Stanford Cardinal men's soccer


The Stanford Cardinal men's soccer team represents Stanford University in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions. The Cardinal play in the ACC. Their first season as a varsity program was in 1973.
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History

Roots to a Stanford's first soccer team can be traced to November 16, 1909, when a notice was published in The Daily Palo Alto, now The Stanford Daily:
The article also stated that "good soccer players usually make good rugby players". That announcement came after the 1905 Big Game at Stanford Field, when Stanford president David Starr Jordan and Cal president Benjamin Ide Wheeler held a secret meeting in response to the increasing complains about the brutality of American football. In the meeting, both presidents determined that Stanford and Cal would abolish football, and did so. From then on, both schools switched to rugby, which was the code of football played until 1919 when American football returned.
Harry Wilfred Maloney, hired by Stanford at age 32 in 1908 as an assistant instructor at Encina Gymnasium, saw soccer as a way to help fuel the rugby program used in those years. The first version of a Stanford soccer team carried a heavy rugby influence, with H.L. Hubbard appointed as Stanford soccer's first captain. Benny Erb shone as the team's first star. The first team were called the Stanford's Reds, played a series of exhibition matches.
The first soccer match between Stanford and Cal was on March 5, 1910, and won by Cal 1–0 in front of 2,000 spectators in Berkeley. Cal's team just learned the rules of soccer in the run-up to the match and used the sport as a training method for rugby. Other matches played by Stanford were vs Bobby Burns, and the San Francisco's Olympic Club, English Warship. He achieved a 104–60–40 record, ranking #3 in program history in coaching victories as of 2021. The Stanford soccer venue was renamed Maloney Field in 1941, and then rededicated in 1966.
The Cardinal have appeared in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament 19 times since 1973, including 14 times in the 23 seasons from 1997 to 2019. They have made five appearances in the College Cup, including winning the 2015, 2016, and 2017 national championships, only the second time ever that a program won three consecutive championships.

Players

Current professional players

Honours

National championships

NCAA Division I tournament : 2015, 2016, 2017

Conference championships

Yearly records

[file:USF Dons v. Stanford Cardinals soccer match 2012.jpg|thumb|Stanford (scarlet and black) v USF Dons in 2012]