# Castleton Spartans football

The Castleton Spartans football team represents Vermont State University Castleton in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Spartans are members of the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), fielding its team in the NJAC since 2025. The Spartans play their home games at Dave Wolk Stadium in Castleton, Vermont.
Their head coach is Tyler Higley, who took over the position for the 2024 season as interim head coach.
Until Castleton became a part of Vermont State University, Vermont was the only state in the United States besides Alaska where the state university did not have varsity football; as the University of Vermont had not had a varsity football team since 1974 (and still does not). The Spartans are now the only public university in Vermont with varsity football. As it is now, however, Vermont is still the only state besides Alaska where the state university does not award any athletic scholarships for football.

## Conference affiliations

* Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (2009–2023)
* Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (2024–present)

## Championships
### Conference championships

Castleton claims 1 conference title, which came in 2012.
| Year | Conference | Overall Record | Conference Record | Coach |
| 2012† | Eastern Collegiate Football Conference | 7–4 | 6–1 | Marc Klatt |
† Co-champions

## Postseason games
### Bowl games

Castleton has participated in one bowl game, and has a record of 0–1.
| Season | Coach | Bowl | Opponent | Result |
| 2012 | Marc Klatt | ECAC Bowl | St. John Fisher | L 7–63 |

## List of head coaches
### Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

### Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records and conference records, :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | O% | CW | CL | C% |
| 1 | Rich Alercio | 2009–2010 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0.444 | 6 | 7 | 0.462 |
| 2 | Marc Klatt | 2011–2013 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 0.387 | 9 | 12 | 0.429 |
| 3 | Tony Volpone | 2014–2023 | 88 | 41 | 47 | 0.466 | 32 | 26 | 0.552 |
| 4 | Tyler Higley (interim) | 2024–present | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |

## Year-by-year results

| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Finish | Win | Loss | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Castleton Spartans |||||||||||||
| 2009 | 2009 | Rich Alercio | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 3 | 6 | 6th | 1 | 5 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2010 | Rich Alercio | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 5 | 4 | T–2nd | 5 | 2 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2011 | Marc Klatt | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 4 | 6 | 5th | 3 | 4 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2012 | Marc Klatt | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 7 | 4 | T–1st | 6 | 1 | Conference co-champions | — |
| 2013 | 2013 | Marc Klatt | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 1 | 9 | 8th | 0 | 7 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 7 | 3 | T–2nd | 7 | 3 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 7 | 3 | T–3rd | 5 | 2 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 4 | 6 | T–3rd | 4 | 3 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 6 | 4 | 3rd | 5 | 2 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 2 | 8 | T–5th | 1 | 5 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 2 | 7 | T–3rd | 2 | 3 | — | — |
| Season canceled due to COVID-19 |||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 6 | 4 | 3rd | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 5 | 5 | 2nd | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Tony Volpone | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 2 | 7 | 5th | 0 | 4 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2024 | Tyler Higley | NCAA | Division III | MASCAC | | | | | | — | — |