2017 Northeast Conference men's soccer season

The 2017 Northeast Conference men's soccer season was the 37th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.

The St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers are the defending regular season and tournament champions. For 2017, St. Francis Brooklyn repeated as Regular season Championship by going 6-0-1 in conference play. Dating back to last year, St. Francis Brooklyn has gone undefeated in two seasons of conference play recording a 12-0-2 record.

Changes from 2016

 * None

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 * All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only.
 * Year at school includes 2017 season.
 * Overall and NEC records are from time at current school and are before the beginning of the season.

Preseason
After winning its third Northeast Conference (NEC) men’s soccer championship in the last four seasons, St. Francis Brooklyn was unanimously picked by the league’s head coaches to win again in 2017. Saint Francis (PA) was tabbed second in the preseason poll.

Rankings
 first place votes

Regular season
After starting the season undefeated, Fairleigh Dickinson, received 2 votes to be ranked in the week 2 NSCAA Division I poll. For the week 3 and 4 polls, FDU was nationally ranked at 21.

The Saint Francis Red Flash defeated 20th ranked Old Dominion, 5–3. It was SFU's first win over a nationally-ranked opponent since defeating No. 7 Monmouth 2-0 on Oct. 25, 2009.

Collectively, NEC teams finished 28–43–8 against non-conference opponents for 2017.

All times Eastern time.† denotes Homecoming game

Week 1 (Aug 21-27)
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Week 2 (Aug 28-Sept 3)
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Week 3 (Sept 4-Sept 10)
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Week 4 (Sept 11-Sept 17)
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Week 5 (Sept 18-Sept 24)
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Week 6 (Sept 25-Oct 1)
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Week 7 (Oct 2-Oct 8)
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Week 8 (Oct 9-Oct 15)
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Week 9 (Oct 16-Oct 22)
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Week 10 (Oct 23-Oct 29)
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Week 11 (Oct 30-Nov 5)
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