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1991–92 National Soccer League

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Sport
  
Association football

Champions
  
Adelaide City

Champion
  
Adelaide City FC

Season champion
  
Adelaide City FC

Duration
  
1991-92

Start date
  
1991

Number of teams
  
14

Top scorers
  
Tim Bredbury, Kimon Taliadoros

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1989–90 National Soccer League

The 1991–92 National Soccer League season, was the 16th season of the National Soccer League in Australia.

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Overview

The 1991/92 National Soccer League season saw fourteen teams compete with Adelaide City winning the championship after defeating Melbourne Croatia in the grand final on a penalty shootout 4-2 after the scores were locked at 0-0 after full-time and extra time at Olympic Park, Melbourne in front of 15,463 fans. Melbourne Croatia were named premiers after finishing the home-and-away season on top of the table one point clear ahead of Sydney Olympic.

This was the only season future socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, strikers Paul Agostino and John Aloisi would compete in the National Soccer League. Bosnich, signed from Manchester United, would make five appearances for his junior club Sydney Croatia before heading back to England to play for Aston Villa.Agostino, at age sixteen, would make seventeen appearances and score six goals with West Adelaide before heading to Switzerland to play for BSC Young Boys and John Aloisi would make one appearance for Adelaide City before heading to Standard Liege in Belgium. Other significant signings included former Hong Kong international striker Tim Bredbury signing with Sydney Olympic who would finish the season joint top goal scorer with fifteen goals.

This would be the final season in the National Soccer League for A.P.I.A. Leichhardt as they fell into financial troubles and went down to the NSW Super League in 1993.

Regular season

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Individual awards

  • Player of the Year: Josip Biskic (Melbourne Croatia)
  • U-21 Player of the Year: Kevin Muscat (Heidelberg United)
  • Top Scorer(s): Tim Bredbury (Sydney Olympic) and Kimon Taliadoros (South Melbourne) – 15 goals
  • Coach of the Year: David Ratcliffe (Wollongong City)
  • References

    1991–92 National Soccer League Wikipedia