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2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer season

The 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 43rd season of NCAA championship women's college soccer.

The season began on August 15, 2024, and culminated on December 9, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament, with the College Cup being held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina.

Florida State are the defending NCAA champions. Florida State was the first undefeated champion since Stanford in 2011. Florida State was unable to defend their title, falling to in penalties in the Second Round. Four teams from the ACC qualified for the college cup, and North Carolina prevailed, claiming their twenty-second college cup.

Changes from 2023

Coaching changes

There were 36 coaching changes during the 2023–24 offseason.

Conference realignment

Other headlines

  • September 12 – The Pac-12 Conference, which had been reduced to two members after its remaining ten schools left for other power conferences, began a rebuilding process by announcing that Mountain West Conference members Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State would join the Pac-12 in 2026–27.
  • September 24 – The Pac-12 Conference's rebuilding continued as Utah State would join the other Mountain West defectors in 2026–27.
  • September 30 – Gonzaga announced it would leave the West Coast Conference to join the Pac-12 Conference for all sports in 2026–27 except for football, which it has not sponsored since 1941.
  • October 1 – UTEP announced it would join the Mountain West from Conference USA in 2026–27.
  • October 9 – The NCAA Division I Council took the following actions that affected women's soccer at that day's meeting:
  • The National Letter of Intent program was abolished, effective immediately. Written offers of athletics aid will replace the NLI.
  • A proposed rule change that would shorten the transition periods for schools wishing to reclassify from Division II or Division III to Division I was introduced. If approved at the council's January 2025 meeting, the transition periods for D-II and D-III schools would drop by a year, respectively to three and four years.
  • October 15 – The Mountain West announced that HawaiÊ»i, which has been a football-only member of that conference since 2012, would leave the Big West Conference in 2026 to become a full MW member.
  • November 1 – The Mountain West announced that Grand Canyon would join the conference no later than 2026 for all sports except for football, which the school has never sponsored. Grand Canyon's official announcement stated that it would not compete in the West Coast Conference, which it had previously been scheduled to join in July 2025, and that if MW bylaws allowed, it would join that conference in 2025.
  • November 7 – The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved the name change of the former Texas A&M University–Commerce to East Texas A&M University.

Rankings

Preseason polls

Regular season

Major upsets

In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked No. 15 or higher.

All rankings are from the United Soccer Coaches Poll.

Conference standings

Conference winners and tournaments

Postseason

NCAA Tournament

Final rankings

Award winners

All-America teams

Major player of the year awards

Other major awards

See also

References