
Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber stands with Carolyn Kindle Betz, senior vice president and executive director of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation, in March 2019. Betz is part of the ownership group bringing an MLS team to St. Louis. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
The bid to land a Major League Soccer team for St. Louis began publicly in October 2018. Members of the Taylor family and of the Kavanaugh family joined forces to prepare a formal bid for an expansion team.
Carolyn Kindle Betz (pictured with Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber) joined with Jim Kavanaugh, Andy Taylor, Jo Ann Taylor Kindle, Christine B. Taylor, Alison Kindle Hogan, Kelly C. Taylor, Patricia A. Taylor and Barbara Taylor. The team will be the first in the league majority-owned by women.
A formal announcement that St. Louis will get a team was held Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. The debut has been postponed a year, to 2023.
In August 2020, the team's leadership announced its name, crest and colors: St. Louis City SC.

Joesy Cramer-Herrea, 6, of Lebanon, Illinois, waves a St. Louis City SC scarf as soccer staff members shoot video during a promotional tour for the newly named MLS soccer club on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com