In a game between eventual national champions that will go down in SIU-Edwardsville history as the “3-1 tie,” the Cougars and St. Louis U.’s Billikens battle to a 1-1 standoff before 14,459 fans at Busch Stadium. SIUE’s Chris Carenza has two goals nullified.

With her team trailing, 4-1, with 8 minutes left and with only 10 players after Sarah Carroll’s second yellow card, St. Louisan Alyssa Mautz ignites a miracle. Her goal on a left-footed shot off an assist from Sam Kerr starts Perth Glory on an amazing comeback in an Australian W-League match with Canberra United.

The St. Louis Soccer Football League plays its first games, beginning a 31-year run of professional soccer in St. Louis. About 2,000 fans watch a doubleheader at Athletic Park. St. Teresa of St. Louis tops the Thistles, composed mostly of players from Benld, Ill,, 3-0, in the opening match. The other game ends in a 2-2 draw between Innisfails and St. Mathews, both of St. Louis.

The St. Louis Steamers open the season with that indoor soccer rarity, a shutout, in a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Sting before 13,115 fans at The Arena. Future Indoor Soccer Hall of Famer Slobo Ilijevski posts his fifth career shutout.

St. Teresa’s, the dominant soccer team in St. Louis for much of the 1890s, posts its second victory in as many games in defense of its St. Louis city championship by blasting the Cappells, 6-0.

Oct. 31, 1909: The Pilgrims, an English team touring the United States to promote soccer, wrap up their final appearance in St. Louis with a second-half bag of tricks that treats a crowd of 8,000 at Sportsman’s Park. The Pilgrims score 10 goals in the second half to beat St. Leo’s of St. Louis, 12-1. The image, taken before one of the Pilgrims’ 1909 games in St. Louis, shows, from left, St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Tom Cahill, St. Louis mayor Frederick Kreismann, the Pilgrims’ Fred Milnes, and St. Louisan and referee Phil Kavanaugh.

Sixteenth-ranked St. Louis University nips ninth-ranked Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville 2-1 before 14, 772 fans in the two teams’ annual Bronze Boot Game at Busch Stadium.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming is born. “The Senor,” as he will be called by his newspaper peers because of his fluency in Spanish, will become a legendary soccer journalist, primarily with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covering the sport at all levels for more than 50 years.

The third-ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis women hand No. 1-ranked and defending national champion North Carolina its first-ever loss, 2-1, in a tournament in Orlando, Fla.

Former St. Louisan Vedad Ibisevic sends the soccer fans of Bosnia and Herzegovina into ecstasy by scoring the only goal of the game against Lithuania in the 68th minute to qualify Bosnia and Herzegovina for its first trip to the World Cup.

A sports roundup in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes that Christian Brothers College will host the St. Patrick’s Young Men’s Sodality “under association rules.”

It’s a day of firsts for soccer in St. Louis. In the first-ever soccer match at the Edward Jones Dome, Lori Chalupny comes home for the first time as a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team and plays the opening 84 minutes of a 5-1 victory over Mexico.

St. Louis FC of the second-division USL names U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Preki as head coach. The team will finish with a 9-14-9 record in Perk’s single season with St. Louis FC.

Oct. 11, 1958: Soccer kicks off in a modest way at St. Louis University as the Bills play their first match, a 1-1 tie with Wheaton College, at Hickey Field in St. Louis.

Joaquin Rivas scores the game’s only goal in the third minute of stoppage time to give St. Louis FC a victory over Hartford Athletic in the first round of the USL Championship playoffs in Hartford. The outcome marks the only playoff victory for St. Louis FC in its six-year history. The team will cease operations after the 2020 season.

Oct. 9, 2018: The Taylor and Kavanaugh families hold a news conference at Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club to announce the launch of the #MLS4theLou campaign to bring an expansion Major League Soccer franchise to St. Louis.

St. Louis City2 loses in the MLS NEXT Pro final to the Columbus Crew 2, 4-1.

Former St. Louisan Tom Cahill (pictured), the executive secretary and primary founder of the U.S. Football Association (today’s U.S. Soccer Federation), announces a European tour for a team of mostly St. Louis players in 1920. They will play 14 matches in Sweden from Aug. 1 through Sept. 15, 1920 and will be the first St. Louis team to travel internationally. They will win seven, tie five and lose two on the trip.

Oct. 6, 1984: Two St. Louisans are in the starting lineup and a third starter with a St. Louis connection helps the United States beat Netherlands Antilles, 4-0, in a World Cup qualifier at Busch Stadium before 12,436 fans.

Oct. 5, 2018: Rockhurst University coach and St. Louis native Tony Tocco records his 700th coaching victory as the Hawks defeat William Jewell, 3-1, at Greene Stadium in Liberty, Mo.