2020 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament

2020 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament

Women's College Cup (Semifinals & Final)
Country	United States
Dates	April 27 – May 17, 2021
Teams	48
Champions	(11) Santa Clara (2nd title)
Runners-up	(1) Florida State
Semi-finalists	(2) North Carolina Virginia
Matches played	47
Goals scored	122 (2.6 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Gabriella Coleman – Oklahoma State Alexa Spaanstra – Virginia (4 goals each)
← 2019 2021 → All statistics correct as of 5/18/2021.

The 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2020 Women's College Cup) was the 39th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The Santa Clara Broncos defeated the Florida State Seminoles on penalty kicks to win the National Championship.

Effects of the Covid 19 pandemic[]

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA postponed the fall championships, hoping to play them in the spring.^[1][2] In September, a plan was approved to hold fall championships in the spring.^[3]

Instead of the usual 64-team tournament, the field is reduced to 48 teams for the 2020 tournament.^[3]

Rather than the higher seed hosting the early-round matches, the entire tournament will be played in the state of North Carolina, similar to how the 2021 men's and women's basketball tournaments were held in a single state.^[4][5]

Venues[]

Cary	Buies Creek	Greenville	Wilmington
WakeMed Soccer Park	Eakes Athletics Complex	Johnson Stadium	UNCW Soccer Stadium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 586	Capacity: 1,000	Capacity: 3,000
Wilson	Greensboro	Matthews
J. Burt Gillette Athletic Complex	Bryan Park	Matthews Sportsplex
Capacity: 500	Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 2,300

Qualified teams[]

48 teams qualified for the Division I women's soccer tournament. There were 29 conference champions after the Big West Conference and Ivy League chose not to have a 2020 fall or 2021 spring season.^[6][7] The other 19 were at-large selections.^[3]

Bracket[]

	First Round					Second Round					Third Round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Championship
		Elon	0			1	Florida State	3
		Milwaukee	1				Milwaukee	0
											1	Florida State	3
												Penn State	1
		Penn State	5		Penn State	2
		Alabama State	0			16	Vanderbilt	0
																1	Florida State (pen.)	0 (5)
															9	Duke	0 (3)
		Arizona State	4			9	Duke (a.e.t.)	2
		Siena	0				Arizona State	1
											9	Duke	1
												Ole Miss	0
		Ole Miss (pen.)	0 (4)		Ole Miss (pen.)	2 (3)
		Bowling Green	0 (3)			8	USC	2 (2)
																					1	Florida State (pen.)	0 (3)
																						Virginia	0 (0)
		Rice	3			5	West Virginia	0
		Furman	1				Rice	1
												Rice	0
												Virginia	3
		Virginia	3		Virginia	2
		SIUE	1			12	BYU	0
																	Virginia	1
															4	TCU	0
		New Mexico (pen.)	1 (4)			4	TCU	6
		Navy	1 (2)				New Mexico	2
											4	TCU (pen.)	1 (3)
											13	Georgetown	1 (1)
		South Carolina	1		South Carolina	0
		Montana	0			13	Georgetown	1
																										1	Florida State	1 (1)
																										11	Santa Clara (pen.)	1 (4)
		Iowa	1			3	UCLA	2
		Campbell	0				Iowa	1
											3	UCLA	1 (5)
											14	Clemson (pen.)	1 (6)
		Rutgers	1		Rutgers	1 (3)
		Southeastern Louisiana	0			14	Clemson (pen.)	1 (5)
																14	Clemson	0
															11	Santa Clara	1
		Memphis	0			6	Arkansas	3
		Utah Valley	1				Utah Valley	1
											6	Arkansas	0
											11	Santa Clara	2
		Ohio State	5		Ohio State	1
		Stony Brook	1			11	Santa Clara	4
																					11	Santa Clara	3
																					2	North Carolina	1
		South Florida	3			7	Texas A&M	2
		Central Connecticut	0				South Florida	0
											7	Texas A&M (pen.)	3 (4)
											10	Oklahoma State	3 (3)
		Colorado	0		South Alabama	0
		South Alabama	1			10	Oklahoma State	7
																7	Texas A&M	0
															2	North Carolina	1
		Washington	3			15	Saint Louis	0 (3)
		Liberty	0				Washington (pen.)	0 (4)
												Washington	0
											2	North Carolina	1
		Denver	3		Denver	0
		Loyola-Chicago	1			2	North Carolina	2

Results[]

First Round[]

Second Round[]

Third Round[]

Quarterfinals[]

Semifinals[]

Final[]

Rankings shown are tournament seeds

Record by conference[]

Conference	Bids	Record	Pct.	R32	R16	QF	SF	F	NC
ACC	5	11–2–7	.725	5	5	5	3	1	–
SEC	5	3–5–3	.409	5	3	1	–	–	–
Pac-12	5	3–3–3	.500	4	2	–	–	–	–
Big Ten	4	5–3–1	.611	4	1	–	–	–	–
Big 12	3	2–2–2	.500	3	2	1	–	–	–
West Coast	2	4–1–1	.750	2	1	1	1	1	1
American	2	1–2–0	.333	1	–	–	–	–	–
Big East	1	1–0–1	.750	1	1	–	–	–	–
C-USA	1	2–1–0	.667	1	1	–	–	–	–
Atlantic 10	1	0–0–1	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
Horizon	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
Mountain West	1	0–1–1	.250	1	–	–	–	–	–
Summit	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
Sun Belt	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
WAC	1	1–1–0	.500	1	–	–	–	–	–
ASUN	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
America East	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
Big Sky	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
Big South	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
Colonial	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
MAAC	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
MAC	1	0–0–1	.500	–	–	–	–	–	–
MVC	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
NEC	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
OVC	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
Patriot	1	0–0–1	.500	–	–	–	–	–	–
Southern	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
Southland	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–
SWAC	1	0–1–0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–

• The R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the Round of 32 (second round), Round of 16 (third round), Quarterfinals, Semi-finals, Final, and National Champion, respectively.

Statistics[]

Goalscorers[]

There were 120 goals scored in 47 matches, for an average of 2.55 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References[]