Event | Soccer Bowl | ||||||
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Date | September 18, 1982 | ||||||
Venue | Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, California | ||||||
Man of the Match | Giorgio Chinaglia | ||||||
Referee | David Socha (United States) | ||||||
Attendance | 22,634 | ||||||
Soccer Bowl '82 was the championship final of the 1982 NASL season. The New York Cosmos advanced to the Soccer Bowl for the third consecutive year and took on the Seattle Sounders in a rematch of Soccer Bowl '77. The match was played on September 18, 1982, at Jack Murphy Stadium, in San Diego, California. New York won, 1–0, and were crowned the 1982 NASL champions. This was the Cosmos' fifth North American championship and fourth in the past six years.[1][2]
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