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College soccer in Colorado

28 college soccer programs play in Colorado: 16 women’s and 12 men’s — 8 in D1, 19 in D2 and 1 in D3. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.

Programs
28
Median roster
29
Players listed
798

Rosters: the 27 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026.

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NCAA Division I

8 programs · 6 women’s · 2 men’s

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.

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NCAA Division II

19 programs · 10 women’s · 9 men’s

D2 women's soccer in Colorado →D2 men's soccer in Colorado →Every D2 program in the country →

NCAA Division III

1 program · 1 men’s

Every D3 program in the country →

Players from Colorado

Where Colorado players go

987 players from Colorado are on a published college soccer roster, and 21% of them play for a school inside Colorado.

Out of state, the most common destinations are Nebraska, Minnesota and California.

For scale: 17,626 students played high-school soccer in Colorado 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).

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Counted, with the date on it

How many college soccer programs are in Colorado?

28 programs — 16 women’s and 12 men’s, NCAA and NAIA: 8 in D1, 19 in D2 and 1 in D3.

Do soccer players from Colorado stay in state for college?

21% of the 987 players from Colorado on a published college roster play for a school inside Colorado; the most common destinations outside it are Nebraska, Minnesota and California. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.

How big are college soccer rosters in Colorado?

The median is 29 players, across the 27 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Colorado School of Mines’s, at 22; the largest is CSU Pueblo’s, at 37. Roster size is not the number of spots a program recruits each year; how many graduate at each position is what decides that.

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Which of them fit your player?

A list of the programs in Colorado 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.

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