# List of NCAA Division I men's soccer career 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, where a player's career is at most four seasons long, it is considered a notable achievement to reach the 60-goal threshold. In even rarer instances, players have reached the 80 and 100-goal plateaus. The top 30 highest goal-scorers in NCAA Division I men's soccer history are listed below. The NCAA did not split into its current divisions format until August 1973. 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)".

## Key

| Pos. | DF | MF | FW | Ref. |
| Position | Defender | Midfielder | Forward | References |
| * | Elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame |
| Team (X) | Denotes the number of times a player from that team appears on the list |

## List

| Nat. | Player | Pos. | Team | Career start | Career end | Matches played | Goals scored | GPG |
| NGA | Thompson Usiyan | FW | Appalachian State | 1977 | 1980 | 49 | 109 | 2.224 |
| USA | Herb Schmidt | FW | Rutgers | 1959 | 1961 | 39 | 90 | 2.308 |
| FIN | Heikki Ritvanen | FW | UCF | 1996 | 1999 | 69 | 88 | 1.275 |
| USA | Michael King | FW | Fairleigh Dickinson | 1982 | 1985 | 91 | 87 | 0.956 |
| USA | Pete Milich | FW | Akron | 1960 | 1963 | 48 | 85 | 1.771 |
| USA | Ken Snow | FW | Indiana | 1987 | 1990 | 87 | 84 | 0.967 |
| SWE | Ole Mikkelsen | FW | UCLA | 1977 | 1980 | 100 | 82 | 0.820 |
| USA | Dante Washington | FW | Radford | 1988 | 1992 | 88 | 82 | 0.932 |
| BER | Dale Russell | FW | Philadelphia U | 1973 | 1976 | 66 | 81 | 1.227 |
| URS | Dov Markus | FW | LIU Brooklyn | 1965 | 1967 | 48 | 78 | 1.625 |
| NGA | Sam Okpodu | FW | NC State | 1981 | 1984 | 79 | 78 | 0.987 |
| USA | Steve Burks | FW | Indiana (2) | 1973 | 1976 | 72 | 77 | 1.069 |
| CAN | Nick Papadakis | FW | Hartwick | 1963 | 1966 | 43 | 76 | 1.767 |
| ETH | Shoa Agonafer | FW | UCLA | 1969 | 1972 | 70 | 76 | 1.086 |
| USA | Robert Ukrop | FW | Davidson | 1988 | 1992 | 95 | 76 | 0.800 |
| JAM | Wolde Harris | FW | Clemson | 1993 | 1995 | 61 | 76 | 1.246 |
| USA | Cesidio Colasante | MF | La Salle | 1994 | 1997 | 77 | 76 | 0.987 |
| USA | Ismael Perez | MF | San Jose State | 1975 | 1978 | 60 | 75 | 1.250 |
| USA | John Wolyniec | FW | Fordham | 1995 | 1998 | 81 | 75 | 0.926 |
| ISL | Siggi Eyjólfsson | MF | UNC Greensboro | 1995 | 1998 | 87 | 75 | 0.862 |
| NGA | Nnamdi Nwokocha | MF | Clemson (2) | 1979 | 1982 | 63 | 74 | 1.174 |
| IRL | David Doyle | FW | Campbell | 1983 | 1986 | 75 | 72 | 0.960 |
| USA | Brian McBride* | FW | Saint Louis | 1990 | 1993 | 89 | 72 | 0.809 |
| USA | Jeff Gaffney | FW | Virginia | 1982 | 1985 | 84 | 69 | 0.821 |
| ESP | Manuel Hernandez | FW | San Jose State (2) | 1975 | 1978 | 47 | 68 | 1.447 |
| USA | Mark Erwin | FW | Wake Forest | 1980 | 1983 | 83 | 68 | 0.819 |
| USA | Keith DeFini | FW | Creighton | 1990 | 1993 | 77 | 68 | 0.883 |
| FIN | Toni Siikala | FW | Campbell (2) | 1992 | 1995 | 60 | 68 | 1.133 |