Chicago Sting · 1979 NASL

Chicago Sting, 1979

Record

team GP W L pts gf ga ppg gf/ga
Chicago Sting 30 16 14 159 70 62 5.30 1.13

Games

date season team score team venue referee attendance sources
Aug. 25, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 0 - 1 San Diego Sockers Soldier Field 15379 1
Aug. 22, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 0 - 2 San Diego Sockers Qualcomm Stadium 11561 1
Aug. 18, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 0 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Lockhart Stadium 13691 1
Aug. 15, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 0 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Soldier Field 10019 1
Aug. 11, 1979 1979 Atlanta Chiefs 0 - 2 Chicago Sting Soldier Field 8011 1
Aug. 8, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 0 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Soldier Field 8612 1
Aug. 5, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 2 Tulsa Roughnecks Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman… 16105 1
July 31, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 1 Memphis Rogues Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium 5248 1
July 28, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 4 Dallas Tornado Ownby Stadium 10112 1
July 25, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 3 San Jose Earthquakes Soldier Field 5734 1
July 21, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 2 Tampa Bay Rowdies Soldier Field 11509 1
July 18, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 1 Memphis Rogues Soldier Field 6325 1
July 14, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 2 Tulsa Roughnecks Soldier Field 7430 1
July 11, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 4 - 4 (SO) Minnesota Kicks Metropolitan Stadium 23073 1
July 7, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 5 - 5 (SO) Detroit Express Silverdome 12486 1
July 4, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Lockhart Stadium 19850 1
June 30, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 4 Minnesota Kicks Soldier Field 6818 1
June 27, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 2 San Diego Sockers Soldier Field 7672 1
June 23, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 4 San Jose Earthquakes Spartan Stadium 14007 1
June 20, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 0 Edmonton Drillers Soldier Field 5202 1
June 16, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 1 Philadelphia Fury Soldier Field 7167 1
June 9, 1979 1979 Atlanta Chiefs 4 - 1 Chicago Sting Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 5037 1
June 6, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 5 - 1 Portland Timbers Providence Park 7621 1
June 1, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 2 San Diego Sockers Qualcomm Stadium 9527 1
May 28, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 3 - 1 New York Cosmos Soldier Field 21127 1
May 26, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 0 Detroit Express Soldier Field 5124 1
May 20, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 1 - 2 Houston Hurricane Astrodome 3701 1
May 16, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 0 - 1 New England Tea Men Foxboro Stadium 5106 1
May 12, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 3 Dallas Tornado Soldier Field 4244 1
May 6, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 1 Toronto Blizzard Varsity Stadium 5206 1
April 28, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 5 - 2 Houston Hurricane Soldier Field 5430 1
April 14, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting 2 - 2 (SO) Vancouver Whitecaps Soldier Field 10130 1
April 7, 1979 1979 Chicago Sting (SO) 1 - 1 Philadelphia Fury Veterans Stadium 5226 1
March 30, 1979 1979 California Surf 1 - 2 Chicago Sting Anaheim Stadium 12543 1

Player statistics

player gp g a
Tony Chursky 14 0 0
Mike Mahoney 3 0 0
Clive Griffiths 28 0 0
Bruce Wilson 30 0 4
Derek Spalding 23 7 3
Horst Blankenburg 21 0 0
Arno Steffenhagen 1 0 0
Lothar Skala 9 0 0
Gene Strenicer 20 2 3
Luigi Martini 7 0 3
Lucas Moripe 1 0 0
Jorgen Kristensen 30 4 22
Peter Notaro 0 0 0
Trevor Fredericks 0 0 0
Karl-Heinz Granitza 30 20 10
Tasso Koutsoukos 0 0 0
Charlie Fajkus 19 2 5
Jado Hasanbegovic 0 0 0
Thomas Sjoberg 17 13 4
Steve Long 12 1 1
Gerry Ingram 2 0 1
Paul Coffee 17 0 0
Stefan Szefer 6 1 0
Dick Advocaat 28 3 8
Bret Hall 5 0 0
Wim van Hanegem 27 6 7
Peter Ressel 28 10 18

Where the appearances came from

United States: 41 games, 10.8%United States: 41 games, 10.8%Germany: 52 games, 13.8%Canada: 44 games, 11.6%Wales: 28 games, 7.4%Scotland: 23 games, 6.1%Netherlands: 27 games, 7.1%Hungary: 20 games, 5.3%Denmark: 30 games, 7.9%Denmark: 30 games, 7.9%Sweden: 17 games, 4.5%Zaire: 12 games, 3.2%England: 5 games, 1.3%Italy: 7 games, 1.9%Italy: 7 games, 1.9%Italy: 7 games, 1.9%Italy: 7 games, 1.9%
  • 25% and over
  • 10-25%
  • 5-10%
  • 2-5%
  • under 2%
Games played by country of birth. 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 birth
countrygamesshare
not recorded 72 19.0%
Germany 52 13.8%
Canada 44 11.6%
United States 41 10.8%
Denmark 30 7.9%
Wales 28 7.4%
Netherlands 27 7.1%
Scotland 23 6.1%
Hungary 20 5.3%
Sweden 17 4.5%
Zaire 12 3.2%
Italy 7 1.9%
England 5 1.3%

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