NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference announced the bracket for the league’s 2025 Men’s Soccer Championship on Tuesday evening.
 
The tournament will be contested November 9-16 with No. 1 seed Kentucky and No. 2 seed West Virginia hosting the opening rounds. Each of the tournament’s matches will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
Kentucky earned the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed as the outright champion of the league with a 7-1-1 record in conference play, earning 22 points. It will mark the second time since joining the Sun Belt that Kentucky has hosted. They will face No. 8 Coastal Carolina in the first round.
 
West Virginia secured the tournament’s No. 2 overall seed with 21 league points after going 7-2. The reigning Sun Belt tournament champions host the opening round for a second consecutive season and will face No. 7 Old Dominion in the first round.

Marshall earned the No. 3 seed with 19 conference points after going 6-2-1 and will head to Morgantown for the opening round where they will face 6-seeded Georgia State.  

Rounding out the four teams in Lexington are No. 4 seed Georgia Southern and No. 5 seed UCF who will meet in the opening round.

2025 Sun Belt Men’s Soccer Championship Schedule

First Round – Sunday, November 9
Match 1 – (1) Kentucky vs. (8) Coastal Carolina, 3 p.m. ET
Match 2 – (4) Georgia Southern vs. (5) UCF, 7:00 p.m. ET
Match 3 – (2) West Virginia vs. (7) Old Dominion, 3:00 p.m. ET
Match 4 – (3) Marshall vs. (6) Georgia State, 7 p.m. ET

Second Round – Wednesday, November 12
Match 5 – Winner Match 1 vs. Winner Match 2, 7 p.m. ET
Match 6 – Winner Match 3 vs. Winner Match 4, 7 p.m. ET

Championship – Sunday, November 16
Match 7 – Winner Match 5 vs. Winner Match 6, 1 p.m. ET