Last year, we got the 2025 Marquette women’s soccer schedule on May 20th. Therefore, as the calendar clicked over to June and there was no schedule yet, I started to get a liiiiiiiiiitle bit impatient with whoever’s in charge of deciding it’s time to announce that bad boy. This has led to a routine of “check GoMarquette.com every night to see if they released it while I wasn’t watching during the day.” That paid off on Monday night, but not in the way you think.
The official composite schedule listing
on MU’s official athletics website now lists the 2026 women’s soccer slate. The 2026 women’s soccer schedule is available if you go to the team page, select roster, and then change the drop down menu from 2025 to 2026.
But a press release announcing the schedule? Social media posts with a graphic and an announcement? Nope. As we’ll get to as we go along, there’s a chance this isn’t the finalized schedule….. but also we’re about three weeks behind when last year’s schedule was announced, so it’s gotta be the full fledged schedule, right? Right???
ANYWAY
Chris Allen’s third year in charge at Marquette is going to get started with an August 8th home exhibition match against Illinois, and after that, non-conference play is going to look an awful lot like the 2025 schedule, just not in the same order. Things will kick off (soccer term) for realsies on Wednesday, August 12th, with a matinee match on the road against St. Thomas, and while MU is out on the road in that direction, they’ll head to the Minnesota/North Dakota state line for a visit to North Dakota State four days later. I mean, I presume that’s the plan, I wouldn’t bounce back and forth to Milwaukee in the meantime. Marquette has never lost to either team in seven combined meetings, and this will be just the second ever visit to UST and the first to NDSU. It’s a continuation of a five year running series with the Tommies and returning a Bison visit to Milwaukee last season.
Marquette goes Wednesday/Saturday again the next week, but this time with both matches in Wisconsin. The first is the home opener against Truman State, which is a Division 2 squad, and the second is a visit to Madison to play Wisconsin. The Badgers are coming off a year with a #4 regional seed in the NCAA tournament, and MU is just 5-11-2 all time against UW.
We get a slight change the following week as Marquette shifts the schedule to Thursday/Sunday. Both of these games will be at home during freshman orientation on campus with first Milwaukee making the crosstown visit and then Northern Illinois making their way further north on the weekend. MU is unbeaten in their last three against the Panthers, which includes a win over a UWM team that went 13-5-3 last year and made it to the NCAA tournament. This is the second straight season that NIU is on the schedule, and the Golden Eagles have an all-time record of 6-3-0 in this series.
After that? A week and a half off. This is why I’m not 100% certain that this is the final schedule, because I don’t know why MU is going between August 30 and September 10th without a match. That’s what’s happening, and the first match back in action will probably be a tough one. A trip to Baylor for the first ever meeting with the Bears is on deck, and #5 Baylor knocked #4 seed Wisconsin out of the NCAA tournament in the second round last year. Three days later, it’s time to be back at Valley Fields for a match against Loyola Chicago. That’s back-to-back seasons with the Ramblers on the schedule after not seeing them at all since 2014.
Non-conference play wraps up the following weekend with one more home match. It’s not quite the level of unfamiliarity as Baylor, but Marquette hasn’t played Eastern Illinois since 1997. The Golden Eagles haven’t allowed a goal to the Panthers in two meetings, both in back-to-back years back in the day.
One week after that, Big East play start with a trip to Butler. Marquette starts off with back-to-back road games, but that pays off at the end of the slate by giving the Golden Eagles two of their five home dates in league play as the last two matches of the regular season. In fact, it’s a weird league schedule with Marquette going 4-1 road and home in the first five, then flipping that around for the second half of the 10 game schedule. Is that going to help Allen get the Golden Eagles into the conference tournament? I’m going to guess that not getting outscored 26-16 in league play like they did last year would play a bigger role, but we’ll have to wait and see. MU hasn’t been in the conference tournament since 2017, so it would be fun to avoid letting that streak stretch out to nine straight, no matter what.
Here’s the 2026 Marquette women’s soccer schedule, or at least the schedule as listed on the morning of Tuesday, June 9th.
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