2022 Mid-American Conference men's soccer championship game
Football match
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The 2022 Mid-American Conference men's soccer championship game determined the Mid-American Conference (MAC) soccer champion for the 2022 season.[1] The game, held on November 12, 2022, also determined the MAC's automatic berth into the 2022 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. Western Michigan defeated the host Akron 2–1 to secure the automatic bid.[2]
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| Date | November 12, 2022 1 pm EST | ||||||
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| Venue | FirstEnergy Stadium–Cub Cadet Field, Akron, OH | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Charlie Sharp (Western Michigan) | ||||||
| Referee | Dimitrios Kastimingos | ||||||
| Attendance | 942 | ||||||
This would be the last-ever match for MAC men's soccer, at least for the foreseeable future. Conference realignment, most notably the decision of the Sun Belt Conference to start a men's soccer league in 2022, caused the MAC to lose three of the seven teams that had played in the conference in the 2021 season,[3] with six teams required to maintain its automatic NCAA tournament bid. The MAC had a two-year window to add a sixth team to maintain its automatic bid in the long term, and brought in Chicago State as its fifth team for the 2022 season.[4] However, the conference was unable to add the needed sixth member, leading it to end sponsorship of men's soccer at the end of the 2022 season.[5]
Qualification
Akron and Western Michigan secured their spots in the Championship game by virtue of 18 pts in conference play and 17 pts in conference play respectively.
