The 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season will be the 60th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season will begin on August 25, 2018 and will continue into the first weekend of November 2018. The season will culminate with the four-team College Cup at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, California, December 7-9, 2018. There will be 206 teams in men's Division I competition.
Video 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Changes from 2017
Coaching changes
New programs
Mount St. Mary's University reinstated their men's soccer program, which had been dormant since the end of the 2012 season, for the 2018 season.
The California Baptist Lancers began the transition from Division II to Division I and the Western Athletic Conference in 2018-19.
The UC San Diego Tritons will begin the transition from Division II to Division I and will joining the Big West Conference in 2020-21.
Discontinued programs
Hartwick College, the only Division III school competing in Division I men's soccer for some years will move to Division III with the school's other sports.
Despite the program's many successes, the University of New Mexico's Board of Regents, for economic reasons, voted to discontinue the men's soccer program, along with three other sports teams, after the 2018 season.
Conference realignment
NOTE 1: The Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners will move from the Western Athletic Conference to the Big West Conference on July 1, 2020.
NOTE 2: The team formerly known as the Fort Wayne Mastodons officially changed its athletic identity to the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons on June 18, 2018, shortly before the creation of Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Previously, the PFW athletic program represented Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), but the Indiana University and Purdue University systems agreed to dissolve IPFW on July 1, 2018, with each system establishing a separate Fort Wayne campus. The IPFW athletic program transferred to PFW, representing only that institution, and remains a member of Division I and the Summit League.
NOTE 3: After six years of divisional play, with home-and-home series within the divisions, the Big West Conference teams will be playing a single, eight-team, seven game schedule. This move comes two years before Cal State Bakersfield moves in to make the Big West a nine team league.
Player transfers
Maps 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Season overview
Pre-season polls
Regular season
The regular season will begin on August 24, 2018 and end in early November 2018.
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Conference standings
Major upsets
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.
All rankings are from the United Soccer Coaches Poll.
Conference winners and tournaments
Statistics
Individuals
- Individual statistics are through the games of .
Teams
See also
- College soccer
- List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs
- 2018 in American soccer
- 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
- 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
- 2018 U.S. Soccer Spring Men's College Program
References
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