Sport College soccer Current stadium Corbett Soccer Stadium | Number of teams 8 Current location Tampa, Florida | |
Conference American Athletic Conference Format Single-elimination tournament | ||
The American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the 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 Men's Division I Soccer Championship.
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Format
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 period, 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.
By school
This table of championship statistics is updated after each event. It is current as of the end of the 2016 Tournament.
Teams in italics no longer sponsor men's soccer in the American.