The NACDA Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Director's Cup are based on order of finish in various NCAA sponsored championships or in the case of Division I Football media base polls. The award originated in 1993, and was presented to NCAA Division I schools only. In 1995, it was extended to Division II, Division III, and NAIA schools as well, each division receiving its own award.

Stanford University has won the award for the best Division I collegiate athletics program for 14 straight years, winning 14 out of the 15 years it has been offered. Williams College has similarly dominated Division III, having won the award 11 times.

In Division II, UC Davis won six of the first eight awards, but its athletic program moved to Division I in 2003 and Grand Valley State won the award the following five years. The NAIA division was similarly dominated by Simon Fraser University of British Columbia in its early years, but in 2002, SFU transferred several of its sports programs to Canada's college athletics federation, Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Since then, Azusa Pacific University of California and Lindenwood University of Missouri have vied for dominance at the NAIA level, winning five of the last six cups between them, though Simon Fraser remains competitive despite not fielding a full complement of NAIA teams.

The physical award is a Waterford crystal trophy. Prior to 2003, the sponsor of the NACDA Directors' Cup was retail merchandiser Sears, and the award was known as the Sears Cup. Beginning in the 2003-2004 season, the sponsor has been the United States Sports Academy.

Past winners and leaders for the current year

NCAA Division I

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
1993-94	North Carolina	Stanford	UCLA	Florida	Penn State
1994-95	Stanford	North Carolina	UCLA	Arizona	Florida
1995-96	Stanford	UCLA	Florida	Texas	Michigan
1996-97	Stanford	North Carolina	UCLA	Nebraska	Florida
1997-98	Stanford	(tie) North Carolina, Florida		UCLA	Michigan
1998-99	Stanford	Georgia	Penn State	Florida	UCLA
1999-00	Stanford	UCLA	Michigan	Penn State	North Carolina
2000-01	Stanford	UCLA	Georgia	Michigan	Arizona
2001-02	Stanford	Texas	Florida	North Carolina	UCLA
2002-03	Stanford	Texas	Ohio State	Michigan	Penn State
2003-04	Stanford	Michigan	UCLA	Ohio State	Georgia
2004-05	Stanford	Texas	UCLA	Michigan	Duke
2005-06	Stanford	UCLA	Texas	North Carolina	Florida
2006-07	Stanford	UCLA	North Carolina	Michigan	USC
2007-08	Stanford	UCLA	Michigan	Arizona State	Texas

NCAA Division II

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
1995-96	UC Davis	Abilene Christian	North Dakota State	South Dakota State	Cal State Bakersfield
1996-97	UC Davis	Abilene Christian	Cal State Bakersfield	Central Oklahoma	Indianapolis
1997-98	Cal State Bakersfield	UC Davis	Abilene Christian	Barry	Florida Southern
1998-99	Adams State	(tie) UC Davis; Abilene Christian		(tie) Florida Southern; North Dakota State
1999-00	UC Davis	North Dakota State	North Dakota	Florida Southern	Western State
2000-01	UC Davis	North Dakota	Cal State Bakersfield	UCSD	Western State
2001-02	UC Davis	Grand Valley State (MI)	UCSD	Truman State	Western State
2002-03	UC Davis	Grand Valley State (MI)	North Florida	Cal State Bakersfield	South Dakota State
2003-04	Grand Valley State (MI)	UCSD	Truman State	North Dakota	Chico State
2004-05	Grand Valley State (MI)	Nebraska-Omaha	Chico State	North Dakota	Cal State Bakersfield
2005-06	Grand Valley State (MI)	Abilene Christian	Nebraska-Omaha	Southern Illinois Edwardsville	Cal State Bakersfield
2006-07	Grand Valley State (MI)	UCSD	Abilene Christian	Minnesota State University, Mankato	North Dakota
2007-08	Grand Valley State (MI)	Abilene Christian	Minnesota State University, Mankato	UCSD	Tampa (FL)

NCAA Division III

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
1995-96	Williams	UCSD	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	College of New Jersey	Rowan
1996-97	Williams	College of New Jersey	UCSD	Emory	Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1997-98	UCSD	(tie) College of New Jersey; SUNY Cortland		(tie) Williams; Middlebury
1998-99	Williams	Middlebury	College of New Jersey	Amherst	Rowan
1999-00	Williams	UCSD	College of New Jersey	St. Thomas (MN)	Middlebury
2000-01	Williams	Middlebury	College of New Jersey	Emory	Ithaca
2001-02	Williams	Ithaca	College of New Jersey	Middlebury	Emory
2002-03	Williams	Emory	College of New Jersey	Trinity (TX)	Washington (MO)
2003-04	Williams	Emory	Middlebury	College of New Jersey	Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2004-05	Williams	Middlebury	Washington (MO)	Trinity (TX)	Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2005-06	Williams	College of New Jersey	Middlebury	Emory	SUNY Cortland
2006-07	Williams	Middlebury	SUNY Cortland	Amherst	Washington (MO)
2007-08	Williams (1120.25)	Washington (MO) (899.00)	College of New Jersey (825.25)	Amherst (815.00)	Middlebury (813.50)

NAIA

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
1995-96	Pacific Lutheran	Simon Fraser	Mobile	Berry	Azusa Pacific
1996-97	Simon Fraser	Pacific Lutheran	Azusa Pacific	Mobile	Willamette
1997-98	Simon Fraser	Mobile	Findlay	Oklahoma City	Puget Sound
1998-99	Simon Fraser	Azusa Pacific	Life	(tie) Oklahoma City; Lindenwood
1999-00	Simon Fraser	Lindenwood	Azusa Pacific	Mary	Oklahoma City
2000-01	Simon Fraser	Oklahoma City	Azusa Pacific	Lindenwood	Cumberland
2001-02	Lindenwood	Oklahoma City	Simon Fraser	Azusa Pacific	Malone
2002-03	Lindenwood	Simon Fraser	Azusa Pacific	Mary	Oklahoma City
2003-04	Simon Fraser	Azusa Pacific	Lindenwood	Oklahoma City	(tie) Mary; Dickinson State
2004-05	Azusa Pacific	Lindenwood	Simon Fraser	Point Loma Nazarene	Mary
2005-06	Azusa Pacific	Lindenwood	Lindsey Wilson	Oklahoma Baptist	Simon Fraser
2006-07	Azusa Pacific	Lindenwood	Concordia (CA)	Cedarville	Oklahoma Baptist
2007-08	Azusa Pacific	Simon Fraser	Embry-Riddle	Fresno Pacific	Concordia (CA)

External links

• National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
• NACDA Director's Cup current standings
• NACDA Director's Cup final results
• Director's Cup Historical Standings of Big 12 members