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.

In one of the biggest college soccer matches ever played in St. Louis, Dan Counce scores the only goal of the game as No. 2-ranked St. Louis University defeats No. 1-ranked Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville before 20,112 fans at Busch Stadium, at the time the largest crowd for a U.S. college soccer game.

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.

St. Louisan Mike Villa scores 10 goals as Quincy College blasts Notre Dame, 16-2, in Quincy.

The convoluted naming rights history of St. Louis CITY’s stadium takes another turn with the announcement that the facility will be renamed Energizer Park starting on Jan. 1, 2025.

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.

Oct. 30, 1980: A still-standing record crowd for a college soccer match sees Steve Sullivan and John Hayes score two goals apiece as St. Louis University wins the annual Bronze Boot Game with defending NCAA Division I champion Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, 5-1, at Busch Stadium. A total of 22,512 fans are on hand.

Oct. 29, 1948: A dispute between the professional St. Louis Major Soccer League and the U.S. Soccer Football Association (today’s U.S. Soccer Federation) comes to a head in local newspapers.

The St. Louis All-Stars defeat Maccabi Tel Aviv FC of Palestine, 3-2, in an international exhibition at Walsh Stadium

Oct. 27, 1989: A St. Louisan comes home to spoil the debut of the St. Louis Storm.

Oct. 26, 1947: The St. Louis Major Soccer League, the first professional soccer league in St. Louis since 1938, makes its debut at Sportsman’s Park.

St. Louis native Chris Klein earns his first of 22 caps in the United States’ 2-0 win over Mexico in a friendly before 60,000 fans at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

Oct. 24, 2013: Washington University’s men’s soccer team defeats Principia, 3-0, giving Joe Clarke his 400th victory as a men’s college head soccer coach.

Oct. 23, 2016: Brad Davis retires, capping a 15-year pro career that includes six MLS All-Star selections, one MLS Best XI selection, two MLS Cup championships, 17 caps and one start for the U.S. in a group stage match at the 2014 World Cup.

Oct. 22, 1919: Monsignor Louis F. Meyer is born. Known as “the Soccer Priest,” he will be a driving force behind the growth of the Catholic Youth Council, whose youth soccer programs will develop countless numbers of players who will compete at the college and professional levels.

Oct. 21, 1884: In an important milestone for St. Louis soccer, and, perhaps, for the global history of the game, the first soccer league in St. Louis, the Western Association, is organized.

Oct. 21, 1934: An estimated crowd of 8,000 watches both kinds of football in a doubleheader at Sportsman’s Park.

Making its first-ever playoff appearance, eighth-seeded St. Louis FC loses, 4-0 to Orange County SC in the United Soccer Leagues Western Conference quarterfinals in Irvine, Calif.