NCAA Division I · Women's · California
D1 women's soccer colleges in California
26 NCAA Division I women's soccer programs play in California, in 8 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 26
- Median roster
- 26
- Players listed
- 681
Rosters: the 26 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026.
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By conference
26 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 Poly33players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Bakersfield23players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Fullerton23players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Northridge24players (school site, new tab)
- Long Beach State28players (school site, new tab)
- UC Davis28players (school site, new tab)
- UC Irvine32players (school site, new tab)
- UC Riverside31players (school site, new tab)
- UC San Diego25players (school site, new tab)
- UC Santa Barbara33players (school site, new tab)
West Coast Conference
7 programs
Atlantic Coast Conference
2 programs
Big Ten Conference
2 programs
Mountain West Conference
2 programs
Big Sky Conference
1 program
Pac-12 Conference
1 program
Western Athletic Conference
1 program
Players from California
Where California players go
2,644 women from California are on a published college soccer roster, and 47% of them play for a school inside California.
Out of state, the most common destinations are Oregon, New York and Texas.
For scale: 47,918 girls 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 women's soccer colleges are in California?
26, in the Big West Conference (10), the West Coast Conference (7), the Atlantic Coast Conference (2), the Big Ten Conference (2), the Mountain West Conference (2), the Big Sky Conference (1), the Pac-12 Conference (1) and the Western Athletic Conference (1).
How many players are on a D1 women's soccer roster in California?
The median is 26 players, across the 26 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is San Diego’s, at 18; the largest is UC Santa Barbara’s, at 33. 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 women'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.