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The 2024 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team represents the University of Virginia during the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Cavaliers are led by head coach Steve Swanson, in his twenty-fifth season. They play home games at Klöckner Stadium.
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. 29 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments, 1 team received an automatic bid by claiming the conference regular season crown (West Coast Conference doesn't hold a conference tournament), and an additional 34 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.
The 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 43rd season of NCAA championship women's college soccer. The season began on August 15, 2024, and culminated on December 9, 2024 with the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament, with the College Cup being held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. [1]
The Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team was founded in 1985 with head coach Dan Beshoar. The team went 10–8–0 in their inaugural season and did not play in a conference. The University of Virginia was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but the conference did not begin to sponsor women's soccer until 1987. [3]
The women's soccer team has produced three FIFA Women's World Cup winners for the U.S. women's national team, Morgan Brian (2015 and 2019) Emily Sonnett (2019) and Becky Sauerbrunn (both 2015 and 2019), [25] and three Olympic gold medal winners, Sauerbrunn , Angela Hucles (2004 and 2008), and Sonnett . [26]
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This was the team's 38th season playing organized women's college soccer and their 36th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. [1] The Cavaliers played only three Power 5 opponents in their non-conference season and finished 1–0–2 against those opponents.
The 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer tournament was the post season women's soccer tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference, held from November 3 through November 10, 2024. The five-match tournament took place at campus sites for the quarterfinals and Sahlen's Stadium in Cary, North Carolina for the semifinals and final.