2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

Football tournament season

2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship
Tournament details
Country	Canada
Venue(s)	Varsity Stadium Toronto, Ontario
Dates	November 2025
Teams	8
Defending champions	UBC Thunderbirds
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The 2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship will be the 53rd edition of the U Sports men's soccer championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2025 U Sports men's soccer season. The tournament will be played in November (exact dates to be decided) at the University of Toronto.

Host

The tournament will be held at Varsity Stadium, on the grounds of the University of Toronto. This will be the 3rd U Sports men's soccer championship event hosted at the University of Toronto.

Qualified teams

NOTE: The following information is based on the format of the 2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship, and is provisional and subject to confirmation by U Sports.

The championship consists of an eight-team single-elimination tournament. Four teams automatically qualify for the tournament as one of the winners of the four conferences, three qualify as the runners-ups, and one qualify as the host.

Participating teams

Team	Conf.	Qualified	Last appearance	Last win
TBD	AUS	champion	TBD	TBD
TBD	CWUAA	champion	TBD	TBD
TBD	OAU	champion	TBD	TBD
TBD	RSEQ	champion	TBD	TBD
TBD	AUS	runner-up	TBD	TBD
TBD	CWUAA	runner-up	TBD	TBD
Toronto Varsity Blues	OAU	hosts	2016	1988
TBD	RSEQ	runner-up	TBD	TBD

^ If Toronto wins the OAU championship, the OAU runner-up will qualify as well.

Bracket

NOTE: The following information is based on the format of the 2024 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship, and is provisional and subject to confirmation by U Sports.


5th place match	Consolation semi-finals	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final



		1

		8





		4

		5





		2

		7

				3rd place match



		3

		6

References

"The best in Canadian university men's soccer and women's volleyball are coming to Toronto". U Sports. October 17, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
"U of T to Host Pair of U Sports Championships in 2025 & 2027". Toronto Varsity Blues. October 17, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.

U Sports soccer

AUS

Acadia Axemen and Axewomen (M/W)
CBU Capers (M/W)
Dalhousie Tigers (M/W)
Memorial Sea-Hawks (M/W)
Moncton Aigles Bleus and Aigles Bleues (M/W)
Mount Allison Mounties (M/W)
UNB Reds (M/W)
UPEI Panthers (M/W)
Saint Mary's Huskies (M/W)
St. Francis Xavier X-Men and X-Women (M/W)

Canada West

Pacific	Calgary Dinos (W) UBC Thunderbirds (M/W) UBC Okanagan Heat (M/W) UFV Cascades (M/W) UNBC Timberwolves (M/W) Thompson Rivers WolfPack (M/W) Trinity Western Spartans (M/W) Victoria Vikes (M/W)
Prairie	Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas (M/W) Calgary Dinos (M) Lethbridge Pronghorns (M/W) MacEwan Griffins (M/W) Manitoba Bisons (W) Mount Royal Cougars (M/W) Regina Cougars (W) Saskatchewan Huskies (M/W) Winnipeg Wesmen (W)

OUA

West	Algoma Thunderbirds (M/W) Brock Badgers (M/W) Guelph Gryphons (M/W) McMaster Marauders (M/W) Waterloo Warriors (M/W) Western Mustangs (M/W) Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks (M/W) Windsor Lancers (M/W) York Lions (M/W)
East	Carleton Ravens (M/W) Laurentian Voyageurs (M/W) Nipissing Lakers (M/W) Ontario Tech Ridgebacks (M/W) Ottawa Gee-Gees (W) Queen's Gaels (M/W) RMC Paladins (M/W) TMU Bold (M/W) Toronto Varsity Blues (Men's/W) Trent Excalibur (M/W)

RSEQ

Main

Championships

U Sports men's soccer championship
- 1980
- 1982
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
U Sports women's soccer championship

Awards

Joe Johnson Memorial Trophy (men's)
Soccer championship MVP (men's)
Soccer championship MVP (women's)
Lois and Doug Mitchell Awards (U Sports)

Other

CPL–U Sports Draft

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