Rutgers women’s soccer has announced its 2025 season schedule, with the Scarlet Knights looking to improve on a strong 2024 season, which featured a trip to the Big Ten title game and NCAA tournament. The 2025 slate includes nine matchups against 2024 NCAA tournament teams, including three in the nonconference portion of the schedule.
Rutgers will open up with a pair of exhibition games, starting on August 9th, when the Scarlet Knights will visit the Georgetown Hoyas in the nation’s capital. Two days
later, Rutgers will host Hofstra at Yurcak Field for the Knights’ final tune-up game.
The season officially gets underway with the opener against the NJIT Highlanders on August 14th before a clash with Fairfield, which advanced to the NCAA tournament as MAAC champions and boasted an 18-3-1 record in 2024. The Knights then hit the road for an in-state clash against Princeton, which also made the NCAA tournament with a 2024 record of 14-5 and an Ivy League championship.
The later nonconference matchups for Rutgers include home games against Air Force and UConn, which knocked the Scarlet Knights out of the NCAA Tournament, to end the busy month of August. The Scarlet Knights will wrap up the non-conference slate by visiting Providence in early September, before kicking off Big Ten play with a clash against Michigan State. Rutgers follows that with a trip to Minnesota and a home date against Indiana.
Rutgers women’s soccer will then take a West Coast trip to visit Big Ten champions UCLA and their cross-town rivals USC to end the month of September. They will return home for a clash against Penn State to start October, before heading westward to battle Illinois and Northwestern on the road.
When the Scarlet Knights return to Piscataway, they will battle the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines in mid-October, before the regular-season finale in College Park against the Maryland Terrapins. After that, postseason play will commence, starting with the Big Ten tournament, which the Scarlet Knights have qualified for all eleven years they have been in the conference.
Despite losing many talented players to graduation, Mike O’Neill and the women’s soccer program return some of its top stars, including Big Ten All-Tournament team goalkeeper Olivia Bodmer, and two of the team’s leading goal scorers in Ashley Baran and Allie Post.
The Scarlet Knights will look to return to the NCAA tournament for the fourteenth consecutive season, with the team signaling the return of Rutgers sports in early to mid-August. Catch their home games at Yurcak Field and stay tuned to On The Banks for all the Rutgers fall sports coverage you need!
