2013–14 Major Indoor Soccer League season explained

Competition:	Major Indoor Soccer League
Season:	2013–14
Winners:	Missouri Comets
League Topscorer:	Ian Bennett (27 goals)
Biggest Home Win:	BAL 29-0 PEN (December 21)
Biggest Away Win:	MIS 28-7 STL (November 23) MIS 27-6 STL (February 27)
Highest Scoring:	MIS 26-21 STL (February 22)
Longest Wins:	Baltimore, 9 wins January 24, 2014 – March 2, 2014^[1]
Longest Losses:	Pennsylvania, 11 losses November 15th, 2013 – January 11, 2014
Highest Attendance:	8,910, BAL @ ROC (February 23)
Lowest Attendance:	922, SYR @ PEN (December 1)
Average Attendance:	4,658^[2]
Prevseason:	2012–13
Nextseason:	final season

The 2013–14 Major Indoor Soccer League season was the third under the United Soccer Leagues banner, fifth under the MISL name, and the sixth season overall. The season began on November 15 and concluded on March 2. Each team played a 20-game schedule.^[3] This was the final season for this third incarnation of the MISL. Six of the seven teams joined the Professional Arena Soccer League, later renamed Major Arena Soccer League.

News

On December 4, the MISL Board of Governors approved video review of three-point goals. The decision states: "Referees will be able to use the reviews to determine the position of the ball in relation to the 3-point arc when the ball was struck. Reviews will not be used to determine if the ball crossed the goal line." The first game the new system was available was the December 6 game between the Pennsylvania Roar and the Rochester Lancers.^[4]

Teams and arenas

New Teams

Team	City/Area	Arena	Joined	Head Coach
Pennsylvania Roar	Reading, Pennsylvania	Sovereign Center	2013	Eric Puls^[5]
St. Louis Ambush	St. Charles, Missouri (St. Louis area)	Family Arena^[6]	2013	Daryl Doran^[7]

Teams that left the MISL

Team	City/Area	Arena	Founded	Joined MISL	Left MISL	New League
Chicago Soul	Hoffman Estates, Illinois (Chicago area)	Sears Centre	2012	2012	2013	Folded
Wichita Wings	Park City, Kansas (Wichita area)		2011	2011	2013	Folded

Stadiums and locations

Baltimore Blast	Rochester Lancers	Pennsylvania Roar	Syracuse Silver Knights
Baltimore Arena	Blue Cross Arena	Santander Arena	War Memorial at Oncenter
Capacity: 11,286	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 11,200	Capacity: 6,195

Milwaukee Wave	Missouri Comets	St. Louis Ambush
U.S. Cellular Arena	Independence Events Center	Family Arena
Capacity: 9,500	Capacity: 5,800	Capacity: 9,643

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Missouri Comets	^[8]	^[9]	Offseason
Rochester Lancers	^[10]	^[11]	Offseason

Results table

Abbreviation and Color Key: Baltimore Blast – BAL • Milwaukee Wave – MIL • Missouri Comets – MIS • Pennsylvania Roar – PEN Rochester Lancers – ROC • St. Louis Ambush – STL • Syracuse Silver Knights – SYR Win Loss Home
Club	Match
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20<	-- Win: bgcolor=#DFE7FF	scoreLoss: bgcolor=#FFDFDF	scoreTie: bgcolor=#FFFDD0	score-->
	ROC	MIL	MIL	ROC	PEN	PEN	PEN	MIS	PEN	STL	SYR	SYR	ROC	SYR	STL	MIS	PEN	SYR	ROC	PEN
	19-8	0-8	10-12	12-0	21-2	29-0	24-0	14-6	16-5	14-2	8-9	10-5	17-2	12-10	12-6	18-4	23-6	10-9	22-5	18-2
	MIS	BAL	PEN	BAL	MIS	STL	SYC	STL	ROC	MIS	MIS	STL	STL	SYC	ROC	PEN	STL	MIS	STL	MIS
	23-21 (OT)	8-0	21-4	12-10	6-15	24-4	20-10	13-11	28-12	4-22	16-4	21-9	19-12	15-13 (OT)	15-7	30-4	20-9	9-15	16-12	4-9
	MIL	STL	STL	MIL	STL	SYC	ROC	BAL	ROC	SYC	PEN	MIL	MIL	STL	BAL	PEN	STL	MIL	STL	MIL
	21-23 (OT)	28-7	12-10 (OT)	15-6	24-13	15-18	19-17	6-14	11-9 (OT)	8-11	13-5	22-4	4-16	26-2	4-18	24-4	26-21	15-9	27-6	9-4
	SYR	STL	MIL	SYR	ROC	BAL	BAL	ROC	BAL	BAL	MIS	STL	ROC	SYR	MIS	MIL	ROC	BAL	SYR	BAL
	7-18	4-17	4-21	9-10	2-11	2-21	0-29	5-10	0-24	5-16	5-13	16-0	8-24	13-24	4-24	4-30	2-18	6-23	7-24	2-18
	BAL	SYR	SYR	PEN	BAL	STL	SYR	PEN	MIS	STL	MIS	MIL	SYR	PEN	BAL	MIL	SYR	PEN	BAL	SYR
	8-19	8-21	8-20	11-2	0-12	16-7	7-10	10-5	17-19	12-14	9-11 (OT)	12-28	16-14	24-8	2-17	7-15	10-17	18-2	5-22	16-17
	PEN	MIS	MIS	SYR	ROC	MIS	MIL	SYR	MIL	ROC	BAL	PEN	MIS	MIL	MIL	BAL	MIL	MIS	MIS	MIL
	17-4	7-28	10-12 (OT)	10-6	7-16	13-24	4-24	14-12	11-13	14-12	2-14	0-16	2-26	9-21	12-19	6-12	9-20	21-26	6-27	12-16
	PEN	ROC	ROC	PEN	STL	ROC	MIS	STL	MIL	MIS	ROC	BAL	BAL	PEN	BAL	MIL	ROC	BAL	PEN	ROC
	18-7	21-8	20-8	10-9	6-10	10-7	18-15	12-14	10-20	11-8	14-16	9-8	5-10	24-13	10-12	13-15 (OT)	17-10	9-10	24-7	17-16

MISL published schedule and results.^{[12] [13]}

Standings

Team
1	Baltimore Blast	20	17	3	---	.850	309	101	9-1	8-2
2	Milwaukee Wave	20	16	4	1	.800	324	203	8-2	8-2
3	Missouri Comets	20	14	6	3	.700	329	217	7-3	7-3
4	Syracuse Silver Knights	20	12	8	5	.600	278	223	7-3	5-5
5	Rochester Lancers	20	6	14	11	.300	216	280	4-6	2-8
6	St. Louis Ambush	20	4	16	13	.200	186	348	3-7	1-9
7	Pennsylvania Roar	20	1	19	16	.050	105	375	1-9	0-10

Updated to matches played on 3/2/2014^[14]

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Games	2pt Goals	3pt Goals	Assists	Points
1	Leo Gibson	Missouri Comets	20	21	3	25	76
2	Kenardo Forbes	Syracuse Silver Knights	20	19	5	14	67
3	Ian Bennett	Milwaukee Wave	20	23	4	6	64
4	Marcio Leite	Milwaukee Wave	20	18	1	22	61
5	Machel Millwood	Syracuse Silver Knights	20	17	1	21	58
6	Vahid Assadpour	Missouri Comets	16	18	2	15	57
7	Mike Lookingland	Baltimore Blast	20	13	4	18	56
8	Nick Perera	Milwaukee Wave	19	16	2	13	51
9	Carlos Muñoz	Milwaukee Wave	17	14	5	6	49
10	Tony Donatelli	Baltimore Blast	20	18	1	9	48

Last updated on March 4, 2014. Source: MISL.com Statistics - Total Points

Top 2pt Goal Scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Games	2pt Goals
1	Ian Bennett	Milwaukee Wave	20	23
2	Leo Gibson	Missouri Comets	20	21
3	Kenardo Forbes	Syracuse Silver Knights	20	19
4	Tony Donatelli	Baltimore Blast	20	18
	Marcio Leite	Milwaukee Wave	20	18
	Vahid Assadpour	Missouri Comets	16	18
7	Machel Millwood	Syracuse Silver Knights	20	17
8	Gary Boughton	Rochester Lancers	19	16
	Nick Perera	Milwaukee Wave	19	16
10	Slaviša Ubiparipović	Syracuse Silver Knights	17	15

Last updated on March 2, 2014. Source: MISL.com Statistics - Total Points

Playoffs

The MISL Playoffs began with the semifinals, featuring the No. 1 and No. 4 seeds and the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds meeting in home-and-home series with a 15-minute mini game to decide the series following the second game if needed. The championship followed the same format. The higher seed having the option to choose which game it hosts.

Semi-finals

Game 1

Game 2

Mini-Game Tie Breaker

MISL Finals

Game 1

Game 2

Mini-Game Tie Breaker

Awards

Individual awards

^[15]

Award	Name	Team
MVP	Mike Lookingland	Baltimore Blast
Coach of the Year	Danny Kelly	Baltimore Blast
Rookie of the Year	Odaine Sinclair	St. Louis Ambush
Defender of the Year	Mike Lookingland	Baltimore Blast
Goalkeeper of the Year	William Vanzela	Baltimore Blast
Championship MVP	Brian Harris	Missouri Comets

All-League First Team

^[16]

Name	Position	Team
Mike Lookingland	D	Baltimore Blast
Nelson Santana	D	Syracuse Silver Knights
Kenardo Forbes	M/F	Syracuse Silver Knights
Leo Gibson	M/F	Missouri Comets
Marcio Leite	M/F	Milwaukee Wave
William Vanzela	GK	Baltimore Blast

All-League Second Team

^[17]

Name	Position	Team
Brian Harris	D	Missouri Comets
Bozidar Jelovac	D	Syracuse Silver Knights
Vahid Assadpour	M/F	Missouri Comets
Ian Bennett	M/F	Milwaukee Wave
Machel Millwood	M/F	Syracuse Silver Knights
Marcel Feenstra	GK	Milwaukee Wave

All-Rookie Team

^[17]

Name	Position	Team
Chad Vandegriffe	D	St. Louis Ambush
Tony Walls	D	Milwaukee Wave
Odaine Sinclair	M/F	St. Louis Ambush
Max Touloute	M/F	Missouri Comets
Diego Zuniga	M/F	Baltimore Blast
Scott Krotee	GK	Pennsylvania Roar

Notes and References

1. Web site: Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). pointstreak.com. 8 January 2017.
2. Web site: Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). pointstreak.com. 8 January 2017.
3. Web site: MISL Announces 2013-14 Schedule. MISL. September 16, 2013. September 18, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131006030705/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/756489.html. October 6, 2013. dead. mdy-all.
4. Web site: United Soccer Leagues (USL) . 2013-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131209200556/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/773780.html . 2013-12-09 . dead .
5. Web site: Roar Name Puls Head Coach . MISL . August 5, 2013 . August 5, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130808152712/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/744525.html . August 8, 2013 .
6. News: Mark . Schlinkmann . . Indoor soccer to return to Family Arena in St. Charles . June 12, 2013 . November 19, 2014.
7. Web site: Coaching Staff. St. Louis Ambush . June 15, 2013.
8. News: Vlatko Andonovski will coach both FC Kansas City and Comets . Kansas City Star . August 29, 2013 . August 30, 2012.
9. Web site: Comets Appoint Andonovski As Coach . MISL . August 29, 2013 . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223004733/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/751531.html . February 23, 2014 .
10. Web site: Lancers Name Hesch As Coach . MISL . October 12, 2012 . October 15, 2012 . https://archive.today/20130208233424/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/670966.html . February 8, 2013 . dead . mdy-all .
11. Web site: Rife Named Coach Of Lancers . MISL . September 13, 2013 . September 15, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131015185833/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/756053.html . October 15, 2013 .
12. Web site: United Soccer Leagues . MISL Announces 2013-14 Schedule . 2013-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006030705/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/756489.html . 2013-10-06 . dead .
13. Web site: Schedule/Results. uslsoccer.com. 8 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20150207061230/http://uslpro.uslsoccer.com/schedules/index_E.html. 2015-02-07. dead.
14. Web site: . MISL Standings .
15. Web site: MISL Award Winners Announced . 2014-03-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140314031844/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/794403.html . 2014-03-14 . dead .
16. Web site: All-League, Rookie Teams Announced . 2014-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212431/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/793759.html . 2014-03-12 . dead .
17. Web site: All-League, Rookie Teams Announced . 2014-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130316122149/http://misl.uslsoccer.com/home/702408.html . 2013-03-16 . dead .