atlanta
Attendance: 4,312
Referee: Zimmerman Boulos


Atlanta Ruckus (GA
)
Chance Fry 24:35', 85'
Jason Dunn 86:55'		 Report 1
Report 2		 Red card 41' Michael Araujo
Esse Baharmast


Atlanta Ruckus (GA
)
Jason Farrell 81' Report 3'
Staale Soebye
Penalties
David Hoggan soccer ball with red X
Peter Hattrup soccer ball with red X
Neil Megson soccer ball with check mark
Dominic Kinnear soccer ball with check mark		 2–1 soccer ball with red X
Staale Soebye
soccer ball with red X Brian Moore
soccer ball with red X Mo Suri
soccer ball with check mark John Doyle
soccer ball with red X Lenin Steenkamp
Attendance: 5,115

The Seattle Sounders win the A-League title.

Points leaders

Rank Scorer Club Goals Assists Points
1 Peter Hattrup Seattle Sounders 11 8 30
2 Paul Dougherty Montreal Impact 10 8 28
3
Lloyd Barker
 Montreal Impact 10 6 26
4 Chance Fry Seattle Sounders 9 4 22
5 Paul Dailly
Vancouver 86ers
 7 7 21
6 Giuliano Oliviero
Vancouver 86ers
 9 1 19
7 Geoff Aunger
Vancouver 86ers
 6 6 18
8
Staale Soebye
Atlanta Ruckus
 7 3 17
9
Martin Nash
Vancouver 86ers
 5 6 16
Lenin Steenkamp
Atlanta Ruckus
 8 0 16
Jason Dunn Seattle Sounders 5 6 16
12 Grant Needham Montreal Impact 5 5 15
Paulinho Montreal Impact 6 3 15
14 Jeff Hooker Colorado Foxes 7 0 14
15 Shawn Medved Seattle Sounders 6 1 13

Honors

References

  1. ^ "USL restructures Pro Divisions". Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  2. Orange County Register
    . p. C18.
  3. ^ "For The Record – Soccer". The Seattle Times. January 16, 1995. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Stickney, Ron. "1996 Sounders Schedule and Results". seattlepitch.tripod.com. Retrieved May 17, 2014.

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