Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)

The Tampa Bay Rowdies were a professional American football team from Tampa, Florida. The team played in the North American Soccer League until its dissolution. Subsequently, the Rowdies was in various other leagues is home to final resolution in 1993.

History

The Tampa Bay Rowdies emerged during the 1975 enlargement of the NASL to 20 teams. Already in its first season, the team dominated their Conference and reached after wins over Toronto Metros - Croatia and Miami Toros the final. There they defeated the Portland Timbers 2-0 and won the title. 1978 and 1979 has again succeeded in each of the finals, New York Cosmos, respectively, the Vancouver Whitecaps sat there but by. Parallel to the regular NASL seasons took the team from 1979 also at the hall of the League Cup, where she immediately won the tournament again. In 1982, they lost there also the final. With the beginning of the 1980s left the team 's success and she could no longer repeatedly qualify for the championship finals of the NASL.

After the dissolution of the League in 1985, the Tampa Bay Rowdies came from 1986, first in the National Professional Soccer League game before they took part in the championship of the American Soccer League in 1988. In 1992, the team the championship game, but had to concede defeat to the Colorado Foxes. In the following season the teams met each other already in the semifinals, the 0-1 defeat was the last competitive match of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, which subsequently dissolved.