Football tournament season
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country |  United States |
| Teams | 10 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Tampa (1st) |
| Runner-up | Cal State Los Angeles |
| Third place | So. Conn. State |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 10 |
| Goals scored | 24 (2.4 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | Ron Basile, SCSC (3) |
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The 1981 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship was the tenth annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. This was the final Division II tournament to feature a third-place match.
Tampa defeated Cal State Los Angeles in the final, 1–0 (after one overtime period), to win their first Division II national title. The Spartans (14-0-3) were coached by Jay Miller.
The semifinals and final were played at the Soccer-Lacrosse Stadium on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Bracket
| First Round *Campus sites | Quarterfinals *Campus sites | Semifinals New Haven, CT | Final November 28, 1981 New Haven, CT | ||||||||||||||||
| UMSL | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Lock Haven State | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| UMSL | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tampa | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Tampa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Rollins | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tampa | 1(OT) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Los Angeles | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Los Angeles | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Chico State | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Seattle Pacific | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Chico State | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Los Angeles | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Connecticut | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Third place | |||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Connecticut | 1 | UMSL | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| * | New Haven | 0 | Southern Connecticut | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| New Haven (OT) | 2(OT) | ||||||||||||||||||
| * | Hartford | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Final
| Tampa | 1–0 (OT) | Cal State Los Angeles |
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Peter Johansson  92:29' |
Report 1 Report 2 |
See also
- 1981 NCAA Division I Soccer Championship
- 1981 NCAA Division III Soccer Championship
- 1981 NAIA Soccer Championship
References
- "NCAA Division II Men's Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
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