2018 Mid-American Conference men's soccer tournament

The 2018 MAC men's soccer tournament, was the 25th edition of the tournament. It determined the Mid-American Conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament began on November 6 and concluded on November 11.

2018 MAC men's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Semifinals site	Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Morgantown, West Virginia
Finals site	Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Morgantown, West Virginia
Champions	Akron (15th title)
Winning coach	Jared Embick (6th title)
MVP	Marcel Zajac (Akron)
Broadcast	ESPN+
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2018 Mid-American Conference men's soccer standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 22 West Virginia +	5	–	0	–	0			14	–	7	–	0
Bowling Green	2	–	1	–	2			6	–	7	–	4
Western Michigan	1	–	1	–	2			11	–	6	–	3
No. 2 Akron ‡	1	–	2	–	1			15	–	7	–	2
SIU Edwardsville	1	–	3	–	1			9	–	5	–	4
Northern Illinois	1	–	4	–	0			8	–	9	–	1
‡ – 2018 MAC Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 11, 2018 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

Akron won the MAC Championship, 3–0 against Western Michigan, making it a rematch of last year's championship. Akron entered the tournament as the six-time defending champions, and the fourth overall seed.

The tournament was expanded this year from four teams to six teams.

Seeds

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	West Virginia	5–0–0
2	Bowling Green	2–2–1
3	Western Michigan	1–1–2
4	Akron	1–2–1
5	SIU Edwardsville	1–3–1
6	Northern Illinois	1–4–0

Bracket

	First round Nov. 6					Semifinals Nov. 9					Final Nov. 11
						1	West Virginia	1
	4	Akron	2			4	Akron	3
	5	SIU Edwardsville	1								4	Akron	3
											3	Western Michigan	0
						2	Bowling Green	0
	3	Western Michigan	3			3	Western Michigan	2
	6	Northern Illinois	1

Results

First round

November 6

2:30 p.m. EST

No. 3 Western Michigan	3–1	No. 6 Northern Illinois
Sipple 20' Jackman 30' Clark 33'	Report	Maertins 14'

WMU Soccer Complex, Kalamazoo

Attendance: 315

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November 6

4:00 p.m. EST

No. 4 Akron	2–1	No. 5 SIU Edwardsville
Hackworth 8' Zajac 33'	Report	Solawa 18'

Cub Cadet Field, Akron

Attendance: 360

Referee: Nikola Aleksic

Semifinals

November 9

2:30 p.m. EST

No. 2 Bowling Green	0–2	No. 3 Western Michigan
	Report	Melaragni 5' Shane 43'

Dlesk Stadium, Morgantown

Attendance: 0

Referee: Art Arustamyan

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November 9

5:40 p.m. EST

No. 1 West Virginia	1–3	No. 4 Akron
Albino 1'	Report	Ritaccio 2', 66' Kahsay 43'

Dlesk Stadium, Morgantown

Attendance: 250

Referee: Nicholas Balcer

Final

November 11

1:00 p.m. EST

No. 3 Western Michigan	0–3	No. 4 Akron
	Report	Egbo 65' Zajac 85', 88'

Dlesk Stadium, Morgantown

Attendance: 94

Referee: Gregory Dopka

Statistics

Top goalscorers

3 Goals

• Marcel Zajac – Akron

2 Goals

• Carlo Ritaccio – Akron

1 Goal

• David Egbo – Akron
• Morgan Hackworth – Akron
• Ezana Kahsay – Akron
• Jan Maertins – Northern Illinois
• Greg Solawa – SIU Edwardsville
• Andres Muriel Albino – West Virginia
• Tommy Clark – Western Michigan
• Caden Jackman – Western Michigan
• Mike Melaragni – Western Michigan
• Zack Shane – Western Michigan
• Cameron Sipple – Western Michigan

All Tournament Team

2018 MAC Men's Soccer All-Tournament team

Carlo Ritaccio, Akron Ezana Kahsay, Akron Marcel Zajac, Akron Abdi Mohaned, Akron Moe Mustafa, Bowling Green Charlie Maciejewski, Bowling Green Logan Lucas, West Virginia Sebastian Garcia-Herreros, West Virginia Ben Thornton, Western Michigan Jake Rufe, Western Michigan Anthony Bowie, Western Michigan

MVP in Bold

External links

• MAC Men's Soccer Championship Central