Women's · California
Women's college soccer in California
65 women's college soccer programs play in California — 26 in D1, 21 in D2, 10 in D3 and 8 in the NAIA. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 65
- Median roster
- 28
- Players listed
- 1,755
Rosters: the 62 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026.
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By division
65 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
26 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)
- California27players (school site, new tab)
- California Baptist25players (school site, new tab)
- Fresno State24players (school site, new tab)
- Long Beach State28players (school site, new tab)
- Loyola Marymount23players (school site, new tab)
- Pacific26players (school site, new tab)
- Pepperdine21players (school site, new tab)
- Sacramento State27players (school site, new tab)
- Saint Mary's24players (school site, new tab)
- San Diego18players (school site, new tab)
- San Diego State25players (school site, new tab)
- San Francisco24players (school site, new tab)
- San Jose State28players (school site, new tab)
- Santa ClaraRoster page26players
- StanfordRoster page26players
- 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)
- UCLARoster page28players
- USC29players (school site, new tab)
NCAA Division II
21 programs- Biola University26players (school site, new tab)
- California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt29players (school site, new tab)
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona24players (school site, new tab)
- California State University San Marcos33players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, Chico33players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, Dominguez Hills21players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, East Bay23players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, Los Angeles33players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, Monterey Bay30players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, San Bernardino39players (school site, new tab)
- California State University, Stanislaus29players (school site, new tab)
- Concordia University–Irvine23players (school site, new tab)
- Dominican University of California38players (school site, new tab)
- Fresno Pacific University34players (school site, new tab)
- Jessup University—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Menlo College43players (school site, new tab)
- Point Loma Nazarene University28players (school site, new tab)
- San Francisco State University28players (school site, new tab)
- University of California, Merced42players (school site, new tab)
- Vanguard University32players (school site, new tab)
- Westmont College31players (school site, new tab)
NCAA Division III
10 programs- California Institute of Technology—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- California Lutheran University34players (school site, new tab)
- Chapman University39players (school site, new tab)
- Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges34players (school site, new tab)
- Occidental College27players (school site, new tab)
- Pomona-Pitzer Colleges34players (school site, new tab)
- University of California, Santa Cruz32players (school site, new tab)
- University of La Verne27players (school site, new tab)
- University of Redlands26players (school site, new tab)
- Whittier College34players (school site, new tab)
NAIA
8 programs- Hope International24players (school site, new tab)
- La Sierra19players (school site, new tab)
- Life Pacific18players (school site, new tab)
- Pacific Union—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Simpson25players (school site, new tab)
- Soka24players (school site, new tab)
- The Master's25players (school site, new tab)
- Westcliff33players (school site, new tab)
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 women's college soccer programs are in California?
65: 26 in D1, 21 in D2, 10 in D3 and 8 in the NAIA.
Do girls from California stay in state to play college soccer?
47% of the 2,644 women from California on a published college roster play for a school inside California. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.
How big are women's soccer rosters at colleges in California?
The median is 28 players, across the 62 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Life Pacific’s, at 18; the largest is Menlo College’s, at 43. 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 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.