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Resources
The library,the calendar,and no hype.
10 guides with their sources, the latest college soccer news, four dates that matter, and four straight answers about what we do not know. Nothing here is a teaser for something you have to pay for.
Roster spots
66,998
Programs
2,215
Coaches on file
7,561
Pictured: Air Force v Cal Poly, men’s, 2025U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley · Public domain
01The recruiting library
Read before you write to anyone
10 guides. Every figure is counted from the data the app uses, and every rule links to the body that made it.
- The calendar4 minJune 15after sophomore year, for most of Division I
When a college coach is actually allowed to reply
Silence in March is usually a rule, not a rejection. The date that changes everything is June 15 after sophomore year — and it is not the same date in every division.
Read it - Roster math5 min66,998roster spots read from schools' own pages
A roster opening is room, not just a departure
Every program loses seniors. That is not an opening. An opening is who leaves at your position, against how deep the squad already is behind you.
Read it - Reading a list4 min2,215programs scored for one player
Stretch, Strong fit and Fair fit describe fit, not your odds
Stretch means a program usually recruits above your level. Strong and Fair fit are schools at your level, split by how well they match you. None of them is a chance of being recruited.
Read it - The portal5 min4,629+roster spots we can see came from another college
The transfer portal, in numbers we can actually see
Some programs rebuild from the portal every year and some almost never touch it. The difference is readable from their rosters, and it decides where a transfer should spend their thirty days.
Read it - Program stability4 min1,701programs with an honest year-over-year retention figure
Do players actually stay in that program?
High turnover can mean playing time is available. It can also mean people leave unhappy. The number is worth knowing before you commit four years to it.
Read it - Levels5 min2,215four-year programs across D1, D2, D3 and NAIA
Division I is not the only good answer
There are four four-year levels and two governing bodies. Sorting them by prestige is how families end up with a list of nine schools that will never reply.
Read it - Outreach4 min5,545coach addresses read off schools' own staff pages
What a first email to a coach should actually contain
A coach opens it on a phone between sessions. Everything that is not about their program is costing you the part that is.
Read it - The youth ladder5 min1,150clubs mapped, with their age-group results
What 'a level up' actually means in youth soccer
A better badge is not the same as a better team. Age-group results tell you which is which, and they are public.
Read it - ID camps4 min1,909ID camps on file, with dates and hosts
What an ID camp is actually for
A camp is a tryout you pay to attend. That is not a criticism — it is the thing to be clear-eyed about before you book one.
Read it - Paying for it5 min2,207schools with published cost data on file
The sticker price is not the price
Published tuition is where the conversation starts and almost never where it ends. Here is what the number on a school's page does and does not tell you.
Read it
Guides by question
38 more guides, each answering one question. Every rule in them was read on the governing body’s own pages and is dated.
The process and the dates7
- How to get recruited for college soccer
- The college soccer recruiting timeline, by grade
- The NCAA soccer recruiting calendar, 2026-27
- Is it too late to get recruited for college soccer?
- When do soccer players commit to college?
- Official vs unofficial visits: what is the difference?
- How to play college soccer in the USA as an international player
Writing to coaches4
Divisions and levels7
How many teams1
Scholarships and rosters3
Club and youth soccer8
- Girls’ club soccer levels, explained
- Boys’ club soccer levels, explained
- ECNL vs Girls Academy: what is the difference?
- ECNL vs MLS NEXT: what is the difference?
- ECNL vs ECNL RL: what is the difference?
- MLS NEXT Homegrown Division vs Academy Division
- What is ODP soccer, and how do tryouts work?
- Club soccer vs high school soccer: which matters for college?
02Around college soccer
Recent college soccer news
What programs are saying about their own seasons, newest first. Swipe or wait; every story opens on the school’s own site.
Athletics newsUNLVunlvrebels.com
UNLV · Men's soccer · D1
Rebels Make It Four Straight With 1-0 Victory Over UC Davis
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Campus: UNLVStan ShebsCC BY-SA 3.0
Athletics newsBethany College (West Virginia)bethanybison.com
Bethany College (West Virginia) · Women's soccer · D3
Women's Soccer Hosts Franciscan in Domestic Violence Awareness Game
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Campus: Bethany College (West Virginia)NyttendPublic domain
Athletics newsErskineerskinesports.com
Erskine · Men's soccer · D2
Erskine Men's Soccer | Blake scores at Southern Wesleyan
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Campus: ErskinePublished for J. M. Plaxco, Due West, South Ca…Public domain
Athletics newsAve Mariaavemariagyrenes.com
Ave Maria · Women's soccer · NAIA
Women’s Soccer Draws with Nationally Ranked SCAD
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Campus: Ave MariaFr James Bradley from Washington, DCCC BY 2.0
Athletics newsColby-Sawyercolby-sawyerathletics.com
Colby-Sawyer · Men's soccer · D3
Men's Soccer Rolls Past Vtsu Lyndon
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Campus: Colby-SawyerJosephbrophy at English WikipediaPublic domain
- Athletics newsLander UniversityWomen's soccer
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Lander University · Women's soccer · D2
Bailey's late goal pushes Lander to 1-1 draw at Georgia Southwestern
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The newest story from programs across the country, women’s and men’s in turn, read from each school’s own athletics news feed (last checked Oct 15). Headlines and links are theirs; the pictures are our picks, each with its own credit, and a school we hold no photo of shows its crest.
03Dated to your player
The four dates that matter
The same milestones the app puts on a player’s own timeline, dated to their graduation year.
- 01June 15 after sophomore year
The first day a D1 coach can reply to you
Before that date, NCAA Division I coaches can read your email but cannot answer it. Division II coaches can already write back, and D3 and NAIA have no date. So the email to a D1 staff goes BEFORE the date: your film is in the inbox the morning they are free to reply.
- 02August 1 before junior year
Division I coaches can host your unofficial visit
An unofficial visit is one you pay for yourselves, and you can make as many as you like. In Division I soccer, one that involves the coaching staff may not happen before August 1 before junior year (Bylaw 13.7.1.1). Before then you can still walk the campus and watch a game as members of the public. In Division II and III, unofficial visits are unlimited, at the family’s own expense. Watch a training session, not just a game day. An hour of training shows how a staff treats its players.
- 03Junior year
The year that decides most of it
The camps you attend this year are the ones staffs remember. Pick a few at schools that are realistic. Four camps you were right for beats twelve you were not.
- 04February of senior year
The late window nobody tells you about
Rosters move again after signing day, when the first wave of players formally commits. Division II, Division III and NAIA staffs are still filling that fall's group, and a well-timed email lands on a coach with a hole to fill.
04Our limits, stated
What we measure, and what we won’t say
Where we don’t hold something, the product says so rather than filling the gap. These are the four places it matters most.
- What we will not tell you
- That there is a roster spot when there isn't. If nobody is graduating in your position group, the product says so and refuses to write an email claiming an opening. That rule is in the code, not in a policy document.
- What we do not know
- Registration deadlines for ID camps. We hold camp DATES, from each school. The cutoff to register lives on the camp's own page and changes without notice, so every planning date we show is labeled as our estimate, never as their deadline.
- A number every recruiting site still gets wrong
- Per-sport scholarship caps. The old “9.9 men's / 14 women's” figures stopped applying to opted-in Division I schools in July 2025, under the court settlement that reshaped college sports funding. We quote none, anywhere.
- Who sends the email
- You do. Startline drafts from real facts about that program and your player, and then it stops. We have never sent a message to a coach on a family's behalf and the product has no code path that could.
05Make it yours
These dates, on your player’s own calendar.
Every milestone above is generic until it has a graduation year attached to it. Put one in and the app dates all four, then ranks the schools they apply to.
Pictured: Air Force v New Mexico, women’s, 2024 ·U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley · Public domain