USA. NASL only. Before the season, New York, Toronto and Montreal were added. Team rosters were almost entirely made of foreign players from everywhere – only Oceania was not represented on continental basis – but there were no recognizable names at all. Here is a short list of those of some minor significance: perhaps Adolfo Gori (b. 1938, Italy) of Rochester Lancers had the stronger career before moving to North America – he played about 150 games for Juventus plus some for Brescia and SPAL. He had 1 cap for Italy. Dallas Tornado's goalkeeper Mirko Stojanovic (b. 1939, Yugoslavia), formerly of Crvena zvezda and Dinamo Zagreb, was the only player in the league appearing at World Cup finals – he was in the 1962 Yugoslavian team, but only as an unused reserve. He had 4 caps for his native country. Another goalkeeper – Konrad Kornek (b. 1937) of New York Cosmos – was the one with games for a national team: 15 matches for Poland. He played for Legia Warszawa and Odra Opole. Tibor Szalay Csikos (b. 1938, born in Czecholsovakia, but originally citizen of Hungary) had the most impressive CV: Austria Wien, Barcelona, Real Murcia, Besiktas. The Yugoslavs used to play a bit for well known domestic clubs: Dragan Popovic (b. 1941, St. Louis Stars)- Crvena zvezda and Hajduk Split; Milonja Kalicanin (b. 1938, St. Louis Stars) – Pristina and Besiktas (Istanbul); Josip Ognjanac (b. 1942, Montreal Olympique) – Crvena zvezda, Radnicki Nis, and Malmo FF of Sweden; Momcilo Gavric (b. 1938,Dallas Tornado) – OFK Beograd. Polish players also played for stronger local clubs before joining NASL: Kazimierz Frankiewicz (b. 1939, St. Louis Stars) – Zawysza Bydgoszcz, Lechia Gdansk, Legia Warszawa; Karol Kapcinski (b.1943, New York Cosmos) – Gornik Zabrze, Slask Wroclaw. And the Czech player of Montreal Olympique – Jiri Klaboch (b. 1936) – used to play for Bohemians Prague. Perhaps some players from Africa and the Caribbean islands had some appearances for the national teams of their original countries, but none was a current member. South Americans and Mexicans were generally anonimous players. As a whole, NASL was filled with not even second raters, but third rate players and North Americans were very few. Even the weird point system, used by NASL – Rochester Lancers finsihed the regular season with 141 points! - was not able to compensate for the low level of the games. G W T L GF GA PTS % Att. Northern Division Rochester Lancers 24 13 6 5 48 31 141 .666 5,871 New York Cosmos 24 9 5 10 51 55 117 .479 4,517Toronto Metros 24 5 9 10 32 47 89 .395 5,993 Montreal Olympique 24 4 5 15 29 59 65 .270 2,440 Southern Division Atlanta Chiefs 24 12 5 7 35 29 120 .604 4,275 Dallas Tornado 24 10 8 6 38 24 119 .583 3,326Washington Darts 24 8 10 6 36 34 111 .541 3,262 St.Louis Stars 24 6 5 13 37 47 86 .354 3,579Semi-finals: Dallas defeated Rochester 1-2(OT), 3-1, 2-1 (OT)
Atlanta defeated New York 0-1 (OT), 2-0 CHAMPIONSHIP: Dallas defeated Atlanta 1-2 (OT), 4-1, 2-0Atlanta Chiefs finished second.Dallas Tornado was the 1971 NASL champion.
