# 2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

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.
The matches were streamed live on CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca, CBC YouTube, and Radio-Canada. All matches were streamed on CBC Gem.

## 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 | 2011 | 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.
| Pos | Conf. | Team | Reg. Season | Playoffs | Overall |
| 1 | CW | UBC Thunderbirds | 11–1–3 | 3–0–0 | 14–1–3 |
| 2 | RSEQ | Montreal Carabins | 10–1–1 | 2–0–0 | 12–1–1 |
| 3 | AUS | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | 8–1–3 | 2–0–0 | 10–1–3 |
| 4 | OUA | Ontario Tech Ridgebacks (H) | 6–4–2 | 3–0–1 | 9–4–3 |
| 5 | RSEQ | McGill Redbirds | 5–4–3 | 1–1–0 | 6–5–3 |
| 6 | OUA | York Lions | 8–1–3 | 1–1–1 | 9–2–4 |
| 7 | CW | Mount Royal Cougars | 7–2–5 | 2–1–0 | 9–3–5 |
| 8 | AUS | UNB Reds | 4–4–4 | 2–1–0 | 6–5–4 |

## Bracket

| 5th place match | 5th place match | 5th place match | Consolation semi-finals | Consolation semi-finals | Consolation semi-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | 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 | | | | | | | | | 1 | 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 | 3rd place match | 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 |

## 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