2022 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Boston College Eagles	Newton Soccer Complex	1,800
Clemson Tigers	Riggs Field	6,500
Duke Blue Devils	Koskinen Stadium	7,000
Florida State Seminoles	Seminole Soccer Complex	2,000
Louisville Cardinals	Lynn Stadium	5,300
Miami Hurricanes	Cobb Stadium	500
NC State	Dail Soccer Field	3,000
North Carolina Tar Heels	Dorrance Field	4,200
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Alumni Stadium	2,500
Pittsburgh Panthers	Ambrose Urbanic Field	735
Syracuse Orange	SU Soccer Stadium	1,500
Virginia Cavaliers	Klöckner Stadium	7,100
Virginia Tech Hokies	Thompson Field	2,500
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	Spry Stadium	3,000

1. ^ Georgia Tech does not sponsor women's soccer

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Pre-Season

• Mark Krikorian resigned as head coach of Florida State on March 29, 2022.^[4] Brian Pensky was hired as his replacement on April 25, 2022.^[5]

Team	Head coach	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	ACC record
Boston College	Jason Lowe	4	18–28–4	18–28–4	3–24–1
Clemson	Eddie Radwanski	12	256–137–38	117–72–25	50–52–9
Duke	Robbie Church	22	360–184–71	272–135–60	104–63–34
Florida State	Brian Pensky	1	185–111–45	0–0–0	0–0–0
Louisville	Karen Ferguson-Dayes	22	194–175–39	194–175–39	30–38–11
Miami	Sarah Barnes	5	76–82–20	16–41–6	6–30–2
North Carolina	Anson Dorrance	44	863–73–41	863–73–41	213–28–13
NC State	Tim Santoro	10	76–82–17	76–82–17	23–52–8
Notre Dame	Nate Norman	5	97–66–18	39–31–4	19–17–2
Pittsburgh	Randy Waldrum	5	430–142–33	31–34–4	16–32–2
Syracuse	Nicky Adams	4	95–85–26	8–30–3	2–24–1
Virginia	Steve Swanson	22	451–164–64	347–101–53	138–46–23
Virginia Tech	Charles Adair	12	138–68–22	138–68–22	51–46–15
Wake Forest	Tony da Luz	25	329–227–52	284–186–50	96–110–23

Notes

• Records shown are prior to the 2022 season
• Years at school includes the 2022 season

The Hermann Trophy preseason watchlist was released on August 18, 2022. The ACC had eight players named to the sixty player watchlist.^[6]

Player	Class	Position	School
Maycee Bell	Senior	DF	North Carolina
Megan Bornkamp	Junior	DF	Clemson
Michelle Cooper	Sophomore	FW	Duke
Eva Gaetino	Junior	DF	Notre Dame
Lia Godfrey	Junior	MF	Virginia
Jameese Joseph	Junior	FW	NC State
Beata Olsson	Junior	FW	Florida State
Kaitlyn Parks	Junior	GK	Wake Forest

Predicted finish	Team	Points (1st place)
1	Duke	156 (3)
2	Virginia	153 (4)
3	North Carolina	150 (4)
4	Florida State	143 (3)
5	Clemson	115
6	Notre Dame	108
7	NC State	90
	Wake Forest
9	Virginia Tech	79
10	Pittsburgh	66
11	Louisville	47
12	Boston College	36
13	Miami	21
14	Syracuse	20

Source:^[7]

Position	Player	Class	School
Goalkeeper	Cristina Roque	JR	Florida State
Defender	Maycee Bell	SR	North Carolina
	Megan Bornkamp	JR	Clemson
Midfielder	Korbin Albert	SO	Notre Dame
	Lia Godfrey	JR	Virginia
	Sophie Jones	SR	Duke
	Sam Meza	JR	North Carolina
	Jenna Nighswonger	SR	Florida State
	Clara Robbins	GR	Florida State
Forward	Michelle Cooper	SO	Duke
	Jameese Joseph	JR	NC State
	Alexa Spaanstra	SR	Virginia

Source:^[7]

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

	Boston College	Clemson	Duke	Florida State	Louisville	Miami	North Carolina	NC State	Notre Dame	Pittsburgh	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	Wake Forest
vs. Boston College	–	3–0	3–0	6–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	–	3–0	1–1	–	0–1	–	1–1
vs. Clemson	0–3	–	0–0	3–1	1–2	–	–	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	–	1–2	4–1
vs. Duke	0–3	0–0	–	5–1	0–4	–	–	0–6	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	–	1–2
vs. Florida State	0–6	1–3	1–5	–	1–5	0–1	2–1	–	4–0	0–1	–	0–1	1–4	–
vs. Louisville	0–1	2–1	4–0	5–1	–	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	–	2–0	–	–
vs. Miami	0–1	–	–	1–0	1–0	–	4–0	3–3	–	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–3	2–0
vs. North Carolina	0–3	–	–	1–2	0–2	0–4	–	0–2	–	0–4	0–1	3–2	2–1	0–1
vs. NC State	–	1–2	6–0	–	1–0	3–3	2–0	–	3–0	–	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–2
vs. Notre Dame	0–3	2–0	2–2	0–4	0–2	–	–	0–3	–	3–1	–	0–1	0–1	0–3
vs. Pittsburgh	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	4–0	–	1–3	–	0–2	–	1–4	–
vs. Syracuse	1–0	1–1	1–0	–	–	1–3	1–0	1–1	–	2–0	–	2–2	2–0	2–0
vs. Virginia	–	–	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–3	0–4	1–0	–	2–2	–	3–3	0–1
vs. Virginia Tech	–	2–1	–	4–1	–	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	4–1	0–2	3–3	–	0–2
vs. Wake Forest	1–1	1–4	2–1	–	–	0–2	1–0	2–1	3–0	–	0–2	1–0	2–0	–
Total	1–7–2	4–3–3	6–2–2	8–2–0	3–7–0	2–7–1	8–2–0	2–6–2	7–2–1	5–3–2	1–6–3	6–2–2	4–5–1	3–6–1

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Final
Boston College
Clemson	25	18			24	14			RV	RV	RV	25
Duke	2 (2)	5	2	3	3	5	4	7	12	10	11	8	6
Florida State	1 (5)	2	10	8	12т	7	7	3	4	4	5	5	3
Louisville
Miami
North Carolina	10	1 (8)	1 (8)	2	2	3	3	5	2т	2	2	2	2
NC State		RV	RV			22
Notre Dame	16	RV	16	12	6	18	16	17	6	5	4	4	5
Pittsburgh							14	13	21	20	19	19	12
Syracuse
Virginia	4 (1)	8	5	5	7	2	2	2	13	8	8	11	7
Virginia Tech		RV	RV	RV			RV	24			RV	RV
Wake Forest	RV	RV	RV	24т	RV

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
Boston College
Clemson	15	14	16	18	19	15	24
Duke	5	3	2	4	5	5	5	6	6	10	9	9	9	9	6	8	8
Florida State	1	2	9	8	7	6	2	2	3	3	4	4	1	1	1	1	4
Louisville
Miami
North Carolina	8	4	3	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	3	3	4	4	4	4	2
NC State	23	21	17	19	20	19
Notre Dame	16	15	10	9	8	16	18	15	13	8	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
Pittsburgh							14	10	15	19	19	20	25	22	20	20	20
Syracuse
Virginia	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	7	12	11	7	6	6
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Week	Offensive Player of the week	Defensive Player of the week	Reference
Week 1	Amanda West, Pittsburgh	Tori Hansen, North Carolina	[8]
Week 2	Haley Hopkins, Virginia	Leah Klenke, Notre Dame	[9]
Week 3	Michelle Cooper, Duke	Talia Staude, Virginia	[10]
	Olivia Wingate, Notre Dame
Week 4	Kiki Van Zanten, Notre Dame	Sam Meza, North Carolina	[11]
Week 5	Onyi Echegini, Florida State	Harper White, Clemson	[12]
Week 6	Michelle Cooper (2), Duke	Victoria Haugen, Virginia Tech	[13]
Week 7	Lia Godfrey, Virginia	Cayla White, Virginia	[14]
	Tori Powell, Virginia Tech
Week 8	Olivia Wingate (2), Notre Dame	Mackenzie Wood, Notre Dame	[15]
		Cristina Roque, Florida State
Week 9	Taylor Bryan, Virginia Tech	Tori Hansen (2), North Carolina	[16]
	Haley Hopkins (2), Virginia
Week 10	Korbin Albert, Notre Dame	Mackenzie Wood (2), Notre Dame	[17]
	Ally Sentnor, North Carolina
Week 11	Korbin Albert (2), Notre Dame	Caitlyn Lazzarini, Pittsburgh	[18]
	Onyi Echegini (2), Florida State

	Semifinals					Final
	1	North Carolina (pen.)	0 (7)
	5	Duke	0 (6)
						1	North Carolina	1
						2	Florida State	2
	2	Florida State (pen.)	3 (4)
	3	Notre Dame	3 (2)

The Atlantic Coast Conference had ten teams selected to the NCAA tournament, which was the most of any conference. Their two number one seeds was also the most of any conference. Eight of the ten selected teams were seeded, which gained those teams the right to host a first-round match.^[19]

Seed	School	Region	1st Round	2nd Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
1	Florida State	Florida State	W 3–0 vs. Florida Gulf Coast – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 4–1 vs. LSU – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 3–0 vs. No. 19 Pittsburgh – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 1–0 vs. No. 9 Arkansas – (Tallahassee, FL)	L 2–3 vs. No. 2 North Carolina – (Cary, NC)
1	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	W 5–0 vs. Omaha – (Notre Dame, IN)	W 4–0 vs. No. 23 Santa Clara – (Notre Dame, IN)	W 2–0 vs. No. 17 TCU – (Notre Dame, IN)	L 0–2 vs. No. 2 North Carolina – (Notre Dame, IN)
2	North Carolina	Notre Dame	W 5–0 vs. Old Dominion – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 3–1 vs. Georgia – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 3–2 vs No. 15 BYU – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 2–0 at No. 4 Notre Dame – (Notre Dame, IN)	W 3–2 vs. No. 5 Florida State – (Cary, NC)	L 2–3 (2OT) vs. No. 1 UCLA – (Cary, NC)
2	Duke	Alabama	W 4–0 vs. Radford – (Durham, NC)	W 1–0 vs. No. 16 Texas – (Durham, NC)	W 2–1 vs. No. 13 South Carolina – (Durham, NC)	L 2–3 (2OT) at No. 3 Alabama – (Tuscaloosa, AL)
3	Virginia	UCLA	W 4–0 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson – (Charlottesville, VA)	W 3–1 vs. Xavier – (University Park, PA)	W 3–2 (2OT) at No. 21 Penn State (University Park, PA)	L 1–2 (2OT) at No. 1 UCLA – (Los Angeles, CA)
4	Pittsburgh	Florida State	W 1–0 vs. Buffalo – (Pittsburgh, PA)	W 2–1 vs. No. 18 Georgetown – (Tallahassee, FL)	L 0–3 at No. 5 Florida State – (Tallahassee, FL)
5	Clemson	UCLA	L 0–1 vs. Vanderbilt – (Clemson, SC)
8	NC State	UCLA	T 1–1 (2–4 PKs) vs. No. 20 UCF – (Raleigh, NC)
–	Virginia Tech	UCLA	L 0–2 at West Virginia – (Morgantown, WV)
–	Wake Forest	Alabama	L 0–2 at No. 13 South Carolina – (Columbia, SC)
W–L (%):			6–3–1 (.650)	6–0–0 (1.000)	5–1–0 (.833)	2–3–0 (.400)	1–1–0 (.500)	0–1–0 (.000) Total: 20–9–1 (.683)