The St. Louis Frogs were an American soccer club. The Frogs were owned by Giesler Sports Enterprises and given sanction to enter the American Soccer League's newly-formed Midwest Conference by the United States Soccer Football Association at the 1972, summer meetings in Anchorage. The team played only one season and was coached by Pete Traina, with Walter J. Giesler serving as general manager. Their colors were green and white, and they played their home matches at Giesler's Sports Village.

Team name In a newspaper interview Giesler stated that the team named stemmed from a cast iron frog that had been found during a remodeling of his sporting goods store. Construction workers told him that it was an old good luck tradition of contractors to place a frog of some sort inside a wall during construction. The frog wound up becoming a decoration on his desk. Originally he had wanted to call the team the Missouri Mules, but the name had already been taken. As he struggled to come up with an original name, he realized the answer was sitting right on his desk, and thus the St. Louis Frogs were born.

Year-by-year YearLeagueRecordGFGAPositionPlayoffsU.S. Open Cup1972ASL2–613165th, MidwesternDid not qualifyDid not enter

Final conference standings Midwest ConferenceGWDLGFGAPTSCincinnati Comets861119713Cleveland Stars860223106Detroit Mustangs822413286Pittsburgh Canons821511185St. Louis Frogs820613164Chicago Americans*??????? *Chicago Americans played only a few games

Game-by-game Friendly results DateOpponentVenueResultGoal scorersRefJuly 12, 1972SV Falke-Steinfeld (West Germany)H1–1 Gary McBrady

Regular season results DateOpponentVenueResultGoal scorersRefJuly 15, 1972Cleavland StarsA0–2 –July 22, 1972Pittsburgh CanonsA2–3Gary McBrady, Paul Pisani, Jim NiehoffJuly 30, 1972Cincinnati CometsH0–1 –August 12, 1972Cincinnati CometsA3–0 –August 13, 1972Detroit MustangsA3–1Frank FischerAugust 20, 1972Cleavland StarsH0–4 –August 27, 1972Pittsburgh CanonsH0–1 –September 4, 1972Detroit MustangsH9–0Mike Villa (2), Niehoff (2), McBrady (2),John Deinowski, Tom Beaver, Jack Blake

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