Over 800 boys and girls from 54 teams throughout the western U.S. and B.C. converge on eight North Seattle fields for the fourth annual Shorelake SC Invitational.

Down by two goals in the second half, Federal Way's U16 Goalpost boys surge back to win their USYSA semifinal, 4-3, against local favorite Oceanside (NY) in Rochester, N.Y. Goalpost wipes out a 3-1 deficit by scoring three times in a span of 6:25. Jason Russ, who finishes with a hat trick, levels it with rapid-fire, and Ray Hoff fires in the winner at 57:55.

A dismal start to the season drags on with the Sounders succumbing to San Diego, 1-0, before just 6,288 at home – the third-smallest for an NASL match in 10 seasons. Seattle falls to 2-6 and has been held scoreless in four of the first five home matches.

No sooner does FOE Eagles beat San Francisco Greek-American, 1-0, in the U.S. Open Cup West Region final and the losers file a protest with U.S. Soccer. The Greek-Americans cite the Eagles listing former Sounders forward Pepe Fernandez as an amateur. U.S. District Judge Walter McGovern rules on June 29 it is merely a procedural error and reinstates the victory.

August 2, 1983 – The first sporting event in newly-opened Tacoma Dome features the Sounders hosting Brazil Internacional in their EuroPac tournament opener, a 2-1 loss before 6,340. Peter Ward is first to find the net in the game’s 11th minute. Ruben Paz and Rene score just over three minutes apart midway through the second half for the visitors from Porto Alegre. Ownership missed making payroll to the players and staff the day prior, and there had been doubt as to whether Seattle would compete after missing a $48,000 CDN payment to the Vancouver Whitecaps, who are tournament hosts.

Goalpost of Federal Way wins the USYSA boys' U16 crown by defeating St. Louis Scott-Gallagher, 3-1, for the D.J. Niotis Cup at Rochester, N.Y., for the state's first national youth championship. Jason Russ (19'), Jim Weber (42') and Robb Sakamoto (50') score to go up by 3-nil. Goalpost, which finishes 41-3-1 for the season.

Between the sale of five players and a dispersal draft of 10 others, the Sounders roster dissolves. Joe Corrigan (Brighton), Peter Ward (Vancouver), John Bain, Tim Bartro and Steve Daley (all Golden Bay) are purchased outright. Among those taken by the remaining nine NASL clubs are homegrown players Chance Fry (Tulsa), Brian Schmetzer (Chicago traded to Tulsa), Mark Peterson (New York), Bill Crook (Ft. Lauderdale) and Jeff Stock (Golden Bay).

Joan Dunlap scores and adds an assist in North Carolina's convincing 4-0 victory over George Mason for the NCAA championship in Orlando. A 22-year-old freshman from Seattle, Dunlap figures in two of three UNC goals during an 11-minute span. She strips a defender at the top of the box and drives in to make it 3-nil. A few minutes later Dunlap feeds Amy Machin. The Tar Heels finish 19-1-0.

Runner-up a year earlier, Shorecrest wins the second WIAA girls' state tournament behind a Michelle Akers goal, 1-0 over Cascade at Auburn's Troy Field. In the second half Akers brings down a Kristine Anderson free kick, turns left and roofs it left-footed from 20 yards. Wendy Stubenrauch is called upon to make a handful of saves in the final 10 minutes to secure the Scots' shutout.

Twelve games into their existence and struggling mightily, the Tacoma Stars name vice president Freddie Goodwin as coach, demoting Bob McNab to associate. The fledgling MISL club is just 1-11. Tacoma beats Phoenix, 8-7, in Goodwin's first game later in the day.

John Klein scores deep into overtime to deliver Washington a 1-0 win over Seattle Pacific at Memorial Stadium and with it both the NCSC championship and Sounders Cup. Klein connects with a cross from Curt Shugarts at 108:54. Craig Christopherson makes five saves for the shutout and is aided by three SPU shots off the post during regulation. Going unbeaten in the final 16 games (15-0-1) UW finishes 8-0-0 in league and 17-3-1 overall but does not receive an NCAA bid.

Mark Peterson scores three times and assists on a fourth goal as Seattle throttles Montreal, 5-1, in the Kingdome. It's only the start of five consecutive games that Peterson scores, totaling eight goals in all. Peter Ward adds a brace versus Le Manic.

Following an opening night tiebreaker loss to Team America, 0-0 (2-1), the Sounders release four notable players, including captain and star midfielder Alan Hudson, who was earning a team-high $105,000. Also released are former league MVP Roger Davies ($90,000), Frank Barton and Robbie Zipp. Steve Buttle, a fan favorite since 1977, was sold Jan. 7. Starting keeper Paul Hammond was allowed to sign as a free agent with Team America.

Tacoma's Jeff Durgan, 21, scores in his U.S. National Team debut, a 2-0 road victory over Haiti. The big central defender left the Cosmos after three seasons to serve as captain for the newest NASL club, Team America, in Washington, D.C.

In a last-minute replay of the protested Open Cup West regional, Peter Fewing's goal gives Seattle's FOE Eagles another 1-0 win over San Francisco Greek-American in Houston. The hastily arranged match came after legal proceedings escalated to U.S. District Court. It starts at 10:20 p.m. local time and ends at midnight. It allows only a day to recover before the semifinal.

Behind Annette Duvall's hat trick, Western Washington wraps up the NCSC title by beating defending champion Washington's women's club, 3-0, on Carver Gym field. The Vikings go 10-0-0 in league play and extend their win streak to 22 games. Duvall, a junior from Bellevue, scores twice in the first half and adds another in the 75th minute.

Seattle's Mike Ryan is named first head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team which will debut in early 1984. "This is something I've always dreamed about," said Ryan, who guided five women's teams to national titles since 1980.

Seattle’s Husky Stadium is listed as one of 14 potential venues in the U.S. Soccer Federation’s formal application to host the 1986 World Cup. Colombia’s withdrawal as host has prompted FIFA to accept offers from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Husky Stadium would be one of four sites requiring grass installed over the existing artificial turf. On March 30, FIFA unanimously selects Mexico to host.

Washington coach Frank Gallo resigns after three seasons (51-9-2) and one NCAA tournament berth. The part-time position pays less than $3,000. Former Husky keeper Denny Buck, 29, is named Gallo's successor on June 25.

Bidding for a fourth straight national women's amateur championship in Houston, Seattle Löwenbräu is dethroned by Dallas Michelob Ladies via penalties (2-2, pks) in the semifinal. Sharon McMurtry and Jan Smisek each score equalizers for Löwenbräu. Dallas goes on to win the title.

Seattle's FOE Eagles fall to defending champion New York Pancyprian Freedoms, 4-2, in the semifinal round of the U.S. Open Cup in Houston. The Freedoms go on to take the championship over Kutis of St. Louis.

Following tryouts in Lancaster, Penn., eight Washington girls are named to the national U18 squad: Bonnie Broughton, Gina Cassella, Lori Henry, Shannon Higgins, Kris Jorgensen, Jenny Olsen, Kathy Ridgewell and Denae Ryan.

Jerry Vick of Tacoma posts his fourth straight shutout of the NAIA finals in Wichita Falls, Tex., as Simon Fraser wins a second straight national championship, 1-0 over host Midwestern State. Vick, a senior, is named to the all-tournament team and graduates as the Clan's career leader in wins (36) and GAA (0.56). He also earned a shutout in the 1982 final and finishes with 29 clean sheets in his final two seasons.

Bob McNab is named Tacoma Stars head coach less than two months before the club's first game. McNab, 40, was both hired and fired by Stars president John Best while both were with the Vancouver Whitecaps in 1980. McNab is a former Arsenal captain.

Frank Barton’s Indoor Soccer Center is opened by the former Sounders midfielder in Federal Way, behind the Federal Way Shopping Center. Barton, who played in Seattle from 1979-82, has 22 teams regularly playing and training but that number more than doubles after eight weeks. There are youth leagues and over-30 leagues for men and women. He is exploring opening a second arena in north Seattle.

Seattle Pacific begins an ambitious road schedule with a 6-1 win at the University New Orleans where Peter Hattrup scores four goals. SPU crisscrosses much of the continent twice during the season, racking up some 14,000 air miles while playing in seven states and provinces, including two trips to Florida. A midseason trip takes the Falcons to Wheaton (Ill.) and the season ends back in Tampa.

The Sounders confirm they are ceasing operations. General manager Don Paul says the Coluccios will provide no further funding and virtually all staff are laid off. Ownership squabbles, the loss of popular players and the poorest on-field performance in the club's existence all contribute to declining attendance and significant financial losses. Seattle is among three NASL teams to fold, leaving nine for what proves to be its final season, in 1984.

The book closes on Seattle's first 10 years of professional soccer with a 2-1 loss to Golden Bay at San Jose. Ray Evans scores the final goal on a 47' penalty kick to pull even with the Earthquakes, but Leo Cuellar gets an 89th-minute winner. The Sounders (12-18) had entered the day possessing the eighth and final NASL playoff slot but are overtaken by Montreal, 4-0 winners over Chicago.

Sounders play six Americans, including five local products–Jeff Stock, Mark Peterson, Brian Schmetzer, Chance Fry, Bill Crook–in home loss to the Cosmos. Roster also featured homegrown Geoff Wall and Tim Bartro.

Mark Peterson of the Sounders scores the first goal at BC Place, but the Vancouver Whitecaps rally to beat Seattle, 2-1, before a record Canadian crowd of 60,342 for the stadium's first event. Peterson's opener comes in the 15th minute. Peter Beardsley brings back the Whitecaps with goals in the 25th and 68th minutes. Since 1974, Vancouver's home had been Empire Stadium.

Don Bennett, an amputee from a boating accident who climbed Mount Rainier a year earlier, organizes the first Bellevue practice session for other amputees interested in playing soccer. Soon, FC Seattle’s Bill Barry and Jimmy Gabriel volunteer to help devise skills and rules for playing games.

Ken Fuegman (Federal Way, Wa./UW), Sasha Shefts (Seattle, Wa./SPU), Jerry Vick (Tacoma, Wa/Simon Fraser) and David McMullen (Seattle, Wa./Tampa) play for West squad at National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs.

Rookie Chance Fry, 19, comes off the bench to score twice in the final five minutes as the Sounders rally for a 3-3 tie at New York. The Cosmos, however, prevail in a shootout. Fry scores again at Toronto four days later and finishes with five goals in all competitions.

Seattle's FOE Eagles beat San Francisco Greek-American 1-0 on John Klein's goal in the 19th minute of the U.S. Open Cup West Region final at Balboa Stadium. On the same day, the Eagles lose to Denver Kickers in the West Amateur Cup final, 2-1.

A crowd of 12,284 is on hand for the inaugural Tacoma Stars game in the Tacoma Dome. Danko Grgic scores the Stars' first goal 10:23 into the second quarter for the early lead, but the L.A. Lazers go on to win, 6-2. The elaborate pregame introductions feature Tacoma players entering the darkened Dome amidst green fog and neon green laser lights pulsating to the theme of Star Wars, with a 20-foot inflatable star towering above. Guests include Gov. John Spellman and MISL commissioner Earl Foreman.

Seattle Pacific crisscrosses much of the continent twice during the season, racking up some 14,000 air miles while playing in seven states and provinces, including two trips to Florida. It all begins with a 6-1 victory at New Orleans before moving on to Florida and Georgia. A midseason trip takes them to Wheaton (Ill.) and the season ends back in Tampa.

Seattle's FC Löwenbräu wins the West Regional of the U.S. Women's Amateur Cup in San Francisco, 2-1 over Hawaii Leahi. Sharon McMurtry scores on Lowenbrau's first foray of the match, and Joan Dunlap doubles the lead in the 75th minute. Seattle defeated Colorado, 2-1, in the semifinal. The three-time national champions, who started the season slowly after adding seven new players, will now defend their title at the finals in Houston.

A hot start for Washington soon fizzles with the Huskies's postseason hopes all but snuffed out before mid-September. A 4-2 loss to Div. II Cal State L.A. in Portland is UW's third in a row, coming on the heels of defeats at Santa Clara (1-3) and Stanford (0-2) earlier in the week. Washington's road trip featured six games in eight days, beginning with wins over Fresno State and San Diego State.

Tacoma lands a Major Indoor Soccer League franchise after securing primary tenant rights away from a bid by the Sounders. Tacoma ownership buys the mothballed Denver Avalanche franchise for an undisclosed price via bankruptcy court just over four months before the season starts. The 13-man ownership group features form Sounders general manager John Best and Tacoma business leaders John Long, Howie Meadowcroft, Gary Milgard, Bill Weyerhaeuser, George Weyerhaeuser, Lowry Wyatt and Dave Young.

Finally, following six straight defeats, some of agonizingly close, the Tacoma Stars earn their first victory, 4-2 at St. Louis. Newly-signed Jimmy McAlister scores, and Dale Mitchell delivers the club's first hat trick.

Tacoma Rovers successfully repeat as boys' U19 state cup champions in Renton, with Brent Goulet scoring twice in a 2-1 defeat of Seattle's Wallbrook Wanderers. The same two teams met with an identical result in 1982. Goalpost, formed by a merger of Federal Way's Tigers and Wolfpack, blanks Sporthaus Schmetzer, 2-0, in U16s.

In the Sounders' final home game, Peter Ward scores all three goals in a 3-2 victory over San Diego. However, the Kingdome attendance is only 7,331 and Seattle goes on to lose its final two games, failing to make the playoffs for only the second time in nine years.

In a postseason compressed into a single day, Western Washington wins the NAIA District 1 women's title by blanking Pacific Lutheran, 3-0, in the Olympia rain. The Vikings, who nipped host Evergreen, 1-0, in a 9 a.m. semifinal, got a first-half goal and assist from Cindy Gordon in a 3-0 victory over Pacific Lutheran. The Lutes had edged Puget Sound, 3-2, in overtime earlier. With no NAIA national tournament, Western finishes a perfect 14-0-0.

An early counterattack goal from Gerard McGlynn stakes Seattle Pacific to an early lead that is never relinquished as the Falcons silence a capacity crowd of 4,000 and top-ranked Tampa's potent attack, 1-0, to claim the NCAA Division II championship. Bill Glandon made seven saves as the Spartans were shut-out at home for the first time in three years.

Former Sounders captain and coach Jimmy Gabriel is named the first coaching director for Washington State Youth Soccer.

Sean Connors is named to U19 national team while Darren Royer and Robb Sakamoto are both selected to U15s. The United States wins the Concacaf U16 championship on Sept. 3 with Sakamoto converting the fourth penalty kick vs. host Trinidad & Tobago, 0-0 (5-4).

John Neeb makes a record 25 saves for Pacific Lutheran as it extends Washington to two overtimes before succumbing, 1-0, at Husky Stadium. The Lutes defense and Neeb hold strong for 104 minutes of regulation and overtime before Ken Fuegmann scores for the Huskies to win their ninth in a row.

Five members of Seattle's FC Lowenbrau Zurich become members of the first U.S. Women's National Team. Named are defender Denise Bender midfielders Kerri Hunt and Sharon McMurtry and forwards Joan Dunlap and Lisa Jones. Mike Ryan, the Lowenbrau coach recently named the first USWNT head coach, makes the selections following a showcase tournament in Washington, D.C. Plans to host a tournament and play the initial games in January 1984 are later scrubbed due to lack of funds.

In his final Sounders appearance and playing in his hometown, Mark Peterson scores his record 61st and final competitive goal in a 4-0 EuroPac tournament win over the China PR National Team in the Tacoma Dome. Peterson also scored in his final NASL game with Seattle, a 2-1 overtime win over Toronto on July 30. His 48 league goals is also a club record.

After five years playing for his hometown club and emerging as one of America's most productive forwards, Mark Peterson departs the Sounders on a loan agreement with Team America. Peterson signed with Seattle out of Tacoma's Wilson High School in 1978. In his first game for Team America the next day, he assists on the lone goal in a loss to the Cosmos.

Peter Hattrup scores Seattle Pacific’s first postseason hat trick as the Falcons battle from behind to beat Missouri St. Louis, 5-2, in an NCAA quarterfinal at Memorial Stadium. UMSL quickly cancels out Gerard McGlynn’s 2’ opener and takes a 2-1 lead. But in the final half-hour Hattrup strikes three times and Brad Elmenhurst adds a penalty kick. Afterward SPU coach Cliff McCrath flops in a pickup bed-full of Jell-O to make good on a promise to fans.

In its biggest move under the new ownership Seattle signs England and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Corrigan, 34, to a three-year deal. Corrigan earned two caps the previous year and made 592 appearances (all competitions) for City since 1967 and was 1981 FA Cup Final man of the match.

Former Sounders captain Ray Evans is the first player signed by the Tacoma Stars as they build their roster. Nine days earlier Evans played and scored in Seattle's final NASL match. Neil Megson, another Sounder, is signed the following day. By late November six more former Sounders players have signed: Frank Barton, Cliff Brown, Tony Chursky, Jimmy McAlister, Mark Peterson and Geoff Wall.

Annette Duvall scores a record six goals in Western Washington’s 8-1 pummeling of Puget Sound in Bellingham. A junior, Duvall scores five times in the second half as the Vikings pull away from a 1-1 halftime tie. Four of her goals come in a span fewer than 15 minutes.

Former NFL lineman Bruce Anderson and REI president Jerry Horn buy a majority stake in the Sounders from Frank and Vince Coluccio. They promptly fire coach Alan Hinton despite Seattle coming off a division championship and berth in Soccer Bowl. Anderson, seeking a more Americanized, gung-ho playing style – marketed as red, white, black and blue – hires Laurie Calloway as the new coach 12 days before the first match.

Frank and Vince Coluccio regain controlling interest in the Sounders from Bruce Anderson following the purchase of Jerry Horn’s interest. The Coluccios, sole owners until selling 75 percent to Anderson and Horn six months earlier, say they intend to vote-out Anderson as president on July 7 and that coach Laurie Calloway is “in trouble.” The following day the Sounders blast Tampa Bay, 6-0, to reach .500 (7-7) after a 2-6 start.

Fueled by Rob Holmes's first-half hat trick, Federal Way's Thomas Jefferson (16-0-3) wins its first title (all-classification), 4-0 over Inglemoor at Memorial Stadium. Holmes gives the Raiders an early lead on a 3' penalty kick, then adds a header from Todd Morrow's long, upfield ball just before halftime. He finishes Larry Pifer's pass from short range at 63', and Ron Simpson adds the fourth. Lance Webber's seven saves earn the shutout.