2024 Southern Conference men's soccer tournament

2024 Southern Conference men's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Attendance	2,662
Site	Campus Sites (1st & 2nd seed)
Champions	Furman (15th title)
Winning coach	Doug Allison (10th title)
MVP	Aaron Salinas (Furman)
Broadcast	ESPN+
Southern Conference men's soccer tournament «2023   2025»

2024 Southern Conference men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
UNCG	3	–	1	–	1			10	–	2	–	5
ETSU	3	–	1	–	1			5	–	7	–	5
Wofford	3	–	2	–	0			8	–	6	–	3
Furman ‡	2	–	1	–	2			9	–	4	–	6
Mercer	1	–	2	–	2			6	–	5	–	7
VMI	0	–	5	–	0			5	–	11	–	2
‡– 2024 SoCon tournament Champion + – At-large invitation to the 2024 NCAA tournament As of December 17, 2024 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source: SoCon

The 2024 Southern Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Southern Conference held from November 8 through November 17, 2024. The tournament was held at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Mercer Bears were the defending champions. ^{[1] [2]} Mercer was unable to defend its title, falling in the First Round to Furman. Furman would go on to win the tournament as the fourth seed, defeating second seed ETSU 2–0 in the Final. ^{[3] [4]} This was the fifteenth Southern Conference tournament title for the Furman men's soccer program, and first since 2018. Ten of their fifteen titles have come under head coach Doug Allison. ^[5] As tournament champions, Furman earned the Southern Conference's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.

Seeding

All six Southern Conference men's soccer programs participated for the 2024 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on their regular season records. Tiebreakers were used to determine the seedings of teams who finished with identical conference records. A tiebreaker was required to determine the first and second seeds as East Tennessee State and UNC Greensboro both finished with 3–1–1 regular season records. The two teams met on November 2, the final day of the regular season, with the top seed on the line. UNC Greensboro prevailed 3–2, and earned the top seed. ^[6]

Seed	School	Conference Record	Points
1	UNC Greensboro	3–1–1	10
2	East Tennessee State	3–1–1	10
3	Wofford	3–2–0	9
4	Furman	2–1–2	8
5	Mercer	1–2–2	5
6	VMI	0–5–0	0

Bracket

Source: ^[7]

	Quarterfinals Friday, Nov. 8					Semifinals Sunday, Nov. 10					Final Sunday, Nov. 17
						1	UNC Greensboro	1 (5)
	4	Furman	2			4	Furman (pen.)	1 (6)
	5	Mercer	0								4	Furman	2
											2	ETSU	0
						2	ETSU (pen.)	1 (5)
	3	Wofford	3			3	Wofford	1 (3)
	6	VMI	0

Schedule

Quarterfinals

#3 Wofford v #6 VMI

November 8, 2024	#3 Wofford	3–0	#6 VMI	Johnson City, TN
2:00 p.m. EST	Stewart Patnaud 58', 70' Leo Ledin  70' Nathan Simes 76'	Report	43' Anthony Huang  61' Yeirin Mejia  76' Drew Menges	Stadium: Summers-Taylor Stadium Attendance: 172 Referee: Kyle Johnston Assistant referees: Tarver Pyke Assistant referees: Elon Dockery Fourth official: Khadime Sabara

#4 Furman v #5 Mercer

November 8, 2024	#4 Furman	2–0	#5 Mercer	Greensboro, NC
7:00 p.m. EST	Wilfer Bustamante 20' Lloyd Wamu Snell 38' Trip Campbell  55'	Report	76' Tommy Redd	Stadium: UNCG Soccer Stadium Attendance: 215 Referee: Michael Lavergne Assistant referees: Rick Rogers Assistant referees: Marcus Moss Fourth official: John Matto

Semifinals

#1 UNC Greensboro v #4 Furman

November 10, 2024	#1 UNC Greensboro	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p)	#4 Furman	Greensboro, NC
2:00 p.m. EST	Sami Lachekar 26' Axel Alejandre  44' Issah Haruna  82'	Report	36' Team  59' Caleb Johnson  67', 90' Luke Hutzell  110' Aaron Salinas	Stadium: UNCG Soccer Stadium Attendance: 518 Referee: Daniel Radford Assistant referees: Thomas Rutherford Assistant referees: Richard Wells Fourth official: Clive Edwards
	Penalties
	Yoshiya Okawa Steven Hernandez Basile Marc Keanan Bader Arnaud Tattevin Mikey Ketteman Maxwel De-Bodene		Ivan Agyaakwah Christian Kraus Wilfer Bustamante Slade Starnes Diego Hernandez Landon Hill Ryan Wagner

#2 ETSU v #3 Wofford

November 10, 2024	#2 ETSU	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p)	#3 Wofford	Johnson City, TN
2:00 p.m. EST	Lucas Nordin 40' Ulysses Hendriks  63' Louie Salkeld  64' Gabriel Betancourt  88' Dave Neijenhuis  88'	Report	87' Hugo Moldin  88' Kameron Gorst	Stadium: Summers-Taylor Stadium Attendance: 654 Referee: Michael Lavergne Assistant referees: Tyler Bost Assistant referees: Daniel Benson Fourth official: Doug Hartemann
	Penalties
	Dave Nijenhuis Ryan Suckling Gabriel Ramos Louie Salkeld Ulysses Hendriks		Kalle Rahbeck Thaddeus Dennis Stewart Patnaud Nic Parker

Final

#2 ETSU v #4 Furman

November 17, 2024	#2 ETSU	0–2	#4 Furman	Johnson City, TN
	Louie Salkeld  32' Gabriel Betancourt  67'	Report	4' Christian Kraus  27' Lloyd Wamu Snell  45', 70' Caleb Johnson  62' Trip Campbell	Stadium: Summers-Taylor Stadium Attendance: 1,103 Referee: Matthew Thompson Assistant referees: John Rush Assistant referees: Joshua Lampkins Fourth official: Richard Crowgey

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 11 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match (as of November 17, 2024).

2 goals

• Stewart Patnaud – Wofford

1 goal

• Wilfer Bustamante – Furman
• Luke Hutzell – Furman
• Caleb Johnson – Furman
• Christian Kraus – Furman
• Sami Lachekar –UNC Greensboro
• Hugo Moldin – Wofford
• Lucas Nordin – ETSU
• Nathan Simes – Wofford
• Lloyd Wamu Snell – Furman

All-Tournament team

Source: ^[8]

Player	Team
Marc Kouadio	ETSU
Gabriel Ramos
Louie Salkeld
Christian Kraus	Furman
Aaron Salinas
Slade Starnes
Lloyd Wamu-Snell
Axel Alejandre	UNC Greensboro
Sami Lachekar
Paul Jones	Wofford
Hugo Moldin

MVP in bold

References

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