The University of Missouri-St. Louis (1981 team pictured) loses on penalty kicks to Connecticut in the third-place game of the first-ever women’s college soccer national championship tournament.

Chris Cacciatore heads in the winning goal (pictured in dark jersey scoring the goal) in the 66th minute as Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, the 1975 NCAA Division I runner-up, tops St. Louis U., 2-1, in the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals on a cold and windy afternoon at SIUE.

Freshman Kelly Drury (pictured) scores all the goals as Florissant Valley defeats Mercer County, 4-0, in the NJCAA women’s national championship game in Trenton, N.J.

Rhamon Silva scores in OT to give Jefferson College of Hillsboro, Mo., a 2-1 victory over Mercer in the NJCAA men’s Division I national championship game. Jefferson head coach and St. Louis native Stephen Peck Jr (pictured) is named coach of the year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Kris Kazmarek’s 65th-minute goal on a free kick from Mary Moynihan lifts Florissant Valley Community College to the NJCAA women’s national soccer championship, beating State University of New York-Farmingdale, 1-0, in Trenton, N.J.

Galt of Ontario, Canada, defeats St. Rose of St. Louis, 4-0, at Francis Field to win the “gold medal” in the Olympics held concurrently with the St. Louis World’s Fair.

CityPark hosts its first-ever game, a friendly between St. Louis City2 and Bayer Leverkusen of the German Bundesliga. Bayer Leverkusen wins, 3-0, before a capacity crowd.

Granite City South High School wins its fifth consecutive Illinois boys’ state soccer championship, defeating Darien Hinsdale South, 5-1, in Palatine, Ill.

St. Louis University freshman and future Bundesliga star Vedad Ibisevic scores four goals in the first half as St. Louis U. defeats the University of Alabama-Birmingham, 5-1, in the semifinals of the Conference USA tournament in Memphis.

A crowd of 43,433, largest to watch a U.S. National Team game in Missouri, sees the U.S. Men overwhelm St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 6-1, at Busch Stadium. St. Louisan Tim Ream (pictured) plays the entire match.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Pat McBride is born. He will become one of the greatest midfielders in St. Louis soccer history and will be one of the best American-born players of his era.

St. Louis University’s Vedad Ibisevic is named Conference USA freshman of the year.

Soccer games pitting teams from St. Ambrose on The Hill against Carlstrom from nearby Dogtown, known for being “boisterous,” sink to even greater depths. A Muny League match at Forest Park erupts into a riot 16 minutes into the second half when players fight and some of the 3,500 fans swarm on the field to engage in a free-for-all.

St. Louisan Carl Gentile starts the scoring for the United States in a 2-0 World Cup qualifying victory over Bermuda at National Stadium in Hamilton, Bermuda. Gentile’s free kick deflects off a Bermuda player into the net in the eighth minute and is scored as an own goal.

St. Louisan Maddie Pokorny scores her team’s only goal in HB Køge’s 5-1 loss to Arsenal in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Joe Carenza Sr. is born. Carenza will prove to be a steady fullback for a number of St. Louis teams, but his biggest legacy will be the innovative programs he helps develop for junior and senior soccer in St. Louis.

Becky Sauerbrunn plays the entire match as the U.S. Women’s National Team wins its 500th game in the program’s history by defeating Portugal, 1-0, in an international friendly in Lisbon.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Pat McBride is the first player signed by the new St. Louis Stars of the National Professional Soccer League.

The St. Louis Ambush, the latest indoor soccer team in town, lose their first-ever game, 13-10, against the Dayton Dynamo in Dayton, Ohio.

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.