1975 Portland Timbers season explained

Club:	Portland Timbers
Season:	1975
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Manager:	Vic Crowe
Chairman:	John Gilbertson
Chrtitle:	President
Stadium:	Civic Stadium
League:	NASL
League Result:	Division: 1st Playoffs: Soccer Bowl '75
Cup1:	U.S. Open Cup
Cup1 Result:	Did not enter
League Topscorer:	Peter Withe (16 goals)
Season Topscorer:	Peter Withe (18 goals)
Highest Attendance:	League: 27,310 vs. SEA (Jul 26) All: 33,503 vs. STL (Aug 17)
Lowest Attendance:	6,918 vs. ROC (May 27)
Average Attendance:	League: 14,503 All: 17,274
American:	true
Nextseason:	1976

The 1975 Portland Timbers season was the inaugural season for the Portland Timbers, an expansion team in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. In the Timbers first year of existence, the club won the Western Division title while amassing more points than any other club in the league. In the playoffs, the Timbers needed overtime to get past the Seattle Sounders and then defeated the St. Louis Stars en route to a berth in Soccer Bowl '75. Portland lost the championship game 2 - 0 to fellow expansion side Tampa Bay Rowdies at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California on August 24.

Squad

The 1975 squad^[1]

North American Soccer League

See also: 1975 North American Soccer League season.

Regular season

Western Division standings

width=30	Pos	Club	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	GF	width=30	GA	width=30	GD	width=30	Pts
1	Portland Timbers	22	16	6	43	27	+16	138
2	Seattle Sounders	22	15	7	42	28	+14	129
3	Los Angeles Aztecs	22	12	10	42	33	+9	107
4	Vancouver Whitecaps	22	11	11	38	28	+10	99
5	San Jose Earthquakes	22	8	14	37	48	-11	83

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
Source:^[2]

League results

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
May 2, 1975	Seattle Sounders	H	0 - 1	6,913
May 7, 1975	Toronto Metros-Croatia	H	1 - 0	8,500	Withe
May 11, 1975	Denver Dynamos	A	1 - 3	4,267	Withe
May 16, 1975	Vancouver Whitecaps	A	2 - 0	7,815	Powell, Betts
May 27, 1975	Rochester Lancers	H	3 - 2 (OT)	6,918	Godfrey, Withe, Anderson
May 30, 1975	Chicago Sting	H	2 - 0	9,526	Withe, Anderson
June 7, 1975	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	3 - 2 (OT)	11,335	Day, Godfrey, Betts
June 14, 1975	San Jose Earthquakes	A	1 - 2	17,889	Kelly
June 18, 1975	Dallas Tornado	H	3 - 0	14,688	Powell, Betts, Kelly
June 21, 1975	San Antonio Thunder	H	1 - 0 (OT)	14,080	Anderson
June 27, 1975	Los Angeles Aztecs	A	2 - 1 (OT)	6,609	Withe (2)
June 28, 1975	San Jose Earthquakes	A	2 - 1	18,883	Withe, Dangerfield
July 3, 1975	Vancouver Whitecaps	H	2 - 1	18,278	Betts, Dangerfield
July 8, 1975	Los Angeles Aztecs	H	4 - 1	17,765	Withe, Betts, Kelly, Dangerfield
July 11, 1975	Hartford Bicentennials	A	3 - 1	2,582	Day, Withe, Betts
July 12, 1975	Boston Minutemen	A	1 - 2	2,800	Dangerfield
July 16, 1975	New York Cosmos	A	2 - 1	13,423	Godfrey, Withe
July 19, 1975	St. Louis Stars	A	3 - 2 (OT)	6,902	Lynch, McLaren, Withe
July 26, 1975	Seattle Sounders	H	2 - 1	27,310	Withe (2)
July 29, 1975	San Jose Earthquakes	H	3 - 2	23,003	Withe (2), Powell
August 2, 1975	Seattle Sounders	A	2 - 3 (OT)	17,925	Powell, Withe
August 9, 1975	Los Angeles Aztecs	A	0 - 1	10,231

Source:^[3]

Postseason

Playoff bracket

Bracket

Playoff results

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
August 12, 1975	Seattle Sounders	H	2 - 1 (OT)	31,523	Powell, Betts
August 17, 1975	St. Louis Stars	H	1 - 0	33,503	Withe
August 24, 1975	Tampa Bay Rowdies	N	0 - 2	17,009

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Portland Timbers rosters. North American Soccer League Jerseys. May 6, 2011.
2. Web site: The Year in American Soccer – 1975. American Soccer History Archives. May 6, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20151105121106/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1975.html. November 5, 2015. dead.
3. Web site: 1975 Portland Timbers. Timbers Fan Page. May 6, 2011.