Men's Soccer 2025

[Jojogunne]

The 2025 schedule is out. We're playing the national champs (UVM) away on Sept. 16:

https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

[ProudofPride]

Coach Nuttall announced that this will be his last season, and Coach Roche is set to step in as the next head coach. Let’s go and win another championship to end the legacy in a high note!

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/8/11/me ... essor.aspx

[HUSID74]

What an amazing run! 36 years as head coach. Nuttall and Bill Edwards should be on the Mt. Rushmore of Hofstra head coaches.
The release said he will stay on in some kind of advsory and fund-raising capacity.

[Chandy]

I can not think of any coach in Hofstra’s history that has achieved what Coach Nuttall has done. He took a program that had languished for years and turned it into a Top 25 caliber team which improved every year over a 30+ year run. Beyond his W-L record is a very classy and warm hearted person who really cares. On a personal note, I played for Hofstra well before Coach Nuttall came aboard, but he has always made me feel as part of the soccer family. Hopefully Hofstra recognizes what a special coach they had. A fitting tribute would be name the field in his honor.

[stuball888]

The only coach that compares to Richard is Bill Edwards our Hall of Fame coach?
He still holds the record for most consecutive conference championships 10 years straight
That span the American East and colonial
I remember sitting with Richard and he said I just want to remind you that I was hired six months before Bill Edwards came to Hofstra
To which I replied, I'm sure there isn't a day that goes by. We don't remind him of it.
We both had a good laugh
Everything you said about Richard is true just a great human being
I remember passing his office one time and he shouted out to me "Lad come here for a moment"
I said to him, Richard, I have not been called lad for over 45 years

[Jojogunne]

CAA head coaches chose Hofstra and Elon to win the league's North and South Divisions this year.

The coaches also named Hofstra midfielder Laurie Goddard CAA Preseason Player of the Year, while defender Gabriel Pacheco received honorable mention:

https://caasports.com/news/2025/8/14/el ... -year.aspx

Nationally, Hofstra is ranked 23rd and Elon is not ranked, though the Phoenix do have three players on the CAA preseason team:

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-me ... er-coaches

[HUSID74]

Let's hope Richie has a long and successful season with a CAA championship and long run in the NCAA's.

[HUSID74]

Great story in The Post about Richie...too bad our HOMETOWN paper can't be bothered.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/sports/ho ... r-of-love/

[EvanJ]

Nationally, Hofstra is ranked 23rd and Elon is not ranked, though the Phoenix do have three players on the CAA preseason team:

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-me ... er-coaches

It lists every team as starting where they ended last season. Vermont is first, and I doubt they are expected to be the best team. There are only 8 voters, so it is a small sample size compared to 32 coaches in Men's or Women's Basketball and more than that for AP Polls for those sports.

[EvanJ]

We got our first win with two early goals to win 2-0 hosting St. John's, who won their first game.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/8/24/me ... ohn-s.aspx is our recap.

https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-socce ... core/13733 is the box score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-tb5Q0_kuY is highlights.

[EvanJ]

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/9/7/men ... pener.aspx is titled "Great Start! Hofstra Rolls Past Northeastern In CAA Opener."

https://gohofstra.com/boxscore.aspx?path=msoc&id=13903 is the box score. We won 3-1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX18HfelMwY is highlights.

We went loss-win-loss-win.

[HUSID74]

Good road win to start CAA season.

[EvanJ]

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/9/10/me ... ceton.aspx is titled "Hofstra Tames Tigers With 1-0 Win At Princeton."

https://gohofstra.com/boxscore.aspx?path=msoc&id=13736 is the box score.

Laurie Goddard scored a penalty kick. We had 3 shots on goal, and Princeton did not have any shots on goal.

Hofstra did not post highlights on YouTube.

[EvanJ]

We won 3-0 hosting Stony Brook. Laurie Goddard scored two goals, the first of which was a penalty kick, and Daniel Burko scored the last goal. We had more shots on goal 5 to 4.

https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-socce ... core/13737 is the box score. The attendance was 937.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/9/13/me ... e-win.aspx is our recap titled "Heating Up; Hofstra Blanks Stony Brook For Third Consecutive Win." Goddard (6) and Burko (4) scored all of our goals this season. We are 2-0-0 in the CAA. Our next game is on Tuesday at defending champion Vermont.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFw__zM0T-Y is highlights. As is common for me, I was the first person to like the highlights.

[Jojogunne]

Goddard is leading D1 with four PKs this season.

[HUSID74]

Always great to see us beat Stony Brook....IN ANYTHING!

[triplec2195]

Agreed 100%. Lets see if we can beat defending national champion Vermont now that would be a huge win.

[EvanJ]

We lost 2-1 at Vermont. We lost 1-0 hosting Monmouth. Tonight we won 2-1 hosting Columbia.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/9/23/me ... enach.aspx is titled "Hofstra Gets Past Columbia Behind Ziewiec, Basenach."

https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-socce ... core/13740 is the box score. The attendance was 388.

[EvanJ]

We won 1-0 at Drexel.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/9/27/me ... rexel.aspx is titled "Hofstra Picks Up Big Road Win At Drexel."

https://gohofstra.com/boxscore.aspx?path=msoc&id=13741 ix the box score. We had more shots 13 to 7, and more shots on goal 4 to 2. At 30:22, Owen Barnett scored his first goal since October 29, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9QuWzFKwAQ is highlights.

[EvanJ]

We won 1-0 hosting Loyola Maryland. Pablo Hempelmann-Perez scored his first goal at 40:11. We had more shots 10 to 5, and more shots on goal 3 to 2. Loyola Maryland got four yellow cards, and we did not get any. https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-socce ... core/13743 is the box score. The attendance was 189. We did not write a recap yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RGvB17aTsA is highlights.

Starting tomorrow, my soccer focus will be on national teams, including World Cup Qualifiers for World Cup 2026 that will be mostly in the USA.

Edit: https://gohofstra.com/news/2025/10/7/me ... t-win.aspx is titled "Hofstra Gets Past Loyola Maryland For Fourth Straight Win." We are 8-4-0. Loyola Maryland fell to 2-8-1, so the win was not impressive. On Saturday we go to Stony Brook.