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'' The California Golden Bears men's soccer team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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, United States. The team is a member of the ACC, which is part of the

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's Division I. California's first men's soccer team was fielded in 1906. The team plays its home games at Edwards Stadium. The Golden Bears are coached by Kevin Grimes.

History

The university fielded its first soccer team in 1906. The ''Bears'' won their first conference in 1936, the California Intercollegiate. Until the league was disbanded in 1954, the team had won 5 conference titles.''2022 Record Book''
at Calbears.com The Bears have been in several NCAA conferences over their history. In 1983, the Bears won the Pacific Soccer Conference. The Bears won the Mountain Pacific tournament in 1996. In 2000, the Bears joined the

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, when men's soccer was enlisted as a varsity sport in the conference. Since then, the Bears have won three Pac-12 titles: 2006, 2007 and 2010. The Bears have appeared in the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament 18 times. Their best performances came in 1960, 2005 and 2013, where the Bears reached the quarter-finals of the competition.

Players

Current roster

Notable former players

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* Drake Callender * Calen Carr * Taylor Davila * Christian Dean *

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* Sam Junqua * Leo Krupnik * Nick Lima * Troy Roberts ;Notes

Current professional players

* Eric Kronberg (2004–2005) – Currently assistant coach with

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(2005–2008) – Currently with

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* Hector Jiménez (2006–2010) – Currently assistant coach with

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* David Bingham (2008–2010) – Currently with Charlotte FC * Alec Sundly (2010–2013) – Currently assistant coach with

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* Christian Dean (2011–2013) – Currently with Forward Madison FC * Nick Lima (2013–2016) – Currently with

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* José Carrera-García (2013–2017) – Currently with Forward Madison FC * Jonathan Klinsmann (2015–2017) – Currently with Cesena FC * Shinya Kadono (2015–2018) – Currently with Irvine Zeta FC * Sam Junqua (2015–2018) – Currently with

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* Drake Callender (2016–2019) – Currently with

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* Thomas Williamson (2017–2020) – Currently with Loudoun United FC * Taylor Davila (2018–2020) – Currently with

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Team management

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Head coaching history

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NCAA tournament results

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

, 6–2 , , St. Louis , Quarter-final , Saint Louis , L 0–2 , - ,

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

, 11–5–3 , , San Francisco , Second round ,

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, L 1–3 , - ,

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

, 13–5–1 , , Berkeley , First round ,

San Diego State San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California, United States. Founded in 1897, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system. SDSU is ...

, L 0–4 , - ,

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

, 17–3 , , Las Vegas , First round ,

UNLV The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. ...

, L 1–3 (OT) , - ,

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

, 16–4–1 , , Los Angeles , First round , UCLA , L 1–3 , - ,

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

, 15–4–2 , , St. Louis , First round , Saint Louis , L 0–2 , - ,

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, 12–6–2 , , Seattle , First round , Fresno State , L 1–2 , - ,

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

, 10–8–1 , , Stanford , First round , Santa Clara , L 0–1 (3OT) , - ,

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

, 13–5–2 , , Los Angeles , Second round
Third round ,

UC Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers college, UCSB joined ...

UCLA , W 2–1
L 1–2 , - ,

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

, 10–8–2 , , New York , First round
Second round ,

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UC Santa Barbara , W 2–0
L 0–2 , - ,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, 12–3–3 , , Indianapolis , First round
Second round , Santa Clara
No. 7 SMU , W 2–1 (OT)
L 0–1 , - ,

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, 13–3–2 , No. 7 , Albuquerque , Second round
Third round
Quarter-finals , Santa Clara
Wake Forest
No. 2

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, T 0–0 (PK)
W 3–2 (2OT)
L 0–1 , - ,

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, 12–5–1 , No. 13 , Charlottesville , Second round
Third round , New Mexico
No. 4

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

, W 3–1
L 1–2 , - ,

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

, 11–5–2 , , Providence , First round
Second round ,

No. 11

Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...

, W 2–1 (OT)
L 2–3 , - ,

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, 11–5–2 , , College Park , First round
Second round
Third round ,

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

No. 15 UC Santa Barbara
No. 2

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...

, W 3–0
W 3–2 (2OT)
L 1–2 , - ,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, 12–2–3 , No. 6 , Akron , Second round
Third round
Quarter-finals , Santa Barbara

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No. 3

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, W 2–1 (OT)
W 2–0
T 3–3 (PK) , - ,

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

, 12–4–2 , No. 4 , Berkeley , Second round
Third round
Quarter-finals , Bradley
Coastal Carolina
No. 5

, W 3–1
W 1–0
W 1–0
L 1–2 , - ,

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, 12–4–2 , No. 15 , Los Angeles , Second round
Third round , SIU Edwardsville
No. 2

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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

, 11–7–0 , N/A , Berkeley , First round ,

, L 1–2 , - ,

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, 8–7–3 , N/A , Santa Barbara , First round , Santa Barbara , L 1–3

Honors

* California Intercollegiate Soccer Conference (5): 1936, 1937, 1938, 1946, 1947 *

Mountain Pacific Sports Federation The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a college athletic conference with members located mostly in the Western United States, although it has added members as far east as Massachusetts. The conference participates at the NCAA Divisio ...

(1): 1996 *

(3): 2006, 2007, 2010 *Pacific Soccer Conference (1): 1983

References

External links

* 1906 establishments in California Association football clubs established in 1906 Long stubs with short prose {{California-footyclub-stub