2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season


The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were Virginia who defeated UCLA 0–0 to win its seventh NCAA soccer title. The season concluded with Stanford defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.

Changes from 2014

Coaching changes

New programs

None.

Conference realignment

SchoolPrevious ConferenceNew Conference
Northern KentuckyAtlantic Sun ConferenceHorizon League

NJIT, previously the only Division I basketball independent, played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference. Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016.
Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference. The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016 in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.

Season overview

Pre-season polls

Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2015.

Regular season

#1

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.
DateWinnerScoreLoser
August 28@ UC Santa Barbara1–0#8 Stanford
August 30@ Oregon State1–0#9 Michigan State
August 31@ South Florida2–0#3 Georgetown
September 3@ Lipscomb2–1#10 Xavier
September 4Akron1–0@ #12 Georgetown
September 4@ Omaha1–0# 13 UC Irvine
September 6Virginia Tech3–1@ #10 Xavier
September 7Akron3–2@ #6 Maryland
September 13UC Riverside2–1@ #8 UCLA
September 13@ Penn State1–0#10 Indiana
September 15 Xavier1–0@ #2 Notre Dame
September 15#20 Elon1–0@ #7 Wake Forest
September 17@ Portland1–0#8 Oregon State
September 22@ South Carolina3–1#8 Elon
September 22@ Gonzaga2–1#13 Oregon State
September 23@ #25 Georgetown2–1#11 Maryland
September 24@ Seattle2–1#10 Washington
September 25@ South Carolina2–1#7 New Mexico
September 25Seattle2–1@ #13 Oregon State
September 30@ William & Mary4–1#10 Elon
October 4UCLA3–2@ #15 Washington
October 9@ Boston College2–1#10 Virginia
October 11@ UNC Asheville3–2#4 Coastal Carolina
October 14@ Sacramento State5–2#14 UC Santa Barbara
October 17@ FIU2–1#9 Old Dominion
October 17@ Cal Poly3–2 #14 UC Santa Barbara
October 20@ Duke2–1 #10 Elon
October 28Xavier2–1@ #1 Creighton
October 30@ Boston College2–1#12 Syracuse
October 31@ UConn2–1 #11 South Florida
October 31@ South Carolina3–1#13 Old Dominion
November 1#25 UCLA4–2@ #6 Akron
October 2@ Washington'''2–1#4 Stanford

Statistics

Individuals


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Teams


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  • All statistics are through the games of December 13, 2015

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Attendances

TeamHome average
UC Santa Barbara3,844
UConn3,504
Creighton3,297
Maryland3,203
Wake Forest2,720
Louisville2,663
Clemson2,648
Cal Poly2,488
South Carolina2,245
Akron2,186
Indiana1,994
Saint Louis1,915
UCLA1,858
Virginia1,810
New Mexico1,691
Utah Valley1,590
Portland1,548
Penn St.1,546
UMBC1,543
Kentucky1,489
Syracuse1,316
North Carolina1,174
Stanford1,174
SIUE1,157
Elon1,155
Notre Dame1,092
Virginia Tech1,040
Grand Canyon1,038
Boston U.1,032
UNCG1,030
Ohio St.1,027
Georgetown958
Michigan951
Michigan St.942
Air Force941
Butler932
Charlotte924
Milwaukee918
Binghamton915
UNCW901
Dartmouth894
Furman876
South Florida871
Yale862
UAB856
Washington816
St. John's 811
North Carolina St.802
CSU Bakersfield800
Cincinnati793