2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season

The 2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season was the 20th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began in August 2019 and concluded in November 2019.

2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August 2019 – November 2019
Number of teams	6
2020 MLS SuperDraft
Regular Season
Champions	Washington
Runners-up	Stanford

2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 6 Washington †	9	–	2	–	0			16	–	4	–	0
No. 4 Stanford +	6	–	2	–	2			14	–	3	–	5
Oregon State	5	–	3	–	2			8	–	5	–	2
California +	4	–	4	–	2			8	–	7	–	3
UCLA	2	–	6	–	1			6	–	9	–	2
San Diego State	1	–	9	–	0			4	–	12	–	2
† – Conference champion + – Invited to the 2019 NCAA Tournament As of 17 December 2019 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

Background

Previous season

Main article: 2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season

The four-time defending champions, Stanford, successfully defended their Pac-12 title. The Cardinal entered the NCAA Tournament as the three-time defending champions, but were eliminated by Akron in the quarterfinals. Joining Stanford in the tournament were Oregon State, Washington, and UCLA.

Coaching changes

On March 12, 2019, UCLA head coach, Jorge Salcedo was arrested, and indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for conspiracy to commit racketeering for alleged participation in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.^[1] His indictment charged Salcedo with taking $200,000 in bribes to help two students, one in 2016 and one in 2018, get admitted to UCLA using falsified soccer credential admission information.^[2][3]

As a result, he was placed on leave by UCLA from his coaching position at the school.^[2][4] On March 21, 2019, it was announced that he had resigned.^[5][6]

During the spring season matches between March 21 and April 29, 2019 assistant coaches Phil Marfuggi and Matt Taylor took over coaching duties on an interim basis.^[7][8] On April 29, 2019, UCLA hired Ryan Jorden as the head coach of the program. Jorden had previously coached University of the Pacific men's soccer team.^[9]

School	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
UCLA	Jorge Salcedo	Resigned	March 21, 2019	Preseason	Matt Taylor (interim)	March 22, 2019
UCLA	Matt Taylor (interim)	End of caretaker period	April 29, 2019	Preseason	Ryan Jorden	April 29, 2019

Teams

Head coaches

As of 2018 season

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	Pac-12 record[10]	NCAA Tournaments[11]	NCAA College Cups[11]	NCAA Titles[11]
California	Kevin Grimes	SMUAC	19	185–124–42 (.587)	185–124–42 (.587)	82–79–21 (.508)	11	0	0
Oregon State	Terry Boss	VirginiaAC	2	18–17–3 (.513)	18–17–3 (.513)	10–9–1 (.525)	0	0	0
San Diego State	Lev Kirshner	RutgersAC	19	154–168–58 (.482)	138–167–55 (.460)	36–71–24 (.366)	3	0	0
Stanford	Jeremy Gunn	Charlotte	7	283–90–54 (.726)	96–29–23 (.726)	45–14–11 (.721)	12	4	3
UCLA	Ryan Jorden	Pacific	1	98–43–16 (.675)	0–0–0 (–)	0–0–0 (–)	2	0	0
Washington	Jamie Clark	Creighton	9	138–57–23 (.686)	99–42–20 (.677)	48–23–9 (.656)	8	0	0

• AC = Assistant coach

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
California Golden Bears	Berkeley, California	Edwards Stadium	22,000
Oregon State Beavers	Corvallis, Oregon	Lorenz Field	2,200
San Diego State Aztecs	San Diego, California	SDSU Sports Deck	1,000
Stanford Cardinal	Stanford, California	Cagan Stadium	4,000
UCLA Bruins	Los Angeles, California	Wallis Annenberg Stadium	3,000
Washington Huskies	Seattle, Washington	Husky Soccer Stadium	1,640

• Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, USC, Utah, and Washington State sponsor men's soccer at the club level and thus do not compete in the Pac-12 Conference. San Diego State is an associate member.

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Pac-12 member won
Pac-12 member lost
Pac-12 member tied
Pac-12 teams in bold

All times Pacific time.

Conference results

Each team plays every other conference team twice; once home and once away.

Home \ Away	CAL	OSU	SDSU	STA	UCLA	UW
California	—	2–1	Nov. 3	1–2	Oct. 31	0–1
Oregon State	Nov. 10	—	2–1	Nov. 7	2–0	Nov. 15
San Diego State	0–4	Oct. 24	—	0–1	Nov. 16	Nov. 7
Stanford	Nov. 14	1–1	Oct. 31	—	Nov. 3	1–2
UCLA	3–3	Oct. 27	5–2	0–1	—	Oct. 24
Washington	Nov. 7	2–1	2–0	Nov. 10	5–0	—

Source: Pac-12 Conference
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Washington	1	1	1	1	1	1
Stanford	3	4	2	3	2
California	4	3	4	5	3
Oregon State	2	2	3	2	4
UCLA	5	6	6	4	5
San Diego State	6	5	5	6	6	6

	Leader and 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

Source: Pac-12.com

Postseason

NCAA Tournament

Main article: 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament

The NCAA Tournament will begin in November 2019 and conclude in December 2019.

Seed	Region	School	1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship

Rankings

National rankings

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

		Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
California	USC	NV	NV	RV	NV	NV	NV	NV	RV						None released
	TDS	NV	NV	RV	25	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV
Oregon State	USC	22	RV	RV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV						None released
	TDS	RV	RV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	RV	NV	NV
San Diego State	USC	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV						None released
	TDS	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV
Stanford	USC	5	4	3	2	1	2	7	5						None released
	TDS	5	5	3	2	2	1	3	10	11	10
UCLA	USC	RV	NV	NV	RV	NV	NV	NV	NV						None released
	TDS	NV	NV	NV	13	19	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV
Washington	USC	RV	13	8	12	10	7	2	2						None released
	TDS	RV	RV	13	11	12	13	13	2	2	1

Regional rankings - USC Far West Region

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 10
NV		No votes received

The United Soccer Coaches' Far West region ranks teams across the Pac-12, Big West, and WAC.

	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12
California	7	5	7	9	NV	8	NV	9
Oregon State	NV	NV	NV	8	7	NV	NV	NV
San Diego State	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV	NV
Stanford	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2
UCLA	10	7	5	NV	NV	10	10	NV
Washington	2	1	3	2	2	1	1	1

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Following each week's games, Pac-12 conference officials select the player of the week.

Week		Player	School	Pos.	Ref.
Sep. 3		Justin Garces	UCLA	GK	[12]
Sep. 10		Milan Iloski	UCLA	MF	[13]
Sep. 17		Tanner Beason	Stanford	DF	[14]
Sep. 24		Sofiane Djeffal	Oregon State	FW	[15]
Oct. 1		Pablo Pelaez	San Diego State	MF	[16]
Oct. 8		Milan Iloski	UCLA	MF	[17]
Oct. 15		Ousseni Bouda	Stanford	FW	[18]
Oct. 22
Oct. 29
Nov. 5
Nov. 12
Nov. 19

Postseason honors

2019 Pac-12 Men's Soccer Individual Awards[19]
Award	Recipient(s)
Player of the Year	Blake Bodily – Washington
Defensive Player of the Year	Ethan Bartlow – Washington
Coach of the Year	Jamie Clark – Washington
Freshman of the Year	Ousseni Bouda – Stanford

2019 Pac-12 Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams[19]
First Team Honorees	Second Team Honorees	Third Team Honorees
Milan Iloski, UCLA Ousseni Bouda, Stanford Blake Bodily, Washington Taylor Davila, California Sofiane Djeffal, Oregon State Derek Waldeck, Stanford Joel Walker, Oregon State Ethan Bartlow, Washington Joe Hafferty, Oregon State Simon Lekressner, California Andrew Thomas, Stanford	Tommy Williamson, California Riley Ferch, UCLA Jared Gilbey, Stanford John Magnus, Washington Pablo Pelaez, San Diego State Logan Panchot, Stanford Tanner Beason, Stanford Adrian Crespo, Oregon State JJ Foe Nuphaus, California Matthew Powell, UCLA Drake Callender, California	Hunter George, San Diego State Zach Ryan, Stanford Charlie Wehan, Stanford Eric Iloski, UCLA Francisco Perez, California Christian Soto, Washington Dylan Teves, Washington Adam Vargas, San Diego State Eric Diaz, Oregon State Christopher Grey, California Ian Lonergan, California Sam Fowler, Washington

National awards

Main article: 2019 NCAA Men's Soccer All-Americans

Player	Pos.	School	Honor	Ref.
Ethan Bartlow	DF	Washington	College Soccer News Third-Team All-American	[20]
			Soccer America Second-Team All-American	[21]
			TopDrawer Soccer Second-Team All-American	[22]
			United Soccer Coaches Second-Team All-American	[23]
Tanner Beason	DF	Stanford	College Soccer News First-Team All-American	[20]
			Soccer America First-Team All-American	[21]
			TopDrawer Soccer Third-Team All-American	[22]
			United Soccer Coaches First-Team All-American	[23]
			Senior CLASS Award Senior All-American	[24]
Blake Bodily	MF	Washington	College Soccer News First-Team All-American	[20]
			Soccer America First-Team All-American	[21]
			TopDrawer Soccer First-Team All-American	[22]
			United Soccer Coaches First-Team All-American	[23]
Ousseni Bouda	FW	Stanford	College Soccer News First-Team Freshman All-American	[25]
			TopDrawer Soccer First-Team Freshman All-American	[26]
Sam Fowler	GK	Washington	College Soccer News Second-Team Freshman All-American	[25]
			TopDrawer Soccer Third-Team Freshman All-American	[26]
Kasey French	DF	Washington	CoSIDA Third-Team Academic All-American	[27]
Keegan Hughes	DF	Stanford	College Soccer News First-Team Freshman All-American	[25]
			TopDrawer Soccer Second-Team Freshman All-American	[26]
Milan Iloski	FW	UCLA	College Soccer News Second-Team All-American	[20]
			TopDrawer Soccer Third-Team All-American	[22]
Christian Soto	MF	Washington	College Soccer News Third-Team Freshman All-American	[25]
			TopDrawer Soccer Second-Team Freshman All-American	[26]
Andrew Thomas	GK	Stanford	College Soccer News Second-Team All-American	[20]
			Soccer America Third-Team All-American	[21]
			TopDrawer Soccer Third-Team All-American	[22]
			United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-American	[23]
			CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-American	[27]

2020 MLS Draft

Main article: 2020 MLS SuperDraft

The 2020 MLS SuperDraft will be held in January 2020.

Rnd.	Pick	Player	Pos.	Team	School

Homegrown players

Further information: Homegrown Player Rule (Major League Soccer)

The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008,^[28] every player entering Major League Soccer had to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft.

To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year.^[29] Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract.

Original MLS team	Player	Pos.	School	Ref.
San Jose Earthquakes	Drake Callender	GK	California (Jr.)