NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee Announces 2025 Championship Selections
The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee has officially announced the 64-team field for the 2025 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship. This prestigious event features teams from 43 conferences that have secured automatic qualification. An additional 21 teams will earn at-large berths, including those from automatic-qualifying conferences that did not win their championships.
Championship Details
All matches prior to the national semifinals will take place at the campuses of participating institutions. The first and second-round competitions will be held on November 14 and 15, or November 15 and 16. Sixteen locations will host four teams each during these rounds.
Advancement to National Semifinals
Winners from the second round will progress to one of four sectional sites on November 21 and 22, or November 22 and 23. The champions of each sectional will then move on to the national semifinals, set for December 5 at Kerr Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Old Dominion Conference and the City of Salem are co-hosting this significant event.
Final Matches
The national championship game is scheduled for December 7. Additionally, the women’s national semifinals and championship will also be hosted at Kerr Stadium, taking place on December 4 and December 6.
Automatic Qualification Recipients
The following conferences received automatic qualification for the 2025 championship:
- Alec Mountain Collegiate Conference: La Roche
- American Rivers Conference: Luther
- American Southwest Conference: Hardin-Simmons
- Atlantic East Conference: Neumann
- Centennial Conference: Dickinson
- City University of New York Athletic Conference: Lehman
- Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference: Christopher Newport
- College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin: Illinois Wesleyan
- Collegiate Conference of the South: Maryville (TN)
- Conference of New England: Roger Williams
- Empire 8: SUNY-Geneseo
- Great Northeast Athletic Conference: St. Joseph (CT)
- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference: Transylvania
- Landmark Conference: Catholic
- Liberty League: Hobart
- Little East Conference: UMass Boston
- Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Calvin
- Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth: Messiah
- Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom: Stevens Institute of Technology
- Midwest Conference: Lake Forest
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Macalester
- New England Small College Athletic Conference: Tufts
- New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference: Babson
- New Jersey Athletic Conference: Rowan
- North Atlantic Conference: SUNY Delhi
- North Coast Athletic Conference: DePauw
- Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference: MSOE
- Northwest Conference: Whitman
- Ohio Athletic Conference: Otterbein
- Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Lynchburg
- Presidents’ Athletic Conference: Grove City
- Skyline Conference: St. Joseph (L.I.)
- Southern Athletic Association: Berry
- Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Occidental
- Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference: Texas Lutheran
- St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Lyon
At-Large Berths
In addition to the automatic qualifiers, the following teams have received at-large berths:
- Amherst
- Augsburg
- Bowdoin
- Brandeis
- Connecticut College
- Cortland
- Denison
- Edgewood
- Emory
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Hampden-Sydney
- Middlebury
- Scranton
- St. Olaf
- Trinity (TX)
- UChicago
- Washington and Lee
- Wesleyan (CT)
- Wheaton (MA)
- Williams
- Wisconsin-Whitewater
For more information regarding the 2025 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship, including the tournament bracket, dates, and sites, visit Emegypt.
