Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Bill Looby scores both goals for the USA in a 3-2 loss to Iceland in an international friendly in Iceland. Looby, one of the greatest goal scorers in the history of St. Louis soccer, tallies a goal in each half.

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Roe heads for New York for his first tour as a member of the U.S. Men’s National Team. Roe had been a key player on St. Louis teams that reached six consecutive U.S. Open Cup finals from 1932-37. But Roe injures his knee before the first game of the tour, ending his career at age 28.

St. Louisan Ruth Harker takes over as goalkeeper in the second half for starter Kim Wyant in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s 3-1 loss to England in the Mundialito (“little World Cup”) tournament in Caorle, Italy. The tournament, considered the unofficial World Cup for women, marks the first games ever played by the USWNT.

St. Louisans score all the goals as the United States tops Barbados, 3-1, in a first-round Olympic qualifying match in Bridgetown, Barbados. Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost, John Carenza and Buzz Demling (pictured from left to right) tally the goals.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Dunn is born. Dunn’s goal will clinch the first of 90 national championships for St. Louis teams. Playing for the Ben Millers, Dunn will break a 1-1 tie with a goal in the 63rd minute in the final of the 1920 National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) against Fore River, Mass.

Major League Soccer awards a franchise to MLS4TheLou, a local ownership group consisting of representatives of the Taylor and Kavanaugh families.

Vedad Ibisevic kicks off the Bundesliga season with a bang, scoring the game’s first goal in the 16th minute and last goal in the 76th minute as newly promoted 1899 Hoffenheim beats Energie Cottbus, 3-0.

The St. Louis Stars reach the NASL championship game with a 2-0 semifinal victory over the Rochester Lancers at Busch Stadium. Englishman John Sewell and St. Louisan Gene Geimer score.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch breaks the news that St. Louis will be awarded a Major League Soccer expansion franchise.

After studying 6,000 fan suggestions, St. Louis’s new MLS team christens itself St. Louis CITY SC. “SC” carries a double meaning: “Soccer Club” and “Soccer Capital.”

In his first appearance for the U.S. National Team, future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost (right) scores on an assist from fellow St. Louisan and St. Louis Stars teammate Gene Geimer (left) as the United States surprises 1972 Olympic champion Poland, 1-0, in a friendly in New Britain, Conn.

The St. Louis Steamers add St. Louisan Perry Van Der Beck, the 1985 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year, but lose their 1986-87 most valuable player, St. Louisan Mark Frederickson (pictured), on waivers.

A gathering of 54,184, at the time the largest ever for a soccer match in Missouri, sees Real Madrid defeat Inter Milan, 3-0, at the Edward Jones Dome.

St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn plays the final 10 minutes plus added time in the USA’s 2-1 victory over Japan in the women’s soccer gold medal match at the 2012 Olympics.

St. Louis is one of nine cities announced as homes of franchises for the new National Professional Soccer League, which will begin play in 1967. The NPSL will merge with the United Soccer Association in December 1967 to form the North American Soccer League.

Casey Frankiewicz leads the St. Louis Stars to an important 3-1 NASL win over the Kansas City Spurs. Frankiewicz, the Stars’ leading scorer, knocks in the game’s first goal. The outcome evens the Stars’ record at 10-10-5 and keeps them alive in the race for a playoff berth.

St. Louisan Steve Ralston scores in the 12th minute to start the Tampa Bay Mutiny on the way to a 3-1 victory over their cross-state rivals, the Miami Fusion, in a Major League Soccer match at Houlihan Stadium before 6,511 fans.

A new professional indoor soccer team in St. Louis with an old name — the Steamers — loses its first game, 8-5, to the Arizona Thunder at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

St. Louisan Julie King sets the Boston Breakers’ record for most games played. A defender, she plays 95 games for the Breakers through the 2017 season. She will end her NWSL career in 2020 with 97 games played, third-most of any St. Louisan.

The foreign-player-laden Kansas City Spurs, who will go on to win the league championship, get a scare from the mostly St. Louis lineup of the St. Louis Stars before prevailing, 3-1, in an oddly structured 1969 North American Soccer League season.