Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams opens their 2026 Atlantic 10 season by hosting the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers at Moglia Stadium on Saturday, September 19, at 2:00 p.m.
 
Fordham enters the game with an 2-4-1 record after a 2-0 loss at St. John's last Sunday night while Loyola Chicago is 5-1-2 and is coming off a 1-0 loss at UIC on Sunday.
 
Notes
• This will be the seventh meeting between the Rams and the Ramblers.
 
• Loyola Chicago leads the all-time series, which started in 1997, 4-1-1, taking the first four meetings.
 
• The two teams played to a 1-1 tie last year in Chicago as Daniel D'Ippolito scored in the sixth minute for the Rams only to see the Ramblers toe it in the 81^st minute.
 
• Fordham will played four of the first five matches of 2026 on natural grass with the lone artificial surface coming at Villanova.
 
• Following the opening five games, the Rams will play only two other matches on the real stuff, at Dayton and at Davidson.
 
• The Rams played their first five matches on the road and ten of their 15 matches away from the Bronx.
 
• All told, Fordham will travel 5,910 miles during the 2026 season.
 
• The 2026 Fordham Rams will be one of the newest rosters in the NCAA.
 
• Fordham returns just ten players from the 2025 roster who account for only 15% of the minutes played by last year's squad.
 
• The Rams are represented by a single captain in 2026: senior Kamran Mojabi.