President: Bill Boytchuk
Vice-president: Ostap Wynnyckyj
Annual general meeting
Bill Boytchuk of Toronto Ukraina was re-elected as president for the fourth consecutive time. Ostap Wynnyckyj, also of Toronto Ukraina, was elected as vice-president.
Clubs and players
Hellas
Founded:
Stadium: Stanley Park, Toronto
Head Coach:
Key players: Jim Lefkos, Tony Zorbas
Kitchener Concordia Kickers
Founded: 1873
Stadium:
Head Coach:
Key players: Leslie Fizel
Portuguese United
Founded:
Stadium: Stanley Park, Toronto
Head Coach:
Key players: Ed Dias, John Reynolds
Sudbury Italia Flyers Soccer Club
Founded: 1949
Stadium: Queen’s Athletic Field, Sudbury
Head Coach:
Key players: Ferrucio Deni, Gino Pacitto, Lascelles Dunkley
Toronto Croatia
Founded: 1956
Stadium: Stanley Park, Toronto
Head Coach:
Key players: George Simcic, Mike Horvath
Toronto Hungaria
Founded:
Stadium: Stanley Park, Toronto
Head Coach:
Key players: Barry Keating, Tommy McLeod
Toronto Ukraina
Founded: May 16, 1948
Stadium: Stanley Park, Toronto
Head Coach:
Key players: Robert Grassman, Alex Marshall, Don Lalka, Alex Popowych, Leo DowhaLUK
The Ukraina goalkeeper was Robert Grassman who later joined Rochester Lancers in the American Soccer League.
Windsor Teutonia
Founded: 1929
Stadium: Wigle Park, Windsor
Manager-coach: Henry Wolf
Key players: Zoltan Vigh, Edward Mielke, Tibor Vigh
Windsor Teutonia were greatly strengthened by the signing of former Toronto Hungaria and Hakoah-goalkeeper Zoltan Vigh. His brother Tibor Vigh was already starring for the team.
Review of the season
The league started the campaign with nine clubs but after only one week Olympia dropped out. The season opened with Toronto Ukraina beating Windsor Teutonia 4-2 in Toronto. Goalscorers for Ukraina were Walter Skocen with three goals and Leo Dowhaluk with one goal. Tibor Vigh scored both of Teutonia’s goals.
Windsor Teutonia won the playoff championship. This was the first time since 1950 that the playoffs were won by a team from outside of Toronto.
Results and standings
League standings as of September 12, 1966: GP W L T GF GA Pts Toronto Ukraina 25 16 5 4 47 23 36 Sudbury Italia 25 14 5 6 27 11 34 Hellas 21 13 2 6 42 22 32 Toronto Croatia 27 12 11 4 42 33 28 Windsor Teutonia 22 10 8 4 22 35 24 Toronto Hungaria 23 11 10 2 39 31 24 Kitchener Kickers 24 2 18 4 22 41 8 Portuguese United 22 0 20 2 17 72 2
Group A Semi-finals
October ??, 1966
Sudbury Italia
Toronto Ukraina
October ??, 1966
Sudbury Italia
Toronto Croatia
October 12, 1966 at Stanley Park, Toronto
Toronto Croatia 2 (George Simchich pen, Mike Horvath)
Toronto Ukraina 0
Toronto Croatia won the Group A semi-finals series.
Group B Semi-finals
October 2, 1966 at Stanley Park, Toronto
Hungaria 4 (Frank Fodor 3, John Sullivan)
Windsor Teutonia 1 (Alexander Guitto)
October 5, 1966 Toronto
Toronto Hungaria 4 (Kurt Dvorak 2, F. Fodor, William Willison)
Toronto Hellas 4 (John Dimpoulos, Jim Lefkos, John Karas, Gregory Petridis)
October 15, 1966
Windsor Teutonia 2
Toronto Hungaria 1
October 16, 1966
Windsor Teutonia 2
Toronto Hellas 1
Windsor Teutonia won the Group B semi-finals series
NSL Playoff finals
October 23, 1966 at Stanley Park, Toronto
Toronto Croatia 1 (Mike Horvath)
Windsor Teutonia 1 (Chuck Zabo pen)
October 30, 1966 at Wigle Park, Windsor
Attendance: 1,000
Windsor Teutonia 1 (Carl Gaier)
Toronto Croatia 0
Windsor won the two-game, total-points finals.
Exhibition game
July 10, 1966 Sudbury
Attendance: 1,400
Sudbury Italia 0
Toronto Roma (ECPSL) 1
