INDIANAPOLIS â The NCAA Division III Menâs Soccer Committee announced the field of 64 teams for the 2021 NCAA Division III Menâs Soccer Championship.
Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the championship. The other 21 berths were reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that did not win their conference championship and any remaining Pool B teams.
All tournament games leading up to the national semifinals will be played on the campuses of the competing institutions. Sixteen sites will host four teams for first-and second-round competition Nov. 12 and 13 or 13 and 14.
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Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 19 and 20 or 20 and 21. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the national semifinals, which take place Dec. 3 at UNCG Soccer Stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina, with UNC Greensboro and Greensboro Sports Commission serving as hosts. The national championship game will be played Dec. 4. The Division III womenâs soccer national semifinals and championship games will also be held at UNCG Soccer Stadium Nov. 3 and Dec. 4.
| CONFERENCE | SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Mount Aloysius |
| American Rivers Conference | Loras |
| American Southwest Conference | Concordia University Texas |
| Atlantic East Conference | Cabrini |
| Centennial Conference | Washington College |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Baruch |
| Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Rosemont |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Gordon |
| Empire 8 | Nazareth |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | St. Joseph's (Maine) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Hanover |
| Landmark Conference | Catholic |
| Liberty League | St. Lawrence |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Connecticut State |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Salem State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Trine |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Midwest Conference | Knox |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Carleton |
| New England Collegiate Conference | New England College |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Tufts |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | Babson |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Kean |
| North Atlantic Conference | SUNY Polytechnic Institute |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Denison |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Dominican (Illinois) |
| Northwest Conference | Pacific Lutheran |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | John Carroll |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Lynchburg |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Bethany (West Virginia) |
| Skyline Conference | Mount Saint Vincent |
| Southern Athletic Association | Centre |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Redlands |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Webster |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| University Athletic Association | Washington University in St. Louis |
| United East | Penn State Harrisburg |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Superior |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Covenant |
Pool C Berths (21):
- Amherst
- Calvin
- Connecticut College
- Emory
- Franklin & Marshall
- Gettysburg
- Johns Hopkins
- Kenyon
- Middlebury
- Montclair State
- New York University
- North Park
- Ohio Wesleyan
- Otterbein
- Rochester
- Rowan
- St. Olaf
- SUNY Oneonta
- Swarthmore
- University of Chicago
- Washington and Lee
Log on to NCAA.com for more information regarding the 2021 championship, including the complete bracket with dates and sites. Tufts is the defending national champion, having defeated Amherst 2-0 in the 2019 championship game.
