AMES, Iowa – Iowa State and head coach Matt Fannon announced the 2024 soccer schedule Tuesday afternoon. The 2024 slate is highlighted by a program-high 12 home games – plus a home exhibition game – to go along with seven road contests.

The Cyclones will play eight non-conference games this year, with six coming at the Cyclone Soccer Complex, as part of the 19-game schedule. The schedule includes a lone exhibition match and is capped with 11 league games. ISU will meet up with seven teams that qualified for the 2023 College Cup in 2024 – four in the non-conference and three in Big 12 play – with BYU having made it to the semifinals last season.

The 2024 season unofficially begins on Aug. 7, when the Cyclone welcome Minnesota to Ames for an exhibition contest, making it the third straight season the two teams have met for preseason play. The season officially gets underway on Thursday, Aug. 15, with Western Illinois coming to town. ISU and WIU will meet for the fourth time and the first time since 2013, when the Cyclones won 2-0.

Following the season lid-lifter, Iowa State will remain at the CSC for a game with the Creighton Bluejays on Aug. 18 before hitting the road for its first away contest of the season. ISU’s first road trip will be a short one, as the team is set to head to Des Moines on Aug. 22 for a date with Drake in the state’s capital. A week later, on Aug. 29, the Cyclones will be visited by Saint Louis, the first of seven 2023 College Cup participants on the schedule.

The Cyclones will continue to play 2023 postseason qualifiers, as their next two games – at Memphis (9/1) and vs. Michigan (9/5) – will also be against teams that made last season’s College Cup. Iowa State concludes its non-conference slate in mid-September, with a pair of home games sandwiched around the Big 12 opener on the road.

ISU and Northern Colorado will meet on Sept. 8 before the Cyclones embark on their third road trip of the season, the conference opener at Kansas (9/12). Following a one-off game in Lawrence, ISU returns to the Cyclone Sports Complex to cap the non-conference slate against in-state foe Iowa on Sept. 15 as part of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.

The Cyclones will then host UCF in the home conference opener (9/19). The Cyclones will remain in Ames to face off with old Big 12 foe Colorado on 9/22 in the teams’ first meeting since 2018, when they played as part of a non-conference schedule.

ISU is back in action the following Thursday as it heads to Salt Lake City for the first-ever meeting with the Utah Utes (9/26). The Cyclones wrap their two-game road trip in Provo, taking on the BYU Cougars to close out September (9/30). The Cyclones open October play on the sixth, welcoming Kansas State to town. The team will remain in Ames as Cincinnati makes its first-ever appearance in Ames on 10/10.

In its final road trip of the season, Iowa State heads south to face off with defending league champs Texas Tech (10/13) and Oklahoma State (10/17). The conference schedule concludes at the Cyclone Sports Complex with TCU (10/20) and Baylor (10/25) rounding out home competition.

ISU will not match up with Arizona, Arizona State, Houston or West Virginia this season.

Complete 2024 Iowa State Soccer Schedule

Aug. 7 – MINNESOTA (exh.)

Aug. 15 – WESTERN ILLINOIS

Aug. 18 – CREIGHTON

Aug. 22 – at Drake

Aug. 29 – SAINT LOUIS

Sept. 1 – at Memphis

Sept. 5 – MICHIGAN

Sept. 8 – NORTHERN COLORADO

Sept. 12 – at Kansas *

Sept. 15 – IOWA

Sept. 19 – UCF *

Sept. 22 – COLORADO *

Sept. 26 – at Utah *

Sept. 30 – at BYU *

Oct. 6 – KANSAS STATE *

Oct. 10 – CINCINNATI *

Oct. 13 – at Texas Tech *

Oct. 17 – at Oklahoma State *

Oct. 20 – TCU *

Oct. 25 – BAYLOR *

HOME games in all caps | * = Big 12 Conference