The Minnesota Kicks won with 17 wins, two more than the Tulsa Roughnecks in the 1978 North American Soccer League season.
The Minnesota Kicks were a professional soccer team that played at Metropolitan Stadium in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota from 1976 to 1981. The 1978 North American Soccer League season was the 66th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer, the 11th with a national first-division league, in the United States and Canada. Minnesota Kicks 17 13 58 43 54 156 11-4 6-9 Tulsa Roughnecks 15 15 46 49 42 132 11-4 4-11 Dallas Tornado 14 16 51 53 47 131 9-6 5-10 8 22 34 66 33 81 5-10 3-12 
