2025 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season

2025 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August 17, 2025 – October 30, 2025
Teams	17
Regular season
Season champions	Stanford
Runners-up	Notre Dame
Season MVP	Offensive:Izzy Engle Midfielder:Lia Godfrey Defensive:Elise Evans
Top scorer	Izzy Engle (Notre Dame) [1]
Tournament
Champions	Stanford
Runners-up	Notre Dame
Finals MVP	Jasmine Aikey, (Stanford)
ACC women's soccer seasons
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2025 ACC women's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
No. 1 Stanford  ‍†‍‡‍y	9	–	0	–	1		.950			16	–	1	–	2		.895
No. 2 Notre Dame  ‍‍‍y	8	–	1	–	1		.850			14	–	1	–	3		.861
No. 11 Duke  ‍‍‍y	7	–	3	–	0		.700			13	–	4	–	1		.750
No. 6 Florida State  ‍‍‍y	6	–	2	–	2		.700			10	–	2	–	4		.750
No. 7 Virginia  ‍‍‍y	6	–	2	–	2		.700			12	–	3	–	4		.737
No. 20 Louisville  ‍‍‍y	6	–	2	–	2		.700			13	–	4	–	2		.737
California  ‍‍‍	4	–	2	–	4		.600			8	–	3	–	8		.632
North Carolina  ‍‍‍y	6	–	4	–	0		.600			12	–	6	–	0		.667
Wake Forest  ‍‍‍y	4	–	3	–	3		.550			10	–	4	–	4		.667
No. 24 Clemson  ‍‍‍y	4	–	4	–	2		.500			7	–	5	–	5		.559
NC State  ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	2		.500			5	–	9	–	4		.389
SMU  ‍‍‍	2	–	6	–	2		.300			8	–	8	–	2		.500
Pittsburgh  ‍‍‍	2	–	8	–	0		.200			6	–	10	–	2		.389
Miami (FL)  ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	2		.200			7	–	8	–	3		.472
Boston College  ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	2		.200			5	–	8	–	5		.417
Syracuse  ‍‍‍	1	–	8	–	1		.150			5	–	9	–	4		.389
Virginia Tech  ‍‍‍	0	–	8	–	2		.100			4	–	10	–	4		.333
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2025 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of November 10, 2025 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC

The 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season will be the 36th season of women's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began in August. Conference play began in September and concluded in October. The 2025 ACC women's soccer tournament will be held from November 2 through November 9 at campus sites and at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. ^[2]

The Stanford Cardinal finished as regular season champions with a record of 9–0–1.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Team Stadium Capacity Boston College Eagles Newton Soccer Complex 1,800 California Golden Bears Edwards Stadium 22,000 Clemson Tigers Riggs Field 6,500 Duke Blue Devils Koskinen Stadium 7,000 Florida State Seminoles Seminole Soccer Complex 2,000 Louisville Cardinals Lynn Stadium 5,300 Miami Hurricanes Cobb Stadium 500 NC State Dail Soccer Field 3,000

Team Stadium Capacity North Carolina Tar Heels Dorrance Field 4,200 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Alumni Stadium 2,500 Pittsburgh Panthers Ambrose Urbanic Field 735 SMU Mustangs Washburne Stadium 2,577 Stanford Cardinal Cagan Stadium 2,000 Syracuse Orange SU Soccer Stadium 1,500 Virginia Cavaliers Klöckner Stadium 7,100 Virginia Tech Hokies Thompson Field 2,500 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Spry Stadium 3,000

1. ^ Georgia Tech does not sponsor women's soccer

Coaches

Head coaching changes

Two ACC teams entered the season with four new coaches:

• Duke head coach Robbie Church retired after twenty-four season as head coach of the program. ^[3] Kieran Hall was hired as his replacement in January 2025. ^[4]
• NC State head coach Tim Santoro was fired after twelve seasons in charge of the program on November 8, 2024. ^[5] Garry Higgins was hired from East Carolina to be the new head coach on December 12, 2024. ^[6]
• Damon Nahas was made the permanent head coach at North Carolina after serving in an interim role during the 2024 season. ^[7]
• Randy Waldrum was elevated to Technical Director of the Pittsburgh Panthers program on May 22, 2025. Ben Waldrum was promoted from associate head coach to head coach on the same day. ^[8]

Head coaching records

Team	Head coach	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	ACC record
Boston College	Chris Watkins	2	91–38–18	12–5–2	4–4–2
California	Neil McGuire	19	235–180–49	191–111–43	5–4–1
Clemson	Eddie Radwanski	15	288–154–51	149–89–37	63–64–14
Duke	Kieran Hall	1	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0
Florida State	Brian Pensky	4	239–116–53	54–5–8	24–4–2
Louisville	Karen Ferguson-Dayes	24	211–198–51	211–198–51	38–55–16
Miami	Ken Masuhr	2	5–8–4	5–8–4	1–6–3
North Carolina	Damon Nahas	1	22–5–0	22–5–0	7–3–0
NC State	Gary Higgins	1	110–48–28	0–0–0	0–0–0
Notre Dame	Nate Norman	8	140–77–29	82–42–16	38–21–6
Pittsburgh	Ben Waldrum	1	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0
SMU	Nicole Nelson	4	27–19–8	27–19–8	2–6–2
Stanford	Paul Ratcliffe	23	447–106–48	392–62–41	5–4–1
Syracuse	Nicky Adams	7	105–73–31	24–61–10	3–48–6
Virginia	Steve Swanson	25	488–176–74	384–113–63	152–56–29
Virginia Tech	Charles Adair	15	169–89–30	169–89–30	65–59–18
Wake Forest	Tony da Luz	28	364–241–64	319–200–62	110–120–29

Notes

• Records shown are prior to the 2025 season
• Years at school includes the 2025 season

Pre-season

Hermann Trophy Watchlist

The Hermann Trophy preseason watchlist was released on August 14, 2025. Nine ACC players were selected the preseason watchlist, including the winner of the 2024 award, Kate Faasse. ^[9]

Player	Class	Position	School
Mia Bhuta	Junior	MF	Stanford
Tessa Dellarose	Senior	MF	North Carolina
Jordynn Dudley	Junior	MF	Florida State
Izzy Engle	Sophomore	FW	Notre Dame
Kate Faasse	Senior	FW	North Carolina
Heather Gilchrist	Senior	DF	Florida State
Leah Klenke	Senior	DF	Notre Dame
Cameron Roller	Junior	DF	Duke
Mia Oliaro	Junior	FW	Duke

Pre-season poll

The pre-season poll and pre-season all conference teams were voted on by the league's 17 head coaches. The results of the poll were released on August 7, prior to the season starting.

Pre-season Coaches Poll

Predicted finish	Team	Points (1st place)
1	North Carolina	246 (10)
2	Notre Dame	229 (2)
3	Florida State	225 (4)
4	Duke	208
5	Stanford	201
6	Wake Forest	172
7	Virginia	169 (1)
8	Virginia Tech	162
9	Clemson	132
10	California	124
11	Pittsburgh	111
12	SMU	83
13	Boston College	81
14	Louisville	67
15	Miami	44
16	NC State	40
17	Syracuse	18

Source: ^[10]

Pre-season All-ACC Team

Position	Player	Class	School
Goalkeeper	Teagan Wy	Senior	California
Defender	Heather Gilchrist		Florida State
	Leah Klenke		Notre Dame
	Cameron Roller	Junior	Duke
Midfielder	Tessa Dellarose	Senior	North Carolina
	Mia Oliaro	Junior	Duke
	Linda Ullmark	Sophomore	North Carolina
Forward	Maggie Cagle	Senior	Virginia
	Jordynn Dudley	Junior	Florida State
	Izzy Engle	Sophomore	Notre Dame
	Kate Faasse	Senior	North Carolina
	Andrea Kitahata	Senior	Stanford
	Mia Minestrella	Junior	Duke
	Olivia Thomas		North Carolina

Source: ^[10]

Regular season

Conference Matrix

The table below shows head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team plays ten matches. Each team does not play every other team.

	Boston College	California	Clemson	Duke	Florida State	Louisville	Miami	North Carolina	NC State	Notre Dame	Pittsburgh	SMU	Stanford	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	Wake Forest
vs. Boston College	–	0–0	1–0	×	×	1–0	×	3–1	1–0	×	2–1	×	2–0	0–1	2–0	×	0–0
vs. California	0–0	–	2–2	×	2–2	×	0–2	×	×	×	1–2	2–1	8–2	0–1	2–2	0–1	×
vs. Clemson	0–1	2–2	–	3–2	×	1–0	×	×	×	5–1	×	2–3	2–2	1–2	3–0	×	0–1
vs. Duke	×	×	2–3	–	×	×	0–1	2–3	1–3	3–2	0–5	×	×	0–2	3–1	2–3	3–2
vs. Florida State	×	2–2	×	×	–	0–2	0–3	0–1	1–1	4–2	×	×	2–1	0–4	2–3	×	1–4
vs. Louisville	0–1	×	0–1	×	2–0	–	0–2	×	0–3	3–1	×	0–3	×	×	1–1	0–1	1–1
vs. Miami	×	2–0	×	1–0	3–0	2–0	–	1–2	×	×	×	0–0	3–2	1–0	×	0–0	3–1
vs. North Carolina	1–3	×	×	3–2	1–0	×	2–1	–	0–1	4–3	1–3	0–3	×	2–4	×	1–2	×
vs. NC State	0–1	×	×	3–1	1–1	3–0	×	1–0	–	2–1	0–1	0–1	×	×	×	4–4	1–2
vs. Notre Dame	×	×	1–5	2–3	2–4	1–3	×	3–4	1–2	–	1–0	0–3	×	×	×	0–5	1–1
vs. Pittsburgh	1–2	2–1	×	5–0	×	×	×	3–1	1–0	0–1	–	4–0	6–0	×	2–0	×	2–1
vs. SMU	×	1–2	3–2	×	×	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–4	–	5–1	1–1	×	×	×
vs. Stanford	0–2	2–8	2–2	×	1–2	×	2–3	×	×	×	0–6	1–5	–	0–4	1–2	0–5	×
vs. Syracuse	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–0	×	0–1	4–2	×	×	×	1–1	4–0	–	3–0	×	×
vs. Virginia	0–2	2–2	0–3	1–3	3–2	1–1	×	×	×	×	0–2	×	2–1	0–3	–	1–2	×
vs. Virginia Tech	×	1–0	×	3–2		1–0	0–0	2–1	4–4	5–0	×	×	5–0	×	2–1	–	2–1
vs. Wake Forest	0–0	×	1–0	2–3	4–1	1–1	1–3	×	2–1	1–1	1–2	×	×	×	×	1–2	–
Total	1–7–2	4–2–4	4–4–2	7–3–0	6–2–2	6–2–2	1–7–2	6–4–0	4–4–2	8–1–1	2–8–0	2–6–2	9–0–1	1–8–1	6–2–2	0–8–2	4–3–3

× – Matchup not played in 2025

Rankings

Main article: 2025 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

		Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
Boston College	USC														Not released
	TDS
California	USC	RV							RV						Not released
	TDS											21	17
Clemson	USC	RV	RV		RV	RV	RV					RV	25	24	Not released
	TDS
Duke	USC	4	1 (3)	3 (1)	3	2	3	9	14	14т	9	7	10	11	Not released
	TDS	5	3	3	2	4	5	7	14	14	10	11	10	9	10
Florida State	USC	3	3 (2)	6т	7	7	7	6	6	5	7	11	6	6	Not released
	TDS	4	2	2	6	2	2	6	6	5	5	9	5	6	7
Louisville	USC					RV	RV	RV	23	RV	RV	20т	21	20	Not released
	TDS					20	22	14	10	11	15	16	14	15	20
Miami	USC														Not released
	TDS
NC State	USC														Not released
	TDS
North Carolina	USC	1 (8)	12	22	23	19	18	22	19	19	23	23	RV		Not released
	TDS	1	6	15	19	14	11	11	19	17	23	18
Notre Dame	USC	2	7т	6т	5	6	6	2	2	2	1 (8)	1 (8)	1 (8)	2	Not released
	TDS	3	8	6	5	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Pittsburgh	USC														Not released
	TDS
SMU	USC														Not released
	TDS
Stanford	USC	7	2 (3)	1 (3)	1 (6)	3	2 (1)	3	3	3	2	2	2	1 (8)	Not released
	TDS	2	1	1	1	6	7	5	5	4	2	2	1	1	1
Syracuse	USC														Not released
	TDS
Virginia	USC	15	17	13т	8	5	1 (7)	1 (8)	1 (8)	1 (8)	3	3	7	7	Not released
	TDS		24	21	13	7	3	2	2	2	3	6	8	7	8
Virginia Tech	USC	14	15	24	20	RV									Not released
	TDS	10	9	24
Wake Forest	USC	10	10	19	17	18	16	19	12	13	17т	RV	RV	RV	Not released
	TDS	18	17	20	24	25	20	22	12	20	18

Players of the Week

Week	Date Awarded	Offensive Player of the week	Defensive Player of the week	Reference
1	August 19	Mia Minestrella – Duke	Elise Evans – Stanford	[11]
			Valentina Amaral – Wake Forest
2	August 26	Mackenzie Geigle – Louisville	Victoria Safradin – Virginia	[12]
3	September 2	Devin Lynch – Duke	Cameron Roller – Duke	[13]
		Laney Matriano – Notre Dame
4	September 9	Amelia Swinarski – Louisville	Teagan Wy – California	[14]
		Annabelle Chukwu – Notre Dame
5	September 16	Ella Carter – Virginia	Janet Okeke – Florida State	[15]
6	September 23	Annabelle Chukwu (2) – Notre Dame	Olivia Pratapas – NC State	[16]
7	September 30	Izzy Engle – Notre Dame	Teagan Wy (2) – California	[17]
		Kylie Maxwell – Wake Forest
8	October 7	Jade Bordeleau – NC State	Olivia Pratapas (2) – NC State	[18]
		Olivia Thomas – North Carolina
9	October 14	Jasmine Aikey – Stanford	Teagan Wy (3) – California	[19]
10	October 21	Andrea Kitahata – Stanford	Teagan Wy (4) – California	[20]
11	October 28	Jordynn Dudley – Florida State	Erynn Floyd – Louisville	[21]
		Izzy Engle (2) – Notre Dame
12	October 31	Jasmine Aikey (2) – Stanford	Abby Reisz – Pittsburgh	[22]

Postseason

ACC Tournament

Main article: 2025 ACC women's soccer tournament

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Stanford	3
	5	Virginia	2
						1	Stanford (pen.)	2 (5)
						2	Notre Dame	2 (4)
	2	Notre Dame	2
	3	Duke	1

NCAA tournament

Main article: 2025 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament

Seed	School	Region	1st Round	2nd Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
1	Stanford	Stanford	vs. Cal Poly – (Stanford)
1	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	vs. UIC – ( Notre Dame)
1	Virginia	Virginia	vs. High Point – (Charlottesville)
2	Duke	Virginia	vs. Elon – (Durham)
3	Florida State	Notre Dame	vs. Samford – (Tallahassee
6	Louisivlle	Virginia	vs. South Carolina – (Louisville)
7	Wake Forest	Stanford	vs. South Carolina – (Winston-Salem)
8	Clemson	Vanderbilt	vs. Liberty – (Clemson)
—	North Carolina	Vanderbilt	@ (3) Tennessee – (Knoxville)
W–L (%):			0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–) Total: 0–0–0 (–)

Awards and honors

Conference end of season awards were released on November 5, 2025, prior to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. Izzy Engle was named Offensive Player of the Year, Lia Godfrey won Midfielder of the Year, Elise Evans won Defensive Player of the Year, Caroline Birkel won Goalkeeper of the Year, and Paul Ratcliffe was named Coach of the Year. A full list of award winners and All-ACC Teams is shown below. ^[23]

ACC Awards

2025 ACC Women's Soccer Individual Awards
Award	Recipient(s)
Coach of the Year	Paul Ratcliffe – Stanford
Offensive Player of the Year	Izzy Engle – Notre Dame
Midfielder of the Year	Lia Godfrey – Virginia
Defensive Player of the Year	Elise Evans – Stanford
Goalkeeper of the Year	Caroline Birkel – Stanford
Freshman of the Year	Kylie Maxwell – Wake Forest

2025 ACC Women's Soccer All-Conference Teams
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	All-Freshman Team
Mia Minestrella – Duke Jordynn Dudley – Florida State Olivia Thomas – North Carolina Annabelle Chukwu – Notre Dame Izzy Engle – Notre Dame Leah Klenke – Notre Dame Jasmine Aikey – Stanford Caroline Birkel – Stanford Elise Evans – Stanford Andrea Kitahata – Stanford Lia Godfrey – Virginia	Kat Rader – Duke Wrianna Hudson – Florida State Taylor Suarez – Florida State Karsyn Cherry – Louisville Amelia Swinarski – Louisville Jade Bordeleau – NC State Shae Harvey – Stanford Charlotte Kohler – Stanford Maggie Cagle – Virginia Laney Rouse – Virginia Victoria Safradin – Virginia	JuJu Harris – Clemson Carina Lageyre – Duke Cameron Roller – Duke Heather Gilchrist – Florida State Mimi Van Zanten – Florida State Emersen Jennings – Louisville Kate Faasse – North Carolina Linda Ullmark – North Carolina Grace Restovich – Notre Dame Valentina Amaral – Wake Forest Kylie Maxwell – Wake Forest	JuJu Harris – Clemson Daya King – Duke Avery Oder – Duke Hope Munson – North Carolina Tessa Knapp – Notre Dame Caroline Birkel – Stanford Y-Lan Nguyen – Stanford Addison Halpern – Virginia Liv Rademaker – Virginia Allie Flanagan – Wake Forest Kylie Maxwell – Wake Forest

All-Americans

2025 United Soccer Coaches All-Americans
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	Fourth Team

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