The Golden Eagles will face four non-conference opponents that are coming off an NCAA tournament bid last fall.
So there I am, scrolling Instagram on my lunch break, when I stumble upon this from Tuesday:
Now, is it weird that Marquette women’s soccer only posted about the home half of their 2025 schedule when the entirety of the schedule was announced on Tuesday? Maybe? Maybe it’s just an oopsie on not putting the road schedule graphic on the post?
ANYWAY
That’s how I found out that the 2025 Marquette women’s soccer schedule is out in the public now.
Chris Allen’s second season as head coach will start on Thursday, August 14, when the Golden Eagles head down to DeKalb to face Northern Illinois. It will be the first meeting with the Huskies since 2019. That match starts a series of Thursday/Sunday scheduling for Marquette, as they then return home for the Valley Fields opener three days later when North Dakota State comes to town for the second meeting between the two teams in program history.
Next weekend, it’s time for a pair of matches in Wisconsin while going road/home on Thursday and Sunday again. The cross-town rivalry with Milwaukee gets renewed on August 21st as the two teams look to break an 11-11-9 all-time series tie, although Marquette is unbeaten in the last two contests in the series. The visit to the East Side will be MU’s first match against a 2024 NCAA Tournament team, and their second one is three days later when Wisconsin comes to the Valley. MU and UW did not play last year, and Marquette is winless in the last five regular season meetings dating back to a victory in the 2005 NCAA tournament.
The following week gives Marquette a full blown road trip. They’ll head up to the Twin Cities to face Minnesota on Thursday and then St. Thomas on Sunday. That contest with the Gophers will make for two straight matches against teams that 1) had a regional seed in last year’s NCAA tournament and 2) made it to the Sweet 16 of the tourney, too. Marquette is 2-7-1 all time against Minnesota, but undefeated at 3-0-1 against UST with all four meetings coming in the last four seasons.
Marquette starts the next weekend out on the road, visiting Kansas City on Thursday. Last year’s 1-1 draw in Milwaukee was the first ever meeting with the Roos. After that, it’s back to Milwaukee for a Sunday home game as MU renews their series with Notre Dame. MU has taken three losses to the Irish over the last four seasons, and if ND maintains the form that got them to the Elite Eight of last year’s NCAA tournament, snapping that streak might be kind of difficult.
After that, Marquette gets a week off before spooling up one last non-conference match. Loyola Chicago will come to Milwaukee for the first encounter with the Golden Eagles since 2014. Marquette hasn’t allowed a goal to the Ramblers since 1996.
The Loyola match on September 14th will be Marquette’s only match for nearly a two week stretch, as they won’t return to action again until they start Big East play at home against Butler on September 20th. The league slate is front loaded with home matches, with three of their first four at Valley Fields. That does mean that four of Marquette’s final six Big East games come on the road, but they will wrap up the regular season at home on November 1st against Seton Hall.
This year’s Big East tournament will be a four team event all at one location instead of a six team event with quarterfinal matches at home stadiums before convening for the semifinals. That will make things slightly more complicated for Marquette to snap their streak of seven straight seasons without a conference tournament appearance.
Here’s the full schedule with times!
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