Mountain State derby
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Sport | Soccer |
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First meeting | October 26, 1983 WVU 2 - Marshall 0 |
Latest meeting | November 12, 2023 No. 1 Marshall 3 - No. 5 WVU 2 |
Next meeting | TBD |
Statistics | |
Meetings total | 26 |
All-time series | WVU leads, 17–8–2 (.667) |
Largest victory | WVU, 5–0 (1987) |
Longest win streak | WVU, 7 (1986–1992) |
Current win streak | Marshall, 1 (2023–present) |
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The Mountain State derby is the name given to the men's soccer games between the Marshall Thundering Herd and the West Virginia Mountaineers, the only NCAA Division I programs in the state of West Virginia.[1]
In 2019, the teams met in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament as 11th seed Marshall defeated WVU, 2-1, in front of a then-record crowd of 2,126 fans at the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex.[2] The 2021 edition of the Mountain State Derby set a then-record for highest-attended soccer game ever in West Virginia with 3,033 in the crowd. In the 2022 matchup, #4 Marshall defeated unranked West Virginia 1-0 before a crowd of 2,735 in Huntington.[3]
In 2022, both schools joined the Sun Belt Conference, Marshall as a full member and West Virginia as a men's soccer member, and the rivalry became an annual conference game.[4]
The 2023 regular season edition of the Mountain State Derby set a new record for the largest crowd to ever watch a soccer game in the state of West Virginia at that time with 3,147 people in attendance. The record was reset less than a month later in the Sun Belt Championship in Huntington with 3,151 in attendance.
Game results
Marshall victories | West Virginia victories | Tie games |
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† = Conference Tournament game (Sun Belt since 2022)
↑ = NCAA Tournament game
See also
- Friends of Coal Bowl – football rivalry between Marshall and West Virginia
- Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic – basketball rivalry between Marshall and West Virginia
References
- ^ "West Virginia pulls off massive upset over No. 8 Marshall in the first Mountain State Derby of the Dan Stratford era". 29 Mar 2021.
- ^ "Marshall knocks off West Virginia in NCAA men's soccer tournament". 24 Nov 2019.
- ^ "Late Goal Sinks WVU in Mountain State Derby". 17 Sep 2021.
- ^ "West Virginia men's soccer joins Sun Belt; Marshall also part of nine-team league". 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Men's Soccer Recordbook 2019 (PDF) - Marshall University Athletics" (PDF). 29 Mar 2021.
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