This is a gallery of Media Guides for the old North American Soccer League, which was active from 1968 to 1984.
Virtually every club produced a high quality guide during the 17 seasons that the NASL existed, meaning a complete collection would involved hundreds of publications. In addition, the NASL also played four indoor soccer campaigns between 1979 and the league’s demise in 1984. Separate media guides exist for most indoor teams and seasons. The league itself also published a guide every season from 1969 to 1984. In 1968, The Sporting News published an Official Guide for the NASL in lieu of a league-published guide.
NASL publications from 1968 through 1973 and from the league’s final season of 1984 are all tough finds. Much more common (on e-Bay) are guides & programs from the 1974-1983 seasons.
A prominent collector split up his collection on e-Bay in early 2012. While most guides went in the typical range of $8 – $15 a piece, rare 1984 guides for the Golden Bay Earthquakes, San Diego Sockers and Toronto Blizzard all fetched in excess of $60 each.
1968
1969
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Took me years to do it, but I have every NASL league guide from 1971-1984, and many individual team guides.
I have every Tampa Bay Rowdies guide (1975-84), three of the four indoor NASL league guides and these team guides:
1975 – Chicago, Dallas, San Jose
1976 – Dallas
1978 – Dallas
1979 – San Jose
1980 – San Jose
1981 – Los Angeles, Tulsa
1982 – Jacksonville, San Diego, San Jose
1983 – Team America, Cosmos
1984 – San Diego
And a Cosmos indoor 1983-84 guide.
Just going ovr all your NASL guides programs etc. Had seasons tickets to the Whitecaps from 75 to 84. Then again from their entry into MLS. A lot of these guides looked familiar as i used to collect them also. I still have some down in my locker. Attended Soccer Bowls in Seattle, Portland, New York, and Vancouver. Great to see them again. Bob
hI, iM LOOKING FOR MEDIA GUIDES FROM THE LEAGUE
NOT FROM INDIVIDUAL TEAMS BUT FOR THE WHOLE LEAGUE
IF YOU HAVE ANY FOR SELLING PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THANKS A LOT
Hi Andres,
We often have those in our store, but none at the moment. (Inventory changes every day). For future reference, you can quickly get to all of our Outdoor Soccer memorabilia at this link:
https://www.ebay.com/str/funwhileitlasted/Soccer-Outdoor/_i.html?_storecat=381361010