Team Records:
Eastern: Overall: 8-7-1 / Conference: 4-3-1
UMass Dartmouth: Overall: 7-8-3 / Conference: 3-3-2
MANSFIELD, Conn. – Get those blankets out and clear your Saturday, people! The boys are back in town, and this time, it's win or go home! That's right, Eastern men's soccer is hosting a Little East Conference playoff game!
Series History:
- Sixty-second meeting all time, dating back to 1968
- First meeting: 4-0, Eastern (NAIA regional tournament)
- Eastern owns all time series lead, 39-15-7
- Last Eastern win: 2025 (2-1 at Eastern)
- All-time home record vs. UMD: 22-6-4
- Ninth playoff meeting all time
- Met in the NAIA playoffs and LEC playoffs four times each
- This is the first meeting in LEC playoffs since 2013
- Eastern's largest margin of victory: 7-0 (2008 at Eastern)
- Largest post-season margin of victory: 6-1 (1969 at Eastern)
Game Notes:
- UMass Dartmouth is looking for its first win in five tries against the Warriors in the LEC playoffs - 2009, 2011, 2012 (championship game), 2013 (championship game)
- The teams met four additional other times in regional playoffs in the NAIA tournament - 1968, 1969, 1972 (championship game), 1973
- The 1972 NAIA District 5 championship is the only postseason match won by the Corsairs over the Warriors
- The Warriors have held the Corsairs scoreless in half of their LEC playoff meetings (2009, 2011), as well as in half of their eight total playoff meetings (1968, 1973)
- The Warriors have held the Corsairs scoreless in three of their last four home matches vs. UMD
Notable similar results between the teams this season:
Both teams…
- tied USM 1-1 (ECSU at home, UMD on the road)
- beat Mitchell College 5-1 (ECSU on the road, UMD at home)
- beat Keene State at home (ECSU 3-2, UMD 2-1)
- beat Vermont State Castleton at home (ECSU 2-1, UMD 3-2)
- beat Plymouth State (ECSU 3-0 on the road, UMD 3-1 at home)
- lost on the road to Western Connecticut (ECSU 1-2, UMD 0-1)
- lost to UMass Boston on the road (ECSU 0-3, UMD 0-4)
