# New England Nor'easters football

The New England Nor'easters football team represents University of New England in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Nor'easters are members of the Conference of New England (CNE), fielding its team in the CNE since 2018. The Nor'easters play their home games at Blue Storm Stadium in Biddeford, Maine.
Their head coach is Mike Lichten, who took over the position for the 2017 season.

## History

In December 2014, school president Danielle Ripich announced that football would be added as a varsity sport for the university for the 2016 or 2017 season. The team would play on the blue-turfed field of Blue Storm Stadium.
On February 4, 2016, New England hired Mike Lichten from Becker.

## Conference affiliations

* Club team (2017)
* Commonwealth Coast Conference / Conference of New England (2018–present)

## 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, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
| 1 | Mike Lichten | 2017–present | 48 | 21 | 27 | 0 | 0.438 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |

## 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 | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head Coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head Coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Tie | Finish | Win | Loss | Tie | Postseason | Final ranking |
| New England Nor'easters |||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 2017 | Mike Lichten | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team | Club team |
| 2018 | 2018 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC | 2 | 7 | 0 | T-5th | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC | 4 | 6 | 0 | T-6th | 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| Season canceled due to Covid-19 |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC / CNE | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5th | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC / CNE | 5 | 5 | 0 | T-3rd | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC / CNE | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4th | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2024 | Mike Lichten | NCAA | Division III | CCC / CNE | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — |