Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament | |
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Conference Soccer Championship | |
Sport | College soccer |
Conference | Sun Belt Conference |
Number of teams | 5 |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Current stadium | CCU Soccer Field |
Current location | Conway, South Carolina |
Played | 1976–1995; 2014–2020; 2023–future |
Current champion | Coastal Carolina |
Most championships | South Florida (9) |
TV partner(s) | ESPN3 |
Official website | SunBeltSports.org |
The Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Sun Belt Conference (SBC). The tournament was held from 1976 through 1995, when the sport was discontinued.[1] The tournament resumed in 2014 when the conference reinstated men's soccer, and was discontinued again when the conference dropped men's soccer for the second time after the 2020–21 season. The SBC has since announced that men's soccer will be reinstated again no later than 2023, and the tournament is expected to resume at that time.[2]
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 Men's Division I Soccer Championship.
Champions[]
Key[]
(2) | Title number |
* | Match went to extra time |
† | Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time |
Bold | Winning team won regular season |
By year[]
Statistics[]
All-time Champions[]
Teams in bold will be Sun Belt Conference members when men's soccer is reinstated in 2023. Of these schools, only Old Dominion is not a current Sun Belt member. Teams with a † no longer sponsor men's soccer.
College | Wins | Last final won | Runners-up | Last final lost |
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South Florida | 9 | 1988 | 1 | 1984 |
Coastal Carolina | 4 | 2020 | 0 | |
South Alabama† | 4 | 1995 | 3 | 1989 |
Old Dominion | 3 | 1989 | 4 | 1988 |
Hartwick | 2 | 2015 | 0 | |
Georgia State | 1 | 2018 | 4 | 2020 |
WKU† | 1 | 1992 | 4 | 1995 |
Charlotte | 1 | 1983 | 1 | 1979 |
Jacksonville | 1 | 1978 | 1 | 1977 |
Georgia Southern | 0 | N/A | 1 | 2014 |
Little Rock† | 0 | N/A | 1 | 1993 |
References[]
- ^ "Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). Sun Belt Conference. SunBeltSports.org. August 24, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
- ^ Traylor, Grant (November 1, 2021). "Sun Belt confirms men's soccer being reinstated". The Herald-Dispatch. Huntington, WV. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
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