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1968 Season

1968 National Soccer League

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Review of the season

Sudbury Italia won the league championship and playoff finals.

After the season Windsor Teutonia dropped out.

Final standings

GPPts
1. Sudbury Italia1829
2. Hellas 1828
3. Toronto Ukraina1827
4. Toronto Hungaria18
5. Olympia-Harmonie18
6. Toronto Croatia18
7. Kitchener Kickers18
8. Serbian White Eagles18
9. Portuguese United18
10. Windsor Teutonia18

National Soccer League Play-offs

Quarter-finals

September ??, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
Olympia 1
Ukraina 1

September ??, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
Olympia 3
Ukraina 1

September 18, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
Olympia 1 (Phillip Sax)
Ukraina 1 (Ted Purdon)

Olympia won total-goal series

September 12, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
Hellas 3 (Panos Polyvios 2, Bruce Smith)
Toronto Croatia 1 (Marion Blaskovic)

September 15, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
Hellas 6 (Chris Hatzis 2, John Opacak 2, Panos Polyviov, Bruce Smith)
Toronto Croatia 0

Hellas won best-of-three quarter-finals and qualified for semi-finals

Sudbury Italia vs.

Sudbury Italia qualified for semi-finals

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?? qualified for semi-finals

Semi-finals


Olympia vs.
Hellas

Toronto Hellas qualified for the finals

September ??, 1968
Sudbury Italia defeated Toronto Hungaria

September ??, 1968
Sudbury Italia defeated Toronto Hungaria

September 28, 1968 Sudbury
Sudbury Italia 0
Toronto Hungaria 0

September ??, 1968
Sudbury Italia defeated Toronto Hungaria

Sudbury Italia qualified for the finals

Finals

Sudbury Italia vs Toronto Hellas

Sudbury Italia won the NSL play-off final

Exhibition games

April 17, 1968 Wigle Park, Windsor
Attendance: 500
Windsor Teutonia 1
Detroit Cougars 7

July 7, 1968 Aquinas Stadium, Rochester, New York
Attendance: 867
Rochester Lancers 2 (Nelson Bergamo, Freddy Corniel)
Toronto Ukraina 1 (Mlyusarka)
Match report

August 25, 1968 Sudbury, Ontario
Attendance:
Sudbury Italia 2
Toronto Falcons 4 (Peter Cubilla 2, Hector Lopez, Mario Barone)

September 27, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto, Ontario
Attendance: 1,000
NSL All-Stars 1 (Frank Rosati 14:00)
Maritimo 2 (Angelo Rodrigues 20:00; 52:00)

October 1, 1968 Stanley Park, Toronto
NSL All-Stars 0
Canadian National Team 1 (Papadakis)
Line-up included Ted Hatzis (GK), Herculy Vaz, Ted Purdon, Bernardo Vargas, Iris deBrito

Bernardo Vargas and Iris deBrito from the Toronto Falcons guested for the All-Stars.

1968 NSL Results

Date
19/05/1968Hellas 1Sudbury Italia 1
Stadium:Stanley Park
Attendance:1200
Goalscorers:82:00 Dan Schmidt55:00 Anders Yrfelt
22/06/1968Sudbury Italia 1Toronto Hellas 0
Stadium:Sudbury
Attendance:
Goalscorers:83:00 Ferucio Deni

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