The 2025 ACC men's soccer tournament was the 39th edition of the ACC men's soccer tournament. The tournament decided the Atlantic Coast Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2025 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. The tournament was held from November 5 to November 16, 2025. The Semifinal and Final were played at First Horizon Stadium in Cary, North Carolina and earlier rounds were played on campus sites.
Wake Forest were the defending tournament champions. Wake was unable to defend its title as they were eliminated by seventh-seed Southern Methodist University in the first round. SMU went on to win the tournament over first seed Virginia, 1–0 in the Final. This was the first ACC tournament title for SMU, after joining the conference last year. They had previously won ten conference titles in the WAC and American Conference. It was also the first ACC tournament title for head coach Kevin Hudson, and it is his third conference tournament title.
Qualification
All fifteen teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference earned a berth into the ACC Tournament. The First Round and Quarterfinals are hosted by the higher seeds. Seeding was determined by regular season conference record. The seeding for the tournament was determined on the final day of conference play, October 31. A tiebreaker was required to determine the fourth and fifth seed as Clemson and Duke finished tied with fourteen conference points and identical 4–2–2 records. Clemson earned the fourth seed by virtue of their 3–0 victory over Duke during the regular season on October 17. A tiebreaker was required to determine the tenth and eleventh seeds as Virginia Tech and Wake Forest both finished with nine points and 2–3–3 records. The two teams did not play during conference play, so the second tiebreaker of goal difference in conference play was used. Wake Forest finished with a -2 goal difference and Virginia Tech finished with a -3 goal difference. Therefore, Wake Forest was the tenth seed and Virginia Tech was the eleventh seed.
SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints 1 Virginia 5–0–3 18 2 Stanford 5–2–1 16 3 NC State 4–1–3 15 4 Clemson 4–2–2 14 5 Duke 4–2–2 14 6 Syracuse 4–3–1 13 7 SMU 3–2–3 12 8 Notre Dame 3–3–2 11 9 North Carolina 2–2–4 10 10 Wake Forest 2–3–3 9 11 Virginia Tech 2–3–3 9 12 California 2–5–1 7 13 Pittsburgh 1–4–3 6 14 Louisville 1–5–2 5 15 Boston College 1–6–1 4
Bracket *Note: Home team listed first. Rankings shown are ACC Tournament Seeds.
Matches
First round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
All-Tournament team
Player Team 2025 ACC Men's Soccer All-Tournament team Beau Morrison California Gaku Nishimura Ryan Clanton-Pimentel SMU Martin Dominguez Stephan Soghomonian Slade Starnes Tim Brdaric Syracuse Tomas Hut Jesus De Vicente Virginia Sebastian Pop Nicholas Simmonds MVP in Bold
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