NCAA Division I · Men's · California
D1 men's soccer colleges in California
22 NCAA Division I men's soccer programs play in California, in 6 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 22
- Median roster
- 29
- Players listed
- 620
Rosters: the 22 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Sep 10, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026.
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By conference
22 programs · players on each 2026-27 roster
Players: the 2026-27 roster as the school publishes it, where we could confirm it is this season’s. → a Startline page with the class-year breakdown · ↗ the school’s own site: its roster page, or its team or athletics page where the roster link did not check out.
Big West Conference
10 programs- Cal Poly27players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Bakersfield27players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Fullerton28players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Northridge31players (school site, new tab)
- Sacramento State28players (school site, new tab)
- UC Davis20players (school site, new tab)
- UC Irvine28players (school site, new tab)
- UC Riverside31players (school site, new tab)
- UC San Diego29players (school site, new tab)
- UC Santa Barbara29players (school site, new tab)
West Coast Conference
6 programs
Atlantic Coast Conference
2 programs
Mountain West Conference
2 programs
Big Ten Conference
1 program
Western Athletic Conference
1 program
Players from California
Where California players go
1,678 men from California are on a published college soccer roster, and 61% of them play for a school inside California.
Out of state, the most common destinations are Oregon, New York and Texas.
For scale: 56,884 boys played high-school soccer in California in 2024-25.
Counted off the hometowns listed on college rosters (read Sep 11, 2026; the 2026-27 squad for most programs, last season’s where a school had not posted a new one). A headcount of who is playing, not a rate — no one publishes how many of a state’s high-school players go on. High-school figure: NFHS participation survey, 2024-25. NFHS survey (PDF).
Quick answers
Counted, with the date on it
How many D1 men's soccer colleges are in California?
22, in the Big West Conference (10), the West Coast Conference (6), the Atlantic Coast Conference (2), the Mountain West Conference (2), the Big Ten Conference (1) and the Western Athletic Conference (1).
How many players are on a D1 men's soccer roster in California?
The median is 29 players, across the 22 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is UC Davis’s, at 20; the largest is UC Riverside’s, at 31. Roster size is not the number of spots a program recruits each year; how many graduate at each position is what decides that.
Your player, these programs
Which of them fit your player?
A list of D1 men's programs in California is the same for every family. Which of them fit your player — level, position, grad year and grades — and which have room at your position is what the free list scores.