Sidekicks Opponents: Cleveland Crunch

Cleveland Crunch/Force

1988-96	1996-98	1998-2000	2001

2002-03 (Road)	2002-03 Home	2002-03 small logo

General Info

The Cleveland Crunch MISL franchise was awarded to on February 20, 1989. The Crunch changed their name to the Force on August 23, 2002.

Arena

Home Arenas:	Richfield Coliseum	CSU Convocation Center
Capacity:	17,217	13,610
Field Dimensions:	200 x 85	185 x 78

Ownership

1989-unkown	George Hoffman and Stuart Lichter
December 10, 1999-present	Richard Dietrich, et all

Coaching

1989-December 20, 1990	Kai Haaskivi
December 20, 1990-1992	Trevor Dawkins
1992-95	Gary Hindley
1995-2001	Bruce Miller
remainider of 2001-02 season	George Fernandez¹
2001-October 16, 2002	Mike Pilger
October 16, 2002-March 1, 2004	Andy Schmetzer¹
March 1, 2004-current	Omid Namazi¹

¹-interim coach. Schmetzer was named permanent Head Coach on May 7, 2003.

Team Record

	M(I)SL	NPSL	new-MISL	Total
Regular Season	49-56	230-134	50-49²	329-239
Playoffs	8-11	42-30	0-2	50-43
Grand Total	57-67	272-164	50-51	379-282

²-Cleveland was granted 2 wins by forfeit during the 2003-04 season.

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Regular Season Comparison

	Home	Richfield	CSU	Season	Overtime	1 Goal Games
1989-90	2-1	2-2		4-3	1-0	2-2
1990-91	2-2	2-1		4-3	1-0	3-1
1991-92	4-0	0-3		4-3	0-0	3-1
2002-03	1-1		0-2	1-3	0-1	0-1
2003-04	1-1		0-2	1-2	0-0	0-2
Totals	10-5	4-6	0-3	14-15	2-1	8-8

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Regular Season Month By Month

	Home	Richfield	CSU	Total	Overtime	1-Goal Games
October	0-1		0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1
November	2-0	0-2	0-0	2-2	0-0	2-0
December	3-0	1-0	0-0	4-0	0-0	1-0
January	2-0	1-2	0-1	3-3	1-0	2-1
February	3-0	1-1	0-2	4-3	1-1	2-3
March	0-3	1-1	0-1	1-4	0-0	1-2
April	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-1
Totals	10-5	4-6	0-4	14-15	2-1	8-8

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Day of Week Comparison

	Home	Richfield	CSU	Total	Overtime	1-Goal Games
Sunday	2-2	0-2	0-3	2-7	0-1	0-5
Monday	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
Tuesday	0-1	1-0	0-0	1-1	1-0	1-0
Wednesday	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-2	0-0	0-2
Thursday	4-0	0-0	0-0	4-0	1-0	3-0
Friday	3-1	2-2	0-1	5-4	0-0	3-1
Saturday	1-0	1-1	0-0	2-1	0-0	1-0
Totals	10-5	4-6	0-4	14-15	2-1	8-8

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Playoff Comparison

	Home	Away	Season	Overtime	1 Goal Games
1991-92	3-0	1-2	4-2	2-2	2-2
2003-04	1-0	0-0	1-0	0-0	0-0
Totals	4-0	1-2	5-2	2-2	2-2

Overall Record

	Home	Richfield	CSU	Overall	Overtime	1 Goal Games
Regular Season	10-5	4-6	0-4	14-15	2-1	8-7
Playoffs	4-0	1-2		5-2	2-2	2-2
Totals	14-5	5-8	0-4	19-17	4-3	10-9

Attendance

Regular Season

Season	Dallas Total	Dallas Average	Richfield Total	Richfield Average	CSU Total	CSU Average
1989-90	20,250	6,750	19,501	4,875
1990-91	22,438	5,610	11,000	3,667
1991-92	27,725	6,931	20,620	6,873
2002-03	13,197	6,599			10,222	5,111
2003-04	7,624	3,812			8,461	4,231
Totals	91,234	6,082	51,121	5,112	18,683	4,671

Playoffs

	Dallas Total	Dallas Average	Cleveland Total	Cleveland Average
1991-92	20,847	6,949	23,954	7,985
2003-04	3,238	3,238
Dallas Totals	24,085	6,021	23,954	7,985

Overall

	Dallas Total	Dallas Average	Cleveland Total	Cleveland Average
Regular Season	91,234	6,082	69,804	4,986
Playoffs	24,085	6,021	23,954	7,985
Grand Total	115,319	6,069	93,758	5,515

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Goal Scoring

Regular Season

	Sidekicks	Cleveland
Goals Scored	148	145
Per Game Average	5.1	5

Home

	Sidekicks	Cleveland
Goals Scored	94	68
Per Game Average	6.26	4.53

Road

	Sidekicks	Cleveland
Goals Scored	54	77
Per Game Average	3.18	4.53

Playoff Overall

	Sidekicks	Crunch
Goals Scored	49	39
Per Game Average	7	5.57

Playoff Home

	Sidekicks	Crunch
Goals Scored	28	17
Per Game Average	7	4.25

Playoff Away

	Sidekicks	Crunch
Goals Scored	21	22
Per Game Average	7	7.33

Sidekicks vs Cleveland Point Scoring

Note: Only used during 2002-03

MISL Overall

	Sidekicks	new-Force
Points Scored	37	43
Per Game Average	9.25	10.75

MISL Home

	Sidekicks	new-Force
Points Scored	21	17
Per Game Average	10.5	8.5

MISL Road

	Sidekicks	new-Force
Points Scored	16	26
Per Game Average	8	13

What Happened to Them?

The Crunch joined the National Professional Soccer League when the MISL folded at the end of the 1991-92 season. The Crunch then joined the other surviving NPSL clubs in the re-structuring of the league into the new-MISL for the 2001-02 season, and changed their name to the Force on August 23, 2002.

Sidekicks vs Cleveland All-Time Results

Exhibition Season

Game	Day	Date	Site	Result	Attendance	Record
EX1	Saturday	September 27, 2003	Milwaukee, WI	Won 3-1	N/A	1-0

Regular Season

Game	Day	Date	Site	Result	Attendance	Record
1	Friday	November 24, 1989	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 3-8	6,723	0-1
2	Friday	December 22, 1989	Richfield Coliseum	Won 5-3	4,971	1-1
3	Wednesday	January 17, 1990	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 4-5	3,406	1-2
4	Thursday	February 1, 1990	Reunion Arena	Won 5-4^OT	5,003	2-2
5	Sunday	February 18, 1990	Reunion Arena	Won 8-0	8,618	3-2
6	Saturday	February 24, 1990	Richfield Coliseum	Won 4-3	4,401	4-2
7	Wednesday	April 18, 1990	Reunion Arena	Lost 2-3	6,629	4-3
8	Thursday	November 15, 1990	Reunion Arena	Won 7-6	4,790	5-3
9	Tuesday	January 8, 1991	Richfield Coliseum	Won 6-5^OT	2,175	6-3
10	Thursday	January 17, 1991	Reunion Arena	Won 8-3	5,086	7-3
11	Saturday	January 26, 1991	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 2-6	5,122	7-4
12	Friday	March 1, 1991	Reunion Arena	Lost 3-6	6,163	7-5
13	Sunday	March 17, 1991	Reunion Arena	Lost 6-7	6,399	7-6
14	Friday	March 31, 1991	Richfield Coliseum	Won 4-3	3,703	8-6
15	Friday	November 8, 1991	Reunion Arena	Won 7-6	6,929	9-6
16	Sunday	November 24, 1991	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 3-5	6,170	9-7
17	Friday	December 27, 1991	Reunion Arena	Won 8-7	5,260	10-7
18	Thursday	January 23, 1992	Reunion Arena	Won 6-5	6,509	11-7
19	Friday	February 14, 1992	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 3-8	6,971	11-8
20	Saturday	February 29, 1992	Reunion Arena	Won 11-5	9,027	12-8
21	Sunday	March 22, 1992	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 6-7	7,479	12-9

Note: Games 22-26 were played under the multi-point scoring system

Game	Day	Date	Site	Result	Goals	Attendance	Record
22	Sunday	12/15/02	Reunion Arena	Won 13-4	6-2	8,013	13-9
23	Friday	1/3/03	Convocation Center	Lost 8-16	4-8	3,637	13-10
24	Sunday	2/23/03	Convocation Center	Lost 8-10^OT	4-5	6,585	13-11
25	Tuesday	3/4/03	Reunion Arena	Lost 8-13	4-6	5,184	13-12

Game	Day	Date	Site	Result	Attendance	Record
26	Sunday	October 19, 2003	Reunion Arena	Lost 5-6	4,421	13-13
27	Sunday	December 12, 2003	Reunion Arena	Won 8-2	3,203	14-13
28	Sunday	February 15, 2004	Convocation Center	Lost 6-7	3,430	14-14
29	Sunday	March 14, 2004	Convocation Center	2:05 PM	5,031	14-15

Playoffs

Game	Day	Date	Site	Result	Attendance	Record
1	Tuesday	April 14, 1992	Reunion Arena	Won 6-3	7,474	1-0
2	Thursday	April 16, 1992	Reunion Arena	Won 7-6^OT	6,549	2-0
3	Saturday	April 18, 1992	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 6-7^OT	8,752	2-1
4	Tuesday	April 21, 1992	Richfield Coliseum	Won 8-7^OT	7,289	3-1
5	Friday	April 24, 1992	Richfield Coliseum	Lost 7-8^OT	7,913	3-2
6	Sunday	April 26, 1992	Reunion Arena	Won 8-4	6,824	4-2
7	Saturday	April 10, 2004	Reunion Arena	Won 7-4	3,238	5-2