Los Angeles Lazers

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Los Angeles Lazers
Full name Los Angeles Lazers
Founded 1982
Ground The Forum,
Inglewood, California
(Capacity 15,893)
League Major Indoor Soccer League

The Los Angeles Lazers were a soccer team based out of Los Angeles that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1982 to 1989.

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[edit] History

Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) awarded a Los Angeles franchise to Jerry Buss on June 24, 1982. Buss had purchased the Philadelphia Fever and wanted to move it to southern California. MISL approved and the team was renamed the Lazers. As Buss also owned the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, he chose the name Lazers for his soccer team both as a pun on the scientific acronym LASER and to note their connection to the Lakers.

The Lazers folded in June 1989.

[edit] Arena

The Lazers played their home games in the The Forum in Inglewood, California.

[edit] Players

[edit] Coaches

[edit] Year-by-year

Year Record Regular Season Playoffs Avg. Attendance
1982-1983 8-40 7th Western Division Did not qualify 3,963
1983-1984 24-24 3rd Western Division First Round 4,405
1984-1985 24-24 3rd Western Division Quarterfinals 5,062
1985-1986 13-35 6th Western Division Did not qualify 4,770
1986-1987 16-36 6th Western Division Did not qualify 4,647
1987-1988 31-25 2nd Western Division 1st Round 5,879
1988-1989 21-27 6th Did not qualify 4,356

[edit] Honors

Coach of the Year

  • 1984-1985 Peter Wall
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