NCAA Division III · Men's · California
D3 men's soccer colleges in California
10 NCAA Division III men's soccer programs play in California, in 2 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 10
- Median roster
- 34
- Players listed
- 298
Rosters: the 9 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site on Sep 10, 2026.
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By conference
10 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.
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
9 programs- Cal Lutheran41players (school site, new tab)
- Caltech28players (school site, new tab)
- Chapman34players (school site, new tab)
- Claremont M.S.37players (school site, new tab)
- La Verne28players (school site, new tab)
- Occidental36players (school site, new tab)
- Pomona-Pitzer34players (school site, new tab)
- Redlands—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Whittier34players (school site, new tab)
Coast-To-Coast 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 D3 men's soccer colleges are in California?
10, in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (9) and the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference (1).
How many players are on a D3 men's soccer roster in California?
The median is 34 players, across the 9 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is UC Santa Cruz’s, at 26; the largest is Cal Lutheran’s, at 41. 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 D3 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.