Rutgers ' first varsity team was fielded in 1938 , where they Knights competed as an independent team . Rutgers remained unaffiliated with any formal athletic conference and was considered an independent until joining the Atlantic 10 Conference as an associate soccer member in the mid 1980s . The Knights Big East Conference for soccer in 1995 . On July 1 , 2014 Rutgers became a member of the Big Ten athletic conference , after paying an $ 11.5 million exit fee to the American Athletic Conference ( which formed as a result of the splitting of the Big East Conference )
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer