Douglas Oliveira

Dalton State College Athletics

Title

Head Coach
Email

doliveira@daltonstate.edu

Douglas Oliveira was hired as the third head coach of Dalton State men's soccer on April 21, 2025. He came to DS from Liberty University, where he served as an assistant coach for five seasons.

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Oliveira comes to the Roadrunners after a successful stint as an assistant coach at Liberty University. He joined the Liberty men's coaching staff during the fall of 2020 and helped guide the Flames through the postponement of the 2020 season in his initial year on campus. While at Liberty, the Flames went 33-31-13 overall, playing in the A-SUN before moving to the OVC in 2023.

Oliveira brings from LU a strong desire for competition to test his team, as the Flames never hid from good competitors, as they played such powers as Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Clemson, UCLA, Maryland, and Navy.

Before joining the Flames staff, Oliveira served as an assistant coach for two seasons with the Mississippi Brilla FC. Based in Clinton, Miss., the soccer ministry and USL-2 team is Mississippi's only Premier Development League (PDL) franchise and performs ongoing inner-city work through its Urban Soccer Project. Also, while working on his master's degree in human performance at Liberty, Oliveira served as the Flames team manager from Feb. 2019 through May 2020.

The Campinas, Brazil native has NAIA experience, having played two collegiate seasons at Indiana Wesleyan and two collegiate seasons at John Brown (Ark.). He was part of Indiana Wesleyan's NCCAA National runner-up squad in 2017. In addition, he played for the PDL's Charlotte Eagles from 2016-18. In 2017, he was named to the All-Eastern Conference team, as the Eagles won the PDL title.

Oliveira graduated from Indiana Wesleyan with a bachelor's degree in exercise science with a minor in coaching. He earned a master's degree in human performance with a strength and conditioning cognate from Liberty in May of 2020.

He holds a National "B" Coaching License from U.S. Soccer.

Coaching Experience

Years	School	Position
2025-Present	Dalton State	Head Coach
2020-2025	Liberty	Assistant Coach