2026 Schedule

[Zips1991]

According to an email from Coach Embick about Day of Giving, the 2026 home schedule features matches against the following (potentially more as he said they are finalizing some dates).

Dayton, Army, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Creighton, Georgetown, Xavier, Butler and Robert Morris

[72 Roo]

This is a fantastic home schedule. We will see some of the best collegiate soccer in the country. I am so glad we got out of the MAC and into the Big East. We need big crowds for each of these games to cement our reputation as a near impossible place for visiting teams to win. 

[fknbuflobo]

3 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

This is a fantastic home schedule. We will see some of the best collegiate soccer in the country. I am so glad we got out of the MAC and into the Big East. We need big crowds for each of these games to cement our reputation as a near impossible place for visiting teams to win. 

Wow.

I would be happy if Zips manage a winning record against this home slate.

Surely, this will be among the toughest schedules in 2026 NCAA MSOC.

[UAZipster0305]

I am a tad disappointed that there are no Little Ten teams on there to beat up on.

[TennZip]

35 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

I am a tad disappointed that there are no Little Ten teams on there to beat up on.

I do believe that the team in Columbus.......is still recovering from the beatdown last fall.

[Zips1991]

1 hour ago, UAZipster0305 said:

I am a tad disappointed that there are no Little Ten teams on there to beat up on.

Could still be added. He said they were still finalizing some dates!

[Zip_ME87]

52 minutes ago, TennZip said:

I do believe that the team in Columbus.......is still recovering from the beatdown last fall.

 

The nuts shrivel every time they think of playing Zips Men's Soccer, especially in Akron.

[ZippyRulz]

21 hours ago, Zips1991 said:

According to an email from Coach Embick about Day of Giving, the 2026 home schedule features matches against the following (potentially more as he said they are finalizing some dates).

Dayton, Army, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Creighton, Georgetown, Xavier, Butler and Robert Morris

 

And they will be playing on a beautiful grass pitch. And some of them in decent weather 😄

[Zips1991]

20 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

This is a fantastic home schedule. We will see some of the best collegiate soccer in the country. I am so glad we got out of the MAC and into the Big East. We need big crowds for each of these games to cement our reputation as a near impossible place for visiting teams to win. 

Hopefully, coming off the World Cup and the Zips Elite 8 run last year, there will be some decent crowds.

[UAZipster0305]

33 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Hopefully, coming off the World Cup and the Zips Elite 8 run last year, there will be some decent crowds.

I am about as big of a soccer fan as there is, and my enthusiasm for the World Cup is modest, at best. Politics have ruined it for most people already.

 

I think the residual enthusiasm for the program from the Elite 8 is more significant.

[TennZip]

16 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said:

I am a tad disappointed that there are no Little Ten teams on there to beat up on.

The Zips could play a little Ten team on the Road.