NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship

Men's Division III Soccer Championship

Founded	1974
Number of teams	62
Current champions	Amherst (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Messiah (10 titles)
Website	Website

The NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship is an annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III collegiate men's soccer in the United States.

It has been held each year since 1974 when the Division III championship was established for universities that do not award athletics scholarships. Division III teams had previously competed as part of the NCAA College Division Men's Soccer Championship (now Division II). A total of 62 teams participate, making it the largest of the NCAA's men's soccer tournaments.

Traditionally, the tournament is held in November and December at the end of the regular season. The tournament finals were initially held on the campus of one of the teams participating in the semifinals. Since 2004, however, they have been held at the same pre-determined neutral site as the NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship (added in 1986).

Messiah is the most successful team in event history, with 10 titles. Tufts is the current champion, having won their first title in 2014.^[1]

Selection format

Of the three NCAA divisions, Division III has the most complicated selection process. In 2012, the tournament was a 62-team, single-elimination tournament. Teams are divided into three pools. Pool A consists of the 36 conference champions, who all receive automatic bids to the tournament. Pool B consists of all teams which are not in conferences or which are in conferences that do not meet the requirements to be awarded an automatic bid. Four teams are selected from Pool B. Pool C consists of all the other teams, plus those Pool B teams not already selected. The remaining teams in the field are selected from Pool C. Two teams received first round byes, and the rest of the bracket was filled by geographical proximity. The early rounds of the championship were played at campus sites with the higher seeded team hosting the match. The semifinals and finals are played at a predetermined campus site. The 2012 Division III final rounds were held at Blossom Soccer Complex in San Antonio.^[2]

Champions

NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship
Year	Finals Site (Host)		Final Match				Third Place Match / Semifinalists				Finals Attendance
			Champion	Score	Runner-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1974 Details	Wheaton, IL (Wheaton)		Brockport State	3–1	Swarthmore		Westfield State	3–1	MacMurray		100
1975 Details	Brockport, NY (Brockport State)		Babson	1–0	Brockport State		Ohio Wesleyan	1–0	Johns Hopkins		1,700
1976 Details	Elizabethtown, PA (Elizabethtown)		Brandeis	2–1 (2OT)			Elizabethtown	2–1	MacMurray		2,000
1977 Details	Wellesley, MA (Babson)		Lock Haven	1–0	Cortland State		Babson	1–0	Wooster		500
1978 Details			Lock Haven (2)	3–0	Washington (MO)		Cortland State	2–1 (OT)	North Adams State		800
1979 Details	Trenton, NJ (Trenton State)		Babson (2)	2–1	Glassboro State		Washington (MO)	2–1	Lock Haven		1,500
1980 Details	Wellesley, MA (Babson)		Babson (3)	1–0 (OT)	Scranton		Glassboro State	1–0	Washington (MO)		3,000
1981 Details	Elizabethtown, PA (Elizabethtown)		Glassboro State	2–1 (4OT)			Brandeis	4–2	Ohio Wesleyan		1,100
1982 Details	Greensboro, NC (UNC Greensboro)		UNC Greensboro	2–1	Bethany (WV)		Cortland State and Scranton				1,200
1983 Details			UNC Greensboro (2)	3–2	Claremont–Mudd–Scripps		Plymouth State and Scranton				1,500
1984 Details	Wheaton, IL (Wheaton)		Wheaton (IL)	2–1 (3OT)	Brandeis		Kean and RIT				3,000
1985 Details	St. Louis, MO (Washington)		UNC Greensboro (3)	5–2	Washington (MO)		Fredonia State and Glassboro State				2,688
1986 Details	Greensboro, NC (UNC Greensboro)		UNC Greensboro (4)	2–0	UC San Diego		Fredonia State and Messiah				2,100
1987 Details			UNC Greensboro (5)	6–1	Washington (MO)		Cal State San Bernardino and Salem State				2,500
1988 Details	Rochester, NY (RIT)		UC San Diego	3–0	RIT		Messiah and Salem State				1,207
1989 Details	Elizabethtown, PA (Elizabethtown)		Elizabethtown	2–0	Greensboro		UC San Diego and RIT				2,288
1990 Details	Delaware, OH (Ohio Wesleyan)		Glassboro State	1–1 (4OT, PK)	Ohio Wesleyan		Salem State and Wheaton (IL)				2,100
1991 Details	San Diego, CA (UC San Diego)		UC San Diego (2)	1–0	Trenton State		Babson and Ohio Wesleyan				1,550
1992 Details	Union, NJ (Kean)		Kean	3–1	Ohio Wesleyan		Colorado College and RIT				1,100
1993 Details	Williamstown, MA (Williams)		UC San Diego (3)	1–0	Williams		Clarkson and Kenyon				1,797
1994 Details	Trenton, NJ (Trenton State)		Bethany (WV)	1–0 (2OT)	Johns Hopkins		Trenton State & Wisconsin–Oshkosh				747
1995 Details	Williamstown, MA (Williams)		Williams	2–1	Methodist		Chapman and Muhlenberg				1,951
1996 Details	Gambier, OH (Kenyon)		College of New Jersey	2–1 (OT)	Kenyon		Chicago and Ithaca				1,124
1997 Details	Fredericksburg, VA (Mary Washington)		Wheaton (IL) (2)	3–0	College of New Jersey		Amherst and Mary Washington				540
1998 Details	Delaware, OH (Ohio Wesleyan)		Ohio Wesleyan	2–1 (OT)	UNC Greensboro		Rowan and Williams				1,357
1999 Details	Wheaton, IL (Wheaton)		St. Lawrence	2–0	Wheaton (IL)		Alma and Richard Stockton				2,398
2000 Details	Glassboro, NJ (Rowan)		Messiah	2–0	Rowan		Linfield and Wisconsin–Oshkosh				1,525
2001 Details	Grantham, PA (Messiah)		Richard Stockton	3–2	Redlands		Messiah and Ohio Wesleyan				2,644
2002 Details	Canton, NY (St. Lawrence)		Messiah (2)	1–0	Otterbein		St. Lawrence and Trinity (TX)				456
2003 Details	Madison, NJ (Drew)		Trinity (TX)	2–1	Drew		Wheaton (MA) and Wisconsin–Oshkosh				2,003
2004 Details	Greensboro, NC		Messiah (3)	4–0	UC Santa Cruz		Geneseo State and Salisbury				801
2005 Details			Messiah (4)	1–0	Gustavus Adolphus		Plattsburgh State and Wheaton (IL)				1,374
2006 Details	Lake Buena Vista, FL		Messiah (5)	3–0	Wheaton (IL)		NYU and Ohio Wesleyan				605
2007 Details			Middlebury	0–0 (4–3 pen)	Trinity (TX)		Loras and Messiah				502
2008 Details	Greensboro, NC		Messiah (6)	1–1 (3–0 pen)	Stevens Tech		Amherst and Loras				877
2009 Details	San Antonio, TX		Messiah (7)	2–0	Calvin		Dominican (IL) and Williams				706
2010 Details			Messiah (8)	2–1 (OT)	Lynchburg		Bowdoin and Wisconsin–Oshkosh				854
2011 Details			Ohio Wesleyan (2)	2–1	Calvin		Montclair State and Oneonta State				579
2012 Details			Messiah (9)	5–1	Ohio Northern		Loras and Williams				605
2013 Details			Messiah (10)	2–1 (2OT)	Rutgers–Camden		Loras and Williams				639
2014 Details	Kansas City, MO		Tufts	4–2	Wheaton (IL)		Ohio Wesleyan and SUNY Oneonta				750
2015 Details			Amherst	2–1	Loras		Calvin and SUNY Oneonta				2,247

Schools ranked by titles

Source = ^[3]

Rank	School	#
1	Messiah	10
2	UNC Greensboro	5
3	Babson	3
3	UC San Diego	3
5	Lock Haven	2
5	Ohio Wesleyan	2
5	Rowan (Glassboro State)	2
5	Wheaton (IL)	2
9	Tufts University	1
9	Stockton University	1

See also

• NCAA Men's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II)
• NCAA Women's Soccer Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
• NAIA national men's soccer championship
• Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

References

1. "Division III Men's Soccer Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
2. http://www.ncaa.com/sports/soccer-men/d3
3. http://www.ncaa.com/history/soccer-men/d3

External links

• NCAA Men's Soccer
• Div. III men's soccer championship brackets
• American College Soccer, 1946-1959: The Postwar era