2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship

2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship
Tournament details
CountryCanada
CityToronto, Ontario
VenueVarsity Stadium
DatesNovember 6–9, 2025
Teams8
Final positions
ChampionsYork Lions
Runners-upMount Royal Cougars
Third placeMontreal Carabins
Fourth placeUQTR Patriotes
Tournament statistics
Matches played11
Goals scored39 (3.55 per match)
Attendance6,902 (627 per match)
Top goal scorerChristian Zeppieri (4 goals)
Awards
Championship MVPChristian Zeppieri (York)

The 2025 U Sports Men's Soccer Championship was 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 was played November 6–9, 2025 at Varsity Stadium on the St. George campus of University of Toronto.[1][2]

Host

The tournament was held at Varsity Stadium on the St. George campus of University of Toronto. This was the 3rd U Sports men's soccer championship event hosted at the University of Toronto.[3]

Qualified teams

The championship consisted of an eight-team single-elimination tournament. One team automatically qualified as the hosts, four teams automatically qualified as winners of each of the four conferences, and the three non-hosting conferences were each assigned an additional berth.[4][5]

Participating teams

Team Conf. Qualified as (conference result) Qualified on Last appearance[6] Last win
Toronto Varsity Blues OUA Hosts[a] October 17, 2024 2016 1988
Dalhousie Tigers AUS Champions October 24, 2025 2008 1995
Mount Royal Cougars CW Champions October 26, 2025 2024 None
Montreal Carabins RSEQ Champions October 24, 2025 2024 2021
Cape Breton Capers AUS Runners-up October 24, 2025 2023 2023
UBC Thunderbirds CW Runners-up October 26, 2025 2024 2024
York Lions OUA Runners-up October 25, 2025 2024 2015
UQTR Patriotes RSEQ Regular season winners October 17, 2025 2019 2019
  1. ^ Toronto also won the OUA conference championship.

Seeding

After the conference championships, the four conference champions were seeded in positions one through four based on their final ranking. The remaining four teams were then placed in the bracket to avoid intraconference matchups in the first two rounds and to avoid pairs of matchups from similar conferences.[4][7]

Pos Conf. Team Reg. Season Playoffs Pct
1 OUA Toronto Varsity Blues (H) 10–1–1 3–0–0 .900
2 RSEQ Montreal Carabins 7–2–3 2–0–0 .750
3 AUS Dalhousie Tigers 8–2–2 2–0–0 .786
4 CW Mount Royal Cougars 7–3–4 2–0–1 .676
5 AUS Cape Breton Capers 9–1–2 1–1–0 .786
6 OUA York Lions 9–1–2 1–1–1 .767
7 CW UBC Thunderbirds 15–0–1 2–1–0 .921
8 RSEQ UQTR Patriotes 9–0–3 0–1–0 .808
Source: Seeding
(H) Host

Bracket

Fifth-place matchConsolation semi-finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
1Toronto Varsity Blues2
8UQTR Patriotes (a.e.t.)3
Toronto Varsity Blues5UQTR Patriotes0
Cape Breton Capers0Mount Royal Cougars2
4Mount Royal Cougars2
5Cape Breton Capers1
Toronto Varsity Blues1Mount Royal Cougars0
UBC Thunderbirds2York Lions (a.e.t.)1
2Montreal Carabins2
7UBC Thunderbirds1
UBC Thunderbirds3Montreal Carabins0Third-place match
Dalhousie Tigers0York Lions2
3Dalhousie Tigers1UQTR Patriotes1
6York Lions5Montreal Carabins5

Results

All times are local, EST (UTC−5).

Quarter-finals

Dalhousie Tigers1–5York Lions
  • Christmas 89' (pen.)
 Report
Attendance: 3,100
Referee: Mo Mohseni
Montreal Carabins2–1UBC Thunderbirds
 Report
  • Afework 21'
Attendance: 150
Referee: Nivin Raizada
Mount Royal Cougars2–1Cape Breton Capers
 Report
  • Bayo 56'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Thomas Noël
Toronto Varsity Blues2–3 (a.e.t.)UQTR Patriotes
  • Osorio 25'
  • Grey 57'
 Report
  • Marcoux 2'
  • Boivin 41'
  • Ndiaye 96'
Referee: Cody Baldauf

Consolation semi-finals

Dalhousie Tigers0–3UBC Thunderbirds
Report
  • Norman 26'
  • Comsia 56'
  • Rukavina 81'
Attendance: 2,800
Referee: Cody Baldauf
Toronto Varsity Blues5–0Cape Breton Capers
  • Schifano 17'
  • Scurti 55', 74'
  • Hallam 71'
  • Prested 84'
 Report
Attendance: 102
Referee: Josh Gall

Semi-finals

Montreal Carabins0–2York Lions
Report
Referee: Thomas Noël
Mount Royal Cougars2–0UQTR Patriotes
 Report
Referee: Mo Mohseni

Fifth-place match

Toronto Varsity Blues1–2UBC Thunderbirds
  • Osorio 90'
 Report
Attendance: 150
Referee: Nivin Raizada

Third-place match

Montreal Carabins5–1UQTR Patriotes
  • El Kalkouli 2'
  • McDuff 21', 29'
  • Malo 45+2'
  • Touil 68'
 Report
  • Marcoux 31'
Attendance: 50
Referee: Cody Baldauf

Final

Mount Royal Cougars0–1 (a.e.t.)York Lions
Report
Attendance: 450
Referee: Mo Mohseni

Statistics

Final standings

Pos Team W–L GF GA GD
1st York Lions 3–0 8 1 +7
2nd Mount Royal Cougars 2–1 4 2 +2
3rd Montreal Carabins 2–1 7 4 +3
4th UQTR Patriotes 1–2 4 9 –5
5th UBC Thunderbirds 2–1 6 3 +3
6th Toronto Varsity Blues 1–2 8 5 +3
7th* Cape Breton Capers 0–2 1 7 –6
8th* Dalhousie Tigers 0–2 1 8 –7

* No seventh-place game was held. Ranking of 7th and 8th is unofficial based on the goal difference of each losing consolation-semifinalist.

Goalscorers

There were 39 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 3.55 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

  • Sami McDuff – Montreal
  • Michael Osorio – Toronto
  • Gianluca Scurti – Toronto
  • Alexandre Marcoux – UQTR

1 goal

  • Amadou Bayo – Cape Breton
  • Orene Cohen – Montreal
  • Omar El Kalkouli – Montreal
  • Maxime Filion – Montreal
  • Xavier Malo – Montreal
  • Quentin Touil – Montreal
  • Jonathan Walter – Mount Royal
  • Jordan Grey – Toronto
  • Niklas Hallam – Toronto
  • Jacob Prested – Toronto
  • Andrea Schifano – Toronto
  • Theo Afework – UBC
  • Max Comsia – UBC
  • Kyle Dent – UBC
  • Henri Godbout – UBC
  • Luke Norman – UBC
  • Markus Rukavina – UBC
  • Emile Boivin – UQTR
  • Mouhamed Ndiaye – UQTR
  • Mykeo Christmas – York
  • James Fidalgo – York
  • Ryan Robinson – York

1 own goal

  • Joseph Odume – Dalhousie (against York)
  • Adam Benmoussa – Montreal (against York)

See also

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Championships". Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  3. ^ "U of T to Host Pair of U Sports Championships in 2025 & 2027". Toronto Varsity Blues. October 17, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  4. ^ a b "U Sports Playing Regulations: Men's Soccer" (PDF). U Sports. August 2025.
  5. ^ "Policies and Procedures (20 – Programs)" (PDF). U SPORTS. July 2025. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  6. ^ "Results by Team" (PDF). U SPORTS - English. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  7. ^ "Draw and bracket announced for 2025 U SPORTS men's soccer championship". November 2, 2025. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
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