CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men's soccer hosts Princeton University in its Ivy League opener on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Jordan Field in the third contest of a four-game homestand with the Crimson entering the match unbeaten (3-0-2) in its last five contests.

What to Know: Harvard Highlights

• Harvard has posted an undefeated 3-0-2 mark over its last five games and outscored its opponents 7-2 over that stretch, including three shutouts. During the streak, Harvard has topped Providence (2-0), California (3-1), and New Hampshire (1-0) alongside draws against Connecticut (1-1) and Northeastern (0-0).
• Playing in the second match of a four-game homestand, senior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil posted his second straight shutout as Harvard played to a 0-0 draw with Northeastern on Sept. 23 at Jordan Field.
• As of Sept. 25, Harvard ranks at No. 42 in the NCAA RPI Rankings, trailing only No. 5 Princeton among Ivy League schools.
• As a team, Harvard ranks second in the Ivy League in GAA (0.50) and save percentage (.870) and third in and assists (nine). In the NCAA, the Crimson stands 11^th in save percentage (.870) and 11^th in GAA (0.50).
• Junior Dylan Tellado leads the Crimson in points (six) and goals (two) on the year. He ranks sixth in the Ivy League in points (six), sixth in goals (two), and eighth in assists (two). Tellado posted a point in three straight matches from Sept. 5-13. He notched three points on a goal and an assist vs. Cal (Sept. 10) and netted a goal at PC (Sept. 5).
• Junior Andreas Savva leads Harvard in points (six) and goals (two) on the season. He stands sixth in the Ivy League in points (six), sixth in goals (two), and eighth in assists (two). Savva posted a career-high five points on a career-best two goals and one assist vs. Cal (Sept. 10).
• Junior Ben Kelly has posted five points on the year on a goal and a team-high three assists. He ranks third in the Ivy League in assists (three) and 10^th in points (five), while standing 36^th in the NCAA in assists per game (0.60). He posted a career-high two assists vs. Cal (Sept. 10) and netted a goal vs. UNH (Sept. 16).
• Senior goalkeeper Lucian Wood has posted a 0.75 GAA, 0.850 save percentage, 17 total saves, and one shutout on the season. He ranks second in the Ivy League in saves per game (4.25) and save percentage (.850). In the NCAA, he ranks 23^rd in save percentage (.850), 31^st in GAA (0.750), and 34^th in saves per game 4.25). Wood tallied a season-high seven saves in the clean sheet at Providence (Sept. 5) and made five saves vs. Belmont (Aug. 29).
• Opening a four-game homestand, junior Ben Kelly scored his first goal of the season in the first half, senior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil earned the shutout, and Harvard beat the University of New Hampshire, 1-0, on Sept. 16 at Jordan Field.
• Playing on the road at Big East member UConn, sophomore Phoenix Wooten scored his first career goal on a second-half equalizer as Harvard played to a 1-1 draw against the undefeated Huskies on Sept. 13.
• Hosting an ACC member at Jordan Field, junior Andreas Savva posted a career-high five points behind two goals and one assist, junior Dylan Tellado notched a goal and an assist, and junior Ben Kelly added two assists as Harvard took down the University of California, 3-1, on Sept. 10.
• In the Crimson's first road match of the season, sophomore Tim Langenbahn scored his first career goal, junior Dylan Tellado netted a goal less than four minutes later, and Harvard defeated Providence, 2-0, on Sept. 5. First-half goals from Langenbahn and Tellado alongside a shutout from senior goalkeeper Lucian Wood helped lead Harvard to the victory.
• Senior goalkeeper Lucian Wood earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors on Sept. 8 following the Crimson's shutout of Big East member Providence (Sept. 5). Wood made seven saves in his first shutout of the season and fifth career clean sheet in Harvard's 2-0 road win against the Friars.
• Harvard narrowly trails Princeton in the all-time series, 42-46-10. Overall the last three meetings, the teams have gone 1-1-1 against each other.
• Princeton brings a 5-1-0 record and a four-game winning streak into Saturday's match. The win streak includes victories over Villanova (3-0), Massachusetts (2-0), Albany (2-0), and Seton Hall (3-1). 

What to Know: Outside the Lines

• First-year Lucas Benuce Sarvas is interested in attending law school following graduation.
• Sophomore Alexander Castel served as a junior summer analyst at AFIG Funds in Dakar, Senegal during the summer of 2025.
• First-year Mikey Cortellessa plays the piano. His grandparents are from the Philippines.
• Senior Bobby Cupps is interested in the AI and defense industries. In the summer of 2025, he interned with Epirus, working on their high-powered microwave drone defense product. His brother, Christopher Cupps, signed a homegrown player contract with MLS side Chicago Fire FC in February 2025 at the age of 16.
• Sophomore Nayan Das conducted physics research at Harvard during the summer of 2025. He can play the piano.
• Junior Yuta Hata ranked in the top 500 in the world in TETRO.IO, a multi-player Tetris game. He is a member of the Harvard Japan Club and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. Hata spent two months in Hong Kong during the summer of 2024 completing an internship that involved replicating and simulating robotic arms virtually.
• Junior Ben Kelly is interested in attending law school while also pursuing a career as an A&R in the music industry following graduation. Kelly currently makes and produces music, while also working as a DJ. In the summer of 2025, he worked as an A&R at a music label called Oakstreet Media. Kelly traces his family lineage on his mother's side through the Lin Dynasty in China over more than 35 generations.
• Senior Rustin Khosravi served as a summer analyst with The Raine Group, a financial services firm, in the summer of 2025.
• Sophomore Tim Langenbahn is a member of the Harvard's German Student Association, the Harvard Undergraduate Woodbridge International Society, and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. He has played the piano since age four.
• First-year Sophian Lovato has spent time living in Milan, Italy and can speak English, French, and Italian. His great uncle, Vittorio, played for AC Milan.
• Senior Cullen MacNeil is writing a senior thesis on applying statistical methods and reinforcement learning techniques to cryptocurrency markets. MacNeil is hoping to run the Boston Marathon in spring 2026 and the New York City Marathon in fall 2026. He served as the team's Student-Athlete Wellness Leader (SAWL).
• First-year Maxwell Mobray has competed for the Bermuda National Team and can play the piano.
• Senior Nicholas Nyquist started a non-profit in Kenya and knows the first 200 digits of pi from memory. He has interned with venture capital and investment banking firms in both Norway and the U.S.
• Senior Juho Ojanen plans to work in consulting for McKinsey & Company following graduation after interning with the organization in the summer of 2025. A member of the Harvard Undergraduate Nordic Club, his second name, Valo, means "light" in Finnish.
• Senior Marcos Ojea Quintana is interested in attending medical school following graduation. A member of Harvard's Athlete Medical Mentorship Program and Harvard Latinos in Health Careers. During the summer of 2025, he studied for the MCAT and conducted research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Proud of his Argentinian roots, he has a dog named after Lionel Messi.
• First-year Alejandro Palacio was born in Madrid, Spain and lived in Bogota, Columbia until the age of eight. He speaks both English and Spanish.
• First-year Adam Poliakov can solve a Rubik's Cube.
• Junior Andreas Savva has traveled to 26 countries.
• Junior Will Sherwood has volunteered with Feeding America and the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. He has also served as a Quantitative Analyst Intern with the Los Angeles Dodgers, using sabermetrics to analyze player data.
• Sophomore Xavier Tanyi grew up in South Africa and speaks French. He is a member of the Harvard French Club and Engineering without Borders.
• Junior Dylan Tellado is interested in attending graduate school to pursue a master's degree in computer science or machine learning. During the summer of 2025, he interned as a Machine Learning Engineer with General Motors, working on software for autonomous vehicles. Tellado completed an internship with Nashville SC of Major League Soccer as a data scientist and software engineer in the summer of 2024.
• Senior Ethan Veghte worked for an AI startup called Sana Labs in the summer of 2025. His mother, Julie, won a national title with the Harvard women's lacrosse team in 1990.
• First-year Christo Velikin can speak five languages.
• Senior Matus Vician, a nominee for the Allstate NACDA Fall Good Works Team, served as a volunteer with Coach for College in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam during the summer of 2023. Vician has acted as a researcher at Harvard's Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab and worked as a research assistant at The Center for Advanced Orthopedic Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
• Junior Nicholas Willen is involved in Harvard's Black Men's Forum and the Harvard Undergraduate Quantum Computing Association. He is working for a quantum engineering (computing) lab on the Harvard campus during the fall of 2025. He served as a product management intern with Aetion during the summer of 2025, building healthcare software for conducting analysis of real world data. Willen's grandmother, Frances Conway, desegregated Wells College.
• When senior Lucian Wood was in eighth grade, he saw the 2009 Ivy League champion men's soccer team photo on the wall in Pinocchio's in Harvard Square, leading him to want to eventually represent the team himself. Wood worked as a paralegal intern at Davis Polk, a law firm in New York City, in the summer of 2025. He produced and directed a short film titled "I See You" in the summer of 2024 and is now submitting the film to festivals. 

Next Up

Harvard hosts Boston University on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+) before playing at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 5:00 p.m. (ESPN+).