2026 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament TV Schedule: What's Confirmed

2026 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament TV Schedule: What's Confirmed

The 2026 NCAA women's soccer tournament TV schedule has one confirmed entry so far: the Selection Show, streaming Monday, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. ET on NCAA.com, according to the NCAA's fall championship schedule, published two weeks ago. Beyond that broadcast, neither of the NCAA's own schedule pages lists a network or streaming assignment for any round of the 64-team tournament. That's not proof no rights holder has announced anything elsewhere; it just means the NCAA's own materials don't show one yet.

Several conference tournaments feeding into the field already carry full network schedules for at least part of their bracket. Those give a useful preview of what eventually gets published once the NCAA tournament bracket exists, and this article covers both: what the NCAA has released so far for its 64-team field, and what the conference broadcasts already look like.

The tournament itself is a single-elimination bracket built from 31 automatic conference qualifiers and 33 at-large selections, picked by the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee, according to the NCAA's championship roadmap, published three months ago. The final rounds are scheduled for First Horizon Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, though the exact College Cup dates aren't settled, a conflict detailed further down.

Selection Monday: the confirmed piece of the 2026 NCAA women's soccer tournament TV schedule

The NCAA's championship roadmap describes the bracket as announced "the Monday before the first round of competition," but it doesn't specify whether every first-round host site is revealed during that same broadcast, according to the roadmap, published three months ago. For anyone searching the NCAA women's soccer selection show 2026 schedule, Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. ET on NCAA.com is the confirmed answer: that show announces the 64-team field and bracket for the season.

The NCAA's fall championship schedule lists that date and time alongside a note that all dates and times are subject to change, according to the NCAA's fall championship schedule, published two weeks ago. That caveat applies to the Selection Show's own slot just as much as it does to the rounds that follow.

Round-by-round calendar: published windows, not game-by-game details

The NCAA has released date ranges for each round and how many campus sites host each stage. That's the closest thing to a 2026 women's college soccer tournament schedule that currently exists, though it's still window-based rather than day-by-day.

Round Published window Site format TV status First round Nov. 20-22 32 non-predetermined campus sites Not listed in NCAA schedule Second and third rounds Nov. 26-29 8 campus sites, four teams each in a mini-bracket Not listed in NCAA schedule Quarterfinals Dec. 4-5 4 campus sites Not listed in NCAA schedule College Cup (semifinals, final) Disputed, see below First Horizon Stadium, Cary, N.C. Not listed in NCAA schedule

The round windows and site formats come from the roadmap, published three months ago; the College Cup row reflects the conflicting NCAA listings covered next. In the first round, 32 single-elimination games play out at non-predetermined campus sites. Winners move to the second round, held at eight campus sites, where four teams play a single-elimination bracket at each location; the two winners from that site then meet in the third round at the same venue. The eight third-round winners advance to the quarterfinals, and the four quarterfinal winners head to the College Cup in Cary.

College Cup date conflict to watch

The College Cup dates carry three different readings across NCAA-run pages, though the discrepancies don't line up evenly.

The roadmap itself contains two different ranges for the same event: Dec. 11-14 near the top of the page, and "Women's College Cup | December 10-13, 2026" further down, according to the roadmap, published three months ago.

NCAA.org's dedicated Division I women's soccer championship page narrows things further, listing the semifinal and final as Dec. 10 and Dec. 13, according to NCAA.org, published four months ago. That matches one of the roadmap's two windows, not the other.

A third page, NCAA.com's College Cup schedule of events, opens with the same Dec. 11-14 window and First Horizon Stadium venue as the roadmap's broader range. Further down, it also lists a Monday, Dec. 8 entry with parking and gate times at CPKC Stadium and a Florida State-Stanford matchup, according to the event schedule page, published last year. The CPKC Stadium, Dec. 8, and Florida State-Stanford details conflict with the current 2026 roadmap, which places the College Cup at First Horizon Stadium in Cary and does not identify semifinal matchups.

Check the NCAA pages again after the bracket announcement and before booking College Cup travel.

Confirmed conference-tournament TV before Selection Monday

Conference champions provide the automatic qualifiers, and several conference tournaments already have full network schedules attached, even though the NCAA tournament's own rounds don't yet.

The SEC Tournament presented by Allstate has confirmed SEC Network windows for every round: first round Nov. 8 at 12:30, 3, 5:30 and 8 p.m. ET; quarterfinals Nov. 10 at the same four times; semifinals Nov. 12 at 4:30 and 7 p.m.; and the championship Nov. 15 at 2:30 p.m. ET, according to ESPN Press Room, published last month. That championship game falls the day before Selection Monday.

The ACC Championship carries two sets of details that don't fully agree. ESPN's ACC-focused release states coverage begins Nov. 8 on ACC Network and that the title game airs on ESPNU, according to ESPN Press Room, published last month. A separate detailed listing from ESPN's broader 2026 schedule announcement marks that same Nov. 8 first-round game as network TBD, places the semifinals on Nov. 10 and Nov. 12, and lists the championship at noon on Nov. 12, according to ESPN Press Room, published last month. That puts the ACC final three days before the SEC championship and four days ahead of Selection Monday. The later ACC rounds already carry a confirmed network; the opening round still shows TBD.

What to check next

Round windows for the 2026 NCAA women's soccer tournament run from the first round on Nov. 20-22 through a College Cup whose exact dates are still inconsistent across NCAA pages. Bookmark the NCAA.org championship page, the NCAA.com roadmap, and the event schedule page, and check all three again once the bracket is set.

Verify any date range or TV claim against the NCAA's own pages and the named broadcaster before treating it as final. Recheck this 2026 NCAA women's soccer championship TV schedule after Selection Monday, when the bracket, host sites and eventually network assignments begin to appear.