Javier Ayala-Hil

Assistant Coach

Javier is a Bay Area Native and has a fantastic reputation here in the Bay Area for not just being a great soccer coach but also someone with high character, integrity, and leadership ability.

Javier as a Player

Ayala-Hil was four-time letter winner and First Team All-Pac-10 honoree at Cal.

Professional Career

Following his collegiate career, Ayala-Hil was drafted in the second round of the 2008 MLS Supplemental Draft by Chivas USA and continued playing professionally for Bayamon FC in Puerto Rico and Luckenwalde FSV 63 in Germany's Oberliga.

Javier as a Coach

He served as the head coach for San Francisco State men's soccer for three years. During Ayala-Hil's three seasons at SF State, he was named CCAA Men's Soccer Coach of the Year in 2017 after guiding the team to a CCAA Championship Semifinals. During the same year, he led the Gators to a program's best start in school history with a 5-0 start and, on the final day of the regular season, and clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 1978.

Prior to joining SF State, Ayala-Hil also served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Cal.