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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) - The 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Soccer regular season comes to an end on Friday with the final seven league matches.

ACC Network has the Friday broadcast of No. 10 Louisville at No. 1 SMU at 7:30 p.m. ET. SMU has clinched a share of its first ACC regular-season championship with 19 points and can win it outright with a win or draw, or with a Clemson loss or draw. With 16 points, Clemson could gain a share of the regular-season crown with a win against Wake Forest, coupled with an SMU loss.

Also on Friday, Syracuse begins the day at 5 p.m. ET with a match at Virginia Tech, and No. 18 Pitt visits Virginia at 6 p.m. ET. At 7 p.m. ET, No. 16 Wake Forest travels to No. 3 Clemson, NC State makes the short trip to play No. 15 North Carolina and Duke plays at Notre Dame. The regular season concludes with California playing at rival Stanford at 9 p.m. ET. These matches will air on ACC Network Extra.

The bracket for the 2026 ACC Men's Soccer Championship will be released Friday night following the conclusion of all matches. First-round games will be played on Wednesday, November 4, at campus sites.

Six ACC teams are ranked in the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll. That is tied for the most of any league: SMU (1), Clemson (3), Louisville (10), North Carolina (15), Wake Forest (16) and Pitt (18).

Upcoming Schedule
Friday, October 30
Syracuse at Virginia Tech | 5 p.m. | ACCNX
No. 18 Pitt at Virginia | 6 p.m. | ACCNX
Duke at Notre Dame | 7 p.m. | ACCNX
NC State at No. 15 North Carolina | 7 p.m. | ACCNX
No. 16 Wake Forest at No. 3 Clemson | 7 p.m. | ACCNX
No. 10 Louisville at No. 1 SMU | 7:30 p.m. | ACCNX
California at Stanford | 9 p.m. | ACCNX

Wednesday, November 4
2026 ACC Men's Soccer Championship
First Round at Campus Sites

Rankings: United Soccer Coaches 
All times Eastern

Noting ACC Men's Soccer
• Regular-season ACC play concludes on Friday with seven league matches.
• SMU has clinched at least a share of the ACC regular-season title and can secure it outright with a win or draw on Friday, or a Clemson loss or draw.
• Six ACC teams are ranked in the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll. That is tied for the most of any league: SMU (1), Clemson (3), Louisville (10), North Carolina (15), Wake Forest (16) and Pitt (18).
• SMU stands No. 1 nationally this week for the fifth straight week. ACC teams have held the No. 1 ranking in nine of 10 polls this season (Stanford for four weeks).
• In the latest NCAA RPI, released Thursday, seven ACC teams rank among the top 20: No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 SMU, No. 5 Pitt, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 15 Louisville, No. 16 Wake Forest and No. 17 Stanford. That is the most of any conference.
• Nine ACC teams stand among the RPI top 40.
• SMU (12-0-2) joins Creighton as the lone teams nationally that have yet to lose a match this season. 
• SMU leads the nation in scoring defense (0.36 goals per game) and ranks third nationally in scoring offense (2.93 goals per game). 
• ACC teams are 78-20-18 (.750) against non-conference competition this season. The winning percentage and total number of wins are the best of any conference.
• Since Sept. 1, league teams have posted a 45-6-10 (.820) record against non-conference foes.
• Louisville's Cooper Olson earned ACC Offensive Player of the Week honors, while SMU's Ryan Clanton-Pimentel claimed ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors for matches played from Oct. 19-25.
• UNC's Joschi Schelb leads the ACC and ranks second nationally this season in goals with 15, while Clemson's Ransford Gyan is tied for fourth nationally with 12 goals.
• League programs have scored four wins against top-five opponents this season: Stanford vs. No. 2 San Diego, Clemson vs. No. 3 Furman, SMU at No. 4 Saint Louis and NC State vs. No. 4 UMKC.
• Virginia head coach George Gelnovatch won his 400th career match on October 6 against Queens. He joined Duke's John Rennie (1979-2007, 410 wins) as the ACC's lone men's soccer coaches to win 400 career games.
• Six active ACC head coaches have won D-I national championships as a head coach: Mike Noonan (Clemson), Carlos Somoano (UNC), Jay Vidovich (Pitt), Jeremy Gunn (Stanford), Ian McIntyre (Syracuse) and George Gelnovatch (Virginia). NC State's Marc Hubbard won a Division II national title in 2013.
• ACC teams have won 20 NCAA men’s soccer championships, with 11 since 2001, including three of the last five (Clemson 2021, Syracuse 2022, Clemson 2023).