1997–98 National Soccer League

NSL 1996-97
NSL 1996-97
League	National Soccer League
Sport	Association football
Duration	1997–98
Number of teams	14
NSL season
Champions	South Melbourne
Top scorer	Damian Mori (19)
National Soccer League seasons
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–98 National Soccer League season, was the 22nd season of the National Soccer League in Australia.

Overview

It was contested by 14 teams, and South Melbourne won the championship. First year Carlton SC competed.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Melbourne (C)	26	13	9	4	56	41	+15	48	Qualification for the Finals series
2	Carlton	26	12	9	5	44	24	+20	45
3	Adelaide City	26	13	4	9	45	30	+15	43
4	Sydney United	26	11	10	5	37	26	+11	43
5	Marconi Fairfield	26	12	7	7	33	25	+8	43
6	Wollongong Wolves	26	13	3	10	51	33	+18	42
7	Melbourne Knights	26	11	6	9	37	35	+2	39
8	Perth Glory	26	10	6	10	35	40	−5	36
9	UTS Olympic	26	10	5	11	37	43	−6	35
10	West Adelaide	26	10	4	12	32	38	−6	34
11	Gippsland Falcons	26	8	7	11	28	36	−8	31
12	Brisbane Strikers	26	6	5	15	23	40	−17	23
13	Newcastle Breakers	26	4	9	13	30	50	−20	21
14	Canberra Cosmos	26	3	8	15	29	56	−27	17

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Finals series

Bracket


Elimination Finals					Major/Minor semi-finals					Preliminary Final			Grand Final

													16 May 1998

					2	Carlton	1	0	1				South Melbourne	2

					1	South Melbourne	2	1	3	10 May 1998			Carlton	1

										2	Carlton	1
5	Marconi Fairfield	1	1	2
										5	Marconi Fairfield	0
4	Sydney United	0	0	0
					5	Marconi Fairfield			2

					6	Wollongong Wolves			1
6	Wollongong Wolves	3	2	5

3	Adelaide City	0	2	2

Marconi Fairfield 1-0 : 1-0 Sydney United
Wollongong Wolves 3-0 : 2-2 Adelaide City
Marconi Fairfield 2-1 Wollongong Wolves
Carlton 1-2 : 0-1 South Melbourne
Carlton 1-0 Marconi Fairfield

Grand Final

16 May 1998
20:00 AEST

South Melbourne	2 – 1	Carlton SC
Anastasiadis 9' Boutsianis 87'	(report)	Stergiopoulos 78'

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Eugene Brazzale


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


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

Australia - List of final tables (RSSSF)

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