# 2023 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

The 2023 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was the 51st edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2023 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament started on November 9 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on November 12 at Cape Breton University. It was the fourth tournament to be held in Nova Scotia.
Thompson Rivers WolfPack were the defending champions following their victory in 2022, however, they failed the qualify for the 2023 tournament following a quarterfinal elimination in the Canada West playoffs.

## Host

The tournament was held at Ness Timmons Field, on the grounds of Cape Breton University. CBU were hosting the tournament for the first time in 51 years.

## Qualified teams

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

### Participating teams

| Team | Qualified | Last appearance | Last win |
| CBU Capers | Host | 2022 | 2017 |
| St. Francis Xavier X-Men | AUS champions | 2022 | Never |
| Carleton Ravens | OUA champions | 2021 | Never |
| York Lions | OUA finalists | 2019 | 2015 |
| Montréal Carabins | RSEQ champions | 2022 | 2021 |
| UQTR Patriotes | RSEQ finalists | 2022 | 2019 |
| Mount Royal Cougars | Canada West champions | None | Never |
| UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West finalists | 2022 | 2013 |

### 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 |
| 1 | CW | Mount Royal Cougars | 11–2–1 | 3–0–0 |
| 2 | AUS | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | 9–2–1 | 2–0–0 |
| 3 | OUS | Carleton Ravens | 10–1–1 | 2–0–1 |
| 4 | RSEQ | UQTR Patriotes | 6–5–1 | 2–0–0 |
| 5 | AUS | CBU Capers (H) | 9–0–3 | 1–1–0 |
| 6 | RSEQ | Montreal Carabins | 9–0–3 | 1–1–0 |
| 7 | CW | UBC Thunderbirds | 13–1–2 | 2–1–0 |
| 8 | OUS | York Lions | 7–2–3 | 1–1–1 |

## 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 | Mount Royal Cougars | 1 | | | | |
| | | | | | | 8 | York Lions | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | 8 | York Lions (p) | 0 (4) | | | | 1 | Mount Royal Cougars | 0 | |
| | | | 4 | UQTR Patriotes | 0 (3) | | | | 5 | CBU Capers | 1 | |
| | | | | | | 4 | UQTR Patriotes | 2 (2) | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 5 | CBU Capers (p) | 2 (3) | | | | | |
| 8 | York Lions | 3 | | | | | | | | | 5 | CBU Capers | 1 |
| 2 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | 1 | | | | | | | | | 5 | 6 | Montreal Carabins | 0 |
| | | | | | | 2 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | 1 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 7 | UBC Thunderbirds | 2 | | | | | | |
| | | | 2 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | 2 | | | | 7 | UBC Thunderbirds | 0 | 3rd place match | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| | | | 3 | Carleton Ravens | 1 | | | | 6 | Montreal Carabins | 2 | | | |
| | | | | | | 3 | | | Carleton Ravens | 1 (4) | | 1 | Mount Royal Cougars | 0 |
| | | | | | | 6 | Montreal Carabins (p) | 1 (5) | | | | 7 | UBC Thunderbirds | 1 |

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There have been 22 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.
3 goals
* Tyler Attardo – York
* Owen Sheppard – Cape Breton
2 goals
* Luke Norman – UBC
1 goal
* Miguel Da Rocha – Mount Royal
* Vincent Lamy – UQTR
* Mahdi Abbassi – UQTR
* Lewis Dye – St. Francis Xavier
* Sebastian Dzikowski – UBC
* Daniel Asaff – Carleton
* Quentin Paumier – Montreal
* Samuel Barrowcliffe – St. Francis Xavier
* Blake Fenton – St. Francis Xavier
* Brady Curkovic – Carleton
* Yohan Le Bourhis – Montreal
* Sami McDuff – Montreal
* Logan Rieck – St. Francis Xavier
* Jacob Spizzirri – Cape Breton