Ian de Oliveira

Biography

Ian de Oliveira is currently in his second season as an assistant coach at UNH in 2025. The Wildcats went 7-3-7 overall and posted a 4-1-2 mark in conference play in de Oliveira's first season as an assistant coach in 2024 as UNH won a conference-record sixth straight regular season championship. The 'Cats were also ranked No. 39 in the final RPI of the season. de Oliveira spent the 2023 season as an assistant coach at Northeastern. Previously, he was the goalkeeper coach at Marshall University where the team had the best goal against average in the conference and allowed the least amount of goals. Prior to working at Marshall, he was the goalkeeper coach for both West Virginia United (USL2) (2021-2022) and River Valley Soccer Club (2020-2021). At West Virginia United he coached a goalkeeper that was selected to the 2022 All-Southern Conference First Team. de Oliveira played for the University of Charleston and was on the 2017 and 2019 teams that won the NCAA Division II National Championship. He graduated from the University of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration in 2022 and a Master of Science degree in Strategic Leadership in 2022. He lives with his wife Taylor in Waltham.