The Columbia Lions men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Columbia University. The team is a member of the Ivy League of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The Lions fielded their first varsity team in 1906,Men's Soccer All Time Results at gocolumbialions.com and have since won 10 Ivy League Championships and have made 14 NCAA tournament appearances. Their most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship came in 2017 where the Lions reached the second round before losing 1–0 to Wake Forest in the 88' on a penalty kick.
History The University's soccer team was established in 1906, and the squad started its run on the sport competing in championships organized by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA),Haverford College Men's Soccer. All-time Game Results at haverfordathletics.com (archived) the predecessor national soccer championship to the NCAA soccer tournament. Columbia finished its first ISFA season with a 1–1–2 record.
Columbia won two ISFA national championships, in 1909 (4–1–0 record)The Year in American Soccer – 1909 and 1910, with five Columbia players were College All-Americans.The Year in American Soccer – 1910 The squad achieved a 10–2–3 record.Columbia Lions men's soccer record book (2024)
Columbia's best season was in 1983 when the team achieved a 18–1–0 record (crowned Ivy League champion and NCAA championship runner-up after losing v Indiana. It was the Columbia's season with most wins.
Players
Current roster Men's soccer roster on Lions website
Team honors
Conference championships Columbia has won 10 Ivy League championships, their last being in the 2016–17 season.
# Year Conference Coach Overallrecord Conferencerecord 1 1978 Ivy John Rennie 13–2–1 6–0–1 2 1979 Ivy Dieter Ficken 14–4–1 6–1–0 3 1980 Ivy Dieter Ficken 12–2–2 4–1–2 4 1981 Ivy Dieter Ficken 10–2–4 6–1–0 5 1982 Ivy Dieter Ficken 12–3–2 7–0–0 6 1983 Ivy Dieter Ficken 18–1–0 7–0–0 7 1984 Ivy Dieter Ficken 12–2–2 6–1–0 8 1985 Ivy Dieter Ficken 12–3–2 6–0–1 9 1993 Ivy Dieter Ficken 9-6-1 6–1-0 10 2016 Ivy Kevin Anderson 13-3-1 5–1–1
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