The ACC men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The tournament has been held every year since 1987. 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 men's soccer championship. Beginning in 2024, the tournament expanded from 12 teams to 15, with the No. 1 seed receiving a first-round bye; seeds 2-8 hosting first-round games; No. 1 seed and top remaining seeds in each bracket hosting quarterfinal games. The semifinals and championship game are all played at the same location.
Virginia is the most winning team of the ACC tournament with 11 conference titles.
Champions The following is a list of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament winners:
Finals
Year by year Ed. Year Champion Score Runner-up Venue Tournament MVP 1987 North Carolina NC State Duke Soccer Stadium • Durham, NC Derek Missimo (UNC) 1988 Virginia North Carolina Riggs Field • Clemson, SC none named 1989 Wake Forest NC State Duke Soccer Stadium • Durham, NC Neil Covone (Wake) 1990 NC State Virginia Duke Soccer Stadium • Durham, NC Henry Gutierrez (NC State) 1991 Virginia Wake Forest Fetzer Field • Chapel Hill, NC Claudio Reyna (Virginia) 1992 Virginia Clemson Fetzer Field • Chapel Hill, NC Brad Agoos (Virginia) 1993 Virginia Clemson Fetzer Field • Chapel Hill, NC Jaro Zawislan (Clemson) 1994 Virginia Duke Riggs Field • Charlottesville, SC Mark Peters (Virginia) 1995 Virginia Clemson Duke Soccer Stadium • Durham, NC Mike Fisher (Virginia) 1996 Maryland Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA Pierre Venditti (Maryland) 1997 Virginia Maryland Wide World of Sports • Orlando, FL Ben Olsen (Virginia) 1998 Clemson Duke Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC Josh Campbell (Clemson) 1999 Duke Virginia Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC Troy Garner (Duke) 2000 North Carolina Virginia Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC Caleb Norkus (UNC) 2001 Clemson Virginia Riggs Field • Charlottesville, SC Ian Fuller (Clemson) 2002 Maryland Virginia SAS Soccer Complex • Cary, NC Abe Thompson (Maryland) 2003 Virginia Maryland SAS Soccer Complex • Cary, NC Ryan Burke (Virginia) 2004 Virginia Maryland SAS Soccer Complex • Cary, NC Jeremy Barlow (Virginia) 2005 Duke North Carolina SAS Soccer Complex • Cary, NC Blake Camp (Duke) 2006 Duke Wake Forest SoccerPlex • Germantown, MD Michael Videira (Duke) 2007 Boston College Wake Forest SAS Soccer Complex • Cary, NC Sherron Manswell (BC) 2008 Maryland Virginia WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Jeremy Hall (Maryland) 2009 Virginia NC State WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Diego Restrepo (Virginia) 2010 Maryland North Carolina WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Zac MacMath (Maryland) 2011 North Carolina Boston College WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Ben Speas (North Carolina) 2012 Maryland North Carolina SoccerPlex • Germantown, MD Patrick Mullins (Maryland) 2013 Maryland Virginia SoccerPlex • Germantown, MD Patrick Mullins (Maryland) 2014 Clemson Louisville WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Paul Clowes (Clemson) 2015 Syracuse Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • Notre Dame, Indiana Ben Polk (Syracuse) 2016 Wake Forest Clemson MUSC Health Stadium • Charleston, SC Ian Harkes (Wake Forest) 2017 Wake Forest Virginia MUSC Health Stadium • Charleston, SC Andreu Mundet (Wake Forest) 2018 Louisville North Carolina Sahlen's Stadium • Cary, NC Tate Schmitt (Louisville) 2019 Virginia Clemson Sahlen's Stadium • Cary, NC Henry Kessler (Virginia) 2020 Clemson Pittsburgh Sahlen's Stadium • Cary, NC Kimarni Smith (Clemson) 2021 Notre Dame Duke WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Dawson McCartney (Notre Dame) 2022 Syracuse Clemson WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Russell Shealy (Syracuse) 2023 Clemson North Carolina WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Ousmane Sylla (Clemson) 2024 Wake Forest Clemson WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Prince Amponsah (Wake Forest) 2025 SMU Virginia WakeMed Soccer Park • Cary, NC Slade Starnes (SMU)
By school Through 2025 School W L T Pct. Titles Winning years Boston College 18 8 16 0 1 2007 California 2 4 2 0 0 Clemson 38 32 27 8 5 1998, 2001, 2014, 2020, 2023 Duke 38 23 31 6 3 1999, 2005, 2006 Louisville 10 8 8 1 1 2018 Maryland 27 28 19 2 6 1996, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 NC State 37 16 29 6 1 1990 North Carolina 38 31 27 8 3 1987, 2000, 2011 Notre Dame 11 9 9 2 1 2021 Pittsburgh 10 7 9 1 0 SMU 2 5 0 1 1 2025 Stanford 2 2 2 0 0 Syracuse 10 9 7 4 2 2015, 2022 Virginia 38 51 23 9 11 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,1997, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2019 Virginia Tech 20 7 18 1 0 Wake Forest 38 25 32 12 4 1989, 2016, 2017, 2024
Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Miami do not sponsor men's soccer. Teams in italics no longer sponsor soccer in the ACC.
Pre-tournament champions Prior to 1987, the champion was determined based on regular season play.
Season Champion Runner-up 1953 Maryland Duke 1954 Maryland North Carolina 1955 Maryland North Carolina 1956 Maryland Virginia 1957 Maryland Virginia 1958 Maryland North Carolina 1959 Maryland North Carolina 1960 Maryland Duke 1961 Maryland Duke 1962 Maryland North Carolina 1963 Maryland Virginia1964 Maryland North Carolina1965 Maryland North Carolina 1966 Maryland — North Carolina 1967 Maryland North Carolina 1968 Maryland North Carolina 1969 Virginia Maryland 1970 Virginia Maryland
Season Champion Runner-up 1971 Maryland Duke 1972 Clemson Duke 1973 Clemson Maryland 1974 Clemson Maryland 1975 Clemson North Carolina 1976 Clemson Maryland1977 Clemson North Carolina 1978 Clemson North Carolina 1979 Clemson North CarolinaVirginia 1980 Duke ClemsonNC State 1981 Clemson Duke 1982 ClemsonDuke — 1983 Virginia Duke 1984 Virginia ClemsonNC State 1985 Clemson Virginia 1986 Virginia NC State
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