| American Athletic Conference men's soccer tournament | |
| Optional Subheader: | Conference soccer championship |
| Sport: | College soccer |
| Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
| Number Of Teams: | 4 |
| Format: | Single-elimination tournament |
| Current Stadium: | Rotates; semifinals and final hosted by regular-season champion |
| Years: | 2013–present |
| Most Recent: | 2023 |
| Current Champion: | (1st title) |
| Most Championships: | Tulsa (5 titles) |
| Television: | ESPN+ |
The American Athletic Conference men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the American Athletic Conference (the American). The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's soccer championship.
Since the creation of the AAC in 2013, the tournament was structured as follows. The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season. Tiebreakers begin with the result of the head-to-head matchup. The teams are then placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, until meeting in a final championship game. After two overtime periods, ties are broken by shootout rounds, with the winner of the shootout advancing.
Opening round games are held at campus sites with the higher seed hosting, while the semifinals and final are held at a predetermined campus location, specifically the home field of The American's regular-season champion.
For the 2016 and 2017 seasons the tournament was reduced to just the top 4 teams in the conference. Since 2018 the tournament was expanded to the top 6 teams.
| Year | Champion | Site | MOP (Offense) | MOP (Defense) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Moalosi, South Florida | Brentton Muhammad, South Florida | ||||
| Abe Matamoros, Tulsa | Jake McGuire, Tulsa | ||||
| Tulsa | Lesley Nchanji, Tulsa | Bradley Bourgeois, Tulsa | |||
| Tulsa | Corbett Soccer Stadium • Tampa, FL | Juan Sánchez, Tulsa | Jake McGuire, Tulsa | ||
| Emil Cuello, SMU | Jordan Cano, SMU | ||||
| Emil Cuello, SMU | Grant Makela, SMU | ||||
| UCF Soccer and Track Stadium • Orlando, FL | Eddie Munjoma, SMU | Grant Makela, SMU | |||
| UCF Soccer and Track Stadium • Orlando, FL | Lucca Dourado, UCF | Yannik Oettl, UCF | |||
| Tulsa | Gino Vivi, UCF | Til Zinnhardt, Tulsa | |||
| Stephen Afrifa, FIU | David Carcia, FIU | ||||
| Jelldirk Dallmann, SMU | Ian Pilcher, Charlotte |
This table of championship statistics is updated after each event.[1]
| School | Appearances | W | L | T | Pct. | No. of Titles | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023 | |||
| Cincinnati | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2022 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Louisville | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Rutgers | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2017, 2018, 2019 | |||
| 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2013 | |||
| 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021 | |||
| UCF | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2020 | ||
| UConn | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 |