1997–98 National Soccer League

Statistics of National Soccer League in season 1997/1998.

Contents

Overview

It was performed in 14 teams, and South Melbourne won the championship.

Regular season

Pos Club P W D L GF GA Pts
1 South Melbourne 26 13 9 4 56 41 48
2 Carlton 26 12 9 5 44 24 45
3 Adelaide City 26 13 4 9 45 30 43
4 Sydney United 26 11 10 5 37 26 43
5 Marconi Stallions 26 12 7 7 33 25 43
6 Wollongong Wolves 26 13 3 10 51 33 42
7 Melbourne Knights 26 11 6 9 37 35 39
8 Perth Glory 26 10 6 10 35 40 36
9 Sydney Olympic 26 10 5 11 37 43 35
10 West Adelaide 26 10 4 12 32 38 34
11 Gippsland Falcons 26 8 7 11 28 36 31
12 Brisbane Strikers 26 6 5 15 23 40 23
13 Newcastle Breakers 26 4 9 13 30 50 21
14 Canberra Cosmos 26 3 8 15 29 56 17

Championship playoff

Grand Final

16 May 1998
20:00 AEST
South Melbourne 2 – 1 Carlton SC Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Eugene Brazzale
Anastasiadis  9'
Boutsianis  87'
(report) Stergiopoulos  78'
SOUTH MELBOURNE:
GK 1 Michael Petkovic
MF 2 Steve Iosifidis
DF 3 Fausto De Amicis
DF 5 Con Blatsis
MF 6 David Clarkson
MF 7 Steve Panopoulos
FW 9 Paul Trimboli (c)
MF 11 Bill Damianos
MF 15 Goran Lozanovski 74'
DF 16 Tansel Başer
FW 17 John Anastasiadis 85'
Substitutes:
FW 8 Vaughan Coveny 74'
FW 10 Michael Curcija
MF 12 Con Boutsianis 85'
MF 19 George Goutzioulis
Manager:
Ange Postecoglou

Joe Marston Medal: Fausto De Amicis

Assistant Referees:
Fourth Official:

CARLTON SC:
GK 1 Dean Anastasiadis
DF 2 Rob Trajkovski
DF 5 Sean Douglas (c)
MF 7 Krešimir Marušić
MF 10 Lupo Lapsansky
FW 11 Andrew Vlahos 65'
DF 12 Simon Colosimo
FW 14 John Markovski
DF 15 David Cervinski 78'
MF 17 Mark Atkinson
MF 23 Mark Bresciano
Substitutes:
MF 3 Marcus Stergiopoulos 78'
FW 9 Alex Josifovski
DF 18 David Della Rocca
FW 25 Adrian Cervinski 65'
Manager:
Eddie Krnčević

References