NCAA Women’s Soccer Top 25 Rankings released following Week 1 of 2023 season

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – United Soccer Coaches released the association’s first college rankings for NCAA Division I women’s soccer following Week 1 of the 2023 season.

UCLA, Florida State, North Carolina, Duke and Virginia earned the top five spots in the opening coaches’ poll. See below for a look at the full Top 25.

NATIONAL – POLL 1 – AUGUST 22, 2023

Rank	School	Prev	1st Votes	Total Points	W-L-T
1	UCLA	1	8	200	1-0-0
2	Florida State	6	0	192	2-0-0
3	North Carolina	2	0	183	1-0-1
4	Duke	4	0	172	1-0-0
5	Virginia	5	0	152	2-0-0
6	Stanford	11	0	148	2-0-0
7	Alabama	7	0	144	2-0-0
8	Penn State	10	0	138	1-0-1
9	Texas	15	0	135	2-0-0
10	Arkansas	8	0	131	1-0-0
11	BYU	13	0	115	2-0-0
12	Notre Dame	3	0	96	1-0-1
13	Santa Clara	19	0	90	2-0-0
14	Michigan State	17	0	84	2-0-0
15	South Carolina	12	0	79	1-0-1
16	TCU	9	0	78	1-1-0
17	Memphis	20	0	57	2-0-0
17	Xavier	NR	0	57	2-0-0
19	Clemson	25	0	55	1-0-1
20	Georgetown	16	0	47	1-0-1
21	Pittsburgh	14	0	43	2-0-0
22	Central Florida	24	0	37	1-0-0
23	Washington State	NR	0	36	2-0-0
24	USC	22	0	35	1-0-0
25	Tennessee	NR	0	27	2-0-0

Records shown are through games of August 20, 2023

Also receiving votes: West Virginia University (17), Gonzaga University (13), University of Wisconsin (10), Virginia Tech (8), Saint Louis University (8), University of California-Irvine (3), Northwestern University (3), Harvard University (3), North Carolina State University (2), Brown University (1), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1)