List of NCAA conferences#Division I

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is divided into three divisions based on scholarship allocation. Each division is made up of several conferences for regional league competition. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference affiliation will occur on July 1 of the given year.

Division I

Under NCAA regulations, all Division I conferences defined as "multisport conferences" must meet the following criteria:{{cite book |url=http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D121.pdf |chapter=Bylaw 20.02.5: Multisport Conference |title=2020–21 NCAA Division I Manual |pages=394–95 |date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031234317/http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D121.pdf |url-status=live }}

A total of at least seven active Division I members.
Separate from the above, at least seven active Division I members that sponsor both men's and women's basketball.
Sponsorship of at least 12 NCAA Division I sports.
Minimum of six men's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
Men's basketball is a mandatory sport, and at least seven members must sponsor that sport.
Non-football conferences must sponsor at least two men's team sports other than basketball.
At least six members must sponsor five men's sports other than basketball, including either football or two other team sports.
Minimum of six women's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
Women's basketball is a mandatory sport, with at least seven members sponsoring that sport.
At least two other women's team sports must be sponsored.
At least six members must sponsor five women's sports other than basketball, including two other team sports. If a conference officially sponsors an NCAA "emerging sport" for women (as of 2023, acrobatics & tumbling, equestrianism, rugby union, stunt, triathlon, or wrestling), that sport will be counted if five members (instead of six) sponsor it.

Schools in all divisions that sponsor athletic programs for only one sex/gender need only meet the sports sponsorship requirements for that sex/gender.{{cite book |url=https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90008 |chapter=Bylaw 20.10.5.3: Sports Sponsorship, Single-Gender Institution Exception |title=2021–22 NCAA Division I Manual |publisher=NCAA |page=402 |date=August 1, 2021 |access-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428215047/https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90008 |url-status=live }} Identically numbered and worded bylaws exist in the [https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90010 Division II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423171504/https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90010 |date=2022-04-23 }} and [https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90011 Division III] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101223328/https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90011 |date=2020-11-01 }} Manuals, though page numbering is different from that in the Division I Manual.

=Football Bowl Subdivision=

Conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision must meet a more stringent set of NCAA requirements than other conferences. Among these additional NCAA regulations, institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision must be "multisport conferences" and participate in conference play in at least six men's and eight women's sports, including football, men's and women's basketball, and at least two other women's team sports. Each school may count one men's and one women's sport not sponsored by its primary conference toward the above limits, as long as that sport competes in another Division I conference. The men's and women's sports so counted need not be the same sport.{{cite book |url=http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D121.pdf |chapter=Bylaw 20.02.6: Football Bowl Subdivision Conference |title=2020–21 NCAA Division I Manual |page=395 |date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031234317/http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D121.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/ncaa-101/our-three-divisions |title=Who We Are: Our Three Divisions |publisher=NCAA |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820074515/http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/ncaa-101/our-three-divisions |url-status=live }}

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ ! Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
American Athletic Conference	align=center \| The American	align=center\|2013{{efn\|group=FBS\|Known as Big East Conference prior to 2013. The American operates under the original 1979 Big East charter, but considers its competitive history to have started in 2013.}}	align=center\| 13{{efn\|group=FBS\|13 full members with Wichita State as a non-football member; 14 football members with Army and Navy as football-only affiliates.}}	align=center \| 22	Irving, Texas	150px
Atlantic Coast Conference	align=center\|ACC	align=center\|1953	align=center\|18{{efn\|group=FBS\|18 full members, 17 football members. Notre Dame football is an FBS independent, but has a substantial cross-scheduling agreement with the ACC.}}	align=center\|28{{efn\|group=FBS\|Number of conference championships awarded. The conference sponsors separate championships for men's and women's fencing, while the NCAA organizes a single coeducational championship event.}}	Charlotte, North Carolina	150px
Big Ten Conference	align=center\|Big Ten B1G	align=center\|1896	align=center\|18	align=center\|28	Rosemont, Illinois	150px
Big 12 Conference	align=center\|Big 12 B12 \| align="center" \|1996	align=center \| 16	align=center \| 25	Irving, Texas	150px
Conference USA	align=center \| CUSA	align=center\|1995	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FBS\|11 members in 2026 with loss of UTEP.}}	align=center \| 18	Dallas, Texas	150px
Division I FBS independents{{efn\|group=FBS\|Note that "independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.}}	align=center\|Ind.	align=center\|N/A	align=center\| 2	align=center\|1	N/A	150px
Mid-American Conference	align=center\|MAC	align=center\|1946	align=center\|13{{efn\|group=FBS\|12 members in 2026 with loss of Northern Illinois.}}	align=center \| 23	Cleveland, Ohio	150px
Mountain West Conference	align=center\|MW MWC	align=center\|1999	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FBS\|12 full members, 12 football members with Grand Canyon as a non-football member and Hawaii as a football-only affiliate. 11 full members, 9 football members in 2026 with the following changes: Loss of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Utah State. Addition of Northern Illinois (football only), UC Davis (non-football), and UTEP (all sports). Upgrade of Hawaii's membership to all-sports.}}	align=center\|18	Colorado Springs, Colorado	150px
Pac-12 Conference	align=center\|Pac-12 P12 \| align="center" \|1959{{efn\|group=FBS\|Pacific Coast Conference chartered in 1915; current charter formed 1959 by five former PCC members, with three others joining by 1964.}}	align=center \| 2{{efn\|group=FBS\|9 full members and 8 football members in 2026 with addition of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State, and Utah State, plus Gonzaga as a non-football member.}}	align=center\|24{{efn\|group=FBS\|23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus men's rowing; the NCAA governs women's rowing but not men's.}}	San Ramon, California	150px
Southeastern Conference	align=center\| SEC SE Southeastern \| align=center \| 1932	align=center \| 16	align=center \| 22	Birmingham, Alabama	150px
Sun Belt Conference	align=center\| SBC SB Sun Belt \| align=center \|1976	align=center \| 14{{efn\|group=FBS\|13 members in 2026 with loss of Texas State.}}	align=center \| 20	New Orleans, Louisiana	150px

=Football Championship Subdivision=

In addition to competing in football, multisport conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Full Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
Big Sky Conference	align=center\|Big Sky BSC	align="center" \|1963	align=center\| 10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members and 12 football members with Cal Poly and UC Davis as football-only affiliates. 11 confirmed full members and 13 likely football members in 2026 with departure of Sacramento State, plus addition of Southern Utah and Utah Tech. }}	align=center\| 16	Ogden, Utah	150px
Big South Conference	align=center\|Big South	align=center\|1983	align=center \| 9{{efn\|group=FCS\|9 full members and 2 football members. Both football members play in the OVC–Big South Football Association, an alliance between the Ohio Valley Conference and the Big South Conference which shares a single automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.}}	align=center \| 19	Charlotte, North Carolina	150px
Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference	align=center\|CAA Football	align=center \| 2007{{efn\|group=FCS\|While CAA Football was formally founded in 2007, its history can be traced back decades earlier. The earliest predecessor is the New England Conference, which existed from 1938–1947. However, CAA Football does not recognize this league as part of its history. In 1947, four New England Conference members joined with other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. CAA Football considers its history to have started with the Yankee Conference. The Yankee Conference, by then a football-only league, was taken over by the Atlantic 10 Conference after the 1996 football season. The all-sports CAA took over A-10 football in 2007, forming CAA Football as a separate entity.}}	align=center \| 14{{efn\|group=FCS\|CAA Football is a separate entity from the multi-sports CAA.}}{{efn\|group=FCS\|12 members in 2026 with loss of Villanova and William & Mary.}}	align=center \|1	Richmond, Virginia	150px
Division I FCS Independents{{efn\|group=FCS\|Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. These schools have conference memberships for other sports.}}			align=center \| 2{{efn\|group=FCS\|3 independents possible in 2026 with potential addition of Sacramento State.}}	align=center \| 1
Ivy League	align=center\|Ivy League	align=center\|1954{{efn\|group=FCS\|While the Ivy League considers its athletic conference to have been established in 1954, the history of the athletic league can be traced back decades earlier: In 1901, the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL) was formed by five schools that would later become part of the current Ivy League; the EIBL membership eventually became identical to that of the future all-sports league. The EIBL was directly absorbed into the all-sports Ivy League, which considers the EIBL to be part of its history. In 1945, the Ivy Group Agreement, which governed competition and policies among the Ivy schools in football, was signed by all eight schools that eventually formed the all-sports league. The official formation of the athletic Ivy League came in 1954, when the Ivy Group Agreement was extended to cover all sports. For more details, see the section on the history of the athletic Ivy League.}}	align=center\|8	align=center\|32{{efn\|The Ivy League, by NCAA count, sponsors 28 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The Ivy League awards separate men's and women's fencing championships, while the NCAA considers fencing a single coeducational sport. Additionally, the Ivy League sponsors championships in the non-NCAA sports of men's rowing plus men's and women's squash.}}	Princeton, New Jersey	150px
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	align=center\|MEAC	align=center\|1970	align=center\|8{{efn\|group=FCS\|8 full members, 6 football members.}}	align=center\| 14	Norfolk, Virginia	150px
Missouri Valley Football Conference	align=center\|MVFC	align=center\|1985{{efn\|group=FCS\|While the MVFC began football competition in 1985, the conference charter dates to 1982. See History of the Missouri Valley Football Conference for more details.}}	align=center \| 10	align=center\|1	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Northeast Conference	align=center\|NEC	align=center\|1981	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members, 8 football members with Chicago State, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Le Moyne as non-football members and with Duquesne and Robert Morris as football-only affiliates. 9 full members, 8 football members likely in 2026 with confirmed loss of Saint Francis and expected addition of football by Chicago State.}}	align=center \| 25	Somerset, New Jersey	150px
Ohio Valley Conference	align=center\|OVC	align=center\|1948	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=FCS\|11 full members, 7 football members (full member Morehead State plays football in the Pioneer Football League). All current OVC football members (not counting Morehead State) play that sport in the OVC–Big South Football Association.}}	align=center \| 19	Brentwood, Tennessee	150px
Patriot League	align=center\|Patriot	align=center\|1986	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members and 8 football members with Army, Navy, American, Boston, and Loyola (MD) as non-football members (Army and Navy both compete in FBS football) and with Fordham, Georgetown, and Richmond as football-only affiliates. 10 football members in 2026 with addition of Villanova and William & Mary as football affiliates.}}	align=center\|24	Center Valley, Pennsylvania	150px
Pioneer Football League	align=center\|PFL	align=center\|1991	align=center\| 11	align=center\|1	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Southern Conference	align=center\|SoCon	align=center\|1921	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members, 9 football members.}}	align=center \| 20	Spartanburg, South Carolina	150px
Southland Conference	align=center\|Southland SLC	align=center\|1963	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FCS\|12 full members, 10 football members.}}	align=center\|18	Frisco, Texas	150px
Southwestern Athletic Conference	align=center\|SWAC	align=center\|1920	align=center \| 12	align=center\|18	Birmingham, Alabama	150px
United Athletic Conference{{efn\|group=FCS\|Not an officially recognized NCAA conference; that body treats the UAC as the continuation of a preexisting football-only alliance between the Atlantic Sun Conference and Western Athletic Conference.}}{{efn\|group=FCS\|Becomes an official NCAA conference in 2026 as a rebranded Western Athletic Conference.}}	align=center\|UAC	align=center\|2023	align=center \| 9{{efn\|group=FCS\|8 full members, 7 football members in 2026 with the following changes: Addition of UT Arlington as a full but non-football member. Loss of Southern Utah and Utah Tech.}}	align=center \| 1{{efn\|group=FCS\|Number of sports in 2026 to be determined.}}		150px

=Non-football, multi-sport conferences=

Multisport conferences that do not compete in football must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
America East Conference	align=center\|America East AmEast	align=center\|1979	align=center\|9	align=center\|18	Boston, Massachusetts	150px
Atlantic Sun Conference	align=center\|ASUN	align=center\|1978	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=NF\|7 members in 2026 with loss of Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, and West Georgia.}}	align=center \| 20	Jacksonville, Florida	150px
Atlantic 10 Conference	align=center\|A-10	align=center\|1975	align=center\|14	align=center\|22	Newport News, Virginia	150px
Big East Conference	align=center\|Big East	align=center\|1979{{efn\|group=NF\|Although the charter of the current Big East dates only to the 2013 split of the original Big East, both the current Big East and the American Athletic Conference claim 1979 as their founding dates. The current Big East maintains the pre-split history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors. In football and rowing, the two sports that were sponsored by The American but not the current Big East after the split, neither conference recognizes the history of the original Big East.}}	align=center\|11	align=center\|23{{efn\|group=NF\|22 NCAA-sanctioned sports, plus the non-NCAA and fully coeducational esports.}}	New York City, New York	150px
Big West Conference	align=center\|Big West BWC	align=center\|1969	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=NF\|12 members in 2026 with the following changes: Loss of Hawaiʻi and UC Davis. Addition of California Baptist, Sacramento State, and Utah Valley.}}	align=center \| 21	Irvine, California	150px
Coastal Athletic Association	align=center\|CAA	align=center\|1983	align=center \| 13{{efn\|group=NF\|The CAA Football Conference is a separate entity from the all-sports CAA.}}	align=center \| 23	Richmond, Virginia	150px
Horizon League	align=center\|Horizon	align=center\|1979	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=NF\|12 members in 2026 with return of Northern Illinois.}}	align=center\|19	Indianapolis, Indiana	150px
Independents			align=center \| –
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	align=center\|MAAC	align=center\|1980	align=center \| 13	align=center\|25{{efn\|group=NF\|23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus two non-NCAA sports—men's rowing, and Esports, which are fully coeducational.}}	Edison, New Jersey	150px
Missouri Valley Conference	align=center\|MVC The Valley	align=center\|1907	align=center \| 11	align=center \| 18	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation	align=center\|MPSF	align=center\|1992	align=center \| 59{{efn\|group=NF\|No more than 13 schools competed in any one of the MPSF's sports in 2024–25. 58 members in 2026 with loss of California Baptist.}}	align=center \| 15{{efn\|group=NF\|Sponsors 13 fully recognized NCAA sports (two of which feature only Division II members) and 2 non-NCAA sports (artistic swimming and men's rowing).}}	Woodland, California	150px
Summit League	align=center\|The Summit	align=center\|1982	align=center \| 9	align=center\|19	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	150px
West Coast Conference	align=center\|WCC	align=center\|1952	align=center \| 10{{efn\|group=NF\|9 members in 2026 with loss of Gonzaga.}}	align=center \| 16	San Bruno, California	150px
Western Athletic Conference{{efn\|group=NF\|Rebranding as the United Athletic Conference in 2026.}}	align=center\|WAC	align=center\|1962	align=center \| 7{{efn\|group=NF\|8 members under the United Athletic Conference banner in 2026 with the following changes: Addition of Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, and West Georgia. Loss of California Baptist, Southern Utah, Utah Tech, and Utah Valley.}}	align=center \| 19	Arlington, Texas	150px

=Ice hockey conferences=

Division I ice hockey has a different conference structure than the above multisport conferences. These schools have memberships in other conferences for other sports.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members (Men/Women) !! Headquarters !! Map
Atlantic Hockey America	Atlantic Hockey AHA	1997{{efn\|group=IH\|name=AHACHA\|The Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America merged in 2024 to form Atlantic Hockey America. Atlantic Hockey was founded (as the MAAC) in 1997 and the CHA in 1999.}}	14 (11/6){{efn\|group=IH\|14 members (10/7) in 2025 with the following changes: Loss of men's member American International. Addition of Delaware to the women's side.}}	Haverhill, Massachusetts	150px
Central Collegiate Hockey Association	CCHA	2020{{efn\|group=IH\|Founded in 2020, with play starting in 2021, as the revival of an earlier CCHA that existed from 1971 to 2013; the current CCHA considers itself a continuation of the original. Bowling Green, which was a member of the original CCHA for its entire existence and is a charter member of the revived conference, maintained rights to the league name.}}	9 (9/none){{efn\|group=IH\|8 members in 2026 with loss of St. Thomas.}}	Farmington Hills, Michigan
ECAC Hockey	ECAC	1962	12 (12/12)	Albany, New York	150px
Hockey East	Hockey East HEA	1984	12 (11/10)	Amesbury, Massachusetts	150px
Independents			5 (5/none){{efn\|group=IH\|6 men's members in 2025 with addition of Tennessee State.}}		150px
New England Women's Hockey Alliance	NEWHA	2018{{efn\|group=SS\|Established as a scheduling alliance in 2017, officially organized as a conference in 2018, and officially recognized by the NCAA in 2019.}}	8 (none/8)	Winthrop, Massachusetts
National Collegiate Hockey Conference	NCHC	2011{{efn\|group=IH\|Although founded in 2011, the NCHC did not begin play until 2013.}}	9 (9/none){{efn\|group=IH\|10 members in 2026 with addition of St. Thomas.}}	Colorado Springs, Colorado	150px
Western Collegiate Hockey Association	WCHA	1951{{efn\|group=IH\|Founded in 1951 as a men's-only conference; women's play began in 1999. The men's side of the WCHA folded after the 2020–21 season, with most of its members forming the revived CCHA.}}	8 (none/8)	Edina, Minnesota	150px

=Other single-sport conferences=

This list includes conferences in sports that the NCAA does not fully split into divisions, such as men's volleyball and rifle. Sports in which the NCAA sponsors separate championships for men and women are officially treated by the NCAA as two separate sports.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sport !! Headquarters !! Map
Central Collegiate Fencing Conference	CCFC		6	Fencing	?
Central Collegiate Ski Association	CCSA	2009	7{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 7 NCAA varsity members; the conference also has one junior college member.}}	Skiing	?
Collegiate Water Polo Association	CWPA	1970s	26{{efn\|group=SS\|9 schools have both men's & women's varsity teams, 9 have men's varsity teams only, 8 have women's varsity teams only; additionally, there are 136 men's and 86 women's club teams.}}	water polo	Bridgeport, Pennsylvania
East Atlantic Gymnastics League	EAGL	1995	7	gymnastics	?
Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges	EARC	?	18	rowing	Danbury, Connecticut	150px
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges	EAWRC	?	18	rowing	Danbury, Connecticut	150px
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League	EIGL	?	5	1 (gymnastics)	Danbury, Connecticut
Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association	EISA	?	15	1 (Skiing)	?
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association	EIVA	1977	7	1 (men's volleyball)	Bronxville, New York
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association	EIWA	1905	17	1 (wrestling)	?
Eastern Women's Fencing Conference	EWFC	2000	7	1 (fencing)	?	150px
Golden Coast Conference	GCC	2013{{efn\|group=SS\|Women only. The GCC was founded in 2013 as a women's-only conference; a men's division was added in 2016 and shut down in 2023.}}	8	1 (water polo)	?	150px
Great America Rifle Conference	GARC	1998	9	1 (rifle)	?
{{vanchor\|Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California.}}	IFCSC	1996?	2{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 2 varsity members; the conference also has 7 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	?	150px
Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association	MACFA	1952	8{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 7 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	Hackettstown, New Jersey	150px
Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference	MAC	1978	7{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 7 varsity members; the conference also has 6 college club members.}}	1 (rifle)	?
Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference	MAWPC		7	1 (Water Polo)	?
{{vanchor\|Midwest Fencing Conference}}	MFC	1968	6{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 6 varsity members; the conference also has 13 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	?	150px
Midwest Independent Conference	MIC	?	6	1 (women's gymnastics)	UIC (?)
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association	MIVA	1961	9{{efn\|group=SS\|9 members in 2025 with addition of Northern Kentucky and loss of Quincy.}}	1 (men's volleyball)	Columbus, Ohio
National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association	NIWFA	1929	10{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 10 varsity members; the conference also has 10 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	?	150px
New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference	NEIFC	?	8{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 13 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	?	150px
Northeast Fencing Conference	NFC	1992	8{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 5 college club members.}}	1 (fencing)	?	150px
Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference	PCSC	2002	9 (men) 15 (women)	1 (swimming)	?
Patriot Rifle Conference	PRC	2013	6	1 (rifle)	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association	RMISA	1950	6{{efn\|group=SS\|There are 6 varsity members; the conference also has 4 college club members.}}	1 (Skiing)	?
Western Water Polo Association	WWPA	1981	7 (men) 8 (women)	1 (water polo)	?

Division II

Among the NCAA regulations, Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women (or four for men and six for women), with two team sports for each sex, and each playing season represented by each sex. Teams that consist of both men and women are counted as men's teams for sports sponsorship purposes.{{cite book |url=http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D218.pdf |chapter=Bylaw 20.10.3 Sports Sponsorship |title=2017–18 NCAA Division II Manual |page=316 |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225225350/http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D218.pdf |url-status=live }}

=Current conferences=

Conferences that sponsor football are highlighted in yellow.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !!Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
California Collegiate Athletic Association	CCAA	1938	12{{efn\|group=D2\|13 members in 2025 with addition of UC Merced.}}	13	Walnut Creek, California	150px
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference	CACC	1961	13	16	New Haven, Connecticut	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association	CIAA	1912	13{{efn\|group=D2\|13 full members; 12 football members.}}	15	Hampton, Virginia	150px
Conference Carolinas	CC	1930	15{{efn\|group=D2\|16 members in 2025 with addition of Ferrum.}}	26{{efn\|group=D2\|28 sports in 2025 with addition of (men's) football and women's flag football. The latter is currently a non-NCAA sport but is expected to become part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program no later than 2026–27.}}	Thomasville, North Carolina	150px
East Coast Conference	ECC	1989	9	18	Central Islip, New York	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Great American Conference	GAC	2011	12	16	Russellville, Arkansas	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	GLIAC	1972	11{{efn\|group=D2\|11 full members, 8 football members.}}	21	Bay City, Michigan	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Great Lakes Valley Conference	GLVC	1978	15{{efn\|group=D2\|15 full members, 9 football members.}}	24{{efn\|group=D2\|26 sports in 2025 with addition of stunt and men's volleyball.}}	Indianapolis, Indiana	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Great Midwest Athletic Conference	G-MAC	2011	13{{efn\|13 full members, 10 football members.\|group=D2}}	23{{efn\|Emerging sport wrestling included.\|group=D2}}	Greenwood, Indiana	150px
Great Northwest Athletic Conference	GNAC	2001	10	15	Portland, Oregon	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Gulf South Conference	GSC	1970	12{{efn\|group=D2\|12 full members, 9 football members with Erskine as a football-only affiliate. 6 football members in 2025 with loss of Chowan, Erskine, and North Greenville.}}	17	Birmingham, Alabama	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| {{sort\|Independent\|Division II independents}}			4{{efn\|group=D2\|4 all-sports independents (non-football), plus two football independents: Northeastern State and Shorter, a full member of a non-football conference. 1 football independent in 2025 with loss of Shorter.}}			150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Lone Star Conference	LSC	1931	17{{efn\|group=D2\|17 full members, 10 football members with Central Washington and Western Oregon as football-only affiliates. 18 full members in 2025 with possible addition of UT Dallas.}}	18	Richardson, Texas	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association	MIAA	1912	14{{efn\|group=D2\|14 full members, 10 football members with Northeastern State competing as a D-II Independent in football.}}	19	Kansas City, Missouri	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Mountain East Conference	MEC	2012	11{{efn\|group=D2\|11 full members with Davis & Elkins and Point Park as non-football members; 10 football members with UNC Pembroke as a football affiliate. 11 full members and 9 football members in 2025 with loss of football-only member UNC Pembroke.}}	23	Bridgeport, West Virginia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Northeast-10 Conference	NE-10	1980	11{{efn\|group=D2\|11 full members, 9 football members with Post as a football-only affiliate.}}	23	Mansfield, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference	NSIC	1932	15{{efn\|group=D2\|15 full members, 13 football members. 16 members, 14 football members in 2025 with addition of Jamestown.}}	18	{{sort\|Saint Paul\|St. Paul, Minnesota}}	150px
Pacific West Conference	PacWest	1992	14{{efn\|group=D2\|13 members in 2206 with loss of Azusa Pacific.}}	15	Newport Beach, California	150px
Peach Belt Conference	PBC	1990	10{{efn\|11 members in 2025 with addition of Middle Georgia.\|group=D2.}}	15	Augusta, Georgia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference	PSAC	1951	17{{efn\|group=D2\|17 full members, 15 football members. 18 full members, 16 football members in 2026 with addition of Lackawanna.}}	23	Lock Haven, Pennsylvania	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference	RMAC	1909	15{{efn\|group=D2\|15 full members, 10 football members.}}	23	Colorado Springs, Colorado	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| South Atlantic Conference	SAC	1975	13{{efn\|group=D2\|13 full members, with Coker and Lincoln Memorial as non-football members; 12 football members with Barton as football-only affiliate. 12 full members and 11 football members in 2025 with closure of Limestone.}}	20	Rock Hill, South Carolina	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	SIAC	1913	15{{efn\|group=D2\|15 full members, 13 football members.}}	14	Tucker, Georgia	150px
Sunshine State Conference	SSC	1975	11	18	Melbourne, Florida	150px

=Single-sport conferences=

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sport !! Headquarters !! Map
[http://ascswim.wordpress.com/ Appalachian Swimming Conference]{{anchor\|Appalachian Swimming Conference.}}	ASC	?	6 (men) 4 (women)	swimming	?	150px
[http://www.ecacsports.com/index.aspx?path=gstring players+ ECAC Division II Field Hockey League]{{anchor\|ECAC Division II Field Hockey League.}}	ECAC	2014	6	field hockey	Danbury, Connecticut
[http://www.ecacsports.com/index.aspx?path=wrestling& ECAC Division II Wrestling League]{{anchor\|ECAC Division II Wrestling League.}}	ECAC	2015	7	wrestling	Danbury, Connecticut
{{vanchor\|New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference.}}	NSISC	1995	5 (men) 6 (women)	swimming	?	150px
Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference	PCSC	2003	9 (men) 15 (women)	swimming	?	150px

=Other sports=

These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-II championships. Two of these conferences will add at least one such sport in 2025.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members{{efn\|group=OD2\|name=Note\|Number reflects membership in the sport that lacks a D-II championship, not the number of full members.}} !! Sport !! Headquarters !! Map
rowspan=2 \| Conference Carolinas	rowspan=2 \| CC	rowspan=2 \| 1930	8	{{sortname\|Men's\|volleyball\|Volleyball}}	rowspan=2 \| Thomasville, North Carolina	rowspan=2 \| 150px
bgcolor=lightgreen \| 6 {{efn\|group=OD2\|Expected flag football membership.}} \| {{sortname\|Women's\|flag football\|Flag football}}{{efn\|group=OD2\|To be added in 2025.}}{{efn\|group=OD2\|Expected to become part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program no later than 2026–27.}}
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference	CACC	1961	6	Bowling	New Haven, Connecticut	150px
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association	CIAA	1912	10	Bowling	Hampton, Virginia	150px
rowspan=2 \| East Coast Conference	rowspan=2 \| ECC	rowspan=2 \| 1989	10	Bowling	rowspan=2 \| Central Islip, New York	rowspan=2 \| 150px
4	{{sortname\|Men's\|volleyball\|Volleyball}}
rowspan=3 \| Great Lakes Valley Conference	rowspan=3 \| GLVC	rowspan=3 \| 1978	7	Bowling	rowspan=3 \| Indianapolis, Indiana	rowspan=3 \| 150px
bgcolor=lightgreen \| 7 {{efn\|group=OD2\|Expected stunt membership.}} \| Stunt{{efn\|group=OD2\|name=GLVC25\|To be added in 2025 (2026 season).}}{{efn\|group=OD2\|Part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program; expected to become an official NCAA championship sport in 2026–27.}}
bgcolor=lightgreen \| 7 {{efn\|group=OD2\|Expected men's volleyball membership.}} \| {{sortname\|Men's\|volleyball\|Volleyball}}{{efn\|group=OD2\|name=GLVC25}}
Northeast-10 Conference	NE-10	1980	6{{efn\|group=OD2\|7 members in 2025 with American International downgrading its program from Division I to Division II.}}	{{sortname\|Men's\|ice hockey\|College ice hockey}}	South Easton, Massachusetts	150px
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	SIAC	1913	7	{{sortname\|Men's\|volleyball\|Volleyball}}	Tucker, Georgia	150px

Division III

{{Main|NCAA Division III|List of NCAA Division III institutions}}

Unlike the other two divisions, Division III institutions cannot offer athletic scholarships. Among the other NCAA Division III requirements, schools have sports sponsorship requirements set by the NCAA. All institutions, regardless of enrollment, must sponsor at least three team sports for each sex/gender, and each playing season represented by each sex/gender.{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.org/about/who-we-are/membership/divisional-differences-and-history-multidivision-classification|title=Divisional Differences and the History of Multidivision Classification|publisher=NCAA|access-date=April 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714190545/http://www.ncaa.org/about/who-we-are/membership/divisional-differences-and-history-multidivision-classification|archive-date=July 14, 2015|url-status=live}}

A sports sponsorship rule unique to Division III is that the total number of sports that must be sponsored differs by a school's full-time undergraduate enrollment. Schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or fewer must sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women; those with larger enrollments must sponsor six men's and six women's sports. As in the other divisions, teams that include both men and women are treated as men's sports for the purpose of these regulations.{{cite book |url=https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90011 |chapter=Bylaw 20.11.3: Sports Sponsorship |title=2021–22 NCAA Division I Manual |publisher=NCAA |pages=221–25 |date=August 1, 2021 |access-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101223328/https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/reports/getReport/90011 |url-status=live }}

=Current conferences=

Conferences that sponsor football highlighted in yellow.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference	AMCC	1997	9	16	North Boston, New York	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| American Rivers Conference	ARC	1922	9{{efn\|group=D3\|8 members in 2026 with loss of Luther.}}	22	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| American Southwest Conference	ASC	1996	6{{efn\|group=D3\|6 full members with Concordia Texas, LeTourneau, Ozarks, and UT Dallas as non-football members; 4 football members. 4 full members in 2025 with loss of UT Dallas and LeTourneau.}}	16	Richardson, Texas	150px
Atlantic East Conference	AEC	2018	7{{efn\|group=d3\|8 members in 2025 with addition of Saint Elizabeth. 7 members in 2026 with loss of Neumann.}}	21{{efn\|group=D3\|20 NCAA sports plus women's flag football, currently a non-NCAA sport but expected to become part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program no later than 2026–27.}}	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Centennial Conference	Centennial	1981	11{{efn\|group=D3\|11 full members, 7 football members.}}	24	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	150px
City University of New York Athletic Conference{{efn\|group=d3\|Plans to adopt a new name in 2027.}}	CUNYAC	1987	8{{efn\|group=d3\|9 members in 2027 with addition of New Jersey City.}}	16	Flushing, Queens, New York	150px
Coast to Coast Athletic Conference	C2C	1989	6{{efn\|group=D3\|7 members in 2025 with loss of Mount Mary and addition of Johnson & Wales (NC) and Regent.}}	19	Fredericksburg, Virginia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin	CCIW	1946	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members, 10 football members with Washington (MO) as a football-only affiliate.}}	26	Naperville, Illinois	150px
Collegiate Conference of the South{{cite news \|title=USA South Announces Conference Restructuring \|url=https://www.usasouth.net/general/2021-22/releases/20220215h90h97 \|access-date=February 26, 2022 \|publisher=USA South Athletic Conference \|date=February 18, 2022 \|archive-date=February 21, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221165722/https://usasouth.net/general/2021-22/releases/20220215h90h97 \|url-status=dead }}	CCS	2022	9	14	Atlanta, Georgia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Conference of New England	CNE	1984	11{{efn\|group=D3\|11 members, 6 football members. 8 football members in 2025 with addition of Maine Maritime and New England College as football-only affiliates.}}	18	Springfield, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Eastern Collegiate Football Conference	ECFC	2009	4{{efn\|group=D3\|Will disband in 2025 with loss of all four members Alfred State, Anna Maria, Dean, and Gallaudet.}}	1	Wilmington, Vermont	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Empire 8	E8	1964	12{{efn\|group=D3\|12 full members with Elmira, Houghton, Keuka, Nazareth, Russell Sage, SUNY Geneseo, and SUNY Poly as non-football members; 8 football members with Hilbert, SUNY Cortland, and SUNY Morrisville as football-only affiliates.}}	22	Rochester, New York	150px
Great Northeast Athletic Conference	GNAC	1995	15{{efn\|group=D3\|14 full members in 2025 with loss of Anna Maria.}}	17	Boston, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	HCAC	1987	10{{efn\|group=D3\|10 full members, 7 football members.}}	16	Greenwood, Indiana	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Division III Independents			2{{efn\|group=D3\|2 all-sports independents (non-football), 1 football independent (which are members of non-football conferences). No football independents in 2025 with loss of Maine Maritime.}}			150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Landmark Conference	Landmark	2006	10{{efn\|group=D3\|10 members with Drew, Elizabethtown, Goucher, and Scranton as non-football members and 7 football with Keystone as a football-only affiliate.}}	23	Madison, New Jersey	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Liberty League	Liberty	1995	12{{efn\|group=D3\|12 full members, 7 football members with Buffalo State as a football-only affiliate.}}	26	Troy, New York	150px
Little East Conference	LEC	1986	9	21	North Dartmouth, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	MASCAC	1971	8{{efn\|group=D3\|8 full members with MCLA and Salem State as non-football members, 10 football members with Castleton, Plymouth State, UMass Dartmouth, and Western Connecticut as football affiliates. 9 full members, 11 football members in 2025 with addition of Anna Maria.}}	16	Westfield, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	MIAA	1888	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members, 8 football members.}}	22	Freeland, Michigan	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Middle Atlantic Conferences	MAC	1912	16{{efn\|group=D3\|The MAC is actually an umbrella organization of three conferences. Eight schools are members of the MAC Commonwealth and eight others are members of the MAC Freedom. Each league conducts competition in the same set of 14 sports, not including football. The third league, called the Middle Atlantic Conference, combines schools from the MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom for 13 other sports, including football.}}{{efn\|group=D3\|16 full members (8 Commonwealth, 8 Freedom) and 10 football members. 17 full members in 2026 with addition of non-football Neumann. The overall MAC has yet to announce whether Neumann will join Commonwealth or Freedom.}}	27	Annville, Pennsylvania	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Midwest Conference	Midwest	1921	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members, 10 football members with Chicago as a football affiliate. 10 full members, 11 football members in 2026 with addition of Luther.}}	20	Ripon, Wisconsin	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	MIAC	1920	13{{efn\|group=D3\|13 full members, 10 football members.}}	22	St. Paul, Minnesota	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| New England Small College Athletic Conference	NESCAC	1971	11{{efn\|group=D3\|11 full members, 10 football members.}}	26	Hadley, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference	NEWMAC	1998	12{{efn\|group=D3\|12 full members and 8 football members.}}	20	Wellesley, Massachusetts	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| New Jersey Athletic Conference	NJAC	1985	10{{efn\|group=D3\|10 full members with New Jersey City, Ramapo, Rutgers–Camden, Rutgers–Newark, and Stockton as non-football members; 7 football members with Christopher Newport and Salisbury as football affiliates. 9 full members in 2027 with loss of New Jersey City.}}	21	Pitman, New Jersey	150px
North Atlantic Conference	NAC	1996	10	15	Waterville, Maine	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| North Coast Athletic Conference	NCAC	1983	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 members in 2025 with loss of Hiram and addition of John Carroll.}}	23	Westlake, Ohio	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	NACC	2006	14{{efn\|group=D3\|14 full members, 9 football members with Eureka as a football-only affiliate.}}	19	Waukesha, Wisconsin	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Northwest Conference	NWC	1926	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members, 8 football members.}}	20	Seattle, Washington	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Ohio Athletic Conference	OAC	1902	10{{efn\|group=D3\|9 members in 2025 with loss of John Carroll.}}	23	Austintown, Ohio	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Old Dominion Athletic Conference	ODAC	1976	15{{efn\|group=D3\|15 full members, 8 football members. 14 full members, 9 football members in 2025 with addition of Roanoke football, Gallaudet as a football-only affiliate, and loss of Ferrum.}}	26	Forest, Virginia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Presidents' Athletic Conference	PAC	1955	11{{efn\|group=D3\|11 full members, 11 football members, with two full members not sponsoring football (Chatham and Franciscan) and two football affiliates (Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve). 12 full members and 12 football members in 2025 with addition of Hiram. 13 full members and 13 football members in 2026 with addition of Saint Francis.}}	24	Wexford, Pennsylvania	150px
{{sort\|Saint Louis\|St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference}}	SLIAC	1989	10{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members in 2025 with closure of Fontbonne.}}	14	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Skyline Conference	Skyline	1989	12	17	Lawrenceville, New Jersey	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Southern Athletic Association	SAA	2012	7{{efn\|group=D3\|7 full members, 8 football members with one full member not sponsoring football (Oglethorpe) and two football affiliates (Southwestern and Trinity [TX]). 8 full members in 2025 with loss of Hendrix and addition of Southwestern and Trinity (TX) for non-football sports.}}	21	Atlanta, Georgia	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	SCIAC	1915	9{{efn\|group=D3\|9 full members, 6 football members. 10 full members, 8 football members in 2026 with addition of Azusa Pacific and reinstatement of football by full member Whittier.}}	21	Los Angeles, California	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference	SCAC	1962	12{{efn\|group=D3\|12 full members, 5 football members with football-only affiliate Lyon. 11 full members in 2025 with addition of Hendrix and loss of Southwestern and Trinity (TX). 7 football members no later than 2026, with addition of Schreiner football.}}	9	Suwanee, Georgia	150px
State University of New York Athletic Conference	SUNYAC	1958	10	20	Fredonia, New York	150px
United East Conference	United East	2004	17{{efn\|group=D3\|15 members in 2025 with loss of Bryn Athyn and Saint Elizabeth. 14 members in 2026 with loss of Rosemont.}}	20	Gansevoort, New York	150px
University Athletic Association	UAA	1986	8	22	Rochester, New York	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	UMAC	1972	8{{efn\|group=D3\|8 full members with Bethany Lutheran, North Central, Northland, and Wisconsin–Superior as non-football members; 6 football members with Greenville, and Westminster (MO) as football-only affiliates.}}	16	St. Paul, Minnesota	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| USA South Athletic Conference	USA South	1965	10{{efn\|group=D3\|10 full members with Mary Baldwin, Meredith, Pfeiffer, Salem College, and William Peace as non-football members; 9 football members with Belhaven, Huntingdon, LaGrange, and Maryville as football-affiliates.}}	14	Fayetteville, North Carolina	150px
bgcolor=#ffffa0 \| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	WIAC	1913	8	22	Madison, Wisconsin	150px

=Single-sport conferences=

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sport !! Headquarters !! Map
Coastal Lacrosse Conference	CLC	2022	7	Men's lacrosse		150px
Colonial Women’s Golf Conference	CWGC	2025	7	Women's golf	N/A
Continental Volleyball Conference	CVC	2011	9	Men's volleyball	Madison, New Jersey
Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League	MCVL	2014	9{{efn\|group=group=SSD3\|10 members in 2025 with addition of Spalding.}}	Men's volleyball	Bradenton, Florida
Midwest Lacrosse Conference	MLC	2009	8	Men's lacrosse	Waukesha, Wisconsin
Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference	MWLC	2010	10	Women's Lacrosse	Waukesha, Wisconsin
New England Collegiate Conference	NECC	2007{{efn\|group=group=SSD3\|Operated as an all-sports conference from 2007–2023.}}	9{{efn\|group=SSD3\|8 members in 2025 with loss of Lesley.}}	Men's volleyball{{efn\|group=SSD3\|Also organizes competition in the non-NCAA esports.}}	Mansfield, Massachusetts
New England Hockey Conference	NEHC	2015	10 (men) 13 (women)	Ice hockey	N/A	150px
Northeast Women's Golf Conference	NWGC	2019	14	Women's golf	N/A
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association	NCHA	1981	10 (men) 7 (women)	Ice hockey	Waukesha, Wisconsin	150px
United Volleyball Conference	UVC	2010	8	Men's volleyball	Rochester, New York
United Collegiate Hockey Conference	UCHC	2016	12 (men) 13 (women)	Ice hockey	Danbury, Connecticut	150px

=Other sports=

These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-III championships.

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members{{efn\|group=OtherD3\|name=Note\|Number reflects membership in the sport that lacks a D-III championship, not the total conference membership.}} !! Sport !! Headquarters !! Map
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference	AMCC	1997	8	Bowling	North Boston, New York	150px
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin	CCIW	1946	8	Bowling	Naperville, Illinois	150px
Metropolitan Swimming Conference	METS	?	14 (men) 17 (women)	1 (swimming)	?	150px
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	WIAC	1913	8	Women's gymnastics	Madison, Wisconsin

Defunct NCAA conferences

class="sortable wikitable" !Conference !! Division !! Founded !! Folded !! Fate
America Sky Conference	Division I	2007	2014	Men's golf conference absorbed by the Big Sky Conference.{{cite news \|url=http://www.standard.net/Sports/2014/06/04/Weber-State-joins-familiar-friends-foes-as-Big-Sky-brings-back-men-s-golf.html \|title=WSU joins friends/foes as Big Sky brings back men's golf \|first=Roy \|last=Burton \|newspaper=Standard-Examiner \|location=Ogden, UT \|date=June 4, 2014 \|access-date=June 13, 2014 \|archive-date=July 14, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714164422/http://www.standard.net/Sports/2014/06/04/Weber-State-joins-familiar-friends-foes-as-Big-Sky-brings-back-men-s-golf.html \|url-status=dead }}
American Collegiate Athletic Association	Division III	2017	2020	Merged with the Capital Athletic Conference, with the merged conference renaming itself the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference shortly thereafter.
American Lacrosse Conference	Division I	2001	2014	Women's lacrosse conference that folded after the 2014 season due to fallout of the early-2010s conference realignment, specifically the 2013 announcement by the Big Ten that it would add men's and women's lacrosse for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season). Four of the seven final ALC members are full Big Ten members. Johns Hopkins went independent before joining Big Ten women's lacrosse in the 2017 season. The other two members became Big East affiliates.
American South Conference	Division I	1987	1991	Merged with the Sun Belt Conference. The new conference used the Sun Belt name.{{cite news\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-09-sp-126-story.html\|title=Miscellany\|work=Los Angeles Times\|date=April 9, 1991\|access-date=August 7, 2014\|archive-date=February 24, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224001913/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-09-sp-126-story.html\|url-status=live}}
Atlantic Central Football Conference	Division III	1997	2010	Disbanded
Atlantic Hockey Association	Division I	2003	2024	Founded in 1997 as the men's hockey league of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference; separated from the MAAC in 2003. Merged with College Hockey America to form the current Atlantic Hockey America.
Atlantic Soccer Conference	Division I	2000	2012	Disbanded
Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference	Division III	1995	2007	Disbanded
Big Central Soccer Conference	Division I	1987	1991	Men's soccer-only conference disbanded after the all-sports conferences of all but two of its members began sponsoring the sport.
Big Eight Conference	Division I	1907	1996	Initially formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, before six schools split away to form the Big Six in 1928. Brought in four former Southwest Conference schools to grow into the Big 12 Conference.
Border Conference	University Division	1931	1962	Members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses.
Central Collegiate Hockey Association (original)	Division I	1971	2013	The decision of the Big Ten Conference to add men's ice hockey as a sponsored sport in the 2013–14 season, taking three of the most successful members of the then-11-member league, led to a major conference realignment that ultimately consumed the CCHA. Two members joined the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference, one member joined Hockey East, and the remaining five members joined or rejoined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The CCHA would be revived in 2021 with eight members, four of which played in the final season of the original league; the current CCHA considers itself a continuation of the original.
Central Intercollegiate Bowling Conference	Division III	2019	2020	Bowling-only league effectively absorbed by the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.{{cite press release \|url=https://cciw.org/news/2020/7/20/general-cciw-announces-the-addition-of-womens-bowling-as-its-25th-sport-three-programs-added-as-associate-members.aspx \|title=CCIW Announces the Addition of Women's Bowling as Its 25th Sport; Three Programs Added as Associate Members \|publisher=College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin \|date=July 23, 2020 \|access-date=September 7, 2020 \|archive-date=March 22, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322153043/https://cciw.org/news/2020/7/20/general-cciw-announces-the-addition-of-womens-bowling-as-its-25th-sport-three-programs-added-as-associate-members.aspx \|url-status=live }}
Coastal Collegiate Sports Association	Division I	2008	2025	Originally started as a joint venture of several all-sports conferences to house their swimming & diving programs. Beach volleyball was later added to the conference's scope. The swimming & diving side was effectively absorbed by the Atlantic Sun Conference when it started sponsoring men's and women's swim/dive in 2023, and the final beach volleyball members joined the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for that sport after the 2025 season.
College Hockey America	Division I	1999	2024	Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 2002. The men's division disbanded in 2010 after steady losses of membership. The women's division merged with the Atlantic Hockey Association to form the current Atlantic Hockey America
Colonial Hockey Conference	Division III	2015	2020	Women's ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded after the 2019–20 season when the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), now known as the Conference of New England, took over operations.{{cite web \| url=https://www.uscho.com/2019/10/05/commonwealth-coast-conference-starting-womens-hockey-in-2020-21-will-assume-operation-of-colonial-hockey-conference/ \| title=Commonwealth Coast Conference starting women's hockey in 2020-21, will assume operation of Colonial Hockey Conference \| date=6 October 2019 \| access-date=29 December 2022 \| archive-date=29 December 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229022102/https://www.uscho.com/2019/10/05/commonwealth-coast-conference-starting-womens-hockey-in-2020-21-will-assume-operation-of-colonial-hockey-conference/ \| url-status=live }} At that time, all of the remaining members were full members of the CCC.
Colonial States Athletic Conference	Division III	1992	2023	Merged with the United East Conference. The 'new' conference used the United East name.{{Cite web \|title=United East Conference and Colonial States Athletic Conference Officially Merge \|url=https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2023/06/23/united-east-conference-and-colonial-states-athletic-conference-officially-merge/ \|website=The Southern Maryland Chronicle \|date=June 23, 2023 \|access-date=July 8, 2023 \|archive-date=July 7, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707182529/https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2023/06/23/united-east-conference-and-colonial-states-athletic-conference-officially-merge/ \|url-status=live }}
Commonwealth Coast Football	Division III	1965	2022	Football-only conference, absorbed by the Commonwealth Coast Conference (now the Conference of New England). Rebranded in 2017 from its original name, the New England Football Conference.
Continental Divide Conference	Division II	???	1992	Women's-only conference that merged with the men's-only Great Northwest Conference (not to be confused with the current Great Northwest Athletic Conference) to form the Pacific West Conference.
Deep South Conference	Division II	1994	2013	Men's lacrosse conference disbanded when the South Atlantic Conference and Sunshine State Conference, home to all nine of the final conference members, began sponsoring the sport.
Dixie Conference	*	1930	1942	Disbanded after most of its members suspended athletics during World War II.
Dixie Conference	*	1948	1954	Disbanded
East Coast Conference	Division I	1958	1994	Absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference, now known as The Summit League.
Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League	*	1929	1992	Baseball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, disbanded when Army and Navy aligned their baseball teams with the bulk of their other teams in the Patriot League.
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League	*	1901	1955	Basketball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, which claims the EIBL as part of its own history.
Eastern Wrestling League	Division I	1975	2019	Wrestling-only league absorbed by the Mid-American Conference.{{cite press release \|url=https://getsomemaction.com/news/2019/3/4/mac-announces-historic-wrestling-expansion.aspx \|title=MAC Announces Historic Wrestling Expansion \|publisher=Mid-American Conference \|date=March 5, 2019 \|access-date=March 15, 2019 \|archive-date=March 6, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306124419/https://getsomemaction.com/news/2019/3/4/mac-announces-historic-wrestling-expansion.aspx \|url-status=live }}
ECAC Lacrosse League	Division I	1999	2014	Men's lacrosse conference that disbanded after the 2014 season. The conference lost many members after the 2010 season when the original Big East launched a men's lacrosse league, and lost still more members with the Big Ten announcement. At the end of the final ECAC Lacrosse season, only one member had not announced a new lacrosse affiliation for the 2014–15 school year; that school would later join Southern Conference men's lacrosse.
ECAC Division II Lacrosse League	Division II	2012	2016	Disbanded. Six members began play in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, leaving three members to become independents.
ECAC Northeast	Division III	1971	2016	Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded
ECAC West	Division III	1984	2016	Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded
Freedom Football Conference	Division III	1992	2003	Disbanded
Great Lakes Football Conference	Division II	2006	2012	Football-only conference, effectively absorbed by the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
Great Midwest Conference	Division I	1991	1995	Merged with the Metro Conference to form Conference USA.
Great Northwest Conference	Division II	???	1992	The second part of the merger that created the current Pacific West Conference.
Great South Athletic Conference	Division III	1999	2016	Ended sponsorship of men's sports in 2012; remained a women-only league until disbanding entirely. One media outlet specializing in D-III sports coverage considered the Collegiate Conference of the South, formed in 2022 by an amicable split of the USA South Athletic Conference, a spiritual successor, noting that seven of the nine charter CCS members had been Great South members in the last season that it sponsored men's sports.{{cite news \|url=https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2022/02/usa-south-to-split-in-two \|title=USA South Athletic Conference to split in two \|first1=Pat \|last1=Coleman \|first2=Dave \|last2=McHugh \|website=D3Sports.com \|date=February 16, 2022 \|accessdate=February 28, 2022 \|archive-date=February 17, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217091516/https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2022/02/usa-south-to-split-in-two \|url-status=live }}
Great West Conference	Division I	2004	2013	Disbanded after all but one of its members joined more established conferences during the early-2010s conference realignment. The men's golf history and Internet presence of the Great West were maintained by the America Sky Conference (above) before the latter conference's absorption by the Big Sky.
Great West Hockey Conference	Division I	1985	1988	Ice hockey-only conference formed by four Western schools, but had one of its members drop hockey after its first season. After failing to attract additional members in 1988, the league folded when one of the remaining members shut down its entire athletic program.
Great Western Lacrosse League	Division I	1993	2010	Members joined the ECAC Lacrosse League (see above).
Gulf Coast Conference	College Division	1949	1957	Disbanded
Gulf Star Conference	Division I	1984	1987	Effectively absorbed by the Southland Conference.
Heartland Conference	Division II	1999	2019	In August 2017, eight of the nine members announced a mass exodus to the Lone Star Conference (LSC)—a conference with which the Heartland Conference had recently discussed a potential merger{{cite news \|url=http://www.newmanvantage.com/2017/03/09/heartland-conference-looking-to-expand/ \|title=Heartland Conference Looking to Expand \|first=Taylor \|last=Mannis \|newspaper=The Vantage \|location=Wichita, KS \|date=March 9, 2017 \|access-date=December 19, 2017 \|archive-date=December 22, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105044/http://www.newmanvantage.com/2017/03/09/heartland-conference-looking-to-expand/ \|url-status=live }}— effective in 2019.{{cite press release \|url=http://lonestarconference.org/news/2017/8/30/general-membership083017.aspx \|title=Lone Star Conference to Add Eight Schools in 2019 \|publisher=Lone Star Conference \|date=August 30, 2017 \|access-date=August 31, 2017 \|archive-date=August 31, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831175607/http://lonestarconference.org/news/2017/8/30/general-membership083017.aspx \|url-status=live }} One of the eight schools changed course and instead opted to become a de facto member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 2019,{{cite press release\|url=https://rsuhillcats.com/news/2018/10/18/general-hillcats-to-join-miaa-conference-for-2019-2020-season.aspx\|title=Hillcats to join MIAA Conference for 2019-2020 season\|publisher=Rogers State Hillcats\|date=October 18, 2018\|access-date=October 18, 2018\|archive-date=October 19, 2018\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019121959/https://rsuhillcats.com/news/2018/10/18/general-hillcats-to-join-miaa-conference-for-2019-2020-season.aspx\|url-status=live}} joining the remaining Heartland member in that status.{{cite press release \|url=http://newmanjets.com/news/2018/2/8/baseball-newman-to-compete-in-miaa-as-associate-member-in-2019-20.aspx \|title=Newman to Compete in MIAA as Associate Member in 2019-20 \|publisher=Newman Jets \|date=February 8, 2018 \|access-date=February 15, 2018 \|archive-date=February 9, 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209080428/http://newmanjets.com/news/2018/2/8/baseball-newman-to-compete-in-miaa-as-associate-member-in-2019-20.aspx \|url-status=live }}
High Country Athletic Conference	Division I	1983	1990	Women's-only conference absorbed by the Western Athletic Conference.
Indiana Collegiate Conference	Division II	1950	1978	Disbanded
Indiana Intercollegiate Conference	*	1922	1950	Disbanded
Indiana Intercollegiate Conference	Unknown	1922	1950	Split into two conferences, the Indiana Collegiate Conference was made of the larger schools; the Hoosier Collegiate Conference was made of the small, private schools
Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	University Division	1908	1970	Previously known as Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, disbanded.
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest	*	1892	1893	Disbanded, precursor to the Big Ten Conference.
Lake Michigan Conference	Division III	1974	2007	Merged with the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.
Metro Conference	Division I	1975	1995	Merged with the Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA.
Metropolitan Collegiate Conference	University Division	1965	1969	Disbanded
Metropolitan New York Conference	University Division	1933	1963	Disbanded
Mid-Continent Athletic Association	Division II, later Division I	1978	1981	Football-only conference absorbed by the Association of Mid-Continent Universities in 1982. Effectively one of the precursors to the current Missouri Valley Football Conference.
Midwest Athletic Conference for Women	Division III	1977	1994	Merged with the men's Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference, forming the current Midwest Conference.
Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association	Division III	1998	2013	Absorbed by the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association.
Midwestern Conference	University Division	1970	1972	The five member schools were unable to find the 6th member required for NCAA recognition.
Mountain States Conference (aka Skyline Conference)	University Division	1938	1962	Disbanded, members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses.
Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference	Division I	2013	2023	Women's gymnastics conference; disbanded after the Mountain West Conference began sponsoring women's gymnastics.
Mountain West Athletic Conference	Division I	1982	1988	Women's-only conference (not to be confused with the modern Mountain West Conference) absorbed by the Big Sky Conference.
National Lacrosse Conference	Division I	2008	2012	Disbanded after the Atlantic Sun Conference and Big South Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse.
New England Collegiate Conference	Division III	2007	2023	Disbanded as an all-sports conference after steady losses of membership, both by schools closing and moves to other conferences. Remains in operation for men's volleyball and the non-NCAA esports.
New England Conference	*	1938	1947	Disbanded; the final four members joined two other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. Effectively the earliest ancestor of CAA Football, a conference operated by the Coastal Athletic Association but a separate legal entity, although CAA Football does not claim the NEC's history.
New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance	Division III	1998	2012	Disbanded
New South Women's Athletic Conference	Division I	1985	1991	Women's-only conference initially known as the New South Conference; absorbed by the Trans America Athletic Conference, now known as the Atlantic Sun Conference.
North Central Conference	Division II	1922	2008	Disbanded
North East Collegiate Volleyball Association	Division III	1995	2011	Men's volleyball conference disbanded in 2011 due to the 2012 establishment of the NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championship. Most of the all-sports conferences that were home to NECVA members began sponsoring men's volleyball at that time.
Northeast Women's Hockey League	Division III	2017	2023	Women's ice hockey only conference. It was absorbed by SUNYAC.
North Star Conference	Division I	1983	1992	Women's-only conference effectively absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference (now The Summit League).
Northern California Athletic Conference	Division II	1925	1996	Football-only conference, dissolved when most members decided to drop football.
Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference	Division III	1969	2007	Merged with the Lake Michigan Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.
Northern Pacific Conference	Division I	1982	1986	Women's-only conference. Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to five of the seven final conference members, began sponsoring women's sports.
Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference	Division I	1982	2015	Field hockey-only conference that folded after the 2014 season. After a period in which the conference expanded to span both coasts, most of the eastern teams left over time. Four of the six final members, all from California (and also the league's founding members), became America East affiliates. The remaining two members became independents; one is now a field hockey member of the Big East and the other is now a MAC field hockey member.
Northern Sun Conference	Division II	1979	1992	Women's-only conference that merged with the men's Northern Intercollegiate Conference, forming the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
Ohio River Lacrosse Conference	Division III	2014	2018	Men's and women's lacrosse-only conference. Disbanded after the 2017–18 season.
Pacific Coast Conference	University Division	1915	1959	Forerunner to the Pac-12, disbanded due to scandal and infighting. The Pac-12 considers its history to have started with the formation of the PCC.
Pacific Coast Softball Conference	Division I	2002	2013	Softball-only; disbanded due to fallout from the early-2010s conference realignment. After the 2012 season, it lost five members when the Big Sky added the sport and a sixth to the WAC. After the 2013 season, the final seven members left when the West Coast Conference began sponsoring the sport (five were already WCC members, and the other two joined the WAC in softball).
Pilgrim Lacrosse League	Division III	1986	2014	Absorbed by the NEWMAC.
Southeast Team Handball Conference	Division I (de facto)	1997	2006	Women-only team handball conference. Disbanded when the sport was dropped from the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
Southland Bowling League	Division I	2015	2023	Bowling-only league founded by, but independent of, the Southland Conference.{{cite press release \|url=http://southland.org/news/2015/1/20/GEN_0120152535.aspx?path=general \|title=New Southland Bowling League Established \|publisher=Southland Conference \|date=January 20, 2015 \|access-date=March 15, 2015 \|archive-date=April 4, 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404114159/http://www.southland.org/news/2015/1/20/GEN_0120152535.aspx?path=general \|url-status=live }} Merged into Conference USA; one of the final members was already a full CUSA member, another became a full CUSA member in 2023, and the others became CUSA associates.{{cite press release \|url=https://conferenceusa.com/news/2023/5/10/general-conference-usa-to-add-bowling-for-2023-24-season.aspx \|title=Conference USA to Add Bowling for 2023-24 Season \|publisher=Conference USA \|date=May 10, 2023 \|access-date=May 15, 2023 \|archive-date=May 22, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522235718/https://conferenceusa.com/news/2023/5/10/general-conference-usa-to-add-bowling-for-2023-24-season.aspx \|url-status=live }}
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association	*	1894	1941	Disbanded with the onset of American involvement in World War II.
Southwest Conference	Division I	1914	1996	Disbanded. 4 members left to join the Big Eight Conference in forming the Big 12. 3 members left to join the WAC. 1 member left to join CUSA.
United Soccer Conference	Division I	2005	2009	Women's soccer-only, absorbed by the Great West Conference.
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Division II	1924	2013	Disbanded after the conference's football schools announced a split from the non-football schools. Ultimately, nine of the final schools became charter members of the Mountain East Conference, three joined the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, two joined the PSAC, and one went independent.
Western Collegiate Athletic Association	Division I	1981	1986	Women's-only conference; known in its final season of 1985–86 as the Pacific West Conference (not to be confused with the current NCAA Division II conference). Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to the final five conference members, began sponsoring women's sports.
Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association	Division II	2010	2015	Lacrosse-only conference absorbed by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference; all final teams are members of the RMAC, including one affiliate. The RMAC had absorbed the women's side of the WILA in 2013; five of the members were RMAC members including one affiliate, one additional women's member became an independent.
Western Wrestling Conference	Division I	2006	2015	Wrestling-only conference effectively absorbed by the Big 12 Conference, with all but one of its final members immediately becoming single-sport Big 12 associates and the remaining member joining Big 12 wrestling in 2017.
Yankee Conference	Division I	1947	1997	Football-only conference from 1975 until its absorption by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. Also an effective ancestor of CAA Football, and officially recognized by CAA Football as its earliest predecessor.

* - Operated before the NCAA split into divisions in 1955.

In addition to the above, two single-sport conferences that currently participate in NCAA National Collegiate sports (those whose championship events are open to members of more than one NCAA division) and previously operated both men's and women's divisions now operate as women-only leagues.

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!Conference !! Division !! Founded !! Folded !! Fate

Golden Coast Conference (men's)

National Collegiate

2013

2023

Water polo-only conference founded as a women's-only league; added a men's division in 2016. The men's division disbanded after the 2022 season (2022–23 school year) after all six of its final members joined the new men's water polo leagues of the Big West Conference and West Coast Conference.

Western Collegiate Hockey Association (men's)

Division I

1951

2021

Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 1999. The men's division disbanded in 2021 after seven of its members left to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association; two other men's members dropped hockey, and the other went independent.

References

College athletics conferences

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class="wikitable sortable" \|+ ! Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
American Athletic Conference	align=center \| The American	align=center\|2013{{efn\|group=FBS\|Known as Big East Conference prior to 2013. The American operates under the original 1979 Big East charter, but considers its competitive history to have started in 2013.}}	align=center\| 13{{efn\|group=FBS\|13 full members with Wichita State as a non-football member; 14 football members with Army and Navy as football-only affiliates.}}	align=center \| 22	Irving, Texas	150px
Atlantic Coast Conference	align=center\|ACC	align=center\|1953	align=center\|18{{efn\|group=FBS\|18 full members, 17 football members. Notre Dame football is an FBS independent, but has a substantial cross-scheduling agreement with the ACC.}}	align=center\|28{{efn\|group=FBS\|Number of conference championships awarded. The conference sponsors separate championships for men's and women's fencing, while the NCAA organizes a single coeducational championship event.}}	Charlotte, North Carolina	150px
Big Ten Conference	align=center\|Big Ten B1G	align=center\|1896	align=center\|18	align=center\|28	Rosemont, Illinois	150px
Big 12 Conference	align=center\|Big 12 B12 \| align="center" \|1996	align=center \| 16	align=center \| 25	Irving, Texas	150px
Conference USA	align=center \| CUSA	align=center\|1995	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FBS\|11 members in 2026 with loss of UTEP.}}	align=center \| 18	Dallas, Texas	150px
Division I FBS independents{{efn\|group=FBS\|Note that "independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.}}	align=center\|Ind.	align=center\|N/A	align=center\| 2	align=center\|1	N/A	150px
Mid-American Conference	align=center\|MAC	align=center\|1946	align=center\|13{{efn\|group=FBS\|12 members in 2026 with loss of Northern Illinois.}}	align=center \| 23	Cleveland, Ohio	150px
Mountain West Conference	align=center\|MW MWC	align=center\|1999	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FBS\|12 full members, 12 football members with Grand Canyon as a non-football member and Hawaii as a football-only affiliate. 11 full members, 9 football members in 2026 with the following changes: Loss of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Utah State. Addition of Northern Illinois (football only), UC Davis (non-football), and UTEP (all sports). Upgrade of Hawaii's membership to all-sports.}}	align=center\|18	Colorado Springs, Colorado	150px
Pac-12 Conference	align=center\|Pac-12 P12 \| align="center" \|1959{{efn\|group=FBS\|Pacific Coast Conference chartered in 1915; current charter formed 1959 by five former PCC members, with three others joining by 1964.}}	align=center \| 2{{efn\|group=FBS\|9 full members and 8 football members in 2026 with addition of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State, and Utah State, plus Gonzaga as a non-football member.}}	align=center\|24{{efn\|group=FBS\|23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus men's rowing; the NCAA governs women's rowing but not men's.}}	San Ramon, California	150px
Southeastern Conference	align=center\| SEC SE Southeastern \| align=center \| 1932	align=center \| 16	align=center \| 22	Birmingham, Alabama	150px
Sun Belt Conference	align=center\| SBC SB Sun Belt \| align=center \|1976	align=center \| 14{{efn\|group=FBS\|13 members in 2026 with loss of Texas State.}}	align=center \| 20	New Orleans, Louisiana	150px

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Full Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
Big Sky Conference	align=center\|Big Sky BSC	align="center" \|1963	align=center\| 10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members and 12 football members with Cal Poly and UC Davis as football-only affiliates. 11 confirmed full members and 13 likely football members in 2026 with departure of Sacramento State, plus addition of Southern Utah and Utah Tech. }}	align=center\| 16	Ogden, Utah	150px
Big South Conference	align=center\|Big South	align=center\|1983	align=center \| 9{{efn\|group=FCS\|9 full members and 2 football members. Both football members play in the OVC–Big South Football Association, an alliance between the Ohio Valley Conference and the Big South Conference which shares a single automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.}}	align=center \| 19	Charlotte, North Carolina	150px
Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference	align=center\|CAA Football	align=center \| 2007{{efn\|group=FCS\|While CAA Football was formally founded in 2007, its history can be traced back decades earlier. The earliest predecessor is the New England Conference, which existed from 1938–1947. However, CAA Football does not recognize this league as part of its history. In 1947, four New England Conference members joined with other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. CAA Football considers its history to have started with the Yankee Conference. The Yankee Conference, by then a football-only league, was taken over by the Atlantic 10 Conference after the 1996 football season. The all-sports CAA took over A-10 football in 2007, forming CAA Football as a separate entity.}}	align=center \| 14{{efn\|group=FCS\|CAA Football is a separate entity from the multi-sports CAA.}}{{efn\|group=FCS\|12 members in 2026 with loss of Villanova and William & Mary.}}	align=center \|1	Richmond, Virginia	150px
Division I FCS Independents{{efn\|group=FCS\|Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. These schools have conference memberships for other sports.}}			align=center \| 2{{efn\|group=FCS\|3 independents possible in 2026 with potential addition of Sacramento State.}}	align=center \| 1
Ivy League	align=center\|Ivy League	align=center\|1954{{efn\|group=FCS\|While the Ivy League considers its athletic conference to have been established in 1954, the history of the athletic league can be traced back decades earlier: In 1901, the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL) was formed by five schools that would later become part of the current Ivy League; the EIBL membership eventually became identical to that of the future all-sports league. The EIBL was directly absorbed into the all-sports Ivy League, which considers the EIBL to be part of its history. In 1945, the Ivy Group Agreement, which governed competition and policies among the Ivy schools in football, was signed by all eight schools that eventually formed the all-sports league. The official formation of the athletic Ivy League came in 1954, when the Ivy Group Agreement was extended to cover all sports. For more details, see the section on the history of the athletic Ivy League.}}	align=center\|8	align=center\|32{{efn\|The Ivy League, by NCAA count, sponsors 28 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The Ivy League awards separate men's and women's fencing championships, while the NCAA considers fencing a single coeducational sport. Additionally, the Ivy League sponsors championships in the non-NCAA sports of men's rowing plus men's and women's squash.}}	Princeton, New Jersey	150px
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	align=center\|MEAC	align=center\|1970	align=center\|8{{efn\|group=FCS\|8 full members, 6 football members.}}	align=center\| 14	Norfolk, Virginia	150px
Missouri Valley Football Conference	align=center\|MVFC	align=center\|1985{{efn\|group=FCS\|While the MVFC began football competition in 1985, the conference charter dates to 1982. See History of the Missouri Valley Football Conference for more details.}}	align=center \| 10	align=center\|1	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Northeast Conference	align=center\|NEC	align=center\|1981	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members, 8 football members with Chicago State, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Le Moyne as non-football members and with Duquesne and Robert Morris as football-only affiliates. 9 full members, 8 football members likely in 2026 with confirmed loss of Saint Francis and expected addition of football by Chicago State.}}	align=center \| 25	Somerset, New Jersey	150px
Ohio Valley Conference	align=center\|OVC	align=center\|1948	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=FCS\|11 full members, 7 football members (full member Morehead State plays football in the Pioneer Football League). All current OVC football members (not counting Morehead State) play that sport in the OVC–Big South Football Association.}}	align=center \| 19	Brentwood, Tennessee	150px
Patriot League	align=center\|Patriot	align=center\|1986	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members and 8 football members with Army, Navy, American, Boston, and Loyola (MD) as non-football members (Army and Navy both compete in FBS football) and with Fordham, Georgetown, and Richmond as football-only affiliates. 10 football members in 2026 with addition of Villanova and William & Mary as football affiliates.}}	align=center\|24	Center Valley, Pennsylvania	150px
Pioneer Football League	align=center\|PFL	align=center\|1991	align=center\| 11	align=center\|1	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Southern Conference	align=center\|SoCon	align=center\|1921	align=center\|10{{efn\|group=FCS\|10 full members, 9 football members.}}	align=center \| 20	Spartanburg, South Carolina	150px
Southland Conference	align=center\|Southland SLC	align=center\|1963	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=FCS\|12 full members, 10 football members.}}	align=center\|18	Frisco, Texas	150px
Southwestern Athletic Conference	align=center\|SWAC	align=center\|1920	align=center \| 12	align=center\|18	Birmingham, Alabama	150px
United Athletic Conference{{efn\|group=FCS\|Not an officially recognized NCAA conference; that body treats the UAC as the continuation of a preexisting football-only alliance between the Atlantic Sun Conference and Western Athletic Conference.}}{{efn\|group=FCS\|Becomes an official NCAA conference in 2026 as a rebranded Western Athletic Conference.}}	align=center\|UAC	align=center\|2023	align=center \| 9{{efn\|group=FCS\|8 full members, 7 football members in 2026 with the following changes: Addition of UT Arlington as a full but non-football member. Loss of Southern Utah and Utah Tech.}}	align=center \| 1{{efn\|group=FCS\|Number of sports in 2026 to be determined.}}		150px

class="wikitable sortable" !Conference !! Nickname !! Founded !! Members !! Sports !! Headquarters !! Map
America East Conference	align=center\|America East AmEast	align=center\|1979	align=center\|9	align=center\|18	Boston, Massachusetts	150px
Atlantic Sun Conference	align=center\|ASUN	align=center\|1978	align=center \| 12{{efn\|group=NF\|7 members in 2026 with loss of Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, and West Georgia.}}	align=center \| 20	Jacksonville, Florida	150px
Atlantic 10 Conference	align=center\|A-10	align=center\|1975	align=center\|14	align=center\|22	Newport News, Virginia	150px
Big East Conference	align=center\|Big East	align=center\|1979{{efn\|group=NF\|Although the charter of the current Big East dates only to the 2013 split of the original Big East, both the current Big East and the American Athletic Conference claim 1979 as their founding dates. The current Big East maintains the pre-split history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors. In football and rowing, the two sports that were sponsored by The American but not the current Big East after the split, neither conference recognizes the history of the original Big East.}}	align=center\|11	align=center\|23{{efn\|group=NF\|22 NCAA-sanctioned sports, plus the non-NCAA and fully coeducational esports.}}	New York City, New York	150px
Big West Conference	align=center\|Big West BWC	align=center\|1969	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=NF\|12 members in 2026 with the following changes: Loss of Hawaiʻi and UC Davis. Addition of California Baptist, Sacramento State, and Utah Valley.}}	align=center \| 21	Irvine, California	150px
Coastal Athletic Association	align=center\|CAA	align=center\|1983	align=center \| 13{{efn\|group=NF\|The CAA Football Conference is a separate entity from the all-sports CAA.}}	align=center \| 23	Richmond, Virginia	150px
Horizon League	align=center\|Horizon	align=center\|1979	align=center \| 11{{efn\|group=NF\|12 members in 2026 with return of Northern Illinois.}}	align=center\|19	Indianapolis, Indiana	150px
Independents			align=center \| –
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	align=center\|MAAC	align=center\|1980	align=center \| 13	align=center\|25{{efn\|group=NF\|23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus two non-NCAA sports—men's rowing, and Esports, which are fully coeducational.}}	Edison, New Jersey	150px
Missouri Valley Conference	align=center\|MVC The Valley	align=center\|1907	align=center \| 11	align=center \| 18	St. Louis, Missouri	150px
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation	align=center\|MPSF	align=center\|1992	align=center \| 59{{efn\|group=NF\|No more than 13 schools competed in any one of the MPSF's sports in 2024–25. 58 members in 2026 with loss of California Baptist.}}	align=center \| 15{{efn\|group=NF\|Sponsors 13 fully recognized NCAA sports (two of which feature only Division II members) and 2 non-NCAA sports (artistic swimming and men's rowing).}}	Woodland, California	150px
Summit League	align=center\|The Summit	align=center\|1982	align=center \| 9	align=center\|19	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	150px
West Coast Conference	align=center\|WCC	align=center\|1952	align=center \| 10{{efn\|group=NF\|9 members in 2026 with loss of Gonzaga.}}	align=center \| 16	San Bruno, California	150px
Western Athletic Conference{{efn\|group=NF\|Rebranding as the United Athletic Conference in 2026.}}	align=center\|WAC	align=center\|1962	align=center \| 7{{efn\|group=NF\|8 members under the United Athletic Conference banner in 2026 with the following changes: Addition of Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, and West Georgia. Loss of California Baptist, Southern Utah, Utah Tech, and Utah Valley.}}	align=center \| 19	Arlington, Texas	150px

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=Current conferences=

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See also

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