The team has advanced to the NCAA Women's soccer tournament thirty three times.

[2] The Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team was founded in 1985 with head coach Dan Beshoar.

In 1987 the team made its first NCAA Women's soccer tournament, falling in the first round.

The decade closed with repeat performances in both the ACC and NCAA tournaments, but and improvement to 16 overall wins, from 14 in the previous season.

[5] Prior to the 1996 season, it was announced that April Heinrichs would be the third coach in program history.

[6] Heinrichs continued the team's success, winning double digit overall games in each year between 1996 and 1999.

After the 1999 season, Heinrichs left Virginia to become the coach of the US Women's National Team.

[7] The decade began with the hiring of Steve Swanson as the program's fourth head coach in history.

However, ACC Tournament success would not follow, as the team never made it past the second round from 2006 to 2011.

However, the team did finish with double digit wins and NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in each of those seasons.

The NCAA tournament was held in the spring, and the Cavaliers advanced to the Semifinals, before falling on penalties.

They won the ACC Regular Season title and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

They qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the twenty-ninth time in a row and reached the Quarterfinals before losing to the eventual champion, UCLA.

2024 proved to be a bit of a return to normalcy as the Cavaliers finished 13–5–1 overall and 5–5–0 in ACC play.

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