Season 1980–81 Premiers Chicago Sting Goals scored 1998 (11.68 per match) | Champions Edmonton Drillers Matches played 171 | |
Top goalscorer Karl-Heinz Granitza (42 goals) | ||
The 1980–81 season was the North American Soccer League's second indoor soccer season.
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Overview
A total of 19 of a possible 21 NASL teams participated. New York and Montreal (who was moving from Philadelphia) were the only hold-outs this indoor season. Just as the season was getting underway, the Jacksonville Tea Men relocated from New England. Teams played an 18-game regular season. The four Canadian teams were realigned into one division and forced to play only one another during the regular season. This was due to early season litigation which restricted NASL teams' travel between the U.S. and Canada. The Edmonton Drillers won the championship in a two-game finals-sweep of the Chicago Sting. This was the Drillers' first, and only, NASL indoor title.
Regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, GB = Games Behind 1st Place, % = Winning Percentage, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against
1st round
If a playoff series is tied after two games, a 15 minute, tie breaker mini-game is played.
#Scheduling conflicts at the Portland Coliseum forced both games to be played in Chicago.