Tacoma Stars (1983-1992)
January 22, 2013
Indoor soccer’s Tacoma Stars were the first tenants at the $44 million Tacoma Dome that opened in April 1983. The Stars were pretty much the closest thing that the city of Tacoma, Washington has had to a major professional sports franchise, the occasional Seattle Supersonics game excluded. Most years, the team was an also-ran. The exception was the winter of 1986-87, when the Stars featured two of the all-time greats of the indoor game: Steve Zungul, the six-time league MVP known as “The Lord of All Indoors” and the brilliant young Serbian midfielder Preki. The Stars raced out to the best regular season record in the league averaged over 10,000 fans per match at the Dome that winter.
