2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship
Tournament details
Country	Canada
Venue(s)	Vaso's Field; Oshawa, Ontario
Dates	7–10 November 2024
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	UBC Thunderbirds (14th title)
Runner-up	Montreal Carabins
Third place	York Lions
Tournament statistics
Matches played	11
Goals scored	32 (2.91 per match)
Attendance	5,508 (501 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Joven Mann (3 goals)
Championship MVP	Joven Mann (UBC Thunderbirds)
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The 2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was the 52nd edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2024 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament started on November 7 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on November 10 at Ontario Tech University.

Host

The tournament was held at Vaso's Field, on the grounds of Ontario Tech University. This was the first-ever U Sports national championship event hosted by Ontario Tech.^[1]

The matches were streamed live on CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca, CBC YouTube, and Radio-Canada.^[2] All matches were streamed on CBC Gem.^[3]

Qualified teams

The championship consists of an eight-team single-elimination tournament. Four teams automatically qualify for the tournament as one of the winners of the four conferences, three qualify as the runners-ups, and one qualify as the host.

Participating teams

Team	Qualified	Last appearance	Last win
Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	OUA champions (Host)	None	Never
York Lions	OUA finalists	2023	2015
St. Francis Xavier X-Men	AUS champions	2023	Never
UNB Reds	AUS finalists	2018	1980
Montreal Carabins	RSEQ champions	2023	2021
McGill Redbirds	RSEQ finalists	?	1997
UBC Thunderbirds	Canada West champions	2023	2013
Mount Royal Cougars	Canada West finalists	2023	Never

Seeding

The conference champions were allocated seeds 1 through 4, with the additional teams (conference runners-up or host team) allocated seeds 5 through 8. Ideally, seed 1 plays seed 8, seed 2 plays seed 7, seed 3 plays seed 6, and seed 4 plays seed 5, however, the bracket may be adjusted in the interest of avoiding an intra-conference matchup in the first round.^[4]^[5]

Pos	Conf.	Team	Reg. Season	Playoffs
1	CW	UBC Thunderbirds	11–1–3	3–0–0
2	RSEQ	Montreal Carabins	10–1–1	2–0–0
3	AUS	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	8–1–3	2–0–0
4	OUA	Ontario Tech Ridgebacks (H)	6–4–2	3–0–1

5	RSEQ	McGill Redbirds	5–4–3	1–1–0
6	OUA	York Lions	8–1–3	1–1–1
7	CW	Mount Royal Cougars	7–2–5	2–1–0
8	AUS	UNB Reds	4–4–4	2–1–0

Source: Seeding
(H) Host

Bracket


5th place match			Consolation semi-finals			Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final



						1	UBC Thunderbirds	4

						8	UNB Reds	2

			8	UNB Reds	1				1	UBC Thunderbirds	3

			4	Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	2				5	McGill Redbirds	0

						4	Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	1 (2)

						5	McGill Redbirds (p)	1 (3)

4	Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	1										1	UBC Thunderbirds	1

3	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	2										2	Montreal Carabins	0

						2	Montreal Carabins	1

						7	Mount Royal Cougars	0

			7	Mount Royal Cougars	1				2	Montreal Carabins	2	3rd place match

			3	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	2				6	York Lions	1

						3	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	1				5	McGill Redbirds	1

						6	York Lions	2				6	York Lions	3

Results

Day 1

Quarter-finals

November 7th

11:00am

St. Francis Xavier X-Men	1–2	York Lions
Logan Rieck 90+1'	Report	Yigal Bruk 6' Christian Zeppieri 65' (pen.)

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 1024

Referee: Robert D'Alesio

November 7th

1:30pm

Montreal Carabins	1–0	Mount Royal Cougars
Maxime Filion 51'	Report

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 265

Referee: Melvin Christopher

November 7th

4:00pm

UBC Thunderbirds	4–2	UNB Reds
Joven Mann 6', 41' Henri Godbout 51', 57'	Report	Stefano D'Ambrogio 39' Hunter Delahunt 80'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 434

Referee: Youcef Boumsied

November 7th

7:00pm

Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	1–1 (a.e.t.)	McGill Redbirds
Kairo Coore 12'	Report	Yannick Laurent 36'
Penalties
Alexander Irwin Kairo Coore Alex Maadanian Jack Sears Jeremy Caprietta	2–3	Nassim Kemel Ibrahim Chami Maher Fares Stuart Klenner Kyle Azuma

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 882

Referee: Niko Jecanski

Day 2

Consolation Semi-finals

November 8th

11:00am

St. Francis Xavier X-Men	2–1	Mount Royal Cougars
Cameron Shaw 35' Isaac VanWychen 58'	Report	Joshua Flaksman 60'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 660

Referee: Melvin Christopher

November 8th

1:30pm

Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	2–1	UNB Reds
Erion Metaj 65' Kairo Coore 85'	Report	Ehab Moustafa 25'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 687

Referee: Robert D'Alesio

Semi-finals

November 8th

4:00pm

Montreal Carabins	2–1	York Lions
Julien Bruce 45' Quentin Paumier 51'	Report	Nick Spittle 24'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 0^[a]

Referee: Youcef Boumsied

November 8th

7:00pm

UBC Thunderbirds	3–0	McGill Redbirds
Luke Norman 3', 52' Oliver Herbert 47'	Report

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 212

Referee: Fabrizio Stasolla

Day 3

5th place match

November 9th

5:00pm

Ontario Tech Ridgebacks	1–2	St. Francis Xavier X-Men
Erion Metaj 68'	Report	Charlie Waters 3' Kyle Cordeiro 53'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 598

Referee: Robert D'Alesio

Day 4

3rd place match

November 10th

11:00am

McGill Redbirds	1–3	York Lions
Nathan Yee 7'	Report	Yigal Bruk 29' Gianluca Condello 36' Christian Zeppieri 58'

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 268

Referee: Melvin Christopher

Final

November 10th

2:00pm

UBC Thunderbirds	1–0	Montreal Carabins
Joven Mann 90+2'	Report

Vaso's Field, Oshawa, Ontario

Attendance: 478

Referee: Niko Jecanski

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 32 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 2.91 goals per match.

3 goals

Joven Mann – UBC

2 goals

Yigal Bruk – York
Kairo Coore – Ontario Tech
Henri Godbout – UBC
Erion Metaj – Ontario Tech
Luke Norman – UBC
Christian Zeppieri – York

1 goal

Julien Bruce – Montreal
Gianluca Condello – York
Kyle Cordeiro – St. Francis Xavier
Stefano D'Ambrogio – UNB
Hunter Delahunt – UNB
Maxime Filion – Montreal
Joshua Flaksman – Mount Royal
Oliver Herbert – UBC
Yannick Laurent – McGill
Ehab Moustafa – UNB
Quentin Paumier – Montreal
Logan Rieck – St. Francis Xavier
Cameron Shaw – St. Francis Xavier
Nick Spittle – York
Isaac VanWychen – St. Francis Xavier
Charlie Waters – St. Francis Xavier
Nathan Yee – McGill

References

^ Match report claims an attendance of 0, however, at least 200 spectators were clearly visible on the CBC broadcast.

^ "Ontario Tech University awarded rights to host its first-ever U SPORTS national championship event". news.ontariotechu.ca. June 28, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
^ "U SPORTS on CBC - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. October 27, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
^ "Championships - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
^ "Playing Regulations – Men's Soccer" (PDF). U Sports. August 2024. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
^ "Draw and bracket announced for 2024 U SPORTS men's soccer championship - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. November 3, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

[Attendance-6] Match report claims an attendance of 0, however, at least 200 spectators were clearly visible on the CBC broadcast.

[1] "Ontario Tech University awarded rights to host its first-ever U SPORTS national championship event". news.ontariotechu.ca. June 28, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

[2] "U SPORTS on CBC - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. October 27, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

[3] "Championships - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

[rules-4] "Playing Regulations – Men's Soccer" (PDF). U Sports. August 2024. Retrieved October 16, 2024.

[5] "Draw and bracket announced for 2024 U SPORTS men's soccer championship - U SPORTS - English". U Sports. November 3, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

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