Women's · Illinois
Women's college soccer in Illinois
44 women's college soccer programs play in Illinois — 12 in D1, 5 in D2, 22 in D3 and 5 in the NAIA. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 44
- Median roster
- 28
- Players listed
- 1,222
Rosters: the 44 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
44 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
12 programs- Chicago State21players (school site, new tab)
- DePaul29players (school site, new tab)
- Eastern Illinois25players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois29players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois State27players (school site, new tab)
- Loyola Chicago28players (school site, new tab)
- Northern Illinois23players (school site, new tab)
- Northwestern27players (school site, new tab)
- SIU Edwardsville27players (school site, new tab)
- Southern Illinois34players (school site, new tab)
- UIC25players (school site, new tab)
- Western Illinois24players (school site, new tab)
NCAA Division II
5 programs
NCAA Division III
22 programs- Augustana College (Illinois)34players (school site, new tab)
- Aurora University27players (school site, new tab)
- Benedictine University (Illinois)28players (school site, new tab)
- Blackburn College18players (school site, new tab)
- Concordia University Chicago35players (school site, new tab)
- Dominican University (Illinois)37players (school site, new tab)
- Elmhurst University38players (school site, new tab)
- Eureka College14players (school site, new tab)
- Greenville University18players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois College25players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois Institute of Technology32players (school site, new tab)
- Illinois Wesleyan University31players (school site, new tab)
- Knox College22players (school site, new tab)
- Lake Forest College24players (school site, new tab)
- Millikin University30players (school site, new tab)
- Monmouth College (Illinois)24players (school site, new tab)
- North Central College35players (school site, new tab)
- North Park University36players (school site, new tab)
- Principia College26players (school site, new tab)
- Rockford University21players (school site, new tab)
- University of Chicago33players (school site, new tab)
- Wheaton College (Illinois)35players (school site, new tab)
Players from Illinois
Where Illinois players go
1,107 women from Illinois are on a published college soccer roster, and 42% of them play for a school inside Illinois.
Out of state, the most common destinations are Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa.
For scale: 15,199 girls 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 women's college soccer programs are in Illinois?
44: 12 in D1, 5 in D2, 22 in D3 and 5 in the NAIA.
Do girls from Illinois stay in state to play college soccer?
42% of the 1,107 women from Illinois on a published college roster play for a school inside Illinois. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.
How big are women's soccer rosters at colleges in Illinois?
The median is 28 players, across the 44 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Eureka College’s, at 14; the largest is Elmhurst University’s, at 38. 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 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.