In one of the earliest known soccer-like games in St. Louis, two teams christened East Side and West Side meet on the fifth day of the annual St. Louis Exposition. The match is played in a 12,000-seat amphitheater, the largest in the United States at the time of its construction, on land that would become Fairground Park.

The professional St. Louis Football League, founded in 1907, welcomes a new team for 1913-14 that will become a national soccer champion: Ben Miller, sponsored by the Ben Miller Hat Co. The team will win St. Louis’s first national championship when it captures the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) in 1920.

St. Louisan Josh Sargent is man of the match as he scores the first goal in Werder Bremen’s 2-0 win over Carl Zeiss Jena in the DFB Pokal (German Cup).

St. Louis FC’s Sam Fink is voted U.S. Open Cup Lower Division Player of the Tournament  in balloting conducted by TheCup.us. He helped St. Louis FC reach the quarterfinals of the Cup with four consecutive wins, the last two over MLS representatives Chicago Fire and FC Cincinnati.

The Soccer Park opens in Fenton as perhaps the first soccer-specific facility in the United States. Two days of celebrations are capped by the park’s inaugural game on Sept. 10. St. Louis University tops the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 3-1, on two goals and an assist from Tom Hayes.

In one of the early reports on soccer in St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes that the St. Louis Foot Ball Club defeats the Shamrocks at Compton Avenue Park after being challenged by the Shamrocks to play the game. The newspaper doesn’t give the score in the 37-word item that appears in its Sept. 10 edition.

A squad of St. Louis all-stars holds the nation’s top team, Ponta Delgada of Fall River, Mass., to a 4-4 draw at Public Schools Stadium. Ponta Delgada won the U.S. Open Cup the day before by beating Chicago Sparta, 3-2, in Chicago, and had captured the U.S. Amateur Cup earlier in the year, making Ponta Delgada the first team in U.S. soccer history to win both cups in the same year.

Vedad Ibisevic scores three goals and adds an assist for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its opening World Cup qualifying match, an 8-1 rout of Lichtenstein at Rheinpark Stadion in Vaduz, Lichtenstein.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Walter Giesler is born. Giesler, a lifelong St. Louisan, will make his mark as a nationally prominent soccer administrator.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Bob Annis is born. He will be one of six St. Louisans on the 1950 U.S. World Cup team that defeats England, 1-0. He will help Simpkins Ford win the 1948 and 1950 U.S. Open Cups.

St. Louisan Alyssa Mautz scores the first two goals of the game as the Chicago Red Stars shoot to a 5-0 National Women’s Soccer League win over Sky Blue at Toyota Park outside Chicago.

Matt Diedrichsen plays for the All-American Team in a tie with Norway during the team’s tour of Norway and Sweden. The team is considered the first U.S. National Team. Diedrichsen is the only St. Louisan on the team. His appearance against Norway is recognized as his only cap for the United States.

Two goals in 40 seconds just 10 minutes into the game are all the offense St. Louis University needs in a 2-0 win over UCLA at Francis Field. Tom Malle (pictured) assists on both goals

Christian Brothers College, then a school for elementary, high school and college males that fields highly successful soccer teams, says it likely will drop college football after suffering serious financial losses in the two preceding seasons. “If the college drops the gridiron sport, it probably will plunge on in soccer,” according to the Sept. 1, 1915, issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

St. Louis native Tim Rooney gains his 400th men’s junior college coaching victory as Lewis & Clark blanks Lincoln Land, 6-0. The landmark victory comes a year after Rooney notched his 400th women’s junior college coaching victory.

The St. Louis Soccer Park hosts the Women’s Professional Soccer All-Star Game before 4,115 fans. The WPS All-Stars, who include St. Louis Athletica players Lori Chalupny, Eniola Aluko, Tina Ellertson and Hope Solo, defeat Swedish champion Umeå IK, 4-2.

St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn plays the entire match as 49,504 fans, the largest crowd ever for a U.S. Women’s National Team friendly, sees the USWNT blank Portugal, 4-0, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

The St. Louis duo of Taylor Twellman (right) and Steve Ralston (left) revs up the New England Revolution in its 3-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Colorado Rapids at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. In his first MLS season, Twellman scores twice against the Rapids. Ralston assists on Twellman’s second goal.

St. Louis University’s two-time All-American, senior Mark Santel, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “We’ve got (freshman) Brian McBride, who’ll score.” Will he ever. The Chicago native (pictured) will become the Billikens’ all-time leading scorer, then have a stellar career in the English Premier League and with the U.S. Men’s National Team in a career that will lead to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame.

The St. Louis Stars lose, 2-1, to the New York Cosmos in the NASL championship game on the rain-soaked artificial turf at Hofstra Stadium on Long Island. Two of the three goals are questionable, and another that would have tied the match in its waning moments is ruled offsides.