FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The NCAA, Gillette Stadium and Harvard University today announced the 2025 and 2026 NCAA Men's and Women's Lacrosse Championships will be played at Gillette Stadium, the home of the National Football League's New England Patriots and Major League Soccer's New England Revolution. The Division I, II and III Men's Lacrosse Championships, in addition to the Division I Women's Lacrosse Championships, will be played over Memorial Day Weekend in May of 2025 and 2026.
 
"Harvard Athletics is excited to partner with Gillette Stadium again in hosting an NCAA Lacrosse Championship," said Erin McDermott, Harvard's John D. Nichols '53 Family Director of Athletics. "It is always an honor to be selected and when selected multiple times, it signifies the quality of experience for past participating teams and spectators. We are confident that Gillette Stadium will again be a terrific site to showcase the best collegiate lacrosse teams in the country and the sport that has grown exponentially more than any other in recent years. Given our current state, it is welcome news and a beacon of light, to look ahead to when we will enjoy the energetic community that comes together out of respect for competitive excellence in a preeminent stadium."
 
The agreement marks the sixth and seventh times the championships will be held at Gillette Stadium, where the event has enjoyed a history of tremendous success. Gillette Stadium first hosted the event in 2008, and holds the NCAA Men's Division I Championship attendance record (2008: 48,970), the top three attendance records for Division I National Championship Games since 2012 (2012: 30,816, 2018: 29,455 and 2017: 28,971) and the top three Division II and Division III National Championship attendance records (2017: 31,560, 2008: 24,317 and 2009: 24,072).
 
"It truly is a privilege to be the host institution as we bring together the men's and women's championships at Gillette Stadium, creating an impactful and exciting weekend attractive to all the young girls and boys playing the game," stated Devon Wills, The Carole Kleinfelder Head Coach for Harvard Women's Lacrosse. "We are excited for the opportunity to promote women's lacrosse to the entire lacrosse community through this landmark weekend for the sport."
 
Harvard has teamed with the NCAA several times in recent years to host NCAA championship events. In addition to hosting the 2008, 2009, 2012, 2017 and 2018 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships, Harvard served as host for the 2006 women's basketball Final Four at the TD Bank Garden, the 2010 fencing championships at Gordon Indoor Track and the 2013 women's water polo championships at Blodgett Pool.
 
"New England will once again welcome the nation's best teams to Gillette Stadium for the NCAA lacrosse championships," said Gerry Byrne, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse. "Hosting the NCAA championships provides all New England youth, high school, college and post-graduate players with a great opportunity to enjoy the games with their friends and families and continue the incredible growth of the game across the region."
 
The New England lacrosse community is comprised of 80 NCAA teams, 35,889 high school players, 1,009 high school teams and 64,872 registered US Lacrosse members. New England is also home to the largest youth lacrosse organization (Mass Bay Youth Lacrosse League) in the United States.

"We are honored to have earned the privilege of hosting the 2025 and 2026 NCAA Men's and Division I Women's Lacrosse Championships, building on Gillette Stadium's and New England's rich lacrosse tradition," said Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group. "After first bringing the men's and women's lacrosse communities together at Gillette Stadium for the 2017 championships, we cannot wait to welcome fans from across the country and the nation's best lacrosse programs back to Foxborough for another landmark weekend for the sport. Lacrosse is especially important to our family, as my son Dan played collegiately at Tufts University, and my three grandsons have all enjoyed playing the game in the past. We have an extremely passionate community of lacrosse fans across New England, and have seen that enthusiasm for the game shine through each of the five previous times we have hosted this great event, setting attendance records and welcoming thousands of fans to Gillette Stadium."
 
Ticket, hospitality, reunion opportunities and fan activity information will be announced at a later date.