Professional Cup

Professional Cup
1992 Professional Cup
Tournament details
Host country	United States; Canada
Dates	July 22, 1992 –; September 19, 1992
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Colorado Foxes (1st title)
Runners-up	Tampa Bay Rowdies
Tournament statistics
Matches played	11
Goals scored	37 (3.36 per match)
Top scorer	Jean Harbor (5 goals)
	← 1990

The Professional Cup was an international soccer tournament that took place in 1992 and involved eight, professional clubs from three different leagues in North America; the American Professional Soccer League, the Canadian Soccer League, and the National Professional Soccer League.^[1] Although it was billed as "inaugural" this would be the only year that the tournament was played.

Overview

The tournament was originally scheduled to be played as a standard two-legged, aggregate format in every round, but after all three of the non-APSL teams were eliminated in the first round it was decided that the remaining rounds would be single match ties.^[2]^[3] The winning team was to receive approximately $26,800 and the runners-up, about $13,200.^[4]

Nine matches, including the Final, were played in the United States, and two matches were played in Canada. The participating teams were APSL sides: Colorado Foxes, Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Miami Freedom, San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, and Tampa Bay Rowdies; CSL sides: Montreal Supra and Vancouver 86ers, as well as the NPSL's Chicago Power.^[5] Although up to that point Chicago had been known only as an indoor team, in the summer of 1992 they formed an outdoor squad as well.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Colorado won the Professional Cup Final, 4–1, over Tampa Bay. The Foxes, who had already won the 1992 APSL regular season, would also go on to win the APSL title seven days later, thus completing a minor treble.^[9]

Match results

Bracket

First round				Semifinals			Final

APSL	Colorado Foxes	3	2

CSL	Vancouver 86ers	2	1
				APSL	Colorado Foxes	1

				APSL	San Francisco Bay Blackhawks	0
APSL	San Francisco Bay Blackhawks	2	3

NPSL	Chicago Power	0	2
							APSL	Colorado Foxes	4

							APSL	Tampa Bay Rowdies	1
APSL	Tampa Bay Rowdies	5	2

CSL	Montreal Supra	1	0
				APSL	Tampa Bay Rowdies	1

				APSL	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	0
APSL	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	2	3

APSL	Miami Freedom	1	1

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Dates • Location • Attendance
Tampa Bay Rowdies	7–1	Montreal Supra	5–1	2–0	August 1 • Tampa Stadium • 600^[10] August 12 • Stade Claude-Robillard • 924^[11]
Fort Lauderdale Strikers	5–2	Miami Freedom	2–1	3–1	August 8 • Colts Stadium • 1,152^[12] August 12 • Orange Bowl • 85^[13]
San Francisco Bay Blackhawks	5–2	Chicago Power	2–0	3–2	July 22 • Buck Shaw Stadium • 2,050^[14] August 19^[15]^[16]^[17] • Norris Stadium • (???)
Colorado Foxes	5–3	Vancouver 86ers	3–2	2–1	August 3 • Englewood Stadium • 368^[18] August 11 • Swangard Stadium • 3,083^[19]

Semifinals

September 4	Tampa Bay Rowdies	1–0	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	Tampa, Florida
	Charles 5' Sloan 82' (Gyau)	Report	Pittman 67'	Stadium: Tampa Stadium Attendance: 356 Referee: Zim Boules

September 5	Colorado Foxes	1–0	San Francisco Bay Blackhawks	Englewood, Colorado
	Diané 56'	Report		Stadium: Englewood Stadium