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Later in 2008, St. Louis bid for one of two MLS expansion slots to enter the league in 2011. St. Louis was considered one of the early front runners, [14] due in part to the city's soccer history and a stadium plan. [15] But the St. Louis bid lacked an ownership group with deep pockets, and MLS awarded the expansion slots to Portland and Vancouver.
Soccer is the main fall sport at SLU, which has not sponsored football since 1949. Despite the long soccer tradition in the city of St. Louis, the University did not field a varsity team until 1959, when the Billikens won the first NCAA soccer championship held. With Bob Guelker as coach, the team achieved a 11–1 record that season.
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The team competes within the National Premier Soccer League and plays out of St. Louis University High School Soccer Stadium. The St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame, established in 1971, is located at the Midwest Soccer Academy and includes a museum with various exhibits. [14] The first annual dinner was held in 1971. [14]
Saint Louis soccer in action. The Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Saint Louis University. The Billikens compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I.
The St. Louis Stars, founded in 1967 as a team in the National Professional Soccer League, were the first professional soccer team in St. Louis since the shuttering of the St. Louis Soccer League, although St. Louis had a long history of strong play in amateur leagues and college soccer. [2] The Stars were headed by St. Louis businessman Bob ...
The St. Louis soccer scene did not have a professional league during the 1906–07 season. [2] The St. Louis Soccer Football League was organized to fill that void before the 1907–08 season. [3] Dr. Alexander Murray was founding president [4] and Thomas W. Cahill founding secretary of the league. [5]
The St. Louis Soccer League was a professional soccer league in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1915 [ 1 ] With four teams drawn from two amateur leagues, it was at the time the country's only pro soccer league. [ 2 ]