1983–84 NASL Indoor season
| Season | 1983–84 |
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| Champions |
San Diego Sockers (2nd Title) |
| Premiers | San Diego Sockers |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Goals scored | 1,377 (12.29 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
 Steve Zungul(63 goals) |
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The 1983–84 North American Soccer League indoor season was the fourth and last in league history. The San Diego Sockers defeated the New York Cosmos for their third straight indoor title, having won the NASL Indoor title in 1981–82 and the MISL title in 1982–83.
As the NASL was struggling for life at this point, finding teams to play in the indoor league would be difficult. While San Diego, the Chicago Sting and the Golden Bay Earthquakes were committed to the league, filling out the ranks would be problematic. With the league making plain their desires to have both an indoor and outdoor element, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers decided to move to Minnesota for the 1984 NASL season due to a lack of suitable arenas in the local area.
The Tampa Bay Rowdies were unsure whether they would be able to play as previous owners had committed to play in the league and then sold the team, leaving the new owners in the lurch. The lack of a suitable arena also was an issue, eventually forcing games to be split among three sites. The Tulsa Roughnecks were only in the league thanks to a fundraiser that put $65,000 in the team's coffers, even though the team had won the outdoor Soccer Bowl just weeks earlier.
Despite the uncertainty, this would be the largest NASL Indoor season ever as a 32-game regular season, a best-of-three semifinal round and a best-of-five championship series were on the schedule. Also, the first (and only) All-Star Game in NASL history took place on February 8 at Chicago Stadium. The hometown Chicago Sting took on an All-Star team of the six other squads. Despite four goals from Chicago's Karl-Heinz Granitza, the All-Stars won 9–8.
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