2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

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2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship
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Tournament details
CountryCanada
Venue(s) Vaso's Field
Oshawa, Ontario
DatesNovember 7–10, 2024
Teams8
Final positions
Champions UBC Thunderbirds (14th title)
Runner-up Montreal Carabins
Third place York Lions
Tournament statistics
Matches played11
Goals scored32 (2.91 per match)
Attendance5,508 (501 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Joven Mann (3 goals)
Awards
Championship MVP Joven Mann (UBC Thunderbirds)
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The 2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was the 52nd edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2024 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament started on November 7 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on November 10 at Ontario Tech University.

Contents

Host

The tournament was held at Vaso's Field, on the grounds of Ontario Tech University. This was the first-ever U Sports national championship event hosted by Ontario Tech. [1]

The matches were streamed live on CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca, CBC YouTube, and Radio-Canada. [2] All matches were streamed on CBC Gem. [3]

Qualified teams

The championship consists of an eight-team single-elimination tournament. Four teams automatically qualify for the tournament as one of the winners of the four conferences, three qualify as the runners-ups, and one qualify as the host.

Participating teams

TeamQualifiedLast appearance [4] Last win
Ontario Tech Ridgebacks OUA champions

(Host)

NoneNever
York Lions OUA finalists20232015
St. Francis Xavier X-Men AUS champions2023Never
UNB Reds AUS finalists20181980
Montreal Carabins RSEQ champions20232021
McGill Redbirds RSEQ finalists20111997
UBC Thunderbirds Canada West champions20232013
Mount Royal Cougars Canada West finalists2023Never

Seeding

The conference champions were allocated seeds 1 through 4, with the additional teams (conference runners-up or host team) allocated seeds 5 through 8. Ideally, seed 1 plays seed 8, seed 2 plays seed 7, seed 3 plays seed 6, and seed 4 plays seed 5, however, the bracket may be adjusted in the interest of avoiding an intra-conference matchup in the first round. [5] [6]

PosConf.TeamReg. SeasonPlayoffsOverall
1CW UBC Thunderbirds 11–1–33–0–014–1–3
2RSEQ Montreal Carabins 10–1–12–0–012–1–1
3AUS St. Francis Xavier X-Men 8–1–32–0–010–1–3
4OUA Ontario Tech Ridgebacks (H)6–4–23–0–19–4–3
5RSEQ McGill Redbirds 5–4–31–1–06–5–3
6OUA York Lions 8–1–31–1–19–2–4
7CW Mount Royal Cougars 7–2–52–1–09–3–5
8AUS UNB Reds 4–4–42–1–06–5–4
Source: Seeding
(H) Host

Bracket

5th place matchConsolation semi-finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
1 UBC Thunderbirds 4
8 UNB Reds 2
8UNB Reds11UBC Thunderbirds3
4Ontario Tech Ridgebacks25McGill Redbirds0
4 Ontario Tech Ridgebacks 1 (2)
5 McGill Redbirds (p)1 (3)
4Ontario Tech Ridgebacks11UBC Thunderbirds1
3St. Francis Xavier X-Men22Montreal Carabins0
2 Montreal Carabins 1
7 Mount Royal Cougars 0
7Mount Royal Cougars12Montreal Carabins23rd place match
3St. Francis Xavier X-Men26York Lions1
3 St. Francis Xavier X-Men 15McGill Redbirds1
6 York Lions 26York Lions3

Results

Day 1

Quarter-finals

St. Francis Xavier X-Men 1–2 York Lions
Report
Attendance: 1024
Referee: Robert D'Alesio
Montreal Carabins 1–0 Mount Royal Cougars
Report
Attendance: 265
Referee: Melvin Christopher
UBC Thunderbirds 4–2 UNB Reds
Report
Attendance: 434
Referee: Youcef Boumsied

Day 2

Consolation Semi-finals

St. Francis Xavier X-Men 2–1 Mount Royal Cougars
Report
Attendance: 660
Referee: Melvin Christopher
Ontario Tech Ridgebacks 2–1 UNB Reds
Report
Attendance: 687
Referee: Robert D'Alesio

Semi-finals

Montreal Carabins 2–1 York Lions
Report
Attendance: 0 [a]
Referee: Youcef Boumsied
UBC Thunderbirds 3–0 McGill Redbirds
Report
Attendance: 212
Referee: Fabrizio Stasolla

Day 3

5th place match

Ontario Tech Ridgebacks 1–2 St. Francis Xavier X-Men
Report
Attendance: 598
Referee: Robert D'Alesio

Day 4

3rd place match

McGill Redbirds 1–3 York Lions
Report
Attendance: 268
Referee: Melvin Christopher

Final

UBC Thunderbirds 1–0 Montreal Carabins
Report
Attendance: 478
Referee: Niko Jecanski

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 32 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 2.91 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

See also

References

  1. ↑ Match report claims an attendance of 0, however, at least 200 spectators were clearly visible on the CBC broadcast.
  1. ↑ "Ontario Tech University awarded rights to host its first-ever U SPORTS national championship event". news.ontariotechu.ca. June 28, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  2. ↑ "U SPORTS on CBC - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. October 27, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Championships - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Results by Team" (PDF). U SPORTS - English. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Playing Regulations – Men's Soccer" (PDF). U Sports. August 2024. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Draw and bracket announced for 2024 U SPORTS men's soccer championship - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. November 3, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
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