2019 Horizon League men's soccer tournament

The 2019 Horizon League men's soccer tournament was the 32nd edition of the tournament. The tournament decided the Horizon League champion and guaranteed representative into the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. The tournament began on November 11 and concluded on November 16, 2019.

2019 Horizon League men's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Quarterfinals site	Titan Field Aldo Santaga Stadium Detroit, Michigan Green Bay, Wisconsin
Semifinals site	Flames Field Chicago, IL
Finals site	Flames Field Chicago, IL
Champions	Wright State (1st title)
Winning coach	Jake Slemker (1st title)
MVP	Joel Sundell (Wright State)
Broadcast	ESPN+
Horizon League men's soccer tournament «2018  2020»

2019 Horizon League men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
UIC	6	–	2	–	0			12	–	5	–	1
Oakland	4	–	2	–	2			7	–	9	–	3
Detroit Mercy	4	–	3	–	1			7	–	11	–	1
Green Bay	4	–	4	–	0			6	–	8	–	2
Wright State ‡	4	–	4	–	0			11	–	8	–	4
Milwaukee	3	–	3	–	2			10	–	6	–	4
Cleveland State	3	–	5	–	0			7	–	7	–	1
Northern Kentucky	3	–	5	–	0			7	–	10	–	1
IUPUI	2	–	5	–	1			4	–	10	–	3
‡ – 2019 Horizon Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2019 NCAA tournament As of 25 November 2019 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

Wright State won their first Horizon League championship, defeating Milwaukee 4–3 in penalty kicks after a 1–1 draw in regulation time and extra time. It was Wright State's first ever Horizon League tournament championship. Three-time defending champions, UIC, were eliminated in the semifinals by Milwaukee. Wright State second year head coach, Jake Slemker, won his first title with the Raiders.

Joel Sundell of Wright State won the Horizon League Tournament Most valuable player.

With the victory, Wright State earned the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament, which marked Wright State's first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament.^[1] In the opening round, Wright State upset Notre Dame 3–2 in the first round,^[2] before losing on penalty kicks to Michigan in the second round.^[3]

Seeds

Seed	School	Conference	Points	Tiebreaker
1	UIC	6–2–0	18
2	Oakland	4–2–2	14
3	Detroit Mercy	4–3–1	13
4	Green Bay	4–4–0	12	Green Bay 1–0 vs. Wright State^[4]
5	Wright State	4–4–0	12	Wright State 0–1 vs.Green Bay^[4]
6	Milwaukee	3–3–2	11

Bracket

	Quarterfinals Nov. 11					Semifinals Nov. 14					Final Nov. 16
						1	UIC	0 (0)
	3	Detroit Mercy	0			6	Milwaukee (pen.)	0 (3)
	6	Milwaukee	2								6	Milwaukee	1 (3)
											5	Wright State (pen.)	1 (4)
						2	Oakland	1
	4	Green Bay	2			5	Milwaukee	4
	5	Wright State	1

Results

First round

November 5

7:00 p.m. EST

No. 3 Oakland	0–1	No. 6 Milwaukee
	Report	Latinovich   54'

Oakland Soccer Field
Rochester, Michigan

Attendance: 155

Referee: Art Arustamyan

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November 5

8:00 p.m. EST

No. 4 Green Bay	2–3 (a.e.t.)	No. 5 IUPUI
Carreon   38' Mansa   81'	Report	Goede   15' Siasia   25' Souza   97'

Aldo Santaga Stadium
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Attendance: 338

Referee: Jorge Cuate

Semifinals

November 8

4:00 p.m. EST

No. 2 UIC	1–1 (a.e.t.)	No. 5 IUPUI
González   80'	Report	Siasia   57'
Penalties
Todd   Pérez   Ash   Moore	4–2	Aguilar   Patacca   Zampieri   Goede

Alumni Field
Dayton, Ohio

Attendance: 182

Referee: Michael Allie

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November 8

7:00 p.m. EST

No. 1 Wright State	1–1 (a.e.t.)	No. 6 Milwaukee
Corfe   37'	Report	Conway   64'
Penalties
Suad Suljic   Henrik Fennefoss   Vuk Latinovich   Sean Holmes   Evan Conway	4–3	Deri Corfe   Stefan Rokvic   Harvey Slade   Dan Bent   Jackson Dietrich

Alumni Field
Dayton, Ohio

Attendance: 392

Referee: Josh Kelly

Final

November 10

6:00 p.m. EST

No. 1 Wright State	1–3	No. 2 UIC
Tajak Dominik   81'	Report	4,88' Josiah Ash   35' Pau Mateo

Alumni Field
Dayton, Ohio

Attendance: 623

Referee: Calin Radosav

Statistics

Goals

All-Tournament team

Following the championship game, the Horizon League All-Tournament team was announced.

Player	Team
Horizon League Men's Soccer All-Tournament team^[5]
Joel Sundell (MVP)	Wright State
Deri Corfe
Jackson Dietrich
Ids Hannema
Evan Conway	Milwaukee
Vuk Latinovich
Freddy Lorezen
Jacob Graiber	UIC
Jesus Perez
Luke Morrell	Oakland
Charlie Braithwaite

References

1. Harris, Doug (November 18, 2019). "Wright State soccer: Raiders to make NCAA Tournament debut vs. Notre Dame". daytondailynews. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
2. Phol, Jack (November 22, 2019). "WSU earns first NCAA soccer tournament win". WDTN. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
3. "Michigan men's soccer downs Wright State on PKs, advances to NCAA third round". Detroit News. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
4. "Wright State falls on Senior Night". Wright State University Athletics. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
5. "2019 Horizon League Men's Soccer All-Tournament team". Conference USA. November 17, 2019. from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2020.

External links

• 2019 Horizon League Men's Soccer Championship Central