The 1991/92
National Soccer League season saw fourteen teams compete with
Adelaide City winning the championship after defeating
Melbourne Croatia in the grand final on a
penalty shootout 4-2 after the scores were locked at 0-0 after full-time and
extra time at
Olympic Park,
Melbourne in front of 15,463 fans.
Melbourne Croatia were named
premiers after finishing the home-and-away season on top of the table one point clear ahead of
Sydney Olympic. This was the only season
socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, strikers
Paul Agostino and
John Aloisi would compete in the
National Soccer League.
Bosnich, signed from
Manchester United, would make five appearances for his junior club
Sydney Croatia before heading back to
England to play for
Aston Villa.
Agostino, at age sixteen, would make seventeen appearances and score six goals with
West Adelaide before heading to
Switzerland to play for
BSC Young Boys and
John Aloisi would make one appearance for
Adelaide City before heading to
Standard Liège in
Belgium. Other significant signings included former
Hong Kong international
striker Tim Bredbury signing with
Sydney Olympic who would finish the season joint top goal scorer with fifteen goals, and Albanian
Fadil Muriqi signing with
Sydney Croatia, becoming the first ever Albanian to play in the
National Soccer League. This would be the final season in the
National Soccer League for
A.P.I.A. Leichhardt as they fell into financial troubles and went down to the
NSW Super League in 1993. ==Regular season==