List of NAIA conferences

The following is a list of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) conferences as of the 2025–26 school year. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference membership occur on July 1 of the given year.

Current conferences

Football

Notes

Non-football

Notes

Defunct conferences

Football

• Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (1928–1995)
• Central States Intercollegiate Conference (1976–1989)
• Dakota Athletic Conference (2000–2012)
• Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1983–2005)
• Evergreen Conference (1948–1984)
• Great Plains Athletic Conference (1972–1976)
• Hoosier–Buckeye Conference (1948–1985)
• Missouri College Athletic Union (1924–1970)
• Nebraska College Conference (1916–1976)
• North Dakota College Athletic Conference (1931–2000)
• North Star Athletic Association (2013–2025)
• Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference (1929–1973), formerly the Oklahoma Collegiate Conference
• Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1974–1997)
• Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference (1984–1998)
• South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference (1917–2000)
• South East Atlantic Conference (2004–2008), football only, members became NAIA football independents
• Southern States Conference (1938–1997), formerly the Alabama Intercollegiate Conference and the Alabama Collegiate Conference
• Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1976–1996), also an NCAA Division III conference
• Tri-State Conference (1960–1981)
• Volunteer State Athletic Conference (1940s–early 1980s)
• West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1924–2013), transferred to the NCAA in 1995 after a two-year dual membership. Most of the final WVIAC members are now in the NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference.

Notes:

Non-football

• American Mideast Conference (1949–2012)
• Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1971–1999)
• Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (1994–2015)
• Midwest Collegiate Conference (1988–2015)
• Northeastern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (2016–2019)
• Sunrise Athletic Conference (2002–2011)
• TranSouth Athletic Conference (1996–2013)

Notes:

Former conferences

All transferred to the NCAA.

Football

• Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1973–1988)
• Lone Star Conference (1931–1982)
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1920–1982)
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (1932–1995), known as Northern Intercollegiate Conference until 1992
• Northwest Conference (1926–1996), Pacific Northwest Conference before 1984 and Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges until 1996
• Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (1951–1980), State Teachers Conference of Pennsylvania until 1956 and Pennsylvania State Teachers College Conference before 1964
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (1909–1992), Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference until 1910 and Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference until 1967
• Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (1972–2008), Twin Rivers Conference until 1983

Non-football

• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (1961–2002)
• Conference Carolinas (1930–1995), known as the North State Intercollegiate Athletic Conference until 1961, later as the Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference until 1995 (which held dual membership with the NCAA for two years starting in 1993), became the Carolinas–Virginia Athletic Conference until 2007
• Dixie Conference (1963–1973), became the USA South Athletic Conference in 2003

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See also

• List of college athletic conferences in the United States
• List of NCAA conferences

References

External links

• NAIA Member Schools