United Soccer League
After the ASL folded, the club joined the newly formed United Soccer League as the Oklahoma City Stampede. The club once again came tantalizingly close to a league championship, winning the regular-season title on point differential over the Fort Lauderdale Sun but falling in the playoff semi-finals to the Houston Dynamos in a three-game series. This success, however, was short-lived. After the 1984 season, the club relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Tulsa Tornados, with Brian Harvey still attached as Head Coach. But the Tornados and the rest of USL folded in the spring of 1985 after just a handful of games.
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