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Rochester Lancers

The Rochester Lancers were a soccer team based out of Rochester, New York that played in the American Soccer League from 1967 until 1969 and the North American Soccer League from 1970 to 1980 at Aquinas Stadium (renamed Holleder Memorial Stadium in 1974). Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The American Soccer League has been a name used by three different professional Soccer leagues in the United States. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Holleder Memorial Stadium was a 20000 seat football stadium in Rochester New York.

After three years competing in the ASL, the club jumped to the newer NASL and won the league championship in their first season. They followed that up with a division title the next season and a second consecutive MVP award for forward Carlos Metidieri. However, the Lancers could not sustain their early success through the rest of the decade. Posting only a couple of winning records and a few playoff appearances, the team folded after the 1980 season.

Contents

Year-by-year

Year Record (W-L-D) Regular Season Finish Playoffs
1967-68 6-7-2 4th, First Division, ASL Did Not Qualify
1968 6-5-1 4th, First Division, ASL Did Not Qualify
1969 12-3-5 2nd, Northern Division, ASL Northern Division Playoff
1970 9-9-6 1st, Northern Division NASL Champions
1971 13-5-6 1st, Northern Division Semifinals
1972 6-5-3 2nd, Northern Division Semifinals
1973 4-9-6 3rd, Northern Division Did Not Qualify
1974 8-10-2 3rd, Northern Division Did Not Qualify
1975 6-16 4th, Northern Division Did Not Qualify
1976 13-11 3rd, Northern Division, Atlantic Conference First Round
1977 11-15 3rd, Northern Division, Atlantic Conference Division Championships
1978 14-16 4th, Eastern Division, National Conference Did Not Qualify
1979 15-15 4th, Eastern Division, National Conference Did Not Qualify
1980 12-20 4th, Eastern Division, National Conference Did Not Qualify

Honors

NASL Championships

Division Titles

NASL Most Valuable Player

All-Star First Team Selections

All-Star Second Team Selections

All-Star Honorable Mentions

Head Coaches

Yearly Average Attendance


References

Jose Carlos Metidieri (born December 18 1942 in Votorantim Brazil is a former professional Soccer player Charles Ross Mitchell (born June 24, 1962 in Dickson Tennessee) is a retired Major League Baseball Pitcher. Manfred “Manny” Seissler (German Manfred Seißler (born August 8 1939 in Germany was a U Momčilo "Mike" Stojanović (born January 27 1947 in Lapovo, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a former NASL and Canadian international Dragan (Don Popovic was a professional Soccer player and is now a coach in the United States. Douglas Brei (born December 29, 1964) is a former minor league sports executive who has recently garnered national attention as a sports historian in his hometown
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