North American Soccer League · United States · level 1

1969

Honors
champion Kansas City Spurs
mvp Pepe Fernandez
golden boot Kaizer Motaung

40 games 4.55 goals / game 2,930 avg. attendance closest-club map

Standings

team GP W T L pts gf ga ppg gf/ga
Kansas City Spurs 16 10 4 2 110 53 28 6.88 1.89
Atlanta Chiefs 16 11 3 2 109 46 20 6.81 2.30
Dallas Tornado 16 8 2 6 82 32 31 5.13 1.03
St. Louis Stars 16 3 2 11 47 24 47 2.94 0.51
Baltimore Bays 16 2 1 13 42 27 56 2.63 0.48

Season leaders

complete stats

Goals

  1. Kaizer Motaung 16
  2. Jorge Benítez 15
  3. Ilija Mitic 11
  4. Ademar Saccone 9
  5. Alphonsius Stoffels 8
  6. Emment Kapengwe 8
  7. Manfred Seissler 8
  8. Pete Millar 8
  9. Freddie Mwila 7
  10. Tommy Ferguson 7

Assists

  1. Alphonsius Stoffels 7
  2. Emment Kapengwe 6
  3. Everald Cummings 6
  4. Manfred Seissler 6
  5. Pepe Fernandez 6
  6. Jorge Benítez 5
  7. Ilija Mitic 4
  8. Kaizer Motaung 4
  9. Kirk Apostolidis 2
  10. Pat McBride 2

Appearances

  1. Janos Hanek 24
  2. Dragan Popović 23
  3. Ademar Saccone 16
  4. Alphonsius Stoffels 16
  5. Kaizer Motaung 16
  6. Manfred Seissler 16
  7. Pepe Fernandez 16
  8. Peter Short 16
  9. Kirk Apostolidis 15
  10. Humberto Arrieta 14

Most recent games

all games

date season team score team venue referee attendance sources
Aug. 31, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 3 - 1 St. Louis Stars Francis Field 3284 1
Aug. 30, 1969 1969 Baltimore Bays 2 - 6 Dallas Tornado P.C. Cobb Stadium — 1
Aug. 29, 1969 1969 Baltimore Bays 0 - 2 Kansas City Spurs Kansas City Municipal Stadium 5621 1
Aug. 25, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 1 - 1 Kansas City Spurs Kansas City Municipal Stadium — 1
Aug. 24, 1969 1969 Baltimore Bays 1 - 2 St. Louis Stars Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) — 1
Aug. 22, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 5 - 2 St. Louis Stars Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 4194 1
Aug. 17, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 4 - 3 St. Louis Stars Francis Field 1745 1
Aug. 17, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 4 - 0 Baltimore Bays Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) — 1
Aug. 16, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 4 - 2 Baltimore Bays Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) 200 1
Aug. 13, 1969 1969 Kansas City Spurs 5 - 0 St. Louis Stars Kansas City Municipal Stadium 5359 1
Aug. 10, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 1 - 0 St. Louis Stars Francis Field 1642 1
Aug. 10, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 4 - 2 Baltimore Bays Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 3051 1
Aug. 9, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 3 - 2 Kansas City Spurs P.C. Cobb Stadium 3953 1
Aug. 6, 1969 1969 Kansas City Spurs 3 - 3 St. Louis Stars Kansas City Municipal Stadium 2711 1
Aug. 3, 1969 1969 Kansas City Spurs 3 - 1 St. Louis Stars Francis Field 2533 1
Aug. 2, 1969 1969 Baltimore Bays 3 - 7 Kansas City Spurs Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) 300 1
Aug. 2, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 1 - 0 Dallas Tornado Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium — 1
July 26, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 2 - 1 St. Louis Stars P.C. Cobb Stadium 2035 1
July 26, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 1 - 1 Kansas City Spurs Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 2000 1
July 20, 1969 1969 Kansas City Spurs 3 - 2 St. Louis Stars Francis Field 1956 1
July 20, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 1 - 2 Dallas Tornado Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium — 1
July 19, 1969 1969 Baltimore Bays 2 - 0 Dallas Tornado Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) — 1
July 16, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 2 - 3 Kansas City Spurs Kansas City Municipal Stadium 4176 1
July 12, 1969 1969 Atlanta Chiefs 5 - 1 Dallas Tornado P.C. Cobb Stadium — 1
July 5, 1969 1969 Dallas Tornado 2 - 5 Kansas City Spurs P.C. Cobb Stadium 2296 1

Awards

award winner
All-Star Team Art Welch
All-Star Team Pepe Fernandez
All-Star Team Ilija Mitic
All-Star Team Emment Kapengwe
All-Star Team William Quiros
All-Star Team Manfred Seissler
All-Star Team Leonel Conde
All-Star Team Kirk Apostolidis
All-Star Team Kaizer Motaung
All-Star Team John Borodiak
All-Star Team John Best
All-Star Team Joe Puls
Champion Kansas City Spurs
MVP Pepe Fernandez
Rookie of the Year Kaizer Motaung

Where the appearances came from

Uruguay: 32 games, 9.8%United States: 27 games, 8.3%United States: 27 games, 8.3%England: 29 games, 8.9%Montenegro: 23 games, 7.1%Zambia: 9 games, 2.8%Bermuda: 14 games, 4.3%Scotland: 8 games, 2.5%South Africa: 16 games, 4.9%Poland: 13 games, 4.0%Netherlands: 16 games, 4.9%Greece: 9 games, 2.8%
  • 25% and over
  • 10-25%
  • 5-10%
  • 2-5%
  • under 2%
Games played by country of origin. Each country is shaded by its share of the minutes; the bands are fixed, so one season can be compared with another. Hover or focus a country for its figures, and read the table below for all of them. A country too small to draw at this crop is marked with a dot.
games by country of origin
countrygamesshare
not recorded 118 36.2%
Uruguay 32 9.8%
England 29 8.9%
United States 27 8.3%
Montenegro 23 7.1%
Netherlands 16 4.9%
South Africa 16 4.9%
Bermuda 14 4.3%
Poland 13 4.0%
Yugoslavia 12 3.7%
Greece 9 2.8%
Zambia 9 2.8%
Scotland 8 2.5%

No minutes are recorded here, so the shares are games played. Totals are summed from what the record holds — see the coverage note.