U Sports Men's Soccer Championship | |
Year: | 2022 |
Country: | Canada |
Venue: | Hillside Stadium Kamloops, British Columbia |
Dates: | 10–13 November 2022 |
Num Teams: | 8 |
Champions: | Thompson Rivers (1st title) |
Runner-Up: | UBC |
Third: | Montréal Carabins |
Prevseason: | 2021 |
Nextseason: | 2023 |
Updated: | 13 November 2022 |
The 2022 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was the 50th edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2022 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament started on November 10 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on November 13 in Kamloops, British Columbia.
The tournament was held at Hillside Stadium, on the grounds of Thompson Rivers University.[1] TRU last hosted the tournament in 2017, when they defeated perennial rival UBC on penalty kicks.[2]
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.
Seed | Team | Qualified | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CBU Capers | AUS champions | 10–0–2[3] | |
2 | Montréal Carabins | RSEQ champions | 9–1–2 | |
3 | UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West champions | 9–3–3[4] | |
4 | McMaster Marauders | OUA champions | 8–3–1 | |
5 | Thompson Rivers WolfPack | Host | 7–3–5[5] | |
6 | TMU Bold | OUA finalists | 9–3–0[6] | |
7 | St. Francis Xavier X-Men | AUS finalists | 7–3–2 | |
8 | UQTR Patriotes | RSEQ finalists | 7–3–2 |
The bracket was announced on Sunday, November 6, 2022.[7]