- 2020 Atlantic 10 Champions
- 2020, 2024 NCAA Tournament berth
- 2020-21 Iron Major Award - Fordham Coach of the Year

A proven winner with more than two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Carlo Acquista completed his sixth season at the helm of the Fordham men’s soccer in program in 2024.
 
In his short time at Rose Hill, Acquista has put together a blueprint for success, earning a pair of NCAA Tournament berths and winning the conference championship in 2020-21.  His teams have participated in the Atlantic 10 Men’s Soccer Championship five times, advancing to at least the semifinals on four of those occasions.
 
In six years, Acquista has compiled a record of 38-34-29 (.520), including a 20-11-14 (.600) record in A-10 play.  He has mentored nine All-Atlantic 10 selections, including a pair of major award winners in 2019 Defensive Player of the Year Joergen Oland and 2024 Midfielder of the Year Daniel D’Ippolito.  Three of his players have earned Academic All-American honors from CoSIDA/College Sports Communicators: Johannes Pieles (2019), Timo Hummrich (2023) and D’Ippolito (2024).
 
Acquista’s teams have consistently earned national recognition from his peers, finding a spot in the United Soccer Coaches poll for at least one week in four of the last five seasons.

In Acquista’s second season, the Rams fought through the adversity of a pandemic to capture the program's fourth Atlantic 10 Championship.  After an unbeaten regular season, Fordham knocked off Saint Louis and George Washington in the Atlantic 10 Championship to win the title.  The Rams suffered their lone loss of the campaign in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to eventual national champion Marshall.

Following the season, Acquista was bestowed the 2020-21 Iron Major Award winner, selected by his Fordham peers as the department’s outstanding coach.
 
Acquista came to Rose Hill for the 2019 season after serving as a New York Red Bulls scout since February 2018.  In that role, assisted in the construction of the MLS roster and served as the team’s lead scout and recruiter for the USL and PDL rosters.  He observed and evaluated college and professional matches globally, providing detailed reports to the New York Red Bulls Sporting Director, Head Scout, and Head Coach.
 
Prior to his stint with the Red Bulls, Acquista spent 11 seasons as the head men’s soccer coach at Adelphi University in addition to serving as a Senior Assistant Athletic Director in the Panthers athletics department.
 
Acquista posted a 120-69-19 record with the Panthers, good for a .623 winning percentage.  He led the Panthers to four league championships in his tenure, which included two in the Atlantic Soccer Conference (2009 and 2010) and, more recently, two Northeast-10 Conference Championships (2016 and 2017), earning Northeast-10 and ECAC Coach of the Year honors in both of those seasons. 
 
After making its first NCAA appearance in nine seasons in 2015, Adelphi went 19-1-2 in 2016, winning the NCAA Division II East Region and advancing to the NCAA Championship quarterfinals, setting school records for wins and shutouts (13) and finishing the year ranked fifth in the United Soccer Coaches national poll.  Acquista was named the 2016 United Soccer Coaches East Region Coach of the Year at the end of the year, as Adelphi finished with a no. 5 national ranking.

In Acquista’s first six years at the helm, he oversaw the final Division I seasons for the team in the Atlantic Soccer Conference (ASC) and as an independent. In that time, the squad claimed two ASC Tournament titles (2009 and 2010) while reaching the playoffs all five years.  Acquista was honored as the ASC Coach of the Year three times in 2008, 2009 and 2011.

In his Adelphi career, Acquista coached over four dozen all-conference players across Divisions I and II, two dozen all-region honorees and nearly a dozen All-Americans across the NSCAA, United Soccer Coaches' Association and Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) ranks.  He also developed half a dozen players that reached the professional ranks over the USL, NASL, MLS and Europe.

Acquista arrived at Adelphi from St. Francis College (NY), where he held the position of head coach for five seasons and was one of the youngest Division I coaches in the country (23-years-old) when he was hired in 2002.
 
In 22 years as a collegiate head coach, Acquista owns an overall record of 176-161-58 (.519).
 
In addition to his college coaching, Acquista has been a part of One Goal Sport, serving as owner and director of soccer and coaching education.  He has been a U.S. Soccer Coaching Education instructor, a Region I ODP coach and player evaluator, and holds a USSF “A” Coaching License.
 
A graduate of St. John’s University in 2000, Acquista was a four-year member of the Red Storm men’s soccer team, which reached the NCAA tournament in each of his four seasons. He helped St. John’s capture an NCAA Division I national title in 1996 and also had a hand in two Big East Championship teams.  He has a degree in sports management from St. John’s and later graduated from Adelphi University with a master’s degree in sports management. 
 
Acquista and his wife, Lauren, reside in Westbury, N.Y., and have three sons, Lucas and Christian (twins) and Leo.