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Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer
2023 Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer team
Founded	1938; 86 years ago (1938)
University	Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Head coach	Jim McElderry (5th season)
Conference	Big Ten
Location	New Brunswick, New Jersey
Stadium	Yurcak Field (Capacity: 5,000)
Nickname	Scarlet Knights
Colors	Scarlet
Home Away
NCAA Tournament runner-up
1990
NCAA Tournament College Cup
1989, 1990, 1994
NCAA Tournament appearances
1960, 1961, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2022
Conference Tournament championships
1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2022

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Rutgers University–New Brunswick in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The team is a member of the Big Ten Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Rutgers's first varsity's men's soccer team was fielded in 1938, although organized soccer has been played at the university since at least 1869. The team plays its home games at Yurcak Field in New Brunswick. The Knights are coached by Jim McElderry.

History

The origins of Rutgers soccer trace back to 1869, where the first ever collegiate football game was played in the United States. The then-Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) played an exhibition match that ended in a 6–4 result. Rutgers won the game by a score of 6–4 In addition to being considered one of the earlier soccer games reported in the United States, these two games are considered to be the first organized American college football games to ever be played.

Rutgers' first varsity team was fielded in 1938, where they Knights competed as an independent team. Rutgers remained unaffiliated with any formal athletic conference and was considered an independent until joining the Atlantic 10 Conference as an associate soccer member in the mid-1980s. The Knights Big East Conference for soccer in 1995. On July 1, 2014, Rutgers became a member of the Big Ten athletic conference, after paying an $11.5 million exit fee to the American Athletic Conference (which formed as a result of the splitting of the Big East Conference).

Players

Current roster

As of 9 Sep 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Aurie Briscoe 1 GK  USA Ciaran Dalton 2 DF  USA Sawyer Koza 3 DF  USA Devon Stopek 4 DF  USA Nick Collins 5 DF  ISL Arnar Adalsteinsson 6 DF  ENG Scott Godden 7 DF  USA Joey Zalinsky 8 MF  USA Cole Cruthers 9 MF  USA Curt Calov 10 FW  USA Ian Abbey 11 FW  CAN Anthony Morano 12 MF  USA Lenny Aviles 13 MF  USA Thomas Angelone

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  USA Nico Rosamilia 16 MF  USA Dylan Carlson 17 FW  NOR Ola Maeland 18 FW  USA Illia Tyrkus 19 FW  USA Eddie Krupski 21 MF  USA Nestor Cabrera 22 MF  USA Francesco Di Ponzio 23 DF  USA Aidan Flynn 24 FW  USA Matty Lynch 26 DF  USA Erick Ruiz 29 DF  USA Bryan Keating 31 GK  USA Graham Kois 32 GK  USA Andrew Noel 88 MF  ISL Kristófer Arnarsson

All-Americans

Rutgers has produced eight All-Americans.

Coaches

Head coaching history

There have been five coaches in Rutgers' history.

* Geza Kiss was an interim coach.

Honours

• Big Ten tournament
  • Winners (1): 2022
• NCAA Division I Championship
  • Runners-up (1): 1990

Notes

1. Although Rutgers fielded its first soccer team in 1938, the first de facto college football game held in 1869 between Ruters and Princeton Universities (with rules based on The Football Association) is considered the first "not official" collegiate soccer match and the birth of the sport in the United States.

References

1. ^ History on Rutgers men's soccer
2. Best of the 1870s: The defining players and teams of college football’s first decade by Matt Brown on The Athletic, 28 Jan 2019
3. First ever college soccer football game on Pro Football Hall of Fame
4. First college football game played at Rutgers in 1869 by Shaunna Stuck, The Pitt News, 20 Sep 2002
5. "U.S. Soccer Timeline". U.S. Soccer. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
6. Wangerin, David (2008). Soccer in a football world : the story of America's forgotten game. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
7. 1st college football game ever was New Jersey vs. Rutgers in 1869 at Ncaa.com
8. "Colors | Visual Identity System". Retrieved April 6, 2017.
9. Saperecom. "The History of Football". www.historyoffootball.net. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
10. "1800s". Rutgers Through The Years. Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 2007-01-20. Retrieved 2007-05-16.
11. DeLassus, David. "Princeton Yearly Results (1869)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
12. Carzo, Rocco J. "Jumbo Footprints: A History of Tufts Athletics", Medford, MA: Tufts University Gallery, 2005; summarized in Another 'Pass' At History by Tufts University eNews on 27 September 2004. Accessed 2 January 2012.
13. Citing Research, Tufts Claims Football History is on its Side Archived 2013-05-26 at the Wayback Machine Boston Globe Article, 23 September 2004, Accessed 1 January 2012.
14. Rutgers Archived 2007-08-12 at the Wayback Machine at BigEast.org (Official Site of the Big East Conference. Published by the Big East Conference (no further authorship information available). Retrieved 12 January 2007.
15. "University of Maryland and Rutgers University Become Official Members of Big Ten Conference". Big Ten Conference. July 1, 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-06-26. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
16. McMurphy, Brett (February 12, 2014). "Rutgers to pay $11.5M exit fee". ESPN. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
17. men's soccer roster on scarletknights.com
18. "All Americans - Rutgers Men's Soccer Quick Facts" (PDF). Rutgers University Athletics. p. 27. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

External links

• Official website

• Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer