NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

Men's Division I Soccer Tournament

Founded	1959
Number of teams	48
Current champions	Stanford
Most successful club(s)	Saint Louis (10)
Television broadcasters	ESPNU ESPN Deportes
Website	NCAA.com
2016 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.

While 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. In 2016, 24 spots will be reserved for the winners of automatic bids.

Conferences granted automatic qualification are:

Each conference determines the format for their conference championship, which determines the school who receives the automatic bid. Many use conference tournaments, although three conferences award the championship and automatic bid to the regular season champion. The remaining 24 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.

Stanford are the current champions, defeating Clemson 4-0 in the final.

Past champions

NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament^[2]
Year	Final			Third Place Match/Semifinalists			Host City	Host Stadium
Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place	Host City	Host Stadium
1959 Details	Saint Louis	5–2	Bridgeport	CCNY, West Chester			Storrs, Connecticut	Memorial Stadium
1960 Details	Saint Louis (2)	3–2	Maryland	West Chester, Connecticut			Brooklyn, New York	Brooklyn College Field
1961 Details	West Chester	2–0	Saint Louis	Bridgeport, Rutgers			St. Louis, Missouri	Public Schools Stadium
1962 Details	Saint Louis (3)	4–3	Maryland	Springfield College, Michigan State			St. Louis, Missouri	Francis Field
1963 Details	Saint Louis (4)	3–0	Navy	Maryland, Army			Piscataway, New Jersey	Rutgers Stadium
1964 Details	Navy	1–0	Michigan State	Saint Louis, Army			Providence, Rhode Island	Brown Stadium
1965 Details	Saint Louis (5)	1–0	Michigan State	Navy, Army			St. Louis, Missouri	Francis Field
1966 Details	San Francisco	5–2	Long Island University	Michigan State, Army			Berkeley, California	California Memorial Stadium
1967 Details	Michigan State Saint Louis (6)	0–0 †	—	Navy, Long Island–Brooklyn			St. Louis, Missouri	Francis Field
1968 Details	Maryland Michigan State (2)	2–2 (2OT) ‡	—	Brown, San Jose State			Atlanta	Grant Field
1969 Details	Saint Louis (7)	4–0	San Francisco	Maryland, Harvard			San Jose, California	Spartan Stadium
1970 Details	Saint Louis (8)	1–0	UCLA	Hartwick, Howard			Edwardsville, Illinois	Cougar Field, SIUE
1971 Details	Howard #	3–2	Saint Louis	Harvard, San Francisco			Miami, Florida	Miami Orange Bowl
1972 Details	Saint Louis (9)	4–2	UCLA	Howard, Cornell			Miami, Florida	Miami Orange Bowl
1973 Details	Saint Louis (10)	3–2 (OT)	UCLA	Brown, Clemson			Miami, Florida	Miami Orange Bowl
1974 Details	Howard	2–1 (4OT)	Saint Louis	Hartwick	3–1	UCLA	St. Louis, Missouri	Busch Memorial Stadium
1975 Details	San Francisco (2)	4–0	SIU Edwardsville	Brown	2–0	Howard	Edwardsville, Illinois	Cougar Field, SIUE
1976 Details	San Francisco (3)	1–0	Indiana	Hartwick	4–3	Clemson	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Franklin Field
1977 Details	Hartwick	2–1	San Francisco	SIU Edwardsville	3–2	Brown	Berkeley, California	California Memorial Stadium
1978 Details	San Francisco #	2–0	Indiana	Clemson	6–2	Philadelphia U.	Tampa, Florida	Tampa Stadium
1979 Details	SIU Edwardsville	3–2	Clemson	Penn State	2–1	Columbia	Tampa, Florida	Tampa Stadium
1980 Details	San Francisco (4)	4–3 (OT)	Indiana	Hartwick, Alabama A&M			Tampa, Florida	Tampa Stadium
1981 Details	Connecticut	2–1 (OT)	Alabama A&M	Eastern Illinois #, Philadelphia U.			Palo Alto, California	Stanford Stadium
1982 Details	Indiana	2–1 (8OT)	Duke	Connecticut, SIU Edwardsville			Fort Lauderdale, Florida	Lockhart Stadium
1983 Details	Indiana (2)	1–0 (2OT)	Columbia	Connecticut, Virginia			Fort Lauderdale, Florida	Lockhart Stadium
1984 Details	Clemson	2–1	Indiana	Hartwick, UCLA			Seattle, Washington	Kingdome
1985 Details	UCLA	1–0 (8OT)	American	Hartwick, Evansville			Seattle	Kingdome
1986 Details	Duke	1–0	Akron	Harvard, Fresno State			Tacoma, Washington	Tacoma Dome
1987 Details	Clemson (2)	2–0	San Diego State	Harvard, North Carolina			Clemson, South Carolina	Riggs Field
1988 Details	Indiana (3)	1–0	Howard	Portland, South Carolina			Bloomington, Indiana	Bill Armstrong Stadium
1989 Details	Santa Clara Virginia	1–1 (4OT) †	—	Indiana, Rutgers			Piscataway, New Jersey	Rutgers Stadium
1990 Details	UCLA (2)	0–0 (4OT) (4–3 pen)	Rutgers	Evansville, NC State			Tampa, Florida	USF Soccer Stadium
1991 Details	Virginia (2)	0–0 (4OT) (3–1 pen)	Santa Clara	Indiana, Saint Louis			Tampa, Florida	USF Soccer Stadium
1992 Details	Virginia (3)	2–0	San Diego	Duke, Davidson			Davidson, North Carolina	Richardson Stadium
1993 Details	Virginia (4)	2–0	South Carolina	Cal State–Fullerton, Princeton			Davidson, North Carolina	Richardson Stadium
1994 Details	Virginia (5)	1–0	Indiana	UCLA, Rutgers			Davidson, North Carolina	Richardson Stadium
1995 Details	Wisconsin	2–0	Duke	Virginia, Portland			Richmond, Virginia	Richmond Stadium
1996 Details	St. John's	4–1	FIU	Creighton, Charlotte			Richmond, Virginia	Richmond Stadium
1997 Details	UCLA (3)	2–0	Virginia	Indiana, Saint Louis			Richmond, Virginia	Richmond Stadium
1998 Details	Indiana (4)	3–1	Stanford	Maryland, Santa Clara			Richmond, Virginia	Richmond Stadium
1999 Details	Indiana (5)	1–0	Santa Clara	Connecticut, UCLA			Charlotte, North Carolina	Ericsson Stadium
2000 Details	Connecticut (2)	2–0	Creighton	Indiana, SMU			Charlotte, North Carolina	Ericsson Stadium
2001 Details	North Carolina	2–0	Indiana	Stanford, St. John's			Columbus, Ohio	Columbus Crew Stadium
2002 Details	UCLA (4)	1–0	Stanford	Maryland, Creighton			University Park, Texas	Gerald J. Ford Stadium
2003 Details	Indiana (6)	2–1	St. John's	Maryland, Santa Clara			Columbus, Ohio	Columbus Crew Stadium
2004 Details	Indiana (7)	1–1 (2OT) (3–2 pen)	UC Santa Barbara	Maryland, Duke			Carson, California	Home Depot Center
2005 Details	Maryland (2)	1–0	New Mexico	SMU, Clemson			Cary, North Carolina	SAS Soccer Park
2006 Details	UC Santa Barbara	2–1	UCLA	Wake Forest, Virginia			St. Louis, Missouri	Hermann Stadium
2007 Details	Wake Forest	2–1	Ohio State	Virginia Tech, Massachusetts			Cary, North Carolina	SAS Soccer Park
2008 Details	Maryland (3)	1–0	North Carolina	St. John's, Wake Forest			Frisco, Texas	Pizza Hut Park
2009 Details	Virginia (6)	0–0 (2OT) (3–2 pen)	Akron	Wake Forest, North Carolina			Cary, North Carolina	WakeMed Soccer Park
2010 Details	Akron	1–0	Louisville	North Carolina, Michigan			Santa Barbara, California	Harder Stadium
2011 Details	North Carolina (2)	1–0	Charlotte	UCLA, Creighton			Hoover, Alabama	Regions Park
2012 Details	Indiana (8)	1–0	Georgetown	Maryland, Creighton			Hoover, Alabama	Regions Park
2013 Details	Notre Dame	2–1	Maryland	New Mexico, Virginia			Chester, Pennsylvania	PPL Park
2014 Details	Virginia (7)	0–0 (2OT) (4–2 pen)	UCLA	Providence, UMBC			Cary, North Carolina	WakeMed Soccer Park
2015 Details	Stanford	4–0	Clemson	Akron, Syracuse			Kansas City, Kansas	Children's Mercy Park
2016 Details							Houston, Texas	BBVA Compass Stadium
2017 Details							Chester, Pennsylvania	Talen Energy Stadium

Side Notes:

† Co-champions—Game called due to weather
‡ Co-champions—Game was declared a draw
# Disqualified (DQ) at a later time

Most successful schools

Team titles

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

Side Notes:

† Co-champions—Game called due to weather
‡ Co-champions—Game was declared a draw

References

External links

NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

NCAA Tournaments	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

NCAA Finals	2015

Records & statistics	All-time individual records All-time team records Appearances Cumulative results

NCAA men's college soccer tournaments (United States)

Division I early season tournaments	Akron Soccer Tournament Brown Soccer Classic Central New York Classic Gonzaga Nike Classic Hensor–Zaher Classic Hokie Invitational Hurricane Classic JMU Tournament Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament Norfolk Invitational Ocean State Classic Santa Barbara Tournament ShinDigz Soccer Festival Stihl Soccer Classic VCU Tournament Wolstein Classic

Division I post-season conference tournaments	ACC American America East Atlantic 10 Atlantic Sun Big East Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Pac-12 Patriot Southern The Summit League West Coast

Division I postseason tournaments	NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

Division II and III postseason tournaments	NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association

NCAA	Awards Hall of Champions Conferences

Division I sports and championships	Institutions Athletic directors Baseball Championship CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football FBS FCS Golf Men Women Gymnastics Men Women Ice hockey Men Women Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship CWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Men Women Wrestling Championship

Division II	Institutions Baseball Championship/CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football Championship Golf Men Women Ice hockey Men Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship/WCWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Women Wrestling Championship

Division III	Institutions Baseball Championship/CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football Championship Golf Men Women Ice hockey Men Women Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship/WCWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Men Women Wrestling Championship

Single-division sports and championships	Beach volleyball Women Bowling Women Boxing Championship Fencing Championships Gymnastics Men Women Men–DII Women–DII Rifle Championship Skiing Championships Trampoline Championship Water polo Men Women

Events listed in italics have been discontinued.

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