Messiah's men's and women's soccer teams both won the NCAA Division III National Championship in 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2012. The Falcons men's soccer team are eleven-time national champions, winning the NCAA Men's Division III Soccer Championship in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2017. Messiah's women's soccer team has won the NCAA Women's Division III Soccer Championship in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2019. Messiah University is the only college in the NCAA to win both the men's and women's soccer national championship in the same year, and they have achieved that distinction four times (in 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2012). In 2010, Messiah was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the third best school in the nation for soccer fans.