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1975 Season

1975 National Soccer League

President: Joe Piccininni
Secretary: Ivan Habus

The NSL also operated with 21 clubs. The clubs were divided into two divisions, a First Division and a Second Division.

Referees

Referee-in-chief: Steve Sohuyko

Referees included Bill Bouwmeester (Chatham, Ontario), Peter Johnson (Windsor, Ontario) Nevio Novacco and Phil Clarke (London, Ontario)

Division 1

Review of the season

On February 5, 1975 the NASL member clubs approved the merger of Prosoccer Ltd, owners of the Toronto Metros, with Toronto Croatia. The team name was to remain Toronto Metros but the corporate name was changed to Toronto Metros Croatia Soccer Club Ltd from Prosoccer Ltd. This meant in effect that the strong Croatia team in the NSL moved to the NASL.

After the season Hamilton City moved to Welland to become the Welland Lions Croatia. Homer changed their name to Panhellenic.

Final standings

GPWLTGFGAPts
Toronto Italia3825 211 98 3361
First Portuguese3826 7 5 79 3557
Homer3824 8 6 95 3654
Serbian White Eagles3823 8 7105 3053
Macedonia382210 6 74 2950
Hamilton Croatia381712 9 60 5743
Hamilton City381517 6 63 5736
London City381316 9 68 7235
Toronto Croatia381121 6 40 5728
Hamilton Italo-Canadians38 827 3 4610919

Leading goalscorers:                             
1. Momcilo Stojanovic (Serbian White Eagles) 41 goals   
 
Leading goalkeeper:
1. Djordi Dimovski (Macedonia)
 
Rookie of the Year:
Robert Iarusci (Toronto Italia)

Division 2

Review of the season

New clubs Windsor Stars and Montreal Castors invested heavily in their teams. After winning 12 games in a row Montreal Castors lost at home to Toronto Italia on August 31 in front of 4,000 fans.

In October 1975 both Kitchener Srbija and Melita were suspended for one year, until November 1976, for making payments to amateur players. Larry Gilmour was the Kitchener amateur that received money for playing.  

Final standings

GPWLTGFGAPts
Windsor Stars3021 5 4812346
Montreal Castors3021 8 1653043
Oakville United3018 8 4512940
St. Catharines Heidelberg301312 5424431
Srbija Kitchener30 914 7445625
Ottawa Tigers30 818 4424520
Ontario Selects30 818 4244920
Toronto Hungaria30 718 5376419
Toronto Ukraina30 321 6187912
Toronto Polonia30 423 3138811
Melita30 225 317117 7

Second Division Leading goalscorer

PlayerGpdGls
1.

Second Division Leading goalkeeper

GoalkeeperGpdGAGAA.
1. Dimitrios Sirigos (Windsor Stars)3022

Second Division Rookie of the Year

Ed Dickson (Windsor Stars)

Play-offs semi-finals


October 12, 1975 Windsor Stadium, Windsor
Attendance: 1,800
Windsor Stars 7
Oakville United 1

Windsor Stars qualified for Division 2 finals
 
Montreal Castors forfeited their series to St. Catharines Heidelberg.
This due to injuries and import players returning home.

St. Catharines Heidelberg qualified for Division 2 finals


 
Division 2 Finals (Best-of-two)

October 18, 1975 St. Catharines
St. Catharines Heidelberg 2
Windsor Stars 1
 
October 19, 1975 Windsor Stadium, Windsor
Attendance: 1,000
Windsor Stars 2
St. Catharines Heidelberg 2
 
St. Catharines Heidelberg won series 4-3

National Soccer League Cup (incomplete)

First round

May 11, 1975 Windsor Stadium, Windsor, Ontario
Attendance:
Referee: Bill Bouwmeester
Windsor Stars 1 (Jair DaCosta – penalty)
First Portuguese 2 (Jorge Felix, Eraldo Barros)
Windsor Stars outshot First Portuguese 25-17

June 11, 1975
Toronto Croatia 3
Oakville United 0

XX vs XX

Second round

September 10, 1975
Serbian White Eagles 1
St Catharines Heidelberg 0

September 14, 1975
Toronto Croatia 3
Montreal Castors 1

Final

XX vs XX

Exhibition games

July 2, 1975 Varsity Stadium, Toronto
Attendance: 10,000
Homer 1
Italian Military XI 0

July 6, 1975 Windsor Stadium, Windsor
Attendance: 4,000
Windsor Stars 0
Italian Military XI 3
Read about the match here

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