| Wide: | yes |
| Mountain State derby | |
| Team1: | Marshall Thundering Herd |
| Team1logo: | Marshall University Men's Soccer Champions Logo.png |
| Team2: | West Virginia Mountaineers |
| Team2logo: | West_Virginia_Mountaineers_logo.svg |
| Sport: | Soccer |
| Firstmeeting: | October 26, 1983 WVU 2 - Marshall 0 |
| Mostrecent: | November 12, 2023 No. 1 Marshall 3 - No. 5 WVU 2 |
| Nextmeeting: | TBD |
| Total: | 26 |
| Series: | WVU leads, 17–8–2 |
| Largestvictory: | WVU, 5–0 (1987) |
| Longeststreak: | WVU, 7 (1986–1992) |
| Currentstreak: | Marshall, 1 (2023–present) |
The Mountain State derby is the name given to the men's soccer games between the Marshall Thundering Herd and the West Virginia Mountaineers, the only NCAA Division I programs in the state of West Virginia.[1]
In 2019, the teams met in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament as 11th seed Marshall defeated WVU, 2-1, in front of a then-record crowd of 2,126 fans at the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex.[2] The 2021 edition of the Mountain State Derby set a then-record for highest-attended soccer game ever in West Virginia with 3,033 in the crowd. In the 2022 matchup, #4 Marshall defeated unranked West Virginia 1-0 before a crowd of 2,735 in Huntington.[3]
In 2022, both schools joined the Sun Belt Conference, Marshall as a full member and West Virginia as a men's soccer member, and the rivalry became an annual conference game.[4]
The 2023 regular season edition of the Mountain State Derby set a new record for the largest crowd to ever watch a soccer game in the state of West Virginia at that time with 3,147 people in attendance. The record was reset less than a month later in the Sun Belt Championship in Huntington with 3,151 in attendance.
[5] † = Conference Tournament game (Sun Belt since 2022)
↑ = NCAA Tournament game