List of NCAA Division I men's soccer season goals leaders

In association football, or soccer, scoring a goal is the only method of scoring. In National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I soccer, there is no formal award for a golden boot, which indicates the top goalscorer in American college soccer for the season. Despite this, the NCAA keeps record of the season goalscoring leader by season.

From 1959 to 1971, there were no classifications to the NCAA nor its predecessor, the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA). Then, from 1972 to 1973, colleges were classified as either "NCAA University Division (Major College)" or "NCAA College Division (Small College)". Since 1974, the NCAA has been broken down into three divisions.

Below is a list of the NCAA Division I men's soccer season goals leaders since the NCAA sponsored men's soccer in 1959.

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Season Player Pos. Cl. Team GP GS GPG Ref.
1959 Walter Chyzowych* MF So. Temple 14 25 1.79 [1]
1960 Herb Schmidt FW Jr. Rutgers 13 33 2.54 [2]
1961 Pete Milich FW Jr. Akron 14 31 2.43 [3]
1962
1963 Carl Gentile FW Saint Louis 14 30 2.14 [3]
1964
1965 Dov Markus FW Sr. LIU Brooklyn 14 35 2.50 [3]
1966
1967 Charlie Duccilli FW Sr. Temple 14 23 1.64 [1]
1968
1969 Manuel Hernandez San Jose State 13 26
1970 Shoa Agonafer UCLA 15 23 [4]
1971 Sergio Velasquez FW UCLA 15 24 [4]
1972 Jose Almeyda Wright State 12 25 2.08 [3]
1973 Jack Cardosa West Virginia 17 29 [3]
1974
1975 Bob Rohrbach Dayton 14 31 [3]
1976 Angelo DiBernardo FW Fr. Indiana [5]
1977
1978 Thompson Usiyan FW So. Appalachian State 13 34 [3]
1979 Bjørn Tronstad FW Fr. San Francisco 26 29 [3]
1980 Thompson Usiyan FW Sr. Appalachian State 17 45 2.65 [6]
1981 Damien Kelly FW So. Eastern Illinois 23 24 1.04 [7]
1982 Michael King Fairleigh Dickinson 21 31
1983 Mark Erwin Wake Forest 21 36 [8]
1984 Sam Okpodu 19 29
1985
1986 David Doyle Campbell 20 34
1987 Ken Snow FW Fr. Indiana 25 28 1.12 [5]
1988 Ken Snow (2) FW So. Indiana 22 22 1.00 [5]
1989 Ken Snow (3) FW Jr. Indiana 22 20 0.91 [5]
1990
1991 Mike Gailey* Sr. UNC Greensboro 21 25
1992 Robert Ukrop Jr. Davidson 27 31
1993 Jimmy Glenn Clemson 24 32
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 Wojtek Krakowiak MF Jr. Clemson 24 31 1.29
1999 Conor Casey FW Fr. Portland 18 23 1.28 [3]
2000 Chris Carrieri FW Jr. North Carolina 24 25 1.04
2001 Dipsy Selolwane FW Sr. Saint Louis 20 25 1.25
2002 Joseph Ngwenya FW So. Coastal Carolina 24 27 1.13 [3]
2003 Joseph Ngwenya (2) FW Jr. Coastal Carolina 22 21 0.95 [3]
2004 Jason Garey FW Jr. Maryland 25 22 0.88 [3]
Ryan Pore FW Jr. Tulsa 23 22 0.96
2005 Jason Garey (2) FW Sr. Maryland 25 22 0.88 [3]
2006 Joseph Lapira FW Jr. Notre Dame 23 22 0.96 [3]
2007 O'Brian White FW Jr. Connecticut 24 23 0.96
2008 Steve Zakuani FW So. Akron 23 20 0.87
2009 Teal Bunbury FW So. Akron 25 17 0.68 [3]
2010 Corey Hertzog FW Jr. Penn State 22 20 0.91
2011 Ashton Bennett FW Sr. Coastal Carolina 22 23 1.05 [3]
2012 Chris Thomas FW Sr. Elon 22 23 1.05 [3]
2013 Patrick Mullins FW Jr. Maryland 26 19 0.73 [9]
2014 Cameron Porter FW Sr. Princeton 17 15 0.88
Neco Brett FW Jr. Robert Morris 18 15 0.83
Andy Craven FW Sr. North Carolina 22 15 0.68
2015 David Olsen FW Sr. Seattle 23 16 0.70
Gordon Wild FW Fr. USC Upstate 15 16 1.07
2016 Albert Ruiz FW Sr. Florida Gulf Coast 20 22 1.10 [3]
2017 Niklas Brodacki FW So. Central Arkansas 21 17 0.81 [10]
2018 Andre Shinyashiki FW Sr. Denver 21 28 1.33 [11]
2019 Robbie Robinson FW Jr. Clemson 19 18 0.95 [12]
Thibaut Jacquel FW So. Campbell 21 18 0.86
2020 Gloire Amanda FW Jr. Oregon State 14 15 1.07 [13]
2021 Nick Markanich FW Sr. Northern Illinois 20 16 0.80 [14]
2022 Duncan McGuire FW Sr. Creighton 24 23 0.96
2023 Charlie Sharp FW Sr. Western Michigan 20 19 0.95
2024 Emil Jääskeläinen FW Sr. Akron 21 23 1.10 [15]

References

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