The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of

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championship men's

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. The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were

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who defeated

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0–0 (4–2 PKs) to win its seventh NCAA soccer title. The season concluded with

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defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.

Changes from 2014

Coaching changes

New programs

* The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), created for the 2015–16 school year with the merger of the

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(UTPA) and

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(UTB), added the sport to the Division I athletic program it inherited from UTPA. Although UTB had a highly successful NAIA men's soccer team, the UTRGV program was created essentially from scratch, with an entirely new coaching staff and only two UTB players remaining in the UTRGV program. UTRGV also inherited UTPA's membership in the

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Discontinued programs

None.

Conference realignment

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, previously the only Division I basketball independent, played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the

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. Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016. Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the

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. The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016, in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.

Season overview

Pre-season polls

Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2015.

Regular season

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Standings

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 #15 or higher.

Statistics

Individuals

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Teams

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Attendances

Source:Men's soccer attendance records
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References

{{2015 in American soccer