Men's · Illinois
Men's college soccer in Illinois
43 men's college soccer programs play in Illinois — 10 in D1, 5 in D2, 22 in D3 and 6 in the NAIA. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 43
- Median roster
- 33
- Players listed
- 1,289
Rosters: the 38 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
43 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
10 programs- Bradley—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Chicago State26players (school site, new tab)
- DePaul24players (school site, new tab)
- Eastern Illinois32players (school site, new tab)
- Loyola Chicago28players (school site, new tab)
- Northern Illinois20players (school site, new tab)
- Northwestern31players (school site, new tab)
- SIU Edwardsville25players (school site, new tab)
- UIC21players (school site, new tab)
- Western Illinois30players (school site, new tab)
NCAA Division II
5 programs
NCAA Division III
22 programs- Augustana IL46players (school site, new tab)
- Aurora34players (school site, new tab)
- Benedictine IL37players (school site, new tab)
- Blackburn42players (school site, new tab)
- Chicago27players (school site, new tab)
- Concordia IL29players (school site, new tab)
- Dominican IL—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Elmhurst31players (school site, new tab)
- Eureka59players (school site, new tab)
- Greenville62players (school site, new tab)
- IL Tech36players (school site, new tab)
- IL Wesleyan37players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois Col35players (school site, new tab)
- Knox33players (school site, new tab)
- Lake Forest39players (school site, new tab)
- Millikin36players (school site, new tab)
- Monmouth IL26players (school site, new tab)
- N Central IL36players (school site, new tab)
- North Park46players (school site, new tab)
- Principia27players (school site, new tab)
- Rockford29players (school site, new tab)
- Wheaton IL29players (school site, new tab)
NAIA
6 programs- Governors State University27players (school site, new tab)
- Judson University—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Olivet Nazarene University—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- Saint Xavier University28players (school site, new tab)
- Trinity Christian College—not confirmed (school site, new tab)
- University of St. Francis (IL)46players (school site, new tab)
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 men's college soccer programs are in Illinois?
43: 10 in D1, 5 in D2, 22 in D3 and 6 in the NAIA.
Do boys from Illinois stay in state to play college soccer?
53% of the 1,070 men from Illinois on a published college roster play for a school inside Illinois. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.
How big are men's soccer rosters at colleges in Illinois?
The median is 33 players, across the 38 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Northern Illinois’s, at 20; the largest is Greenville’s, at 62. 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 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.