NCAA Division I · Men's · Illinois
D1 men's soccer colleges in Illinois
10 NCAA Division I men's soccer programs play in Illinois, in 6 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 10
- Median roster
- 26
- Players listed
- 237
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.
Missouri Valley Conference
3 programs
Ohio Valley Conference
3 programs
Atlantic 10 Conference
1 program
Big East Conference
1 program
Big Ten Conference
1 program
Northeast Conference
1 program
Players from Illinois
Where Illinois players go
1,070 men from Illinois are on a published college soccer roster, and 53% of them play for a school inside Illinois.
Out of state, the most common destinations are Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa.
For scale: 20,318 boys played high-school soccer in Illinois 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 D1 men's soccer colleges are in Illinois?
10, in the Missouri Valley Conference (3), the Ohio Valley Conference (3), the Atlantic 10 Conference (1), the Big East Conference (1), the Big Ten Conference (1) and the Northeast Conference (1).
How many players are on a D1 men's soccer roster in Illinois?
The median is 26 players, across the 9 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Northern Illinois’s, at 20; the largest is Eastern Illinois’s, at 32. 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 D1 men's programs in Illinois 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.