The St. Louis Stars shower goals on the Minnesota Kicks on a rainy afternoon at Washington University’s Francis Field. The Stars boot the Kicks, 4-0, before 6,251 soggy fans.

Kutis, perhaps the best soccer team of its time in the United States, coasts to its sixth consecutive U.S. Amateur Cup championship by tying the Hartford (Conn.) Italian-American Stars, 3-3, in Hartford in the second game of a two-game series decided on total goals.

Using an all-St. Louis lineup, the St. Louis Stars defeat West German powerhouse Werder Bremen, 1-0, before 8,228 fans at Busch Stadium. The game’s only goal comes from Mike Seerey (pictured) off Jim Bokern’s corner kick in the 37th minute.

Fire and Ice SC of St. Louis, the defending Women’s Premier Soccer League champion, loses, 1-0, to the Seattle Sounders Women in the WPSL semifinals in Norman, Okla.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Charley Colombo is born. He will be one of five starters from St. Louis on the U.S. team that upsets England, 1-0, in the 1950 World Cup. Colombo also will play on two U.S. Open Cup championship teams in 1948 and 1950 with Simpkins Ford.

St. Louisan Steve Ralston scores as the United States blasts Cuba, 5-0, in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Foxboro, Mass.

Scott Gallagher loses, 2-1, in U.S. Amateur Cup final to Seattle Murphy’s Pub in Indianapolis. Craig Frederking (pictured), the all-time leading scorer in the history of men’s soccer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, tallies Scott Gallagher’s only goal.

Citing the impact of the virus pandemic, Major League Soccer announces that it will delay the start of the St. Louis expansion team to 2023. The extra year means that the stadium, scheduled for completion in mid–2022, will be available for the start of the 2023 season.

It’s a big day for the St. Louis Stars’ Rudi Kolbl. Kolbl scores the game’s only goal as the Stars defeat the Pittsburgh Phantoms at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh before 5,414 fans in a nationally televised match. The goal lifts him into the scoring lead in the first-year National Professional Soccer League with 27 points on 10 goals and seven assists.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Frank “Pee Wee” Wallace is born. His most memorable moments in soccer will come at the 1950 World Cup, when he will be one of five starters from St. Louis in the United States’ 1-0 upset of England. He will score three goals in seven appearances during his career with the U.S. National Team.

The U.S. men defeat Martinique, 2-0, in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament, largely through the efforts of the St. Louis duo of Brian McBride and Steve Ralston. McBride, a Chicago-area native who set career scoring records at St. Louis University from 1990-93, scores both goals on assists from Ralston, a St. Louis native.

St. Louis teams go 1-2 in the finals of the U.S. Open, Amateur and Over-30 Cups. Kutis captures the U.S. Open Cup title by beating the San Pedro (Calif.) Yugoslavs, 1-0. Meanwhile, Busch falls, 3-0, to the Fairfax (S.C.) Spartans in the Amateur Cup final and Kutis loses, 1-0, in overtime to the Tulsa (Okla.) Falling Stars in the Over-30 title game.

Guy Busch tallies twice to unknot a 2-2 game and help Kutis defend its 1963 U.S. Junior Cup title by defeating Philadelphia’s Lighthouse Celtics, 4-2, in the U.S. Junior Cup championship game at Public Schools Stadium.

In the first meeting between two foreign soccer teams in St. Louis, Ireland’s Shamrock Rovers defeat Israel’s Hapoel Petah Tikvah, 3-1, before 8,000 appreciative fans at Public Schools Stadium.

MLS defending champion Atlanta United defeats St. Louis FC, 2-0, in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga. The defeat ends a storybook Open Cup campaign that saw second-division St. Louis FC defeat MLS opponents Chicago Fire and FC Cincinnati in the two previous rounds.

A standing-room-only crowd of 6,900 jams the St. Louis Soccer Park to watch the men’s gold and bronze medal soccer matches at the U.S. Olympic Festival. The festival is an annual competition held in various Olympic sports during Olympic off-years. The festival started in 1978, when it was called the National Sports Festival, and will end in 1995.

Raftery’s of St. Louis fights valiantly, but loses, 1-0, to defending champion Eintracht of New York in the National Amateur Cup championship game at Randall’s Island, N.Y. The 1945 season marks the first time St. Louis teams had entered the 23-year-old Amateur Cup.

The United States successfully defends its Women’s World Cup championship by defeating the Netherlands, 2-0, in Lyon, France. One of the most memorable images of the tournament comes in the final, showing St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn bleeding above her right eye after a head-to-head collision with Danielle van de Donk in the 54th minute.

Ruben Mendoza and Jim Murphy score for Kutis, representing the United States, in a 3-2 loss to Canada in a North American Zone World Cup qualifier at Public Schools Stadium.

The USA wins the Women’s World Cup with a 5-2 victory over Japan in Vancouver. St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn (pictured at left) plays every minute of every game and St. Louisan Lori Chalupny (right) is a substitute in one game.