Seasons with UBC: 29
Conference record: 234-60-71 (.641)
Canada West playoff record: 44-18 (.710)
U SPORTS Championship record: 31-15 (.674)
- 12 Canada West Championships (1997, ‘01, ‘10, ‘12, ‘13, ‘15, ‘17, ‘18, ‘19, '21, '22, '24)
- 5 U SPORTS Championships (2005, ‘07, ‘12, ‘13, '24)
- 3x Coach of the Year, Canada West (2009, ‘13, ‘15)
- 1x Coach of the Year, U SPORTS (2013)
*As of March, 2025
Mike Mosher continues to build on his legacy of success as he's put in 29 seasons as the head coach of the most decorated men’s soccer program in U SPORTS history. He has guided the Thunderbirds to five national titles (2005, 2007, 2012, 2013 and 2024), 12 Canada West titles (including five in a row from 2017 to 2022) and owns an incredible 31-15 record at the U SPORTS Men’s Soccer Championship tournament. He was the team’s assistant in 1994, but served as the head coach at that year’s nationals and led the T-Birds to the Canadian title.
2024-25:
The Thunderbirds finally reached the mountaintop once again in 2024-25, as they won the program's 14th national championship in the most dramatic of fashions. Before the fateful championship game in Oshawa, the T-Birds went nearly unbeaten in the regular season with an 11-1-3 record. They won their sixth conference championship in the last seven seasons with a 1-0 victory at home over Mount Royal in the Canada West Final, and entered the U SPORTS National Championship as the No. 1 overall seed. There, they defeated UNB and McGill to set up a gold medal game against Montreal. Tied at 0-0 in second half stoppage time, a cross from Eric Kim found the head of Joven Mann in the dying seconds, who headed it home to win the national title.
The 2023-24 regular season was a memorable one for UBC as they finished first in the Pacific Division with a 13-1-2 record. They then earned a second consecutive podium finish at the U SPORTS National Championships, defeating Mount Royal 1-0 in the bronze medal match to avenge their loss to the Cougars in the Canada West Final. The T-Birds' .826 winning percentage this season (including playoffs) was their best in nearly a decade, having previously reached the same mark in 2015.
Mosher led UBC to their fifth straight Canada West championship banner in 2022-23, this one coming on home soil in a thrilling 1-0 victory in penalty kicks over Calgary. Victories against TMU and Montreal in the knockout stage of the 2022 Nationals in Kamloops set the stage for a thrilling championship showdown between UBC and the hosts from Thompson Rivers University. Unfortunately in this case, UBC fell in penalty kicks, giving the hosts the win.
In 2021-2022, Mike Mosher's crew defeated the Victoria Vikes 1-0 in the Final Four final held in Calgary. The win pushed the T-Birds to the U SPORTS soccer championship in Ottawa, where they fell to the Carleton Ravens in penalty kick fashion. Their rest was short as the 'Birds stepped back onto the field the next day and fell 4-2 to the Laval Rouge et Or.
The T-Birds finished the 2019-2020 season with a 10-2-3 regular season record and a Canada West Championship, following their 2018-2019 season which saw them post a conference record of 13-1-2.
In 2017, Mosher’s squad won the school’s 18
th Canada West conference championship on home turf at Thunderbird Stadium. Down 2-0 in the final, UBC came all the way back to beat Trinity Western 3-2 in double overtime. That win clinched the team’s fifth appearance at the U SPORTS national tournament in six years. The T-Birds placed fourth with a young roster that didn’t feature any fifth-year seniors.
In the summer of 2017, UBC embarked on a cross-Pacific trip to play in the World Elite University Football Tournament at Tsing’hua University in Beijing, China. The Thunderbirds were able to defeat the likes of Oxford and Peking before ultimately claiming the tournament’s silver medal.
Mosher crossed the milestone of 200 regular season and playoff wins as UBC’s coach early in the 2016 season, which saw the Thunderbirds place second in the Canada West before placing fifth in the U SPORTS Men’s Soccer Championship.
Mosher was the U SPORTS Coach of the Year in 2013 and the Canada West Coach of the Year on three different occasions (2009, ‘13 and ‘15).
Mosher's 2013 conference and national championship-winning squad won the school's 13th U SPORTS title and was named Sport BC's Team of the Year, while the 2012 team went undefeated in non-conference, Canada West and playoff action to become the best in the nation.
In 2010, the T-Birds won their third Canada West championship under Mosher’s direction. The squad then went on to collect a silver medal at the U SPORTS Championship. For his efforts, Mosher was named the Adult Coach of the Year by BC Soccer.
Internationally, Mosher served as Canada’s head coach at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as an assistant with the 2007 squad that competed in Thailand.
As a player with UBC, Mosher was a T-Bird for five years, during which time he contributed to three national championship runs in 1989, ‘90 and ‘91. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1989 gold-medal squad that won the national banner at Thunderbird Stadium and was also a U SPORTS All-Canadian in 1990. He’s enshrined in the UBC Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1989-91 teams (inducted in 2013).
Mosher also played four years with the Canadian Olympic team and spent four seasons in the Canadian Soccer League with the Edmonton Brickmen and the Winnipeg Fury.
Mosher has won a total of 13 national titles in his playing and coaching career. He has claimed eight at UBC, three as a player and five as a coach, and five more as a player comprised of two senior men’s club crowns, one Under-18 national title, and two U-18 all-star triumphs.
A UBC physical education graduate, he also completed his master’s degree in arts at UBC, specializing in sport management.
