The American Conference men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the American Conference (American; known before the 2025 season as American Athletic Conference). The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013. 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.
Format Since the creation of the American in 2013, the tournament was structured as follows. The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season. Tiebreakers begin with the result of the head-to-head matchup. The teams are then placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, until meeting in a final championship game. After two overtime periods, ties are broken by shootout rounds, with the winner of the shootout advancing.
Opening round games are held at campus sites with the higher seed hosting, while the semifinals and final are held at a predetermined campus location, specifically the home field of the American's regular-season champion.
For the 2016 and 2017 seasons the tournament was reduced to just the top 4 teams in the conference. Since 2018, the tournament has featured the top 6 teams.
Champions Finals Year Champion Score Runner-up Venue City MOP (offense) Ref. 2013 USF UConn Toyota Stadium Frisco, TX Edwin Moalosi https://gousfbulls.com/news/2013/11/17/209312462.aspx 2014 Tulsa USF Morrone Stadium Storrs, CT Abe Matamoros https://theamerican.org/sports/2014/8/1/MSOC_0801143046.aspx?path=msoc 2015 Tulsa UConn Corbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Lesley Nchanji 2016 Tulsa USFCorbett Soccer Stadium Tampa, FL Juan Sánchez 2017 SMU UCF Westcott Field University Park, TX Emil Cuello https://theamerican.org/news/2017/11/12/smu-wins-2017-american-mens-soccer-championship.aspx 2018 SMU SMU UCF Soccer Stadium Orlando, FL Emil Cuello https://smumustangs.com/news/2018/11/2/mens-soccer-mustangs-win-american-athletic-conference-regular-season-title.aspx 2019 SMU UCF UCF Soccer Stadium Orlando, FL Eddie Munjoma https://smumustangs.com/news/2024/9/13/mens-soccer-smu-grabs-first-acc-win-at-cal.aspx 2020 UCF Tulsa UCF Soccer Stadium Orlando, FL Lucca Dourado 2021 Tulsa UCF Hurricane Soccer Stadium Tulsa, OK Gino Vivi https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2021-11-05/watch-tulsa-mens-soccer-wins-aac-regular-season-title-over-ucf-penalty-kick 2022 FIU USF FIU Soccer Stadium Westchester, FL Stephen Afrifa 2023 Charlotte SMU Westcott Field University Park, TX Jelldirk Dallmann https://theamerican.org/news/2023/11/12/no-2-charlotte-wins-2023-american-athletic-conference-mens-soccer-championship.aspx 2024 Charlotte FIU Billy Murphy Complex Memphis, TN Brighman Larsen Charlotte Repeats as American Men's Soccer Champions in 2-1 Overtime Win Over FIU 2025 Florida Atlantic FIU Transamerica Field Charlotte, NC Mamadou Diarra Florida Atlantic Wins 2025 American Men's Soccer Championship, 3-2, over FIU. 15 Nov 2025
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School Pct. Titles Winning years Charlotte 4 5 1 1 2 2023, 2024 Cincinnati 3 0 3 0 0 – FIU 4 5 3 1 1 2022 Florida Atlantic 3 3 2 0 1 2025 Louisville 1 0 1 0 0 – Memphis 9 3 9 0 0 – Missouri State 1 0 1 0 0 – Rutgers 1 2 1 0 0 – SMU 10 8 5 3 3 2017, 2018, 2019 South Florida 10 8 7 4 1 2013 Temple 8 1 7 1 0 – Tulsa 7 6 3 6 4 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021 UAB 0 0 0 0 0 – UCF 9 6 6 3 1 2020 UConn 7 6 4 3 0 – Teams in italics no longer sponsor men's soccer in the American. Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, and UAB played their first American Conference seasons in 2022. Missouri State is playing its first American Conference season in 2025.
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