Big South Conference men's soccer tournament

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Big South Conference
men's soccer tournament
Conference soccer championship
Big South Conference logo.svg
Sport College soccer
Conference Big South Conference
Number of teams6
Format Single-elimination
Current stadium Eakes Athletics Complex
Current location Buies Creek, NC
Played1984–current
Last contest2024
Current champion Gardner–Webb (1st. title)
Most championships Coastal Carolina (12)
TV partner(s) ESPN3, ESPN+
Official website bigsouthsports.com/msoc

The Big South Conference men's soccer tournament is a men's college soccer tournament that determines the Big South Conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. Held annually since 1984, the tournament is the oldest active NCAA Division I men's college soccer tournament.

Contents

With 12 titles, Coastal Carolina has won the most Big South tournaments of all members past and present. Winthrop has the most titles of current Big South Conference members, with five.

Champions

The following is a list of Big South Conference tournament winners:

Finals

Key
  • (1) – Title number
  •   – Match went to extra time
  •   – Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time
  •   – Winning team reached College Cup
  •   – Winning team won National Championship

Year by year

Ed.YearChampionScoreRunner-upVenueCityMVPRef.
1
1984 Campbell (1)2–0 Winthrop Dedmon Center Radford, VA David Nisbet (CAMP)
2
1985 Campbell (2)3–1 Radford CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Per Jensen (CAMP)
3
1986 Coastal Carolina (1)1–0 ( a.e.t. ) Campbell Jim Perry Stadium Buies Creek, NC Claud Huggins (CCU)
4
1987 Coastal Carolina (2)5–0 Winthrop CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Sigurdur Sveinbjornsson (CCU)
5
1988 Radford (1)3–1 Charleston Southern Jim Perry Stadium Buies Creek, NC Doug Majewski (RU)
6
1989 Coastal Carolina (3)1–0 Campbell Greenwood Soccer Field Asheville, NC Dean Herritty (CCU)
7
1990 Coastal Carolina (4)2–0 Davidson Greenwood Soccer Field Asheville, NC Robin Williams (CCU)
8
1991 Campbell (3)4–0 Winthrop CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Rami Kauppi (CAMP)
9
1992 Campbell (4)5–0 UNC Greensboro Old Eagle Field Rock Hill, SC Rami Kauppi (CAMP)
10
1993 UNC Greensboro (1)2–1 Campbell UNCG Soccer Stadium Greensboro, NC Shawn Mahoney (UNCG)
11
1994 UNC Greensboro (2)3–2 ( a.e.t. ) Liberty UNCG Soccer Stadium Greensboro, NC Larry Feniger (UNCG)
12
1995 Coastal Carolina (5)2–0 UNC Greensboro CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Neil Payne (CCU)
13
1996 UNC Greensboro (3)2–0 Radford UNCG Soccer Stadium Greensboro, NC Jeremy Fedor (UNCG)
14
1997 Charleston Southern 3–0 South Alabama CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Steven Rattray (CSU)
15
1998 South Alabama 1–0 Liberty Dedmon Center Radford, VA Arve Warholm (SAU)
16
1999 Radford (2)0–0 (4–3 p) Liberty CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Greg Anderson (RU)
17
2000 Radford (3)2–0 Elon Liberty Soccer Field Lynchburg, VA Jonathan Frias (RU) [1]
18
2001 Coastal Carolina (6)3–1 Liberty Eagle Field Rock Hill, SC Tyler Hughes (CCU) [2]
19
2002 Winthrop (1)1–0 Coastal Carolina Eagle Field Rock Hill, SC Valli Arnason (WU) [3]
20
2003 Coastal Carolina (7)3–0 Birmingham–Southern Cupp Memorial Stadium Radford, VA Joseph Ngwenya (CCU) [4]
21
2004 Coastal Carolina (8)4–0 Birmingham–Southern Berylson Soccer Park Birmingham, AL Thabiso Khumalo (CCU) [5]
22
2005 Coastal Carolina (9)1–0 ( a.e.t. ) Winthrop Vert Stadium High Point, NC Joseph Kabwe (CCU) [6]
23
2006 Winthrop (2)3–0 High Point Cupp Memorial Stadium Radford, VA Daniel Revivo (WU) [7]
24
2007 Liberty (1)2–1 Radford Eagle Field Rock Hill, SC Joshua Boateng (LU) [8]
25
2008 Winthrop (3)4–3 ( a.e.t. ) Coastal Carolina CCU Soccer Field Conway, SC Matt Skonicki (WU) [9]
26
2009 Winthrop (4)2–1 Liberty Greene–Harbison Stadium Boiling Springs, NC Miquel Casajuana (WU) [10]
27
 2010 Coastal Carolina (10)3–1 High Point Vert Stadium High Point, NC Ross Kelly (CCU) [11]
28
 2011 Liberty (2)3–1 Gardner–Webb Greene–Harbison Stadium Boiling Springs, NC Chris Phillips (LU) [12]
29
 2012 Winthrop (5)3–2 Coastal Carolina Bryan Park Greensboro, NC Alex Isern (WU) [13]
30
 2013 Coastal Carolina (11)2–0 Liberty Bryan Park Greensboro, NC Pedro Ribeiro (CCU) [14]
31
 2014 Coastal Carolina (12)1–0 Radford Bryan Park Greensboro, NC Uchenna Uzo (CCU) [15]
32
 2015 Winthrop (6)0–0 (4–3 p) High Point MacPherson Stadium Browns Summit, NC Max Hasenstab (WU) [16]
33
 2016 Radford (4)1–0 Longwood Cupp Memorial Stadium Radford, VA Aitor Pouseu Blanco (RU) [17]
34
 2017 Presbyterian 0–0 (4–3 p) High Point Vert Stadium High Point, NC Ricardo Hernandez (PC) [18]
35
 2018 Campbell (5)1–0 ( a.e.t. ) Presbyterian Martin StadiumClinton, SCGideon Betz (CAMP) [19]
36
 2019 Campbell (6)4–1 High Point Eakes Athletic ComplexBuies Creek, NCIan Rees (CAMP) [20]
37
2020 High Point 3–1 USC Upstate Vert StadiumHigh Point, NCNick Phipps (HP) [21]
38
 2021 Campbell (7)3–2 High Point Eakes Athletic ComplexBuies Creek, NCGeorge Bediko (CAMP) [22]
39
 2022 High Point (2)2–0 Campbell Eakes Athletic ComplexBuies Creek, NCNoah Holmes (HP) [23]
40
 2023 High Point (3)1–1 (4–3 p) UNC Asheville Vert StadiumHigh Point, NCSeth Antwi (HP) [24]
41
2024 Gardner–Webb (1)
2–1
 High Point Vert StadiumHigh Point, NC [25]

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