The 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season was the 65th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The

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are the defending champions of the Atlantic Conference and the

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are the defending champions of the Coastal Conference. Wake Forest are the defending ACC tournament champions. Both Wake Forest and North Carolina successfully defended their titles, while Louisville won the ACC tournament.

Changes from 2017

After the

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season, Bobby Clark retired as the Notre Dame head coach. He was replaced by Chad Riley, who was hired from Dartmouth. After the 2018 season,

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coach

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resigned after 13 years and a 155–77–39 record with the team. He was replaced by

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on December 27, 2018

Teams

Stadiums and locations

1. ''Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami do not sponsor men's soccer''

Personnel

Preseason

Hermann Trophy

Prior to the season two ACC men's soccer players were selected to the MAC Hermann Trophy watch list. * Alex Comsia, North Carolina * Jonny Sutherland, Clemson

Preseason poll

The 2018 ACC preseason poll was announced on August 15. Wake Forest and North Carolina were selected to win the Atlantic Division and Coastal Division, respectively. North Carolina was selected as the favorite to win the ACC Championship. The poll was voted on by all ACC coaches, for a total of 12 possible votes. ACC championship votes #

(10) #

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(1) # Wake Forest (1) Regular season poll
First place votes shown in (). Atlantic Division poll # Wake Forest (8) – 64 # Clemson (4) – 60 #

– 53 #

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– 31 #

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– 29 #

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

– 15 Coastal Division poll #

(11) – 70 #

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(1) – 53 #

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– 46 # Notre Dame – 40 #

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– 28 #

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– 15

Preseason national polls

Eight of the programs were ranked in one of the five major preseason polls. CollegeSoccerNews.com and ''Hero Sports'' use a Top 30 ranking throughout the season, while United Soccer, ''

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'', and

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use a Top 25 ranking throughout the season.

Regular season

All times Eastern time.