American Conference women's soccer tournament

Last updated
American Conference
women's soccer tournament
Conference soccer championship
American Athletic Conference logo.svg
Sport College soccer
Conference American
Number of teams8
Format Single-elimination
Played2013–present
Last contest 2024
Current champion East Carolina
Most championships Memphis (4)
TV partner(s) ESPN+
Official website theamerican.org//wsoc

The American Conference women's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the American Conference (known before the 2025 season as the American Athletic Conference). The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.

Contents

Format

The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season. Tiebreakers begin with the result of the head-to-head matchup. The teams are then placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, until meeting in a final championship game. After two overtime period, ties are broken by shootout rounds, with the winner of the shootout advancing.

Champions

Key

By year

Ed.YearChampionScoreRunner-upVenueCityMOP (offense)MOP (defense)
12013 UCF (1)0–0 (8–7 p) Rutgers UCF Soccer and Track Stadium Orlando, FL Tatiana Coleman, UCFJessica Janosz, Rutgers
22014 Connecticut (1)0–0 (3–2 p) South Florida Corbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Rachel Hill, ConnecticutEmily Armstrong, Connecticut
3 2015 Cincinnati (1)1–1 (4–2 p) South Florida Westcott Field Dallas, TX Jaycie Brown, Cincinnati Vanessa Gilles, Cincinnati
4 2016 Connecticut (2)1–0 SMU Morrone Stadium • Storrs, CT Rachel Hill, ConnecticutToriana Paterson, Connecticut
5 2017 South Florida (1)0–0 (5–4 p) UCF UCF Soccer and Track Stadium Orlando, FL Evelyne Viens, South FloridaKat Elliott, South Florida
6 2018 Memphis (1)3–0 USF Corbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Clarissa Larise, Memphis Chanel Hudson-Marks, Memphis
7 2019 South Florida (2)2–1 Memphis Billy J. Murphy Track & Soccer Complex Memphis, Tennessee Evelyne Viens, South Florida Sydney Martinez, South Florida
8 2020 South Florida (3)4–0 Cincinnati Corbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Sydny Nasello, South FloridaSydney Martinez, South Florida
9 2021 Memphis (2)0–0 (3–0 p) South Florida Corbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Saorla Miller, MemphisElizabeth Moberg, Memphis
10 2022 Memphis (3)1–0 ( a.e.t. ) SMU UCF Soccer and Track Stadium Orlando, FL Shae Taylor, MemphisClaire Wyville, Memphis
11 2023 Memphis (4)2–1 SMU Premier Sports Campus Lakewood Ranch, FL Mya Jones, MemphisSarah Hagg, Memphis
12 2024 East Carolina (1)1–0 ( a.e.t. ) Memphis Premier Sports Campus Lakewood Ranch, FL Annabelle Abbott, East CarolinaMaeve English, East Carolina

By school

This table of championship statistics is updated after each event. It is current as of the end of the 2024 Tournament. [1]

SchoolApp.WLTPct.FinalsTitlesWinning years
Charlotte 2120.33300
Cincinnati 8362.364212015
Connecticut 5531.611222014, 2016
East Carolina 8472.385112024
Florida Atlantic 1110.50000
Houston 3030.00000
Louisville 1010.00000
Memphis 121672.680642018, 2021, 2022, 2023
North Texas 1010.00000
Rice 1110.50000
Rutgers 1102.66710
SMU 91072.57930
South Florida 121356.667632017, 2019, 2020
Temple 4040.00000
Tulsa 4040.00000
UAB 2020.00000
UCF 9655.531312013
UTSA 0000–00

Teams in italics no longer sponsor women's soccer in the American.

References

  1. ↑ "2020 American Women's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). theamerican.org. American Athletic Conference. 3 Apr 2020. Retrieved 7 Jul 2020.
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