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{{Short description|American college soccer team}}
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|name = Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens<br />men's soccer
|current =
|logo = Delaware Soccer wordmark.png
|logo_size = 200
|university = University of Delaware
|conference = Colonial Athletic Association
|conference_short = CAA
|division =
|founded= {{Start date and age|1926}}
|city = Newark
|stateabb = DE
|state = Delaware
|athletic_director = [[Christine Rawak]]
|coach =  Ian Hennessy
|tenure = 7th
|stadium = [[Stuart and Grant Stadium]]
|capacity = 2,500
|nickname = Hens, Fightin' Blue Hens
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The '''Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer''' team represents the [[University of Delaware]] in all men's [[College soccer in the United States|college soccer]] competitions. The Blue Hens have enjoyed a resurgence in conference and national prominence in the last 2 years under head coach Ian Hennessy. The team qualified and lost in the semi-finals of the CAA in 2010 before winning its first ever conference championship in 2011. The 2011 team defeated the [[University of Virginia]] in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] first round before succumbing to [[Final four|Final Four]] participant [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in the second round. The team's previous apex of success came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Blue Hens qualified into the 1968 and 1970 editions of the [[NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship]], their only appearances in the tournament to date.<ref>{{cite web|title=Men's Division I Championship Brackets|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_RB/2011/D1Brackets.pdf|publisher=NCAA|access-date=September 17, 2011}}</ref>
On November 13, 2011, the Blue Hens earned their first-ever CAA Tournament Championship, thus earning their first berth into the NCAA tournament in 41 years. The team also clinched an NCAA at-large berth in 2013, finishing the season with a record of 14-4-1, and hosted the program's first ever NCAA tournament match in a 2-1 OT loss to St. John's.
The Blue Hens will depart the CAA for the [[Summit League]] on July 1, 2025,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thesummitleague.org/news/2024/4/3/delaware-set-to-join-summit-league-for-mens-soccer-in-2025.aspx|title=Delaware set to join Summit League for Men's Soccer in 2025|website=thesummitleague.org|publisher=The Summit League|date=April 4, 2024|access-date=April 4, 2024}}</ref> following the full athletic department move to [[Conference USA]].
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website}}
{{University of Delaware}}
{{CAA men's soccer teams}}
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