Oct. 4, 1949: The four teams in the professional St. Louis Major Soccer League decide to return to the U.S Open Cup tournament after sitting out the 1948-49 season.

Oct. 3, 1976: Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost puts in a hard-nosed performance as the United States and Mexico play to a scoreless draw in a World Cup qualifier

In a battle of undefeated teams marred by verbal and physical abuse, visiting and nationally third-ranked Clemson scores twice in the second overtime on goals by Charles Headlam and Rennie Phillips to defeat No. 7 SIU-Edwardsville, 4-2.

It’s a big day for goal-scorers from St. Louis playing in Europe. Vedad Ibisevic (left) scores both goals in Hertha Berlin’s 2-0 win over Hamburg in Germany’s first-division Bundesliga. Meanwhile, Tim Ream (right) scores his first goal in England in Fulham’s 2-1 loss to Queens Park Rangers in the second-division English Championship.

Audax of Chile comes to St. Louis expecting to continue its perfect record on its nine-game U.S. tour. Stix, Baer & Fuller, which had won the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) the previous April, defeats the Chileans, posting 6-4 and 3-2 victories.

The Sodality League, the forerunner of today’s St. Louis Catholic Youth Council, is organized following an informal series of baseball games the previous summer. Young men’s sodalities, or religious guilds, from six parishes and Christian Brothers College comprise the league’s soccer operations under the name of the Sodality Foot Ball League.

The University of California men defeat San Francisco, 2-0, for the Bears’ 200th victory under head coach and St. Louis native Kevin Grimes.

Jan Gettemeyer scores two goals and adds an assist as the University of Missouri-St. Louis blasts the University of Wisconsin, 6-1, in the championship game of the National Women’s College Budweiser Soccer Tournament at UMSL. The event runs from Sept. 25-27 and is the first national women’s college soccer tournament in St. Louis.

Sept. 26 is a big day for goalkeepers from St Louis. Tomas Gomez (right) wins the United Soccer League’s Golden Glove Award in 2016. In 2018, Joe Willis (left) pitches a shutout as the Houston Dynamo downs the Philadelphia Union, 3-0, in the U.S. Open Cup final.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis is ranked No. 1 in the nation for the first time in the Rivermen’s history. Off to a 4-0 start, UMSL climbs to the top of the NCAA Division II rankings.

The first visit by an English team to St. Louis severely wounds local pride. For the second day in a row, the Pilgrims, a team of British amateurs, obliterate the St. Louis Association Football Players, 6-0. The Englishmen smashed the same St. Louis all-stars, 10-0, the day before.

A pair of Dons do in the No. 1-ranked University of San Francisco Dons to lead No. 2 St. Louis University to a 2-1 victory before 6,872 fans at Francis Field. Don Huber and Don Aubuchon score four minutes apart as the Bills snap a19-game unbeaten streak by the Dons, two-time defending NCAA champions.

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.