Syracuse women’s soccer releases 2026 schedule
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Syracuse women’s soccer released its 2026 schedule Tuesday. It features 17 games, with five matchups against 2025 NCAA Tournament teams. The Orange begin with seven nonconference games and finish with 10 Atlantic Coast Conference contests.
After two home exhibition duels with Mercyhurst on Aug. 5 and Le Moyne on Aug. 8, Syracuse opens the regular season with two home games at SU Soccer Stadium, starting on Thursday, Aug. 13, when it faces Villanova for the first time in 15 years. Then, Syracuse hosts Holy Cross, which it defeated 3-1 last year, three days later.
The Orange’s first road game is Aug. 20 at Northwestern, their lone nonconference opponent that made the NCAA Tournament last season. Next, SU hosts three consecutive games, the longest home stretch of the season, against Princeton on Aug. 23, Niagara on Aug. 27 and Harvard on Aug. 30. Nonconference play concludes at Binghamton, which Syracuse drew last season.
ACC play begins on the road against Boston College on Sept. 13 before SU takes on Clemson, which won an NCAA Tournament game last year, four days later. The Orange retreat to central New York to host two teams they didn’t play last year in Virginia Tech on Sept. 20 and Pittsburgh, which SU’s played a program-high 26 times, on Sept. 24.
Syracuse’s most competitive stretch lies in early October. On Oct. 3, it heads to Virginia, which made the Round of 16 last season. Five days later, SU hosts NCAA runner-up Stanford, which dealt the Orange what’s tied for their largest loss of the season last year.
A week later, SU ventures to NC State for an Oct. 15 battle before it takes on Louisville on Oct. 23, which also won an NCAA Tournament game last season. The season ends with two home battles, starting with Miami, which SU defeated for its first ACC win in 1,112 days last year, on Oct. 29. Lastly, Syracuse hosts California on Nov. 5.
With just one ACC win in nearly four calendar years, the schedule for Nicky Thrasher Adams’ eighth season will be challenging, especially after losing her goalie, all-time saves leader Shea Vanderbosch.
