NAIA Men's Soccer Championship | |
Year: | 1959 |
Country: | United States |
Num Teams: | 4 |
Winners: | Pratt Institute 1st title 1st title game |
Second: | Elizabethtown 1st title game |
Matches: | 4 |
Goals: | 19 |
Award: | Robert Offerman, Pratt |
Next Season: | 1960 |
The 1959 NAIA Soccer Championship was the inaugural tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of men's college soccer among its members in the United States.
Pratt defeated Elizabethtown in the championship match, 4–3 (after two overtime periods), to win their first NAIA national title. The final was played at Slippery Rock State College in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.[1]