The National Soccer League 1983 season was the seventh season of the
National Soccer League
The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its d ...
in
Australia
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. The champions were
St George
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, winning the title on the last day of the season from
Sydney City SC.
League table
Individual awards
*Player of the Year:
Joe Watson (
Sydney City)
*U-21 Player of the Year:
Oscar Crino
Oscar Crino (born 9 August 1962) is a former Australian international soccer player who played as a central midfielder. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Early life
Crino was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina a ...
(
South Melbourne)
*Top Scorer(s):
Doug Brown (
South Melbourne – 16 goals)
*Coach of the Year:
Frank Arok
Ferenc "Frank" Arok ( hu, Árok Ferenc; 20 January 1932 – 12 January 2021) was a Yugoslavian-Australian ethnic Hungarian association football player and coach.
Career
Arok played for FK Jedinstvo in Yugoslavia during the 1950s before coach ...
(
St George-Budapest
St George FC, commonly called Saints or Budapest, is a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in the St George district in the south of Sydney. The club was founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1957 as Budapest Club and by 1965 was rename ...
)
References
OzFootball Archives - 1983 NSL Season
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National Soccer League (Australia) seasons
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