Soccer Bowl '78 White T-Shirt The Soccer Bowl 1978 was the tenth championship game in the NASL's seventeen year history. The match was held at Giants Stadium, New Jersey between Tampa Bay Rowdies & the defending Soccer Bowl champion New York Cosmos. 74, 901 fans came to watch the Cosmos beat the Rowdies 3-1, which was more than double the previous years attendance. It still remains the largest crowd for a professional club soccer championship game in North America.