The 2010 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament was a tournament of 48 collegiate soccer teams who played for the NCAA Championship in soccer. The semifinals and final were held at Harder Stadium in

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. All the other games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team (indicated by * for non-seeded teams). The final was held on December 12, 2010.

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defeated Louisville, 1–0, for the title. The bracket was announced November 15, 2010. The tournament started on November 18. The second round was played on November 21. The third round was played on November 28. The Regional Finals were played December 3 and 4.

Qualified teams

Automatic bids

All automatic bids are granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the

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, and

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, each given to the regular season champion. There were 22 automatic bids to the NCAA tournament.

At-large bids

26 teams received at-large bids to the tournament. * ACC -

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(10-4-5) * ACC -

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(9-5-4) * ACC -

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(16-3-1) * ACC -

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(11-5-3) * Big East -

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(12-2-5) * Big East - Georgetown (11-6-1) * Big East -

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(10-5-4) * Big East - Providence (12-5-3) * Big East -

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(9-5-4) * Big East -

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(10-7-2) * Big Ten -

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(9-7-2) * Big Ten -

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(11-7-1) * Big Ten -

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(13-7-1) * Big Ten -

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(10-5-3) * CAA - Old Dominion (9-6-2) * Conference USA -

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(11-4-3) * Conference USA - SMU (15-2-0) * Conference USA -

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(11-3-3) * Ivy League -

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(10-6-1) * Ivy League - Penn (12-5-0) * Missouri Valley - Creighton (12-5-1) * Mountain Pacific -

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(9-6-4) * Mountain Pacific -

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(9-5-5) * Pacific-10 -

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(14-4-1) * Southern -

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College Cup

Harder Stadium,

Goal scorers

;5 goals * Justin Meram - Michigan ;3 goals * Scott Caldwell - Akron * Darren Mattocks - Akron * Ethan Finlay - Creighton * Colby Meyer - Notre Dame * Andrew Olsen - Dartmouth *

Charlie Campbell Charlie Campbell (born January 5, 1988, in Mundelein, Illinois) is an American Association football, soccer player. Career College and amateur Campbell attended Mundelein High School and played club soccer for the Chicago Sockers, before goin ...

- Louisville *

Colin Rolfe Colin Rolfe (born February 15, 1990, in Spokane, Washington) is an American association football, soccer player. Career College and amateur Rolfe attended Plymouth High School (Michigan), Plymouth High School, where he played on the school socc ...

- Louisville * Corey Hertzog - Penn St. *

Eder Arreola Éder Arreola (born November 13, 1991) is an American professional association football, soccer player who currently plays for San Diego 1904 FC in the National Independent Soccer Association. Career College and Amateur He played four years of ...

- UCLA * Chandler Hoffman - UCLA *

Franck Tayou Franck Tayou (born April 16, 1990) is a Cameroon-born-American soccer player who currently plays for Utica City FC of the Major Arena Soccer League. Career Tayou began his college soccer career at West Virginia University in 2010 where he playe ...

- West Virginia ;2 goals *

Perry Kitchen Perry Allen Kitchen (born February 29, 1992) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defensive midfielder. He was part of the Akron Zips side that won the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, and was a fir ...

- Akron *

Michael Nanchoff Michael Nanchoff (born September 23, 1988) is an American retired soccer player who is currently an assistant coach for the Akron Zips men's soccer team. Career College and Amateur Before college, Nanchoff played for Walsh Jesuit High School ...

- Akron * John Fitzpatrick - California * Nik Robson - Central Florida *

Cole Grossman Nicholas Holland "Cole" Grossman (born April 10, 1989 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American soccer player who most recently played for Stabæk in the Norwegian Eliteserien. Career College and amateur Grossman is a product of Duke Uni ...

- Duke * Andy Adlard - Indiana * Will Bruin - Indiana *

Nick DeLeon Nicholas Lee DeLeon (born July 17, 1990) is an American soccer player. Although he is capable of playing as a full-back, he typically plays as a wide midfielder, working towards the center. He is highly regarded for his work rate and 1-on-1 sk ...

- Louisville * Austin Berry - Louisville * Aaron Horton - Louisville * Domenic Barone - Michigan St. * Wilder Arboleda - Providence * Matt Marcin - Providence * Ernesto Carranza - Sacramento St. * Arthur Ivo - SMU * Ashley McInnes - Tulsa * Victor Chavez - UCLA ;1 goal * Kofi Sarkodie - Akron * Kyle Bekker - Boston College * Taylor Gorman - Brown * Austin Mandel - Brown * Jon Okafor - Brown * Anthony Avalos - California * Servando Carrasco - California * Davis Paul - California * Tony Salciccia - California * Yaron Bacher - Central Florida * Ben Hunt - Central Florida * Ross Kelly - Coastal Carolina * Andy Craven - College of Charleston * Shawn Ferguson - College of Charleston *

Sean Flatley Sean Daniel Flatley (born December 4, 1988, in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American soccer player. Career College Flatley played his first two years of college soccer at the University of Maryland before transferring to the College of Cha ...

- College of Charleston * Francis Twohig - College of Charleston * Mamadou Diouf - Connecticut * Sergio Castillo - Creighton * Jose Gomez - Creighton * Tyler Polak - Creighton * Aaron Gaide - Dartmouth * Bryan Giudicelli - Dartmouth * Lucky Mkosana - Dartmouth * Nick Pappas - Dartmouth * Aaron Schoenfeld - ETSU * Jaron Westbrook - ETSU * Ian Christianson - Georgetown * Chandler Diggs - Georgetown * Andy Riemer - Georgetown *

Nikita Kotlov Nikita Kotlov (born September 20, 1991) is an American association football, soccer player who plays for Maltese club Mosta F.C., Mosta FC. Career College Kotlov spent his entire college career at Indiana University. He made a total of 85 appea ...

- Indiana * Harrison Petts - Indiana * Jason Herrick - Maryland *

Matt Kassel Matthew Timothy Kassel (born October 30, 1989) is a retired American soccer player and current color commentator for Bethlehem Steel FC in the USL. Career College and amateur Kassel attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School. He began his caree ...

- Maryland * Taylor Kemp - Maryland * Patrick Mullins - Maryland *

John Stertzer John Patrick Stertzer (born October 4, 1990) is an American association football, soccer player who plays as a midfielder. Career Real Salt Lake After spending four seasons with the Maryland Terrapins Stertzer was selected as the twelfth overal ...

- Maryland * Casey Townsend - Maryland * Greg Young - Maryland * Latif Alashe - Michigan * Fabio Pereira - Michigan * Jeff Quijano - Michigan * Soony Saad - Michigan * Jeff Ricondo - Michigan St. * Cyrus Saydee - Michigan St. * Devon Sandoval - New Mexico * Enzo Martínez - North Carolina * Stephen McCarthy - North Carolina *

Kirk Urso Kirk Jon Urso (March 6, 1990 – August 5, 2012) was an American professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. A product of Glenbard East High School and the IMG Soccer Academy, Urso played four years of college soccer at North Carolin ...

- North Carolina *

Dillon Powers Dillon Thomas Powers (born February 14, 1991) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for USL Championship side Orange County SC. He played in Major League Soccer for Colorado Rapids and Orlando City before moving to Dundee Unite ...

- Notre Dame * Austin McAnena - Ohio State * Omar Vallejo - Ohio State * Konrad Warzycha - Ohio State * Chris Harman - Old Dominion * Alex Vaughan - Old Dominion *

Christian Barreiro Christian Andreas Barreiro (born December 14, 1990) is an American soccer player who most recently played for Puerto Rico Islanders in the North American Soccer League. Career College and Amateur Barreiro spent all four years of his collegiate ca ...

- Penn * Jordan Tyler - Penn State * Antoine Hoppenot - Princeton * Greg Davis - Providence * Brian Grisell - Providence * Toussaint McClure - Providence * Chris Bettencourt - Sacramento St. * Eric Masch - Santa Clara * Juan Castillo - SMU *

Josue Soto Josue Soto (born January 3, 1989) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for USL League One club Tormenta FC. Career Academy Soto trained with the Houston Dynamo first team in the summers of 2008 and 2010, but ...

- SMU * Sam Arthur - South Carolina * Bradlee Baladez - South Carolina * Kevin Olson - St. Peter's * Lebongang Pila - St. Peter's * Kyle Cumings - Tulsa *

Kelyn Rowe Kelyn Jaynes Rowe (born December 2, 1991) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. Career College and amateur Rowe appeared as an attacking midfielder for the UCLA ...

- UCLA * Reed Williams - UCLA * Waid Ibrahim - UC Santa Barbara *

Michael Tetteh Michael Osakonor Tetteh (born 16 January 1989) is a former Ghanaian footballer. Playing career Youth and college Tetteh spent his youth career with Right to Dream Academy for six years and the Santa Barbara Soccer Club for three years befo ...

- UC Santa Barbara * Andrew Bulls - UMBC * Levi Houapeu - UMBC * Uwen Etuk - West Virginia * Abel Sebele - West Virginia * Uzi Tayou - West Virginia * James Queree - Xavier ;Own goals * Eric Robertson - Brown (playing against California) * Ray Gaddis - West Virginia (playing against Xavier)

References

* {{2010–11 NCAA Division I championships navbox 2010 in American soccer NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament seasons 2010 NCAA Division I men's soccer season NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament