The St. Louis Steamers was the name of a professional indoor soccer

Indoor soccer

Indoor soccer or arena soccer, or six-a-side football in the United Kingdom, is a game derived from association football adapted for play in an indoor arena such as a turf-covered hockey arena or skating rink. The most important difference in play is that the indoor field is surrounded by a wall...

 teams based in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. It was the second team to use this name. The first played in the Major Indoor Soccer League

Major Soccer League

The Major Indoor Soccer League, known in its final two seasons as the Major Soccer League, was an indoor soccer league in the USA from 1978 to 1992. After the folding of the North American Soccer League in 1984, the MISL was the Division I soccer league for the United States...

 from 1979-1988, while this version played in the World Indoor Soccer League

World Indoor Soccer League

The World Indoor Soccer League was a United States based indoor soccer league that existed from 1998 to 2001 and consisted of nine teams.-History:...

 from 2000 to 2001, then in the MISL from the 2003-04 season to the 2005-06 season.

The St. Louis Steamers were granted a World Indoor Soccer League expansion franchise in December 1998 but did not begin play until the 2000 season. In 2002, the team, along with fellow WISL teams Dallas Sidekicks

Dallas Sidekicks

The Dallas Sidekicks were one of the longest operating professional soccer teams, either indoor or outdoor, in the United States, based in Dallas, Texas, and operating from 1984 until suspending operations following the 2004 season. The team was founded as a member of the original Major Indoor...

 and San Diego Sockers joined the Major Indoor Soccer League when the two leagues merged. However, the Steamers elected to take a year off to reorganize.

The team was purchased before the 2004-05 season by owners planning a reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series about the team, which was called Red Card and played on KPLR channel 11. The team suspended operations after the 2005-2006 season.

Year-by-year

Year	League	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Avg. attendance
2000	WISL	5th WISL, 9-15	Lost Semifinal	5,398
2001	WISL	3rd WISL, 11-13	Lost Semifinal	4,812
2003-04	MISL	3rd Central, 14-22	Failed to qualify	3,483
2004-05	MISL	4th MISL, 20-20	Lost Semifinal	4,794
2005-06	MISL	1st MISL, 23-7	Lost Championship	5,675

Head coaches

• Daryl Doran
  Daryl Doran
  Daryl Doran is a U.S. indoor soccer player. His 827 games are the most of any player in American professional indoor soccer history. Doran currently plays for the St...
  
   2000-2001 & 2003-2005
• Omid Namazi
  Omid Namazi
  Omid Namazi is a retired Iranian-American soccer defender and the current Assistant Coach to Carlos Queiroz with Iran national football team. Namazi played professionally in the American Soccer League, American Professional Soccer League, Major League Soccer, USISL and National Professional Soccer...
  
   2005-2006
• Joe Reiniger
  Joe Reiniger
  Joe Reiniger grew up in Caseyville. He currently plays for arena soccer for the St. Louis Illusion....
  
  2005-2006 (served as head coach during a Namazi suspension)