NCAA Division I · Women's · North Carolina
D1 women's soccer colleges in North Carolina
17 NCAA Division I women's soccer programs play in North Carolina, in 8 conferences. Each is listed below, by conference, with the size of its 2026-27 roster.
- Programs
- 17
- Median roster
- 28
- Players listed
- 459
Rosters: the 17 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site on Sep 10, 2026.
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By conference
17 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.
Atlantic Coast Conference
4 programs
Big South Conference
3 programs
Coastal Athletic Association
3 programs
American Conference
2 programs
Southern Conference
2 programs
Atlantic 10 Conference
1 program
Atlantic Sun Conference
1 program
Sun Belt Conference
1 program
Players from North Carolina
Where North Carolina players go
785 women from North Carolina are on a published college soccer roster, and 56% of them play for a school inside North Carolina.
Out of state, the most common destinations are Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
For scale: 10,376 girls played high-school soccer in North Carolina 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 women's soccer colleges are in North Carolina?
17, in the Atlantic Coast Conference (4), the Big South Conference (3), the Coastal Athletic Association (3), the American Conference (2), the Southern Conference (2), the Atlantic 10 Conference (1), the Atlantic Sun Conference (1) and the Sun Belt Conference (1).
How many players are on a D1 women's soccer roster in North Carolina?
The median is 28 players, across the 17 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Wake Forest’s, at 20; the largest is Gardner-Webb’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.
Your player, these programs
Which of them fit your player?
A list of D1 women's programs in North Carolina 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.