The Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team represents the

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(NCAA) college soccer competition. The program has won four NCAA Division I College Cup national championships (1968, 2005, 2008, 2018). Maryland won nineteen Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season championships (1953–68, 1971, 2012, 2013) and six ACC tournament championships (1996, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013) before joining the

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on July 1, 2014. The Terps won the 2014, 2016, and 2022 Big Ten Conference men's soccer championships and the 2014 and 2015 men's soccer tournament titles.

History

Maryland fielded its first varsity soccer team in 1946. It was coached by Doyle Royal, who remained in that position through 1973. In 1948, Royal led the Terrapins to an undefeated record, including an upset that ended

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's 19-game winning streak. The only blemish on the season was a 4–4 tie against Loyola of Maryland, and the team had one of the strongest cases in the nation for the title of the mythical national championship. The NCAA did not sponsor a championship until 1959. Duke v maryland soccer match 1964

In 1968, Maryland defeated San Jose State, 4–3, to advance to the NCAA National Championship game. There, they tied

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, 2–2, in order to take a share of their first national title. In 1974,

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, a future National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, took over as men's soccer coach for one season.Clayton A. Beardmore
National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, retrieved July 8, 2010.

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was hired as head coach in 1993. He led the Terrapins to capture three more national championships in 2005, 2008, and 2018.
Men's Division I Championship Brackets, Retrieved December 4, 2012

Current roster

Year-by-year record

file:Maryland v michigan state 08.jpg, Maryland entering to the field to play vs. Michigan State in October 2022

Professional players

MLS

* Ben Bender ( Charlotte FC) * Chase Gasper ( Chicago Fire) ^* * Zac MacMath (

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) * Omar Gonzalez ( Chicago Fire) ^* * Jacen Russell-Rowe (

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) ^* * Dayne St. Clair (

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) ^* * Kimani Stewart-Baynes (

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) * Zack Steffen (

) ^* * Eryk Williamson ( Charlotte FC) ^*

EFL League One

* Donovan Pines ( Barnsley FC) ^*

3. Liga

* Mael Corboz (

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)

MLS Next Pro

* Griffin Dillon ( Real Monarchs) * Malcolm Johnston ( Portland Timbers 2) * Jake Rozhansky ( New York City FC II)

USL Championship

* Alex Crognale ( San Antonio FC) * Christiano François ( Loudoun United FC) ^*

National Premier Soccer League

* Chris Odoi-Atsem ( Alexandria Reds)

Former professional players

* Keith Beach * Danny Califf ^* * Judah Cooks * Rich Costanzo * Eli Crognale * Leo Cullen ^* *

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^* * Michael Dellorusso * Maurice Edu ^* * Jeremy Hall ^* * Jason Garey * Clarence Goodson ^* * Jason Herrick * Sumed Ibrahim * Taylor Kemp *

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* Chris Lancos * Alex Lee ^* * Luca Levee ^* * Ivan Magalhães * Domenic Mediate * Patrick Mullins * Robbie Rogers ^* * Philip Salyer * Chris Seitz * Abe Thompson * Casey Townsend *

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^* * Rodney Wallace ^* * London Woodberry * Drew Yates * Graham Zusi ^* ^* – Player has represented their country at the senior national team level

Honours

* NCAA Division I Championship ** Winners (4):

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

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 ...

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 ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

** ''Runners-up (3)'':

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 ...

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

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 ...

* Big Ten tournament ** Winners (3):

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 ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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: ** Winners (23): 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1996, 2002, 2008, 2010,

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

References

External links

* {{Big Ten Conference men's soccer navbox Soccer clubs in Maryland 1946 establishments in Maryland