The 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season is the 73rd season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 20. Conference play began in September and will conclude in October. The 2026 ACC men's soccer tournament will be held from November 4 through November 15 at campus sites and at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina.

Virginia are the defending regular season champions. The SMU Mustangs are the defending ACC tournament champions.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Team Stadium Capacity Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field 1,800 California Edwards Stadium 22,000 Clemson Riggs Field 6,500 Duke Koskinen Stadium 7,000 Louisville Lynn Stadium 5,300 NC State Dail Soccer Field 3,000 Notre Dame Alumni Stadium 2,500

Team Stadium Capacity North Carolina Dorrance Field 4,200 Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field 735 SMU Washburne Stadium 2,577 Stanford Laird Q. Cagan Stadium 2,952 Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium 1,500 Virginia Klöckner Stadium 7,100 Virginia Tech Thompson Field 2,500 Wake Forest Spry Stadium 3,000

Note: Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami (FL) are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference but do not sponsor men's soccer.

Coaches

Head coaching records Team Head coach Years at school Overall record Record at school ACC record Boston College Francesco D'Agostino 1 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 California Leonard Griffin 5 47–51–19 27–30–15 4–9–3 Clemson Mike Noonan 17 415–205–91 191–90–88 69–45–21 Duke John Kerr Jr. 19 251–167–61 171–108–48 68–59–26 Louisville John Michael Hayden 8 57–49–19 57–49–19 20–30–10 North Carolina Carlos Somoano 16 185–67–54 185–67–54 72–32–32 NC State Marc Hubbard 3 258–56–50 26–8–9 7–4–5 Notre Dame Chad Riley 9 131–74–43 80–51–26 29–27–10 Pittsburgh Jay Vidovich 11 302–129–49 95–75–18 33–37–13 SMU Kevin Hudson 12 126–49–27 126–49–27 7–4–5 Stanford Jeremy Gunn 15 359–117–84 172–56–53 8–4–4 Syracuse Ian McIntyre 17 255–171–85 148–107–53 28–48–25 Virginia George Gelnovatch 31 389–156–76 389–156–76 113–77–41 Virginia Tech Mike Brizendine 18 120–141–48 120–141–48 31–85–26 Wake Forest Bobby Muuss 12 234–99–55 159–43–31 58–17–16

Notes Records shown are prior to the 2026 season Years at school includes the 2026 season ACC records include only years with current school.

Preseason

Hermann Trophy

The Hermann Trophy preseason watchlist was released on August 19, 2026. Four ACC players were selected the preseason watchlist.

Player Class Position School MF Clemson DF SMU FW North Carolina MF North Carolina

Preseason Poll

The pre-season poll and pre-season all conference teams were voted on by the league's 15 head coaches. The results of the poll were released on August 12, prior to the season starting. The full results of the poll are shown below:

1 NC State 183 (8) 2 Stanford 171 (2) 3 Virginia 161 (4) 4 SMU 146 5 Clemson 145 (1) 6 North Carolina 134 7 Duke 124 8 Notre Dame 100 9 Wake Forest 89 10 Syracuse 86 11 Pittsburgh 83 12 Virginia Tech 60 13 California 48 14 Louisville 29 15 Boston College 16

Preseason awards

Preseason All-ACC Watchlist

Position Player Class School Goalkeeper Andrej Borak Sophomore Boston College Defender Ryan Quintos Senior Louisville Niklas Sørensen Junior Pittsburgh Dylan Groeneveld Senior Stanford Sebastian Pop Virginia Midfielder Florentino Junior Freshman California Ransford Gyan Junior Clemson Tyler Caton Senior NC State Nolan Spicer Notre Dame Kelvin Da Costa Junior Syracuse Yanis Belatrache Senior Virginia Tech Jeffrey White Wake Forest Forward Ulfur Bjornsson Duke Joschi Schelb North Carolina Stephan Soghomonian Junior SMU

Regular season Index to colors and formattingACC member wonACC member lostACC member tiedACC teams in bold All times Eastern.

Week 1 (Aug. 18 – Aug. 24)

Date Time (ET) Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance August 20 5:00p.m. 24 Morrone Stadium • Storrs, CT W 2–1 1,547 6:00p.m. Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY W 2–1 312 7:00p.m. UCLA 11 Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA L 1–2 1,306 Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA W 4–0 460 7 Maryland Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field • Pittsburgh, PA L 1–2 1,074 7:30p.m. 5 Shaw Field • Washington, D.C. T 1–1 Coastal Carolina 2 Dail Soccer Field • Raleigh, NC T 0–0 3,147 Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC W 4–2 3,233 8:00p.m. Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC W 2–1 674 Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium • Columbus, OH L 0–1 1,266 3 Riggs Field • Clemson, SC W 5–1 4,323 22 Indiana Bill Armstrong Stadium • Bloomington, IN L 1–3 7,078 9:00p.m. 15 Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX W 3–1 786 10:30p.m. 21 9 Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 2–1 627 August 21 10:00p.m. 6 Merlo Field • Portland, OR T 0–0 3,234 August 23 3:30p.m. Duke Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC W 3–1 4:00p.m. Virginia Tech Thompson Field • Blacksburg, VA W 7–0 768 5:00p.m. 2 NC State Dail Soccer Field • Raleigh, NC W 2–1 1,267 Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA W 3–1 172 Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY L 2–3 2,144 7:00p.m. Clemson Riggs Field • Clemson, SC W 2–0 4,110 Wake Forest Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC T 0–0 1,621 7:30p.m. Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • South Bend, IN T 0–0 714 10:00p.m. 9 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 3–1 914 August 24 6:00p.m. 16 11 Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA L 2–3 1,300 7:00p.m. North Carolina Mike Rose Soccer Complex • Memphis, TN L 2–3 875 Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field • Pittsburgh, PA W 3–1 521 7:30p.m. Louisville Bell Soccer Complex • Lexington, KY W 3–2 2,407 8:00p.m. 15 SMU 4 Hermann Stadium • St. Louis, MO W 4–0 1,233

Players of the Week Offensive Defensive Player Team Player Team Xander Sevian Clemson Beau Morrison CaliforniaReference:

Week 2 (Aug. 25 – Aug. 31)

Date Time (ET) Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance August 27 6:00p.m. Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY W 3–1 412 7:00p.m. 2 1 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 1–0 1,118 20 NC State FIU Soccer Stadium • Miami, FL L 1–2 426 Furman 19 Duke Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC L 3–4 507 10:30p.m. California Stevens Stadium • Santa Clara, CA W 1–0 535 August 28 6:00p.m. Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA W 4–0 1,146 Virginia Tech Thompson Field • Blacksburg, VA W 3–0 473 7:00p.m. Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY W 2–0 1,941 Pittsburgh Jeffrey Field • State College, PA W 2–1 1,502 Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA W 2–1 803 19 Clemson Stone Stadium • Columbia, SC L 2–3 7,671 Wake Forest 10 FirstEnergy Stadium • Akron, OH L 0–1 2,260 7:30p.m. 8 Saint Louis Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • South Bend, IN T 1–1 929 VCU North Carolina Dorrance Field • Chapel Hill, NC W 1–0 2,032 8:00p.m. 5 SMU Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX W 2–0 956 August 30 6:00p.m. 6 Georgetown 19 Duke Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC L 0–3 1,005 7:00p.m. 20 NC State FAU Soccer Stadium • Boca Raton, FL T 3–3 392 10:00p.m. 1 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 2–1 924 August 31 6:00p.m. Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA L 1–2 309 Wake Forest Mickey Cochrane Stadium • Bowling Green, OH W 1–0 536 7:00p.m. 14 Indiana Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY T 1–1 1,520 Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY W 4–0 1,244 7:30p.m. Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • South Bend, IN W 3–1 357 8:00p.m. 5 SMU Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX W 6–0 687

Players of the Week Offensive Defensive Player Team Player Team Giacomo Zizza Louisville Jaylinn Mitchell SMUReference:

Week 3 (Sep. 1 – Sep. 7)

Date Time (ET) Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance September 1 7:00p.m. 18 Clemson UCF Soccer and Track Stadium • Orlando, FL W 4–1 967 8:00p.m. 12 UCLA California Edwards Stadium • Berkeley, CA T 2–2 433 September 3 7:00p.m. Pittsburgh 8 Michigan State DeMartin Soccer Complex • East Lansing, MI T 0–0 1,532 8:00p.m. 22 Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY W 3–0 210 September 4 6:00p.m. Boston College Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA UVA 2–0 460 7:00p.m. 18 Clemson Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY CLEM 1–0 2,531 8:00p.m. 3 SMU Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX T 1–1 1,087 10:00p.m. 1 Stanford Spartan Soccer Complex • San Jose, CA W 1–0 1,345 September 5 6:00p.m. Virginia Tech NC State Dail Soccer Field • Raleigh, NC T 1–1 1,381 7:00p.m. Duke Wake Forest Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC WAKE 6–1 2,700 September 6 3:30p.m. Michigan Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • South Bend, IN W 2–1 1,004 7:00p.m. North Carolina California Edwards Stadium • Berkeley, CA T 2–2 607 September 7 7:00p.m. Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field • Pittsburgh, PA W 1–0 508 1 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 4–0 1,418 8:00p.m. 3 SMU Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX W 3–0 627

Players of the Week Offensive Defensive Player Team Player Team Ransford Gyan Clemson Blake Kelly Notre DameReference:

Week 4 (Sep. 8 – Sep. 14)

Date Time (ET) Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance September 8 4:30p.m. Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA T 2–2 121 6:00p.m. 23т Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA T 1–1 641 7:00p.m. Wake Forest Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC W 3–0 1,023 8:00p.m. 21 Louisville McCutchan Stadium • Evansville, IN W 1–0 627 September 9 6:00p.m. East Tennessee State Virginia Tech Thompson Field • Blacksburg, VA L 1–3 407 7:00p.m. Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY W 5–0 203 California Edwards Stadium • Berkeley, CA W 1–0 101 September 10 6:00p.m. Duke NC State Dail Soccer Field • Raleigh, NC NCST 3–1 2,244 September 11 7:00p.m. Notre Dame 17 Clemson Riggs Field • Clemson, SC ND 1–0 6,143 7 SMU Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field • Pittsburgh, PA SMU 3–1 681 1 Stanford North Carolina Dorrance Field • Chapel Hill, NC T 2–2 2,031 September 12 6:00p.m. Virginia Klöckner Stadium • Charlottesville, VA W 3–2 447 7:00p.m. Syracuse Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA BC 2–0 695 September 13 3:00p.m. California 21 Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY LOU 3–2 335 6:00p.m. Wake Forest Virginia Tech Thompson Field • Blacksburg, VA VT 2–1 831

Players of the Week Offensive Defensive Player Team Player Team Jayden Fitzgerald Boes Stanford Vlad Walent Notre DameReference:

Week 5 (Sep. 15 – Sep. 21)

Date Time (ET) Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance September 15 4:30p.m. Boston College Newton Campus Soccer Field • Newton, MA W 2–1 114 6:00p.m. 23 NC State Dail Soccer Field • Raleigh, NC W 1–0 693 7:00p.m. American North Carolina Dorrance Field • Chapel Hill, NC W 2–0 1,070 17 Pittsburgh Ambrose Urbanic Field • Pittsburgh, PA W 2–0 396 Syracuse Beyer-Small '76 Field • Hamilton, NY W 3–0 503 21 Clemson Riggs Field • Clemson, SC W 5–1 2,059 20 Notre Dame Alumni Stadium • South Bend, IN W 4–0 0 Queens Duke Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC W 2–0 317 10:00p.m. Santa Clara 1 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA W 1–0 947 September 16 10:00p.m. California San Francisco Negoesco Stadium • San Francisco, CA L 2–3 1,257 September 18 6:00p.m. Boston College 15 Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY T 3–3 684 7:00p.m. Virginia Tech Duke Koskinen Stadium • Durham, NC VT 4–2 908 9:00p.m. NC State 5 SMU Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium • Dallas, TX SMU 1–0 2,097 September 19 7:00p.m. 21 Clemson North Carolina Dorrance Field • Chapel Hill, NC CLEM 2–1 1,693 Virginia Wake Forest Spry Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC WAKE 3–2 2,100 Syracuse SU Soccer Stadium • Syracuse, NY W 2–0 2,064 September 20 6:00p.m. Pittsburgh California Edwards Stadium • Berkeley, CA PITT 2–1 212 10:00p.m. 20 Notre Dame 1 Stanford Cagan Stadium • Stanford, CA ND 3–1 1,637 September 21 6:00p.m. 15 Louisville Lynn Stadium • Louisville, KY W 3–0 252

Players of the Week Offensive Defensive Player Team Player TeamAlex PerezVirginia Tech Blake Kelly Notre Dame Enzo Panozzo SMUReference:

Week 6 (Sep. 22 – Sep. 28)