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The Oakland Stompers were a soccer team based out of Oakland, California that played the 1978 season in the North American Soccer League (NASL). The Stompers played in the Western Division of the American Conference and finished the year with a 12–18 record, in third place and out of playoff contention.

Oakland Stompers
Full nameOakland Stompers
Nickname(s)Stompers
Founded1978
Dissolved1978; 44 years ago (1978)
StadiumOakland–Alameda County Coliseum
Capacity50,000
ChairmanMilan Mandarić
General ManagerDick Berg[1]
LeagueNASL
Home colors
Away colors

Team history


At the end of the 1977 NASL season, Silicon Valley businessman (and former owner of the San Jose Earthquakes) Milan Mandarić bought the Connecticut Bicentennials and relocated them to Oakland.[2] The club, renamed the Stompers, hired Mirko Stojanović as head coach and signed a 10-year lease at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum,[3] previously home of the NASL's Oakland Clippers in 1967–68.[4] The team signed Shep Messing for $100,000 making him the highest-paid American soccer player at the time.[5][6]

The club drew 32,104 in their home opener against San Jose Earthquakes on April 2, 1978 with about half of those in attendance being supporters of the visiting team.[7][5] After eight games and a record of 4-4, the team fired Stojanović and replaced him on an interim basis with Jack Hyde.[1] Hyde was in turned replaced by Ken Bracewell who had previously coached the Denver Dynamos.[8] In July, the team was averaging 12,200 fan in attendance,[9] but ended the season in third place and with a slight dip in attendance 11,929 fans at seasons end.[10] (The Coliseum was a lonely place in the summer of '78: the Stompers' co-tenants, baseball's Oakland Athletics, attracted just 7,218 fans per home date.)

Following the season, the team moved to Edmonton, Alberta where they was renamed the Edmonton Drillers.[11]


Year-by-year


Year League W L Pts Regular Season Playoffs Avg. Attend. Ref
1978 NASL 12 18 103 3rd, American Conference, Western Division Did Not Qualify 11,929 [10]

Honors


U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame

Canada Soccer Hall of Fame

Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame


Coaches



References


  1. "Messing faces former mates". St. Petersburg Times. 17 May 1978. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Slater, Matt (16 March 2015). "Milan Mandaric: Football's Mr Fixit says farewell". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  3. "Stojanovic Will Coach Stompers". Gettysburg Times. 8 November 1977. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  4. Chazaro, Alan. "The Forgotten Legacy of Oakland's 'Outlaw' Soccer Team". thebolditalic. Medium. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  5. "Messing Has Summer In the Right Place(s)". Observer-Reporter. 4 April 1978. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  6. "People". TIME. Time Inc. 20 March 1978. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  7. "Messing faces former mates". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 21 July 1978. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  8. "Cosmos rally past Kicks 4-2". St. Petersburg Times. 14 June 1978. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  9. "Soccer attendance up, but figures misleading". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 8 July 1978. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  10. "North American Soccer League". Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  11. "Stompers turn into Drillers". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 9 March 1979. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  12. "Hall of Fame selects 6". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 21 May 1997. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  13. "Hall of Famers". indoorsoccerhall.com. September 1, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.




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