2020 ACC men's soccer tournament

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2020 ACC men's soccer tournament
Classification Division I
Teams8
Matches7
Attendance677
Site Sahlen's Stadium
Cary, North Carolina
Champions Clemson (4th title)
Winning coach Mike Noonan (2nd title)
MVP Kimarni Smith (Clemson)
Broadcast ESPNU (Final), ACC Network Extra (all other rounds)
ACC men's soccer tournament
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2020 ACC men's fall soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
North
No. 2 Pittsburgh 4 –0 –07 –1 –0
No. 4 Virginia Tech 3 –1 –23 –2 –2
Notre Dame 3 –2 –05 –4 –0
Virginia 2 –3 –13 –4 –1
Louisville 1 –4 –11 –6 –1
Syracuse 0 –3 –20 –3 –2
South
No. 3 Wake Forest 5 –1 –07 –2 –0
North Carolina 3 –1 –23 –2 –2
No. 1 Clemson‡ 3 –2 –18 –2 –1
Duke 2 –4 –02 –6 –0
NC State 0 –5 –10 –6 –1
Boston College† 0 –0 –00 –0 –0
As of March 9, 2021
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches
Source:The ACC
Note: † Due to COVID-19, Boston College suspended the Fall 2020 men's soccer season; begins play in March.

The 2020 ACC men's soccer tournament was the 34th edition of the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Atlantic Coast Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The final will be played at Sahlen's Stadium in Cary, North Carolina. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

The format of the tournament was announced in conjunction with all other ACC fall sports on July 29, 2020. [3]

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the format of the 2020 tournament changed multiple times. Originally, the 2020 ACC Tournament was to only feature 4 teams with all matches played at Sahlen's Stadium to create an "isolation zone" (similar to the 2020 NBA Bubble) to minimize the spread of the pandemic. The semifinals were to be played on November 13, 2020, with the final was to be played on November 15, 2020. [4]

On September 4, 2020, the format again changed, expanding the tournament from four to eight teams. The quarterfinals to be played on November 15, the semifinals on November 18, and the championship game on November 22. [1]

Qualification

Due to the aforementioned COVID-19 pandemic, only eleven teams participated in the regular season, with Boston College electing to not play. The teams were also divided into a North and South region as opposed to the normal Atlantic and Coastal Divisions. Eight teams qualified for the tournament, the top four teams in each region. In the tournament, teams were paired against the opposite region in the bracket. Higher seeds hosted the quarterfinals and semifinals. [5]

South Region
FinishTeamConference Record
1 Wake Forest 5–1–0
2 North Carolina 3–1–2
3 Clemson 3–2–1
4 Duke 2–4–0
5 NC State 0–5–1
North Region
FinishTeamConference Record
1 Pittsburgh 4–0–0
2 Virginia Tech 3–1–2
3 Notre Dame 3–2–0
4 Virginia 2–3–1
5 Louisville 1–4–1
6 Syracuse 0–3–2

Fall tournament

Quarterfinals
November 15 		Semifinals
November 18 		Final
November 22
         
N1 Pittsburgh 2
S4 Duke 1
N1 Pittsburgh3
N3 Notre Dame 1
S2 North Carolina 0
N3 Notre Dame 1OT
N1 Pittsburgh 1
S3 Clemson2
S1 Wake Forest 0
N4 Virginia 2
N4 Virginia 1
S3 Clemson2
N2 Virginia Tech 1
S3 Clemson 4

Quarterfinals

Virginia Tech 1–4 Clemson
Report
Koskinen Stadium , Durham, NC
Attendance: 0
Referee: Mike Stutt
North Carolina 0–1 (a.e.t.)
OT		 Notre Dame
Report
Dorrance Field , Chapel Hill, NC
Attendance: 0
Referee: John McCloskey
Wake Forest 0–2 Virginia
Report
  • Soccerball shade.svg30', 51', Yellow card.svg 45' Cabrel Happi Kamseu
  • Yellow card.svg 75' Jeremy Verley
  • Yellow card.svg 78' Andreas Ueland
  • Yellow card.svg 88' Kevin Ogudugu
Spry Stadium , Winston–Salem, NC
Attendance: 100
Referee: David Erbacher
Pittsburgh 2–1 Duke
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 7' Antonio Lopez
  • Yellow card.svg 13' Red card.svg 90' Matthias Frick
  • Yellow card.svg 43', Soccerball shade.svg58' Stephen O'Connell
  • Yellow card.svg 55' Scotty Taylor
Dail Soccer Field , Raleigh, NC
Attendance: 77
Referee: Sorin Stoica

Semifinals

Clemson 2–1 Virginia
Report
Dorrance Field , Chapel Hill, NC
Attendance: 50
Referee: John Brady
Pittsburgh 3–1 Notre Dame
Report
Dail Soccer Field , Raleigh, NC
Attendance: 100
Referee: Carmen Serbio

Final

Pittsburgh 1–2 Clemson
  • Raphael Crivello Yellow card.svg 38'
  • Valentin Noël Soccerball shade.svg47'
  • Filip Mirkovic Yellow card.svg 48'
  • Anass Amrani Red card.svg 87'
 Report
  • Soccerball shade.svg13' Mohamed Seye
  • Soccerball shade.svg71' James Brighton
  • Yellow card.svg 83' John Martin
  • Yellow card.svg 84' Kimarni Smith
WakeMed Soccer Park , Cary, NC
Attendance: 350
Referee: Nikola Aleksic

Spring Tournament

The ACC played a six-game conference schedule in the spring. The division winners, along with the fall tournament winners, Clemson, played for the ACC's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. As a result of Clemson winning the Atlantic division in the spring, Pittsburgh and Clemson played one game to determine the conference's automatic qualifier.

Semifinal Final
1 Clemson 2
2 Clemson - Pittsburgh 0
3 Pittsburgh -

Semifinal

Clemson x–x Pittsburgh

Final

NCAA Play-In Final
Clemson 2–0 Pittsburgh
  • Quinn McNeill Soccerball shade.svg16', Yellow card.svg 83'
  • Isaiah Reid Soccerball shade.svg82', Yellow card.svg 87'
 Report
  • Yellow card.svg 78' Raphael Crivello
  • Yellow card.svg 80' Luke Mort
Riggs Field , Clemson, SC
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: David Erbacher

Statistics

Goalscorers

4 Goals
3 Goals
2 Goals
1 Goal

All-Tournament team

PlayerTeam
2020 ACC Men's Soccer All-Tournament team [6]
Kimarni Smith Clemson
Justin Malou
Grayson Barber
Philip Mayaka
Nico Campuzano Pitt
Valentin Noël
Veljko Petković
Mohamed Omar Notre Dame
Jack Lynn
Andreas Ueland Virginia
Bret Halsey

MVP in Bold

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