2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season


The 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season will be the 31st season of women's varsity soccer in the conference.
The North Carolina Tar Heels the defending regular season champions. The Florida State Seminoles are the defending ACC Tournament champions.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

TeamStadiumCapacity
Boston College EaglesNewton Soccer Complex2,500
Clemson TigersRiggs Field6,500
Duke Blue DevilsKoskinen Stadium7,000
Florida State SeminolesSeminole Soccer Complex1,600
Louisville CardinalsLynn Stadium5,300
Miami HurricanesCobb Stadium500
NC State WolfpackDail Soccer Field3,000
North Carolina Tar HeelsDorrance Field5,025
Notre Dame Fighting IrishAlumni Stadium2,500
Pittsburgh PanthersAmbrose Urbanic Field735
Syracuse OrangeSU Soccer Stadium5,000
Virginia CavaliersKlöckner Stadium8,000
Virginia Tech HokiesThompson Field2,500
Wake Forest Demon DeaconsSpry Stadium3,000

1. Georgia Tech does not sponsor women's soccer

Coaches

Coaching Changes

;Pre-Season
TeamHead CoachYears at SchoolOverall RecordRecord at SchoolACC Record
Boston CollegeJason Lowe10–0–00–0–00–0–0
ClemsonEddie Radwanski9221–119–3482–54–2134–41–8
DukeRobbie Church19322–171–59235–122–4890–58–25
Florida StateMark Krikorian15258–60–30258–60–3095–30–18
LouisvilleKaren Ferguson-Dayes19169–156–35169–156–3518–24–8
MiamiSarah Barnes266–50–176–9–33–6–1
North CarolinaAnson Dorrance41809–67–36809–67–36191–26–9
NC StateTim Santoro750–63–1050–63–1015–44–4
Notre DameNate Norman266–45–148–10–04–6–0
PittsburghRandy Waldrum2403–120–304–12–17–15–1
SyracuseNicky Adams10–0–00–0–00–0–0
VirginiaSteve Swanson19402–155–56298–92–45119–44–17
Virginia TechCharles Adair9106–48–18106–48–1837–35–11
Wake ForestTony da Luz22302–206–46257-165-4486–96–19

Notes

Hermann Trophy Watchlist

The ACC had 12 players named to the MAC Hermann Trophy preseason watch list.
PlayerClassPositionSchool
Malia BerkleyJuniorMFFlorida State
Deyna CastellanosSeniorFWFlorida State
Emina EkicJuniorMFLouisville
Jaelin HowellSophomoreMFFlorida State
Laurel IvoryJuniorGKVirginia
Sandy MacIverSeniorGKClemson
Phoebe McClernonSeniorDFVirginia
Taylor OttoJuniorFWNorth Carolina
Brianna PintoSophomoreMFNorth Carolina
Alessia RussoJuniorFWNorth Carolina
Alexa SpaanstraSophomoreFWVirginia
Yujie ZhaoSophomoreMFFlorida State

Pre-season poll

The 2019 ACC Preseason Poll was be announced on August 8, 2019. The defending regular season champions, North Carolina were voted to repeat their regular season crown. Florida State was voted in second place, even though they received two more first place votes than North Carolina. The leagues 14 head coaches also voted on a preseason All-ACC team. Full results for the coaches poll and preseason team are shown below.

Pre-season Coaches Poll

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Pre-season All-ACC Team

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Regular season

Conference Matrix

The table below shows head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team plays 10 matches. Each team does not play every other team.

Rankings

United Soccer">National Soccer Coaches Association of America">United Soccer

Top Drawer Soccer

Players of the Week

WeekOffensive Player of the weekDefensive of the weekReference
Week 1 – Aug. 27Amanda West, PittsburghMaycee Bell, North Carolina
Week 2 – Sep. 3Diana Ordonez, VirginiaHannah McLaughlin, Clemson
Week 3 – Sep. 10Nicole Kozlova, Virginia TechLaurel Ivory, Virginia
Week 4 – Sep. 17Emina Ekic, LouisvilleMandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech
Week 4 – Sep. 17Maliah Morris, ClemsonMandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech
Week 5 – Sep. 24Tziarra King, NC StateMaycee Bell, North Carolina
Week 6 – Oct. 1Deyna Castellanos, Florida StateLaurel Ivory, Virginia
Week 7 – Oct. 8Bridgette Andrzejewski, North CarolinaMandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech
Week 8 – Oct. 15Mackenzie Pluck, DukeLaurel Ivory, Virginia
Week 9 – Oct. 22Meghan McCool, VirginiaAmaia Pena, Pittsburgh
Week 10 – Oct. 29Meghan McCool, VirginiaEmily Fox, North Carolina
Week 11 – Nov. 5Deyna Castellanos, Florida StateLulu Guttenberger, NC State

Postseason

ACC Tournament

NCAA Tournament

SeedRegionSchool1st Round2nd Round3rd RoundQuarterfinalsSemifinalsChampionship
1Florida StateFlorida StateW 2–0 vs. Lamar – W 2–0 vs. Brown – W 2–1 vs. South Florida – L 0–4 vs. UCLA –
1North CarolinaNorth CarolinaW 5–0 vs. Belmont – W 1–0 vs. Colorado – W 4–0 vs. Michigan – W 3–2 vs. USC – W 2–1 vs. Washington State – T 0–0 vs. Stanford –
1VirginiaVirginiaW 3–0 vs. Radford – L 2–3 vs. Washington State –
Florida StateClemsonT 0–0 vs. Vanderbilt – L 0–5 vs. UCLA –
Florida StateDukeW 4–0 vs. Utah – L 0–1 vs. Wisconsin –
StanfordLouisvilleW 1–0 vs. Lipscomb – L 0–4 vs. BYU –
StanfordNC StateW 3–0 vs. Navy – W 2–1 vs. Arkansas – L 0–3 vs. BYU –
VirginiaNotre DameW 1–0 vs. Saint Louis – L 0–1 vs. South Carolina -
VirginiaVirginia TechL 0–1 vs. Xavier –
W–L : Total:

Awards and Honors

All-Americans

ACC Awards

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2020 NWSL Draft

FWForwardMFMidfielderDFDefenderGKGoalkeeper