FAYETTEVILLE – Razorback Soccer will return to action in August to kick off the 2023-24 athletic year.
The slate features a total of 17 regular season matches against nine 2022 NCAA Tournament teams, two College Cup teams, three Elite 8 teams, and three league champions. Of the 17 matches, nine and the two exhibitions will be played at Razorback Field.
“The schedule meets all of our objectives,” head coach Colby Hale said. “It prepares us for SEC play, and we get outside of our comfort zone, which gives us an opportunity to grow, and it sets us up for the postseason per the parameters they lay out. If you want to be a championship program, you have to play a top schedule, and this certainly seems to fit that.”
The Schedule
Date Day Opponent Site Time
Aug 7 Mon Kansas State (Exh.) Fayetteville, Ark. 1 PM
Aug 12 Sat SIUE (Exh.) Fayetteville, Ark. 6 PM
Aug 17 Thu Arkansas State Fayetteville, Ark. 6 PM
Aug 24 Thu Oregon Fayetteville, Ark. 6:30 PM
Aug 27 Sun Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 7 PM
Aug 31 Thu Milwaukee Fayetteville, Ark. 6:30 PM
Sept 3 Sun North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. 1 PM
Sept 7 Thu Clemson Clemson, S.C. 6 PM
Sept 15 Fri Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. 6:30 PM
Sept 17 Sun Grand Canyon Fayetteville, Ark. 1 PM
Sept 21 Thu Alabama* Fayetteville, Ark. 6 PM
Sept 24 Sun Texas A&M* College Station, Texas 2 PM
Sept 29 Fri Missouri* Columbia, Mo. 6 PM
Oct 5 Thu Georgia* Fayetteville, Ark. 6 PM
Oct 8 Sun Auburn* Auburn, Ala. 2 PM
Oct 13 Fri Florida* Fayetteville, Ark. 6 PM
Oct 19 Thu LSU* Baton Rouge, La. 6:30 PM
Oct 22 Sun Ole Miss* Fayetteville, Ark. 1 PM
Oct 26 Thu Mississippi State* Fayetteville, Ark. 6:30 PM
*SEC Game
All times CT and are subject to change.
2023 Notes
- Arkansas will begin the season at Razorback Field for just the second time since 2016.
- The Hogs will face Milwaukee and Oregon for the first time in program history.
- For the second year in a row, the Hogs will face the national runner-up. Last season it was BYU, this year it will be North Carolina.
- The exhibition versus Kansas State will be the first match played on Razorback Field’s new pitch. From May to July, the field underwent subgrading, installation of a new drainage system, and new sod (Tahoma 31 Bermudagrass), which will be trucked in from the same farm as the grass in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
- Arkansas will face four non-conference Power 5 teams in 2023, the most since it faced four in 2014.
- The Hogs will debut two new uniforms to be revealed later this summer.
- The Razorbacks are returning 69% of their offense from last season.
- The SEC Tournament will return to Pensacola, Florida for the second straight year. It will include the top 10 teams in the league and run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5.
- Clemson and North Carolina will make return trips to Fayetteville in 2024 as part of home-and-home series.
Television designations and promotions will be announced at a later date. Season tickets are currently available through the Razorback Ticket Center for adults ($25) and children ($15). All season ticket holders will receive a newly designed scarf with their purchase.
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Note to Our Readers: The previous story was sourced directly and in its entirety from the University of Arkansas Office of Communications, Fuller Birch.