Most High School Boys Soccer State Championships in the U.S.

These are the greatest high school soccer dynasties in the U.S.

Most High School Boys Soccer State Championships in the U.S.

In the next few years, high school soccer participation should pass the 1 million mark in the U.S. — part of the continuing evolution of a sport that shows no signs of slowing its growth.

If you're new to the soccer party, welcome. You've come to the right place. The most popular sport in the entire world is more accessible and more fun than it has ever been and there's a whole new generation of future college and pro stars among our high school ranks.

Credit for soccer's popularity in the U.S. lies with the early adapters — the places in our country that embraced the sport long before anyone else and that have continued to grow the game for decades. Here's a look at the high schools with the most boys soccer state championships in the U.S.

17. Yarmouth High School — 15 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Yarmouth, Maine

State championships: 1973, 1982, 1989, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014-17, 2019, 2021, 2022

Bottom line: Yarmouth's boys soccer dynasty dates back 50 years. The program has won at least one state championship in six consecutive decades going back to its first title in 1973. Yarmouth's greatest decade was the 2010s, when it won six state titles, including four straight from 2014 to 2017.

17. St. Xavier High School — 15 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

State championships: 1972, 1973, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007-09, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2020

Bottom line: St. X has won its last 11 state titles under head coach Andy Schulten, a St. X alum. Schulten is 11-2 in state title matches and St. X is 15-3 in championship matches overall. Former star Ray Burse went on to star at Ohio State, where he was an All-American goalkeeper and played five years in MLS.

17. Detroit Country Day School — 15 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Beverly Hills, Michigan

State championships: 1987-94, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2018

Bottom line: Detroit Country Day is a staggering 15-1 in state championship games over the last 35 years, including eight consecutive state titles to kick things off from 1987 to 1994. Goalkeeper Jon Dougherty set the state record with 19 saves in the 2018 Division 2 state championship game win over Forest Hills Northern.

17. Gilford High School — 15 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Gilford, New Hampshire

State championships: 1987-96, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2015

Bottom line: Gilford head coach Dave Pinkham was the man leading the way for all 15 of the school's state championships, including a state record 10 consecutive state titles from 1987 to 1996.

Pinkham's success on the soccer pitch started long before his coaching career. He led White Mountains Regional High in New Hampshire to an undefeated season and state title in 1972 before leading Plymouth State to the first three postseason berths in school history from 1973 to 1975.

13. Jesuit High School — 16 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Beaverton, Oregon

State championships: 1986-88, 1991-94, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022

Bottom line: Jesuit's boys and girls soccer teams have combined for 33 state titles, including seven years where they swept both titles. Jesuit has seen eight Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year winners come through its program, including 2023 winner Drew Pedersen after he racked up 23 goals and 13 assists in leading the Crusaders to the Class 6A state championship.

13. Wethersfield High School — 16 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Wethersfield, Connecticut

State championships: 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2021

Bottom line: Goalkeeper Tony DiCicco starred for Wethersfield and led them to a state championship in 1968, starred at Springfield College and eventually became head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team, winning the Women's World Cup in 1999.

Almost 40 years after DiCicco, Jimmy Slayton was a two-time All-State pick and set the school record with 16 shutouts as a senior and 30 shutouts for his career. Slayton went on to star for the University of Hartford, where he was a two-time All-America East selection.

13. Irmo High School — 16 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Columbia, South Carolina

State championships: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1987-90, 1993, 1995-98, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2013

Bottom line: Phil Savitz coached Irmo from 1980 to 2013 and won a staggering 13 state championships, including in his final season. Savitz left Irmo to coach at River Bluff High in 2013 and won his 800th career game in April 2023, which placed him at No. 5 on the nation's career wins list.

13. Chatham Borough High School — 16 State Championships (Tie)

Chatham Boro head coach Otto Haas and Randy Lowe in 1978

Location: Chatham Borough, New Jersey

State championships: 1946, 1953-56, 1958, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967-70, 1974, 1978, 1979

Bottom line: The Chatham Boro High Eskies won all 16 of their state championships in boys soccer in a 26-year stretch from 1953 to 1979. The school closed its doors for good in 1988.

Boro's soccer program was led by head coach Otto Haas for all 16 state titles, including six undefeated seasons and three times he was named New Jersey Coach of the Year. Haas died on the same day he broke the national record with his 408th career.

Haas was 61 years old and had been battling cancer — he was also a World War II veteran and had been Boro's athletic director for 33 years. What a life.

10. St. Thomas Aquinas High School — 17 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

State championships: 1992-96, 1999, 2003-10, 2013, 2014, 2020

Bottom line: St. Thomas Aquinas kicked off its boys soccer dynasty with five consecutive state championships from 1992 to 1996, including a state record 45 straight wins from 1992 to 1994. St. Thomas Aquinas set the state record with 111 goals in 1994 and has the state record with eight consecutive state titles from 2003 to 2010.

St. Thomas Aquinas also has a pair of national championships, in 1994 and 2009.

10. Bishop England High School — 17 State Championships

Location: Daniel Island, South Carolina

State championships: 1984, 1992-95, 1998-2001, 2005-09, 2011, 2013, 2016

Bottom line: Bishop England's boys soccer dynasty has been defined by some epic runs — four consecutive titles from 1992 to 1995, and 1998 to 2001 then five straight titles from 2005 to 2009. Bishop England hasn't always had it easy, either — they've finished as state runner-up eight times, including three consecutive championship losses to Riverside from 1988 to 1990.

10. St. Pius X High School — 17 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

State championships: 1988, 1990, 1993-2000, 2002-08

Bottom line: Former St. Pius X head coach Jorge Tristani Jr. holds the New Mexico record with 15 state championships from 1988 to 2006. St. Pius X also has the two longest streaks of titles, with eight straight from 1993 to 2000 under Tristani and seven straight from 2002 to 2008 under Tristani and Mike Strati.

9. The Derryfield School — 18 State Championships

Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

State championships: 1986-92, 1994-96, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2012-15, 2017

Bottom line: Three head coaches have all won multiple state championships for Derryfield dating back to the 1980s — Jeff Pill, Doug Desmitt, and Jeff Cousineau, with Desmitt and Cousineau serving as co-head coaches with Pill on five different title teams. Derryfield still owns the state record with 49 consecutive wins from 1987 to 1990.

6. Champlain Valley Union High School — 19 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Hinesburg, Vermont

State championships: 1964, 1965, 1970, 1978, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2002-07, 2009, 2012, 2018, 2019

Bottom line: Champlain Valley Union has played in the state championship game 33 times, going 18-14-1 in the finals. CVU has won multiple titles in each full decade dating back to the 1960s.

6. Hanover High School — 19 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Hanover, New Hampshire

State championships: 1968, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2005-10, 2013, 2019

Bottom line: George Merrill won 10 state championships as Hanover's head coach from 1971 to 2002, including back-to-back titles in 1979-1980, 1992-1993 and 1999-2000. Hanover has won at least one state title in each full decade dating back to its first title in 1968. Its most dominant decade so far has been the 2000s, when it won seven state titles, including six straight from 2005 to 2010.

6. Proctor High School — 19 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Proctor, Vermont

State championships: 1965-68, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980-83, 1996, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016

Bottom line: Aside from having one of the greatest high school soccer dynasties in the U.S., Proctor High also has one of the greatest mascots. The Phantoms kicked things off by winning four consecutive state titles from 1965 to 1968, kicking off a stretch in which it won 13 titles in 19 years. Proctor has won four state titles in four different decades — the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 2010s.

4. Salesianum School — 21 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Wilmington, Delaware

State championships: 1983, 1989, 1993, 2002, 2004-08, 2010-19, 2021, 2022

Bottom line: Salesianum swept an entire decade of state championships in Delaware, winning every title from 2019 to 2022 and head coach Scott Mosier has won 15 of the school's 21 state titles. Salesianum has had one of its players win Delaware Gatorade Player of the Year 13 times, including two-time winners Eamon O'Neil (2005, 2006) and Andrew O'Malley (2009, 2010).

4. Sandia Preparatory School — 21 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

State championships: 1985, 1987-90, 1992, 1993, 2001-06, 2010-13, 2018, 2020-22

Bottom line: Sandia Prep head coaches own two spots among the top five on the career list of state championships — Juan Ramos won seven titles from 1985 to 1993 and Tommy Smith has won 14 titles from 2001 to 2022, including seven straight from 2001 to 2006.

3. Punahou School — 22 State Championships (Tie)

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

State championships: 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989-92, 1994-96, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020

Bottom line: Punahou head coach Bob Cagle led his team to 16 state championships in 31 years, including seven titles in eight seasons from 1989 to 1996.

2. Harrison High School — 25 State Championships

Location: Harrison, New Jersey

State championships: 1946-50, 1953-55, 1958-60, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1991, 2001-03, 2006-08, 2014

Bottom line: Harrison High trails now-closed Chatham Borough High by just one state championship. Harrison has actually finished as state runner-up seven times, including a loss to Chatham Borough in the 1974 finals.

1. Marquette University High School — 30 State Championships

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

State championships: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984-86, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994-2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010-12, 2014-18, 2020, 2021

Bottom line: Marquette University High's state total haul includes all of the championships they won before the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association (WISAA) merged with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) in the late 1990s. Marquette star Andy Kirk led his school to three consecutive state championships and was named Gatorade National Player of the Year in 1996.