Six acres of new fields are dedicated and opened on Seventh Avenue in Longview. The vacant land is loaned by Kaiser Permanente, and over four years, funds from the Longview Rotary Club and Weyerhaeuser Foundation allowed for clearing and developing the space for the thousand girls and boys who play in Longview Soccer Club. In 2015, the complex is dedicated to Tom Hutchinson, city council member and youth soccer advocate.

The Sounders are flying into their Open Cup final following a 4-0 thrashing of L.A. Galaxy before 60,908 at CenturyLink Field. Surging Seattle is unbeaten in nine games across all competitions and within seven points of league-leading San Jose. Eddie Johnson's 10th goal comes off a Mauro Rosales cross in the sixth minute. In the second half, Fredy Montero, Alex Caskey and Andy Rose pour it on while new DP Christian Tiffert takes his first bow.

Cor van der Meer, founder and former longtime coach of men’s and women’s soccer at Community Colleges of Spokane, dies after a lengthy battle with lung cancer at age 74. Van der Meer was regarded as Spokane’s Mr. Soccer. He was CCS men’s coach for 20 years and 11 for the women. He also founded a five-a-side tournament now marking 25 years.

Sammamish smashes a title game record six goals past O'Dea to claim the school's first boys state title in any sport, 6-2, at Memorial Stadium. Bill Watson and Kevin Crooks each score twice in the first half for the Totems, who were runners-up a year earlier. The Irish actually take a 1-nil lead before Watson and Crooks begin clicking. Sammamish had survived a scare from Blanchet in the quarterfinals, going four overtime periods to advance, 1-0, on a Crooks goal.

Western Washington's Sierra Shugarts, a junior from Federal Way, is named NSCAA National Player of the Year, becoming only the second defender to claim the award.

An important state league second division game is stopped with four minutes remaining in Tacoma after Seattle Greek-American players attack officials. Referee Al Corey, seeing fouls and physical play grow increasingly violent, halts the match with the Greeks trailing Tacoma Heidelbergs, 1-nil. Corey and linesman Doug Howard are then assaulted by Greek-American players and injured, with Howard sustaining a fractured jaw. Both he and Corey are knocked unconscious from a beating, and taken to the hospital. Five days later, three Greeks players are suspended for life and the rest of the team suspended for the remainder of the season, although a judiciary committee overturns the latter.