The MISL’s St. Louis Steamers go on inactive status and will never play again. Just a few months earlier, the Steamers had the MISL’s best regular-season record (23-7) and had reached the MISL finals, where they lost to the Baltimore Blast, two games to one.

The Municipal Soccer League says two of its top teams will have new sponsors: Correnti Cleaners will be sponsored by Joe Simpkins Motors, and Carondelet, the U.S. Amateur Cup runner-up the previous season, will be sponsored by Southern Equipment Company (SECO). Simpkins will become one of the nation’s top teams, winning the 1948 and 1950 U.S. Open Cup titles. SECO will make its mark as a sponsor of three winners of the national Junior Cup (today’s boys’ under-19 McGuire Cup) in 1951, 1971 and 1972.

St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn is named to the NWSL Best XI for the sixth consecutive season.

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost scores the United States’ only goal as the U.S. Olympic team defeats El Salvador on penalty kicks in a playoff in Kingston, Jamaica, to advance to the North America-South America Olympic soccer qualification playoffs.

St. Louisan Lori Chalupny scores the second-fastest goal in Women’s World Cup history on an assist from Abby Wambach just 57 seconds into a group stage match against Nigeria in Shanghai, China. Chalupny’s goal is the only one of the game.

A club-record crowd of 6,004 packs World Wide Technology Soccer Park to see St. Louis FC entertain Louisville City. The sellout crowd is about the only positive development for the home team as it loses, 5-1, and is eliminated from contention for a berth in the United Soccer Leagues playoffs.

St. Louisan Dan Flynn retires as chief executive officer and secretary general of U.S. Soccer. Flynn is credited with driving the U.S. Soccer Federation’s rapid growth during his 19 years as CEO.

Three St. Louisans are in the starting lineup as the U.S. National Team rallies from a 3-0 deficit to tie Israel, 3-3, in a friendly before 10,118 fans at Yankee Stadium in New York. The St. Louis Stars’ Eddie Clear and Carl Gentile, and St. Louisan Larry Hausmann of the Chicago Mustangs, take the field for the United States.

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.