St. Louis CITY sets a Major League Soccer record as the first expansion team to win its first five games. Victory No. 5 is a 4-0 win over Real Salt Lake at America First Field.

Rob Acosta of the St. Louis Ambush is named the Major Arena Soccer League’s Defender of the Year.

The Aldines win the first Muny League championship with a 5-3 win over the Blue Wings at Fairground Park. Jake Ratz (pictured) scores three goals, including the game-winner with 10 minutes to play.

An era in St. Louis soccer ends when William O. DeWitt, president of the American League’s St. Louis Browns, announces that Sportsman’s Park, site of the first known soccerlike game in St. Louis in 1875, will no longer be available for St. Louis Major Soccer League professional matches (pictured: SLMSL game at Sportsman’s Park).

Innisfails (shown in the 1913-14 season) unseats 10-time defending St. Louis city champion St. Leo’s, 4-2, in the second game of the city title series before 1,700 fans who fill Kulage Park, North Newstead and Bessie avenues.

Jack O’Reilly, playing in place of injured forward Joe McCarthy, scores the game’s only goal 20 seconds into the match as Stix, Baer & Fuller defeats the Chicago Bricklayers in the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) Western final.

Scullin Steel wins St. Louis’s second national title by beating Todd Shipyards of Brooklyn, 3-2, in the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) final. Allie Schwarz (pictured) scores twice, including the winner with 4 minutes left.

The Ben Millers dominate the first half but give up two goals in the second and lose 2-0 to the Chicago Bricklayers in the Western final of the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup). Ben Miller GK Dave Bartnett is shown making a save. Teammates and U.S. Soccer Hall of Famers Ralph Tracey (center) and Frank Vaughn help defend.

Madison Kennels of St. Louis reaches the finals of the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) by routing Sparta of Chicago, 7-4, at Sportsman’s Park. The estimated crowd of 9,000, including 8,711 paid, sees Bud Grennon (pictured) score three goals, giving him 12 in Madison’s four 1929 Challenge Cup games to date.

Alex Pfeiffer becomes the youngest player to score a goal in the history of the National Women’s Soccer League when she tallies in the 68th minute for the Kansas City Current against the Portland Thorns. The St. Louis native is 16 years, 3 months and 20 days when she scores.

A knockdown, drag-out affair ends with St. Matthews defeating Henses, 2-1, in the third and deciding game of the Municipal Association (“Muny League”) finals. An estimated crowd of 12,000, of whom 9,000 paid, literally get in on the action at Fairground Park No. 2. With seven minutes remaining, Bill Lehman (pictured in 1933 while playing for Stix, Baer & Fuller) boots in the winning goal, prompting a fistfight among players and drawing fans onto the field.

10,664 fans at The Arena see the rarest of scores in indoor soccer as the St. Louis Steamers beat the Baltimore Blast 1-0. Former U.S. National Teamer Steve Pecher (pictured) has the only goal late in the third quarter off a pass from Don Ebert.

The Kickers spring a big surprise on favored White Star in the Missouri Amateur Cup semifinals by notching a 4-1 upset in the mud at Magdalen Field before an overflow crowd. Paul Pisani (pictured) scores twice.

With a trip to the semifinals of the National Challenge Cup on the line, Stix Baer & Fuller defeats the Andersons, 4-1, at Sportsman’s Park. Stix is heavily laden with top players who fled the eastern United States, where the Depression had hurt the sport badly. Stix will go on to win the National Challenge Cup championship .

The Cycling Club, one of the top teams in St. Louis at the turn of the century, wages a memorable battle with the West Ends and wins, 5-3, in an Association Football League game at Athletic Park, Garrison and North Market streets. The Cycling Club features future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Benny Govier and former Welsh international Dick Jarrett.

The Noels defeat Carondelet Sunday Morning Athletic Club (CSMAC), 4-3, on an overtime goal by Frank Pastor (pictured) in the Municipal League semifinals at Fairground Park. Without a professional league in St. Louis since the folding of the 30-year-old St. Louis League in 1938, the Muny League fills the bill as the main attraction for hungry St. Louis soccer fans by fielding the best players in St. Louis, including future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famers.

The St. Louis Steamers, in their fifth season of existence, surpass the 1.5-million mark in their all-time attendance when a crowd of 13,112 sees the Steamers lose 7-4 to the Cleveland Force at the Arena.

The Ben Millers’ hopes of winning the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) are dimmed considerably in a 7-2 loss to the Chicago Bricklayers in the first of the best-of-three-games Western final. The Bricklayers will win the second game, 1-0, on March 15, but will lose in the finals to the Fall River (Mass.) Marksmen. Ironically, many Marksmen will migrate to St. Louis and will form the backbone of St. Louis teams that will win three consecutive Cups starting with the 1932-33 season.

Seventeen-year-old Lori Chalupny earns the first cap of her career in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s 1-0 loss to Italy. Her eventual cap total of 105 will be more than any other player, male or female, in St. Louis soccer history except for current USWNT player Becky Sauerbrunn, who has 214.

Simpkins Ford literally fights its way into the U.S. Open Cup semifinals by overwhelming the Milwaukee Sports Club, 6-2, in Milwaukee. Simpkins’ John Galimberti (pictured) and Milwaukee’s Adam Nothels duke it out and are tossed from the game midway through the second half while some of the 20 Simpkins fans on hand engage in a fistfight with the home crowd.