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Women's college soccer in Iowa

26 women's college soccer programs play in Iowa — 4 in D1, 1 in D2, 10 in D3 and 11 in the NAIA. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.

Programs
26
Median roster
30
Players listed
769

Rosters: the 24 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026.

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26 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 III

10 programs

D3 women's soccer colleges in Iowa →

NAIA

11 programs

NAIA women's soccer colleges in Iowa →

Players from Iowa

Where Iowa players go

290 women from Iowa are on a published college soccer roster, and 58% of them play for a school inside Iowa.

Out of state, the most common destinations are Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.

For scale: 5,517 girls played high-school soccer in Iowa 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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How many women's college soccer programs are in Iowa?

26: 4 in D1, 1 in D2, 10 in D3 and 11 in the NAIA.

Do girls from Iowa stay in state to play college soccer?

58% of the 290 women from Iowa on a published college roster play for a school inside Iowa. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.

How big are women's soccer rosters at colleges in Iowa?

The median is 30 players, across the 24 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Cornell College’s, at 20; the largest is Clarke’s, at 53. 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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