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Sounders Face First MLS Opposition
June 4, 1997

Thirteen days before polls close on Referendum 48, Paul Allen's Football Northwest sponsors a showcase of what a new soccer and football stadium would offer. The Sounders face their first Major League Soccer opposition as the San Jose Clash visit Memorial Stadium for an exhibition. The Clash feature former Sounders midfielders Shawn Medved and Dominic Kinnear. Attendance is 6,601 for standouts include Sounders a match which ends 0-0, with Seattle taking the resulting shootout, 3-1.

Marathon ShootoutSends SPU Forward
November 15, 1986

Jeff Storrs twice saves Seattle Pacific's season before an 11th-round penalty stop sends the Falcons forward to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals. Ninth-ranked SPU outlasts longtime rival Chico State, 0-0 (8-7), in a first-round game at Memorial Stadium. After 110 scoreless minutes Storrs thwarts the Wildcats attempts to win in rounds 5 and 7. Danny Machado converts the clincher.

Yates Scores Again for Unbeaten Orlando
April 26, 2024

Yakima's Summer Yates converts a second-half penalty kick which proves to be the winner for the Orlando Pride in a 3-2 road win over Washington. It's the second straight game-winner for Yates during the unbeaten (3-0-3) Pride's eventual record-setting eight-match win streak. She also scored in a 1-0 home win over San Diego on April 19.

Bakers Win Five-a-Side
April 14, 1957

It took just under six hours to whittle the field from 22 teams to one victor at the 14th annual Five-a-Side. And the last team standing is Buchan Bakers, 2-0 winners over Vancouver's Taurus at West Seattle Stadium.

Sounders Women Christen New Stadium
July 28, 2002

First teams to play in Seahawks Stadium are the Sounders Select Women and Vancouver Breakers, who play prior to the A-League men’s match. Sounders Women win in overtime, 4-3, on Nikki Gamble’s 93rd-minute goal. Seattle native Jodi Campbell scores the historic first goal. Shelby Brownfield and Janelle Munnis contribute the team’s other goals

NCAA Soccer Championships Canceled
August 5, 2020

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, both NCAA Division II and Division III soccer championships are canceled along with all other men's and women's fall sports. Division I makes the same determination on August 13. NCAA President Mark Emmert says the NCAA would prioritize staging championships in winter and spring sports because those were canceled when COVID-19 first spiked across the United States in March.

Seattle-Portland attracted 66,452, the second-largest crowd in MLS history for a stand-alone game, in 2012. (Courtesy Sounders FC)
2012
Washington's state select team awaiting their SeaTac departure. (Courtesy Shannon Higgins Cirovski)
1982
Signed at age 17, Seattle Reign defender Jordyn Bugg was named a finalist for 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Player of the Year. (Seattle Reign/Jane Gershovich)
2024
A ticket to the U.S. Challenge Cup tie at Pop Keeney Field. (Courtesy George Craggs family)
1970
Vancouver's Tina Frimpong Ellertson makes 13 appearances for the USWNT in 2007.
2007
Mike England of the Sounders goes in for the tackle on New York's Pele´.
1977
Laura Harvey completely turns around the Reign in their second season, earning NWSL Coach of the Year. (Jane Gersovich photo)
2014
Whitman won a share of its first Northwest League title in 37 years in 2018. (Courtesy Northwest Conference)
2018
Vasco Rubio's 12 goals led Seattle Pacific to the NCSC Olympic Division championship and a runner-up finish in NCAA Division II. (Joanie Komura photo)
1990
Lumen Field's Brougham End is awash in color and Emerald City Supporters tifos before the kickoff of Sounders-Pumas for the Concacaf Champions League title. (Courtesy Mike Fiechtner/Sounders FC)
2022