Soccer and women's lacrosse use the same rules. The roster cap and the Division I scholarship limit change by sport. Soccer's cap is 28. Women's lacrosse uses 38. Men's lacrosse, when it is added, will use 48. Division I schools that are not House participants keep a scholarship limit and no roster cap: 14 for women's soccer, 9.9 for men's soccer, and 12 for women's lacrosse.
Division I schools on the 2026–27 College Sports Commission list. The counter cap is 28 in soccer and 38 in women's lacrosse. Openings are the seats under that cap after returners. The coach's older roster average is shown on the program page and does not add spots.
Every other school. Openings follow the coach's recent roster size, including the gap back to that average. Division I opt-outs keep a scholarship limit and have no roster cap. In soccer, Ivy League schools and the service academies award no athletic scholarships. Division II and III have no House badge.
| Cohort | Seasons left |
|---|---|
| Exhausted | 0. A fourth season was already used. |
| Transitional | A range, often 1–2. The school may keep the old four-seasons-in-five-years count or use the age-based clock, whichever leaves more seasons. |
| Age-based | One number. First enrollment in fall 2027 or later. |
| Division III | The old four-season count. Low and high match. |
For Division I and II, the age-based clock starts at the earlier of first full-time enrollment at any college, including junior college, or the academic year after a 19th birthday. A birthday before September 1 starts the clock that fall. On or after September 1, it waits a year unless the athlete enrolls sooner. Sitting out does not pause the clock. This guide does not assume a pause for pregnancy, military service, or a religious mission.
Most roster pages do not list a birth date. Those seasons-left figures are marked assumed and use on-time enrollment. A prior-college flag means the clock may already be running.
The Class of 2027 is a low–high pair from the current roster. Low assumes every transitional player stays for the extra year. High assumes none do. Commits come off both ends.
Classes of 2028, 2029, and 2030 are estimates. They assume 50% of today's transitional players take a fifth year. That share is a placeholder. It will be revisited after one season of observed retention.
On a capped roster, seats past the counter cap are treated as designated. That cap is 28 in soccer and 38 in women's lacrosse. Schools do not publish which athletes they designated, so this site cannot name them. The proxy is roster order: anyone above the cap. When a designated player leaves, that seat is not backfilled and is not added to openings.
A range is the most seats that could open. It is not a count of spots available. Spots left subtract known commits. A class can have more commits than the low end. That is shown as plain text.
Women's lacrosse commits are public listings from Inside Lacrosse. This guide does not show ratings. Classes of 2029 and 2030 have no commits in those lists yet, so those cards show zero commits. Lacrosse is a spring sport: the stats are spring 2026, and the roster is 2026–27. When a school has not posted that roster, the count uses last spring's roster advanced one class. The roster block marks that.
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October 8, 2026
Women's lacrosse. Division I participants use a 38-player cap. Positions are attack, midfield, defense, and goalie. Commits are Inside Lacrosse public lists, with no ratings.
October 8, 2026
House settlement openings. Division I soccer participants use a 28-player cap. The Class of 2027 is a low–high ceiling. Later classes use the 50% fifth-year estimate. Designated seats above the cap are not backfilled. Rule version 2026-10-age-based-no-2022-grandfather.