2002

A new era in UCLA soccer could not have gotten off to a better start than it did in 2002. Under first-year head coach Tom Fitzgerald, the Bruins captured its first Pac-10 championship and its fourth NCAA title. The Bruins made it to the College Cup thanks to a blistering offense that scored 14 goals in three games but then won the championship thanks to a stingy defense that shut out Stanford in the title game, 1-0. Both teams had good scoring opportunities in the game. Stanford had a header cleared off the line by Jimmy Frazelle in the early minutes, and Ryan Futagaki had a hard shot ricochet off the left post in the 31st minute. But all things changed in the 89th minute. Ty Maurin was fouled in near the left corner with the Bruins on the attack and earned a free kick for UCLA. Futagaki's perfectly-placed free kick found Aaron Lopez, who one-timed the ball past Stanford goalie Robby Fulton into the top right corner with 1:02 remaining on the clock for the championship-winning goal.

1997

Seth George scored a pair of goals just two minutes apart late in the NCAA title game to lift UCLA to a 2-0 victory over Virginia at Richmond, Virginia. George's goals in the 80th and 82nd minutes, combined with the spectacular goalkeeping of Matt Reis, gave the Bruins their third national championship in 13 seasons under coach Sigi Schmid. UCLA, which finished the season 22-2, had beaten top-ranked and undefeated Indiana 1-0 in sudden death triple overtime in the semifinals. George and Reis each earned All-America honors in 1997. George was named the Final Four's offensive MVP and Reis was named the defensive MVP.

1990

Freshman Jorge Salcedo's shootout goal lifted UCLA past Rutgers in the NCAA title game at Tampa, Florida, and gave the Bruins their second national championship. The Bruins avenged a 2-1 defeat at Rutgers' own tournament earlier in the season. That was the only loss of the season for UCLA, which finished 19-1-4. In the national semifinals, the Bruins outlasted North Carolina State in a penalty-kick shootout after a scoreless tie in regulation and overtime. Goalkeeper Brad Friedel was impenetrable, forging both shutouts in the Final Four and earning Freshman All-America honors.

1985

Defender Andy Burke's only goal of the season came in the eighth overtime of the NCAA championship game against American University in the Seattle Kingdome and gave UCLA its first national title in men's soccer. The Bruins and their opponents battled for 166 minutes and five seconds before Burke, a sophomore who entered the game in the seventh overtime, took a pass from Paul Krumpe, caught the American goalkeeper cheating to the near post and shot into the far post to settle the outcome. Senior Dale Ervine scored 11 goals and earned All-America honors for the second consecutive year for coach Sigi Schmid's squad, which finished the season 20-1-4. Senior David Vanole was masterful in goal, allowing just one score in 256 minutes of play in the Final Four.