Oakland Stompers

The Oakland Stompers were a soccer team in the North American Soccer League (NASL) which played the 1978 season in the NASL. The Stompers played in the Western Division of the American Conference and finished the year with a 12-18 record. This placed them in third place out of the four teams in their conference, and out of playoff contention.

Team History

At the end of the 1977 NASL season, the Connecticut Bicentennials relocated to Oakland where the team renamed itself as the Stompers. While in Oakland, the team's home field was Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. At the end of the 1978 season, the team moved again, this time to Edmonton, Canada where the team was renamed the Edmonton Drillers.

Year-by-year

Roster

No. Position Player DF Lee Atack MF Andy Atuegbu Ban Bozidar FW Ehud Ben-Tovim Miro Djordjevic Mike Dokich GK Gene DuChateau Peter Enders Volker Fass FW Mike Flater Tony Graham Alex Lesh DF Alec Lindsay FW Mark Liveric

No. Position Player MF Andy McCulloch GK Shep Messing FW Johnny Moore Karl Heinz Mrosko DF Blagoje Paunović MF Joe Raduka FW Archie Roboostoff MF Sam Rosenthal John Rowlands Franz Smuda Bogdan Turudija Bruce Twamley Geoff Wegerle

Coach

• Jack Hyde

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