2025 EIU Men's Soccer Schedule

First year Eastern Illinois men's soccer coach Ruy Vaz has released the Panthers schedule for the upcoming 2025 fall season.
 
The Panthers will play eight total matches at Lakeside Field opening with three straight exhibition matches in August and five Ohio Valley Conference contests in October and November.
 
EIU hosts Parkland College on Saturday, August 9 for its home exhibition opening followed by home exhibition matches with Evansville (Aug. 13) and Greenville University (Aug. 18).
 
The regular season opens on the road with the Panthers traveling to the Windy City for a August 21 match at Northwestern.   EIU then returns to Chicago to face UIC on August 24 before rounding out the month on August 28 at Purdue Fort Wayne.
 
EIU plays the entire month of September away from home with four matches at Milwaukee (Sept. 5), at Northern Illinois (Sept. 16), at Central Arkansas (Sept. 21) and the OVC opener at Western Illinois on Sept. 27.
 
The regular season home opener at Lakeside Field will be on October 2 hosting Lindenwood.  EIU also hosts Liberty (Oct. 16), Southern Indiana (Oct. 19), Western Illinois (Oct. 25) and SIUE (Nov. 2) for OVC home action.
 
Additional OVC road contests are at SIUE, at Houston Christian, at Incarnate Word and at Lindenwood.
 
This year's OVC Tournament will be hosted by Lindenwood in St. Charles, Missouri with the opening matches on November 9.