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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men’s soccer plays at Dartmouth College in its regular season finale on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 1:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Burnham Field in Hanover, New Hampshire with both the Crimson and Big Green still in contention for the final spot in the four-team Ivy League Tournament.

What to Know: Harvard Highlights


Harvard can earn a spot in the Ivy League Tournament if it beats Dartmouth, and Yale either beats or ties Brown on Saturday.
The Crimson currently stands in sixth place in the Ivy League standings with five points, just two points back of fourth-place Brown (seven points) and one point back of fifth-place Dartmouth (six points). First-place Princeton (18 points), second-place Cornell (13 points), and third-place Penn (11 points) have clinched spots in the four-team Ivy League Tournament.
In the Crimson’s home finale, senior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil made four saves in his third shutout of the season as Harvard earned a point in a 0-0 draw with No. 24 Cornell University on Nov. 1 at Jordan Field. The Crimson gained a point against a top-25 team for the second time on the season, and MacNeil garnered Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors for the effort in the clean sheet.
First-year Adam Poliakov has scored four goals in his last four games. He ranks seventh in the Ivy League in goals (four) in just eight games played. In Ivy only play, he stands third in the league in goals (three) and third in points (six). He scored his first collegiate goals in a brace against Brown (Oct. 18) before scoring one goal apiece in games against Stonehill (Oct. 22) and Columbia (Oct. 25). Poliakov earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 20.
Junior Andreas Savva leads Harvard in points (10) behind three goals and four assists on the season. He stands eighth in the Ivy League in shots (30), eighth in points (10), and eighth in assists (four). Savva posted a career-high five points on a career-best two goals and one assist vs. Cal (Sept. 10). He also netted a goal vs. Boston University (Sept. 30).
Junior Dylan Tellado ranks second on the Crimson in points (nine) with three goals and three assists on the year. 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 one goal apiece at PC (Sept. 5) and at Stonehill (Oct. 22).
Junior Ben Kelly has posted nine points on the year on two goals and a team-high five assists. He ranks third in the Ivy League in assists (five). Kelly registered a career-best three points on a goal and an assist at Stonehill (Oct. 22). He posted a career-high two assists vs. Cal (Sept. 10) and netted a goal vs. UNH (Sept. 16).
Sophomore Phoenix Wooten has registered six points on the year behind one goal and four assists. He ranks eighth in the Ivy League in assists (four) and fourth in the league in assists in Ivy only games (two). Wooten posted a career-high two assists vs. Brown (Oct. 18).
Sophomore center backs Tim Langenbahn and Alexander Castel have anchored the Crimson’s back line this season, ranking first and second on the team in minutes played with 1,271 and 1,232 minutes played respectively. The duo has helped the Crimson tally five shutouts as a team this season. Langenbahn and Castel have each posted three points on the year on a goal and assist apiece. Langenbahn scored the game-winning goal at Providence (Sept. 5), and Castel netted the game-winner at Stonehill (Oct. 22).
Senior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil has posted three shutouts in eight starts this season. For the year, he has notched a 1.25 GAA, 0.744 save percentage, and 29 total saves. MacNeil earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 3 after posting a shutout against No. 24 Cornell (Nov. 1). He ranks third in the Ivy League in saves per game (3.63) and fourth in shutouts (three). In Ivy only play, he stands third in total saves (19) and fourth in saves per game (3.80). MacNeil tallied a career-high seven saves at Stonehill (Oct. 22) and made five saves against both Princeton (Sept. 27) and Columbia (Oct. 25).
Senior goalkeeper Lucian Wood has posted a 1.00 GAA, 0.774 save percentage, 24 total saves, and two shutouts over seven starts on the season. Wood has earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors twice (Sept. 8, Oct. 13) on the year. He ranks third in the Ivy League in save percentage (0.774), fourth in saves per game (3.43), and fourth in GAA (1.00). Wood tallied a season-high seven saves in the clean sheet at Providence (Sept. 5), posted a shutout vs. No. 2 Vermont (Oct. 7), and made five saves vs. Belmont (Aug. 29).
Harvard stands as one of five Ivy League programs in the top 70 of the NCAA RPI in a group that includes No. 1 Princeton, No. 25 Cornell, No. 49 Brown, No. 62 Harvard, and No. 67 Penn.
Dartmouth brings a 3-7-3 overall record and 2-4-0 Ivy League mark into Saturday’s contest. In Ivy play, the Big Green holds wins over Columbia (2-1) and Yale (1-0) alongside setbacks to Brown (2-1), Cornell (6-2), Penn (2-0), and Princeton (1-0).
Harvard leads Dartmouth in the all-time series, 47-39-11. The Crimson has posted a 3-0-1 record in the last four meetings with the Big Green. 

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 will look to qualify for the four-team Ivy League Tournament which will take place on Nov. 13 and 16 on the campus of Princeton.