NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

Men's Division I Soccer Tournament
Founded	1959
Number of teams	48
Current champions	Clemson ; (3rd title)
Most successful club(s)	Saint Louis ; (10 titles)
Television broadcasters	ESPNU; ESPN Deportes
Website	NCAA.com
	2021 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

The NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, sometimes known as the College Cup, is an American intercollegiate soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I men's national champion. The tournament has been formally held since 1959, when it was an eight-team tournament. Since then, the tournament has expanded to 48 teams, in which every Division I conference tournament champion is allocated a berth. Among the most successful programs, Saint Louis won 10 titles during dynasty years between 1959 and 1973. Indiana has won 8 titles beginning in 1982, whereas Virginia has won 7 titles beginning in 1989.

Although the tournament is frequently referenced as the College Cup, the NCAA applies the title only to the semifinal and championship rounds of the tournament proper. Since the tournament began, the semifinal and final fixtures have been held at a neutral site predetermined by the NCAA prior to the start of the regular season.

Format[]

The NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament is a 48-team, single-elimination tournament. Currently, 23 spots are reserved for the winners of automatic bids.

Conferences granted automatic qualification are:

America East Conference
American Athletic Conference
ASUN Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic 10 Conference
Big East Conference
Big South Conference
Big Ten Conference
Big West Conference
Colonial Athletic Association
Conference USA
Horizon League

Ivy League
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Mid-American Conference
Missouri Valley Conference
Northeast Conference
Pac-12 Conference
Patriot League
Southern Conference
The Summit League
West Coast Conference
Western Athletic Conference

Each conference determines the format for its conference championship, which determines the school that receives its automatic bid. Many use conference tournaments, although three conferences award the championship and automatic bid to the regular season champion. The remaining 25 teams have received at-large bids. The at-large teams are selected by a committee consisting of representatives from each of the eight regions the NCAA has divided the country into. The committee uses a number of criteria, the most influential supposedly being the Ratings Percentage Index, a mathematical formula designed to objectively compare the results and strength of schedule of all Division I teams.^[1]

The top 16 teams are seeded into the bracket and receive first round byes. The other 32 are grouped by geographical proximity. The first four rounds are played on campus sites, with matches being hosted by the higher seed. The College Cup, comprising the semifinal and final matches, is played at a predetermined site.

Clemson is the current champion, defeating Washington 2–0 in overtime in the 2021 final.

List of champions[]

Below is a complete list of winning teams and finals held:^[2]

NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
Year	Final			Third Place Match/Semifinalists			City	Stadium
Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place	City	Stadium
1959	Saint Louis	5–2	Bridgeport	CCNY	–	West Chester	Storrs	Memorial Stadium
1960	Saint Louis (2)	3–2	Maryland	West Chester	–	Connecticut^[a]	Brooklyn	Brooklyn College Field
1961	West Chester	2–0	Saint Louis	Bridgeport	–	Rutgers	St. Louis	Public Schools Stadium
1962	Saint Louis (3)	4–3	Maryland	Springfield College	–	Michigan State	St. Louis	Francis Field
1963	Saint Louis (4)	3–0	Navy	Maryland	–	Army	Piscataway	Rutgers Stadium
1964	Navy	1–0	Michigan State	Saint Louis	–	Army	Providence	Brown Stadium
1965	Saint Louis (5)	1–0	Michigan State	Navy	–	Army	St. Louis	Francis Field
1966	San Francisco	5–2	LIU^[b]	Michigan State	–	Army	Berkeley	California Memorial Stadium
1967	Michigan State ^[c] Saint Louis (6)	0–0	—	Navy	–	LIU^[b]	St. Louis	Francis Field
1968	Maryland ^[d] Michigan State (2)	2–2 (a.e.t)	—	Brown	–	San Jose State	Atlanta	Grant Field
1969	Saint Louis (7)	4–0	San Francisco	Maryland	–	Harvard	San Jose	Spartan Stadium
1970	Saint Louis (8)	1–0	UCLA	Hartwick	–	Howard ^[e]	Edwardsville	Cougar Field, SIUE
1971	Howard ^[e]	3–2	Saint Louis	Harvard	–	San Francisco	Miami	Orange Bowl
1972	Saint Louis (9)	4–2	UCLA	Howard	–	Cornell	Miami	Orange Bowl
1973	Saint Louis (10)	3–2 (a.e.t)	UCLA	Brown	–	Clemson	Miami	Orange Bowl
1974	Howard	2–1 (a.e.t)	Saint Louis	Hartwick	3–1	UCLA	St. Louis	Busch Memorial Stadium
1975	San Francisco (2)	4–0	SIU Edwardsville	Brown	2–0	Howard	Edwardsville	Cougar Field
1976	San Francisco (3)	1–0	Indiana	Hartwick	4–3	Clemson	Philadelphia	Franklin Field
1977	Hartwick	2–1	San Francisco	SIU Edwardsville	3–2	Brown	Berkeley	California Memorial Stadium
1978	San Francisco ^[e]	2–0	Indiana	Clemson	6–2	Philadelphia Textile^[f]	Tampa	Tampa Stadium
1979	SIU Edwardsville	3–2	Clemson	Penn State	2–1	Columbia	Tampa	Tampa Stadium
1980	San Francisco (4)	4–3 (a.e.t)	Indiana	Hartwick	–	Alabama A&M	Tampa	Tampa Stadium
1981	Connecticut^[a]	2–1 (a.e.t)	Alabama A&M	Eastern Illinois ^[e]	–	Philadelphia Textile^[f]	Palo Alto	Stanford Stadium
1982	Indiana	2–1 (a.e.t)	Duke	Connecticut^[a]	–	SIU Edwardsville	Fort Lauderdale	Lockhart Stadium
1983	Indiana (2)	1–0 (a.e.t)	Columbia	Connecticut^[a]	–	Virginia	Fort Lauderdale	Lockhart Stadium
1984	Clemson	2–1	Indiana	Hartwick	–	UCLA	Seattle	Kingdome
1985	UCLA	1–0 (a.e.t)	American	Hartwick	–	Evansville	Seattle	Kingdome
1986	Duke	1–0	Akron	Harvard	–	Fresno State	Tacoma	Tacoma Dome
1987	Clemson (2)	2–0	San Diego State	Harvard	–	North Carolina	Clemson	Riggs Field
1988	Indiana (3)	1–0	Howard	Portland	–	South Carolina	Bloomington	Bill Armstrong
1989	Santa Clara ^[d] Virginia	1–1 (a.e.t)	—	Indiana	–	Rutgers	Piscataway	Rutgers Stadium
1990	UCLA (2)	0–0 (a.e.t, 4–3 p.)	Rutgers	Evansville	–	NC State	Tampa	USF Soccer Stadium
1991	Virginia (2)	0–0 (a.e.t, 3–1 p.)	Santa Clara	Indiana	–	Saint Louis	Tampa	USF Soccer Stadium
1992	Virginia (3)	2–0	San Diego	Duke	–	Davidson	Davidson	Richardson Stadium
1993	Virginia (4)	2–0	South Carolina	Cal State Fullerton	–	Princeton	Davidson	Richardson Stadium
1994	Virginia (5)	1–0	Indiana	UCLA	–	Rutgers	Davidson	Richardson Stadium
1995	Wisconsin	2–0	Duke	Virginia	–	Portland	Richmond	Richmond Stadium
1996	St. John's	4–1	FIU	Creighton	–	UNC Charlotte^[g]	Richmond	Richmond Stadium
1997	UCLA (3)	2–0	Virginia	Indiana	–	Saint Louis	Richmond	Richmond Stadium
1998	Indiana (4)	3–1	Stanford	Maryland	–	Santa Clara	Richmond	Richmond Stadium
1999	Indiana (5)	1–0	Santa Clara	Connecticut^[a]	–	UCLA	Charlotte	Ericsson Stadium
2000	Connecticut (2)^[a]	2–0	Creighton	Indiana	–	SMU	Charlotte	Ericsson Stadium
2001	North Carolina	2–0	Indiana	Stanford	–	St. John's	Columbus	Columbus Crew Stadium
2002	UCLA (4)	1–0	Stanford	Maryland	–	Creighton	University Park	Gerald J. Ford Stadium
2003	Indiana (6)	2–1	St. John's	Maryland	–	Santa Clara	Columbus	Columbus Crew Stadium
2004	Indiana (7)	1–1 (a.e.t, 3–2 p.)	UC Santa Barbara	Maryland	–	Duke	Carson	Home Depot Center
2005	Maryland (2)	1–0	New Mexico	SMU	–	Clemson	Cary	SAS Soccer Park
2006	UC Santa Barbara	2–1	UCLA	Wake Forest	–	Virginia	St. Louis	Hermann Stadium
2007	Wake Forest	2–1	Ohio State	Virginia Tech	–	Massachusetts	Cary	SAS Soccer Park
2008	Maryland (3)	1–0	North Carolina	St. John's	–	Wake Forest	Frisco	Pizza Hut Park
2009	Virginia (6)	0–0 (a.e.t, 3–2 p.)	Akron	Wake Forest	–	North Carolina	Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2010	Akron	1–0	Louisville	North Carolina	–	Michigan	Santa Barbara	Harder Stadium
2011	North Carolina (2)	1–0	Charlotte	UCLA	–	Creighton	Hoover	Regions Park
2012	Indiana (8)	1–0	Georgetown	Maryland	–	Creighton	Hoover	Regions Park
2013	Notre Dame	2–1	Maryland	New Mexico	–	Virginia	Chester	PPL Park
2014	Virginia (7)	0–0 (a.e.t, 4–2 p.)	UCLA	Providence	–	UMBC	Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2015	Stanford	4–0	Clemson	Akron	–	Syracuse	Kansas	Children's Mercy Park
2016	Stanford (2)	0–0 (a.e.t, 5–4 p.)	Wake Forest	Denver	–	North Carolina	Houston	BBVA Compass Stadium
2017	Stanford (3)	1–0 (a.e.t)	Indiana	North Carolina	–	Akron	Chester	Talen Energy Stadium
2018	Maryland (4)	1–0	Akron	Indiana	–	Michigan State	Santa Barbara	Harder Stadium
2019	Georgetown	3–3 (a.e.t, 7–6 p.)	Virginia	Stanford	–	Wake Forest	Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2020	Marshall	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Indiana	North Carolina	–	Pittsburgh	Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2021	Clemson (3)	2–0	Washington	Notre Dame	–	Georgetown	Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2022							Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park
2023							Louisville	Lynn Family Stadium
2024							Sacramento	Railyards Stadium
2025							Cary	WakeMed Soccer Park

Most successful schools[]

Team titles[]

Akron

Duke

Hartwick

Marshall

Notre
Dame

Santa Clara

SIUE

St. John's

UCSB

Wake Forest

West Chester

Wisconsin

Saint
Louis

Indiana

Virginia

San Francisco

UCLA

Stanford

Clemson

Michigan
State

North Carolina

UConn

DC/Maryland schools

Maryland

Georgetown

Howard

Navy

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Teams that have won the National Championship: 10, 8, 7, 4, 3, 2, 1

Team	Titles	Years won
Saint Louis	10	1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967,^[c] 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973
Indiana	8	1982, 1983, 1988, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2012
Virginia	7	1989,^[h] 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2009, 2014
Maryland	4	1968,^[h] 2005, 2008, 2018
UCLA	4	1985, 1990, 1997, 2002
San Francisco	4	1966, 1975, 1976, 1980
Clemson	3	1984, 1987, 2021
Stanford	3	2015, 2016, 2017
North Carolina	2	2001, 2011
UConn	2	1981, 2000
Michigan State	2	1967,^[c] 1968^[h]
Marshall	1	2020
Georgetown	1	2019
Notre Dame	1	2013
Akron	1	2010
Wake Forest	1	2007
UC Santa Barbara	1	2006
St. John's	1	1996
Wisconsin	1	1995
Santa Clara	1	1989^[h]
Duke	1	1986
SIU Edwardsville	1	1979
Hartwick	1	1977
Howard	1	1974
Navy	1	1964
West Chester	1	1961

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The University of Connecticut did not adopt "UConn" as its sole athletic brand until 2013.
^ ^a ^b This team represented the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. In 2019, LIU merged the Brooklyn athletic program with the NCAA Division II program of its Post campus. The merged men's soccer team, which now plays as the LIU Sharks, inherited the history and records of the Brooklyn program.
^ ^a ^b ^c Title game was suspended due to weather, with both teams sharing the title.
^ ^a ^b Title shared after the game ended in a tie, with no extra time played.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Disqualified at a later time.
^ ^a ^b The Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, known for sports purposes as "Philadelphia Textile", changed its name to Philadelphia University (PhilaU) in 1999. In 2017, PhilaU merged with Thomas Jefferson University, a healthcare-only institution also in Philadelphia that had no athletic program. The merged university adopted the Thomas Jefferson name and inherited the PhilaU athletic program, which now competes as Jefferson.
^ The University of North Carolina at Charlotte did not adopt its current athletic brand name of "Charlotte" until 2000.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Title shared after the final ended in a tie, with no extra time played.

Appearances[]

This list consists of the top 25 men's college soccer teams in terms of appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.

Rank	Team	Appearances
Top 25 rankings as of 10 December 2017^[3]
1	Saint Louis	48
2	UCLA	44
3	Indiana	43
4	Virginia	39
5	UConn	35
5	Maryland	35
7	Penn State	32
8	Clemson	31
8	San Francisco	31
8	SMU	31
11	Akron	28
12	Brown	27
13	Duke	26
14	Hartwick	25
14	North Carolina	25
16	Creighton	24
17	Washington	23
18	South Carolina	22
19	Wake Forest	21
20	Notre Dame	20
20	Santa Clara	20
20	South Florida	20
20	St. John's	20
24	California	19
24	Michigan State	19

Highest attendances[]

The highest recorded attendance for championship games are listed below:^[4]

22,512 – Saint Louis (5) vs. SIU Edwardsville (1), Busch Stadium, St. Louis Oct. 30 1980
21,319 – Wisconsin (1) vs. Portland (0) / Duke (3) vs. Virginia (2), Richmond, Virginia (NCAA semifinals) Dec. 8, 1995
20,874 – St. John's (NY) (4) vs. FIU (1), Richmond, Virginia (NCAA final) Dec. 15, 1996
20,703 – Wisconsin (2) vs. Duke (0), Richmond, Virginia (NCAA final) Dec. 10, 1995
20,269 – St. John's (NY) (2) vs. Creighton (1) / FIU (4) vs. Charlotte (0), Richmond, Virginia (NCAA semifinals) Dec. 13, 1996
20,143 – UCLA (2) vs. Virginia (0), Richmond, Virginia (NCAA final) Dec. 14, 1997
20,112 – Saint Louis (1) vs. SIU Edwardsville (0), Busch Stadium, St. Louis Nov. 9, 1973

Numbers in parenthesis indicate goals scored by participating teams.

References[]

^ "DI Men's College Soccer Rankings – NCAA Men's Soccer RPI". NCAA.com.
^ Men's Soccer Div 1 – History (1959-2011) on the NCAA
^ "Division I Men's Soccer Championships Records Book" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
^ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2016/2015attendance.pdf

[UConn-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The University of Connecticut did not adopt "UConn" as its sole athletic brand until 2013.

[LIU-4] This team represented the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. In 2019, LIU merged the Brooklyn athletic program with the NCAA Division II program of its Post campus. The merged men's soccer team, which now plays as the LIU Sharks, inherited the history and records of the Brooklyn program.

[weather-5] Title game was suspended due to weather, with both teams sharing the title.

[shared-6] Title shared after the game ended in a tie, with no extra time played.

[disqual-7] Disqualified at a later time.

[Jefferson-8] The Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, known for sports purposes as "Philadelphia Textile", changed its name to Philadelphia University (PhilaU) in 1999. In 2017, PhilaU merged with Thomas Jefferson University, a healthcare-only institution also in Philadelphia that had no athletic program. The merged university adopted the Thomas Jefferson name and inherited the PhilaU athletic program, which now competes as Jefferson.

[9] The University of North Carolina at Charlotte did not adopt its current athletic brand name of "Charlotte" until 2000.

[noextra-10] Title shared after the final ended in a tie, with no extra time played.

[1] "DI Men's College Soccer Rankings – NCAA Men's Soccer RPI". NCAA.com.

[2] Men's Soccer Div 1 – History (1959-2011) on the NCAA

[NCAA_Appearances-11] "Division I Men's Soccer Championships Records Book" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 20 June 2018.

[12] ttp://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2016/2015attendance.pdf

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