The 2021 Southern Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Southern Conference held from November 1 through November 14, 2021. The tournament was held at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting. The seven-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The UNC Greensboro Spartans were the defending champions but were unable to defend their crown, losing 2–1 in the Semifinals to the Belmont Bruins. The Mercer Bears were the tournament champions, defeating Belmont 4–3 in the final. This was the fourth Southern Conference tournament title for the Mercer men's soccer program, all four of which have come under coach Brad Ruzzo. As tournament champions, Mercer earned the Southern Conference's automatic berth into the 2021 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.
Seeding
All seven Southern Conference men's soccer programs qualified for the 2021 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on their regular season records. Tiebreakers were used to determine the seedings of teams who finished with identical conference records. Tiebreakers were required to determine the third and fourth seeds as Belmont and Furman finished with identical 4–2–0 records. Furman earned the third seed by virtue of defeating Belmont during the regular season 2–1.
SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints 1 UNC Greensboro 5–1–0 15 2 Mercer 4–1–1 13 3 Furman 4–2–0 12 4 Belmont 4–2–0 12 5 East Tennessee State 1–3–2 5 6 Wofford 1–4–1 4 7 VMI 0–6–0 0
Bracket
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Schedule
First Round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
All-Tournament team
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Player Team Jacob Garzon Furman Alfredo Diaz-Santillan JC Ngando UNCG Fernando Garcia Drew Romig Belmont Niccolo Dagnoni Liam O'Brien Ousman Jabang Mercer Trevor Martineau Bryant Jackson Dylan Gaither MVP in bold
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