2025 Horizon League men's soccer tournament

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2025 Horizon League men's soccer tournament
Classification Division I
Teams6
Matches5
Site Krenzler Field
Cleveland, Ohio
(Semifinals & Final)
Champions Cleveland State (3 title)
Winning coachSinisa Ubiparipovic (2 title)
MVP Matteo Correia (Cleveland State)
Broadcast ESPN+
Horizon League men's soccer tournament
«2024   2026»
2025 Horizon League men's soccer standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Cleveland State †‡513946
Purdue Fort Wayne 522836
Green Bay 531972
Milwaukee 315478
Robert Morris 315647
Oakland 333396
IU Indy 351683
Detroit Mercy 2525103
Northern Kentucky 2524103
Wright State 2702131
As of December 6, 2025
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches
Source: Horizon

The 2025 Horizon League men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Horizon League. It was held from November 9 through November 14, 2025. The quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites, while semifinals and final took place at Oakland Soccer Field in Rochester, Michigan. The six team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. [1]

Contents

Seeding

Six Horizon League schools participated in the 2025 tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record. The top two seeds received byes to the Semifinals and the number one seed hosted the Semifinals and Final. The Milwaukee Panthers and the Robert Morris Colonials seeding was determined by a tie breaker since they both ended the season with 14 points. [2]

SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints
1 Cleveland State 5–1–318
2 Purdue Fort Wayne 5–2–217
3 Green Bay 5–3–116
4 Milwaukee 3–1–514
5 Robert Morris 3–1–514
6 Oakland 4–4–112

Bracket

Source: [1]

Quarterfinals
Sunday, Nov. 5
Semifinals
Thursday, Nov. 12
Final
Saturday, Nov. 15
1 Cleveland State 2
4 Milwaukee 1 5 Robert Morris 0
5 Robert Morris 2 1 Cleveland State 1
2 Purdue Fort Wayne 0
2 Purdue Fort Wayne 2 (4)
3 Green Bay 2 3 Green Bay 2 (3)
6 Oakland 0

Schedule

Quarterfinals

November 9, 2025 #3 Green Bay 2–0#6 Oakland Green Bay, WI
2:00 p.m. CST
  • Oakland Own Goal Soccerball shade.svg12'
  • Alek Pituch Yellow card.svg 59'
  • Ty Perkins Yellow card.svg 72'
  • Chris Album Soccerball shade.svg83'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 76' Gabriel Baylon
Stadium: Aldo Santaga Stadium
Attendance: 423
Referee: Youssef Elmessoussi
Assistant referees: Scott Irwin
Assistant referees: Ryan Shanklin
Fourth official: Joseluis Garcia
November 9, 2025#4 Milwaukee 1–2 #5 Robert Morris Milwaukee, WI
1:00 p.m. CST
  • Jack Bretzmann Soccerball shade.svg56'
  • Jack Wanger Yellow card.svg 89'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 31' Royie Rahamim
  • Soccerball shade.svg46', 88' (pen.) Anass Hadran
  • Yellow card.svg 55' Josh Lane
Stadium: Engelmann Stadium
Attendance: 137
Referee: Austin Saini
Assistant referees: Jeffrey Mellen
Assistant referees: Khalaf Al-Latayfeh Malkawi
Fourth official: Dylan Seitz

Semifinals

November 12, 2025 #1 Cleveland State 2–0#5 Robert Morris Cleveland, OH
4:00 p.m. EST
  • Tom Mertz Soccerball shade.svg68'
  • Uzman Ramees Soccerball shade.svg74'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 27' William Dodzi Afawubo
Stadium: Krenzler Field
Attendance: 350
Referee: Sorin Stoica
Assistant referees: Ali Zolgharnain
Assistant referees: Roy Miller
Fourth official: Tim Dicken
November 12, 2025 #2 Purdue Fort Wayne 2–2 (a.e.t.)
(4–3 p)
#3 Green BayCleveland, OH
4:00 p.m. EST
  • Ameer Shetiah Yellow card.svg 25'
  • Ben Hissrich Yellow card.svg 38'
  • Karsten Ternes Soccerball shade.svg47'
  • Marcos Soria Yellow card.svg 76'
  • Shane Anderson Soccerball shade.svg82'
  • Sep Habibi Yellow card.svg 110'
  • Christian Leon Yellow card.svg 110'
Report
  • Soccerball shade.svg9'Yellow card.svg 11' Chris Album
  • Soccerball shade.svg17' Noah Madrigal
  • Yellow card.svg 37'
  • Yellow card.svg 61' Ty Perkins
  • Yellow card.svg 87' So Nishikawa
Stadium: Krenzler Field
Attendance: 203
Referee: Herber Estrada
Assistant referees: Eulogio Willalpando
Assistant referees: Adrian Werbick
Fourth official: Christian Kelly
Penalties
  • Shane Anderson Soccerball shade cross.svg
  • Iann Topete Soccerball shad check.svg
  • Karsten Ternes Soccerball shad check.svg
  • Christian Leon Soccerball shad check.svg
  • Angel Rodriguez Soccerball shad check.svg
  • Soccerball shad check.svg Chris Album
  • Soccerball shad check.svg Keegan Walker
  • Soccerball shade cross.svg Noah Madrigal
  • Soccerball shade cross.svg Noah Lechelt
  • Soccerball shad check.svg Jeloni Murray-Powell

Final

November 15, 2025 #1 Cleveland State 1–0 (a.e.t.) #2 Purdue Fort Wayne Cleveland, OH
1:00 p.m. EST
  • Correia Soccerball shade.svg103'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 69' Lennart Heck
Stadium: Krenzler Field
Attendance: 500
Referee: Nick Balcer
Assistant referees: Jake Brochu
Assistant referees: Justin Tatsak
Fourth official: John Safar

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 12 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 2.4 goals per match.

2 goals

  • Anass Hadran - Robert Morris
  • Chris Album - Green Bay

1 goal

  • Matteo Correia - Cleveland State
  • Tom Mertz - Cleveland State
  • Uzman Ramees - Cleveland State
  • Noah Madrigal - Green Bay
  • Jack Bretzmann - Milwaukee
  • Karsten Ternes - Purdue Fort Wayne
  • Shane Anderson - Purdue Fort Wayne

All-Tournament team

PlayerTeam
2025 Horizon Men's Soccer All-Tournament team
Matteo Correia Cleveland State
Uzman Ramees
Tom Mertz
Ryan Poling
Chris Album Green Bay
Noah Madrigal
Karsten Ternes Purdue Fort Wayne
Shane Anderson
Andrew Hollenbach
Anass Hadran Robert Morris
Josh Lane

MVP in Bold

References

  1. 1 2 "2025 Horizon League Men's Soccer Championship Bracket" (PDF). horizonleague.org. Horizon League. November 9, 2025. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
  2. Winters, Sa'Mone. "2025 #HLMSOC Championship Bracket Set with Cleveland State Earning No. 1 Seed". horizonleague.org. Retrieved November 10, 2025.