Country | Canada |
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Dates | 10–13 November 2022 |
Championship venue | Hillside Stadium Kamloops, British Columbia |
Teams | 8 |
Champions | Thompson Rivers (1st title) |
Runners-up | UBC |
Third place | Montréal Carabins |
← 2021 2023 → All statistics correct as of 13 November 2022. |
The 2022 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was the 50th edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2022 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament started on November 10 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on November 13 in Kamloops, British Columbia.
The tournament was held at Hillside Stadium, on the grounds of Thompson Rivers University. [1] TRU last hosted the tournament in 2017, when they defeated perennial rival UBC on penalty kicks. [2]
The championship consisted of an eight-team single-elimination tournament. Four teams automatically qualified for the tournament as one of the winners of the four conferences, three qualified as the runners-ups, and one qualified as the host.
Seed | Team | Qualified | Record |
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1 | CBU Capers | AUS champions | 10–0–2 [3] |
2 | Montréal Carabins | RSEQ champions | 9–1–2 |
3 | UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West champions | 9–3–3 [4] |
4 | McMaster Marauders | OUA champions | 8–3–1 |
5 | Thompson Rivers WolfPack | Host | 7–3–5 [5] |
6 | TMU Bold | OUA finalists | 9–3–0 [6] |
7 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | AUS finalists | 7–3–2 |
8 | UQTR Patriotes | RSEQ finalists | 7–3–2 |
The bracket was announced on Sunday, November 6, 2022. [7]
First Round: November 10 | Semi-Finals: November 11 | Championship Game: November 12 | ||||||||||||
1 | CBU | 2 | ||||||||||||
8 | UQTR | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 | CBU | 2 | ||||||||||||
5 | Thompson Rivers (p) | 2 | ||||||||||||
4 | McMaster | 1 | ||||||||||||
5 | Thompson Rivers | 2 | ||||||||||||
3 | UBC | 1 | ||||||||||||
5 | Thompson Rivers (p) | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | Montreal | 3 | ||||||||||||
7 | STFX | 0 | ||||||||||||
2 | Montreal | 0 | Bronze-Medal Game: November 12 | |||||||||||
3 | UBC | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | UBC | 4 | 1 | CBU | 0 | |||||||||
6 | TMU | 0 | 2 | Montreal | 3 |
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