Scholarship limits for SEC soccer applications will stay at 85 throughout the 2025 season, a league official confirmed to CBS Sports activities Thursday. The information comes as school soccer applications put together for fallout from the Home v. NCAA lawsuit settlement, which ie anticipated to standardize roster sizes for school soccer applications going ahead.

“As soccer coaches recruit now to construct rosters for the 2025 season, it was necessary to supply them with parameters to handle this interim interval as we await a remaining ruling on the Home settlement which might deal with how scholarships are managed going ahead,” an SEC spokesperson instructed CBS Sports activities. “SEC colleges will preserve an 85-scholarship restrict for the 2025 season, the identical as in previous years, with an general roster measurement to be established by the settlement whether it is accepted.”

The NCAA’s groundbreaking $2.8 billion settlement has acquired preliminary approval. However a listening to to finalize the deal shouldn’t be scheduled till April 7, 2025. 

Whereas applications are presently allowed to supply solely 85 scholarships, they’re free to complement their respective rosters with walk-on gamers. The settlement is anticipated to get rid of walk-ons altogether, whereas increasing scholarship limits to 105 gamers. Beneath the SEC’s deliberate guidelines for 2025, colleges within the convention may fill these 20 additional roster spots with walk-ons for 2025. 

When finalized, the Home v. NCAA lawsuit will present transformative change to school athletics heading ahead. Most notably, colleges could have the power have the ability to share as much as $22 million every year with gamers.