Coastal Athletic

13 current members, three former. Our membership records under this name start in 2023; its titles go back further. 2025 champion: Rhode Island.

2025 standings

TeamConf.OverallPollEloLast 5
Rhode Island8–⁠011–⁠3101472WWWWL
Villanova7–⁠112–⁠341538WWWWL
Monmouth6–⁠29–⁠3201374WWLWL
New Hampshire6–⁠28–⁠51409WWWWL
William & Mary6–⁠27–⁠51336LWWWL
Maine5–⁠36–⁠61328WWWLL
Towson4–⁠46–⁠61313LWLWW
Elon4–⁠46–⁠61324LLLWW
Stony Brook4–⁠46–⁠61328WLWLW
Campbell2–⁠62–⁠101145LLLLL
North Carolina A&T2–⁠62–⁠101063WLLLL
Bryant1–⁠73–⁠91144LLWLL
UAlbany1–⁠72–⁠101159LLLLW
Hampton0–⁠82–⁠101113LLLLL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. Poll: the FCS coaches’ poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2025

Coastal Athletic teams are 26–⁠36 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from the FBS count together.

Champions

Most titles

Richmond6last 2024
James Madison6last 2021
Villanova4last 2023
William & Mary3last 2022
Rhode Island2last 2025
Delaware2last 2020
Maine2last 2018
Towson2last 2012
UAlbany1last 2023
Massachusetts1last 2007

By year

2025Rhode Island
2024Rhode Island, Richmond (shared)
2023Richmond, UAlbany, Villanova (shared)
2022William & Mary
2021James Madison, Villanova (shared)
2020Delaware
2019James Madison
2018Maine
2017James Madison
2016James Madison
2015James Madison, Richmond, William & Mary (shared)
2013Maine
6 earlier seasons, back to 2007
2012Richmond, Towson, Villanova (shared)
2011Towson
2010Delaware, William & Mary (shared)
2009Richmond, Villanova (shared)
2008James Madison
2007Massachusetts, Richmond (shared)

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Members

  1. Campbell2023 on
  2. Elon2023 on
  3. Hampton2023 on
  4. Maine2023 on
  5. Monmouth2023 on
  6. New Hampshire2023 on
  7. North Carolina A&T2023 on
  8. Rhode Island2023 on
  9. Richmond2023–⁠2024
  10. Stony Brook2023 on
  11. Towson2023 on
  12. UAlbany2023 on
  13. Villanova2023–⁠2025
  14. William & Mary2023–⁠2025
  15. Bryant2024 on
  16. Sacred Heart2026 on
Every school and its years (16)

Members now

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 2023; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2026Sacred HeartJoined (independent before) (football only)July 22, 2025
2026VillanovaLeft for Patriot Conference (football only)June 5, 2025
2026William & MaryLeft for Patriot Conference (football only)April 16, 2025
2025RichmondLeft for Patriot Conference (football only)May 14, 2024
2024BryantJoined from Big South-OVC (football only)August 10, 2023
2023CampbellJoined from Big South (football only)August 3, 2022
2023North Carolina A&TJoined from Big South (football only)February 22, 2022

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 56 team-seasons from 2023. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 56 team-seasons from 2023. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

The money

The Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $2.0 million in revenue, $645,000 of it from flosports rights fees, and $1.5 million in expenses; it ended the year with $1.8 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Joseph D’antonio, was paid $112,000.

By year

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsTop pay
2024-25$2.0M$1.5M$1.8M$112K
2023-24$1.4M$1.3M$1.3M$112K

Best paid, 2024-25

Joseph D’antonio, commissioner$112,000
Lynn Newton, COO$28,000

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 42-1719463).