Men's · California
Men's college soccer in California
60 men's college soccer programs play in California — 22 in D1, 18 in D2, 10 in D3 and 10 in the NAIA. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 60
- Median roster
- 29
- Players listed
- 1,684
Rosters: the 57 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 division
60 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.
NCAA Division I
22 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)
- California30players (school site, new tab)
- California Baptist25players (school site, new tab)
- Loyola Marymount29players (school site, new tab)
- Pacific30players (school site, new tab)
- Sacramento State28players (school site, new tab)
- Saint Mary's29players (school site, new tab)
- San Diego29players (school site, new tab)
- San Diego State28players (school site, new tab)
- San Francisco29players (school site, new tab)
- San Jose State29players (school site, new tab)
- Santa Clara28players (school site, new tab)
- StanfordRoster page26players
- 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)
- UCLARoster page30players
NCAA Division II
18 programs- Biola26players (school site, new tab)
- Cal Poly Humboldt30players (school site, new tab)
- Cal Poly PomonaRoster page24players
- Cal State Dominguez Hills32players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State East Bay27players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Los Angeles38players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State Monterey Bay29players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State San Bernardino33players (school site, new tab)
- Cal State San Marcos32players (school site, new tab)
- Chico State32players (school site, new tab)
- Concordia Irvine24players (school site, new tab)
- Dominican (CA)36players (school site, new tab)
- Fresno Pacific33players (school site, new tab)
- Jessup—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Menlo College30players (school site, new tab)
- Point Loma31players (school site, new tab)
- Stanislaus State27players (school site, new tab)
- Westmont30players (school site, new tab)
NCAA Division III
10 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)
- UC Santa Cruz26players (school site, new tab)
- Whittier34players (school site, new tab)
NAIA
10 programs- Hope International University34players (school site, new tab)
- La Sierra University18players (school site, new tab)
- Life Pacific University22players (school site, new tab)
- Pacific Union College—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Simpson University25players (school site, new tab)
- Soka University of America24players (school site, new tab)
- The Master's University25players (school site, new tab)
- University of California - Merced41players (school site, new tab)
- Vanguard University32players (school site, new tab)
- Westcliff University31players (school site, new tab)
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 men's college soccer programs are in California?
60: 22 in D1, 18 in D2, 10 in D3 and 10 in the NAIA.
Do boys from California stay in state to play college soccer?
61% of the 1,678 men from California on a published college roster play for a school inside California. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.
How big are men's soccer rosters at colleges in California?
The median is 29 players, across the 57 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is La Sierra University’s, at 18; the largest is University of California - Merced’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 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.