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NAIA men's soccer colleges in California
10 NAIA men's soccer programs play in California, in 3 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 10
- Median roster
- 25
- Players listed
- 252
Rosters: the 9 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
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.
Great Southwest Athletic Conference
6 programs- Hope International University34players (school site, new tab)
- La Sierra University18players (school site, new tab)
- Life Pacific University22players (school site, new tab)
- Soka University of America24players (school site, new tab)
- The Master's University25players (school site, new tab)
- Vanguard University32players (school site, new tab)
California Pacific Conference
3 programs
Independent
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 NAIA men's soccer colleges are in California?
10, in the Great Southwest Athletic Conference (6), the California Pacific Conference (3) and the Independent (1).
How many players are on a NAIA men's soccer roster in California?
The median is 25 players, across the 9 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 NAIA 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.