|
Seniority Rank |
Club Name |
Status |
Club Name Previous Season or Other Origin |
Colours Shirts/Shorts |
Field |
Years in the League |
|
1 |
Madison AFC |
Name Change |
Madison Thistle |
Red/Blue |
New Road, Madison |
12 |
|
2 |
North Branford |
|
|
Yellow/Black |
Totoket Valley Park, North Branford |
10 |
|
3 |
Cheshire SC |
|
|
Red/Red |
Quinnipiac Fields, Cheshire |
9 |
|
5 |
Wallingford Aniellos |
|
|
Blue/White |
Woodhouse Avenue, Wallingford |
9 |
|
6 |
Hamden Conte |
|
|
Red/Black |
Dock's Field, Hamden |
8.5 |
|
7 |
Waterbury Portuguese |
|
|
Blue/White |
Murray Park, Waterbury |
8 |
|
8 |
Milford Tuesday |
|
|
Blue/White |
Foran High School, Milford |
6.5 |
|
8 |
Wallingford Portuguese |
|
|
Red/Green |
Woodhouse Avenue, Wallingford |
6.5 |
|
9 |
West Haven |
|
|
Maroon/White |
Strong Stadium, West Haven |
5.5 |
|
10 |
New Haven Italians |
|
|
Blue/White |
Foran High School, Milford |
5 |
|
11 |
Glastonbury |
|
|
Yellow |
Recreation Park, Southington |
4 |
|
11 |
New Haven Portuguese |
|
|
Red/White |
Boulevard, New Haven |
4 |
|
12 |
Orange 3 Brothers |
Name Change |
Milford 3 Brothers |
Green/Green |
Peck's Place School, Orange |
2 |
|
12 |
SC Nutmeggers |
|
|
White |
High Plains Community Center, Orange |
2 |
|
13 |
Fairfield Celtic |
Name Change |
Fairfield Gaelic AC |
Green/White |
Roger Ludlowe High School, Fairfield |
1.5 |
Another year of major changes.
The second Annual General Meeting is held, this time successfully(!), at the Radisson Hotel in Cromwell in January. The members of the Executive Board also attended the Connecticut State Soccer Association AGM later that day, also at the Radisson.
Garry Archer is made League Secretary and Bruce Kelly takes over as Disciplinary Chairman.
With so many teams in the League, after much reflection and discussion it was decided to split it into Eastern and Western Divisions and therefore have play-offs for the Championship for the first time.
SASL founder and former League Commissioner Alfie Campbell was rumoured to be founding an Over-40 team in Guilford, possibly the first of its kind in Connecticut.
During pre-season, long-time member club Guilford split into two separate teams again after internal disputes and a battle for control of the club. Both factions wanted to be recognised as the official Guilford Soccer Club. The League was already setup to have eight teams in each of its Eastern and Western Divisions and that included only one Guilford club. After much investigation and many meetings the SASL Executive Board could not decide which team had the most right to play in the League and made the unusual decision of denying entry of both teams.
One team continued to be called Guilford Soccer Club, led by Ivan Oumov and Idi Akel, since they had maintained throughout that they were the original club and the other team, led by Melanie Barocas and Buster Haas, renamed themselves the Guilford Jaguars. Guilford and "The Jags" would take turns playing friendlies against the idle team from the now 7-team Eastern Division. The SASL Executive Board wanted to see if both clubs would satisfy requirements during the season for both clubs to be entered into the League for the 1991 season.
In the early Spring, Madison AFC, formerly Madison Thistle, and Glastonbury are the first SASL teams to compete in the USSF National Over-30 Cup for the 1989-90 edition. Glastonbury defeated Madison 4-3 in an exciting Connecticut Regional Final played in Southington. Glastonbury went on to represent Connecticut against representatives from another state in the next phase of the 1989-90 competition.
In the SASL's first ever play-offs in the Fall, Waterbury Portuguese defeated North Branford 6-2 in one semi-final and Hamden Conte defeated New Haven Portuguese after extra time and penalties in the other semi-final. Hamden Conte defeated Waterbury Portuguese 5-3 after extra time in the final to become the overall SASL Champions.