The 2019 Conference USA men's soccer season was the 25th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 25 and concluded on November 12.
The defending regular season and tournament champions were Kentucky.
The New Mexico Lobos men's soccer program was relegated from a varsity to a club sport. Head coach Jeremy Fishbein's contract expired with the termination of the New Mexico varsity program.[5]
The preseason poll was released on August 13, 2019.[8]
Team Ranking
First Place Votes
1.
Kentucky
5
2.
Charlotte
2
3.
Old Dominion
0
4.
Marshall
1
5.
FIU
0
6.
South Carolina
0
7.
UAB
0
8.
Florida Atlantic
0
Preseason national rankings
The preseason national rankings will be announced in August 2019. United Soccer Coaches, Soccer America, and TopDrawerSoccer.com do a Top-25 preseason poll. CollegeSoccerNews.com and Hero Sports do a Top-30 preseason poll.
The United Soccer Southeast regional rankings contain teams from Conference USA, the Atlantic 10 Conference, Sun Belt Conference, and Missouri Valley Conference.
The Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament was held from November 13–16, 2019 on the campus of Old Dominion University. Marshall won their first ever Conference USA Championship, beating Charlotte in the final.
GK: Elliot Panicco, Charlotte
D: Patrick Hogan, Charlotte
D: Nick O'Callaghan, FIU
D: Aimé Mabika, Kentucky
D: Illal Osmanu, Marshall
MF: Teddy Chaouche, Charlotte
MF: Andrew Booth, FIU
MF: Alonso Coello, Florida Atlantic
MF: Kalil El-Medkhar, Kentucky
F: Alessandro Campoy, FIU
F: Milo Yosef, Marshall
GK: Enrique Facusse, Kentucky
GK: Paulo Pita, Marshall
D: Jimmy Filerman, Old Dominion
D: Frano Buhovac, South Carolina
MF: Alban Rousselet, FIU
MF: Alex Alexis, Florida Atlantic
MF: Marcel Meinzer, Kentucky
MF: Pedro Dolabella, Marshall
MF: Deniz Dogan, Old Dominion
F: Ivan Mykhailenko, Florida Atlantic
F: Daniel Evans, Kentucky
F: Jamil Roberts, Marshall
GK: Daniel Gagliardi, FIU
D: Luke Johnson, Charlotte
D: David Garcia, FIU
D: Tom Abrahamsson, Florida Atlantic
D: Jan-Erik Leinhos, Marshall
D: Chris Reichman, UAB
MF: Joe Brito, Charlotte
MF: Xavi Olmos Ferris, FIU
MF: Sebastien Hauret, Old Dominion
MF: Logan Hitzeman, South Carolina
MF: Chase Rushing, UAB
F: Kameron Lacey, Charlotte
F: Brian Banahan, South Carolina
Kameron Lacey, F, Charlotte
Axel Sigurdarson, MF, Charlotte
AJ Cousins, D, FIU
David Garcia, D, FIU
Tom Abrahamsson, D, Florida Atlantic
John Michael Bandy, D, Kentucky
Eythor Bjorgolfsson, MF, Kentucky
Max Schneider, MF, Marshall
Milo Yosef, F, Marshall
Jose Olmos, D, Old Dominion
Brian Banahan, F, South Carolina
Logan Hitzeman, MF, South Carolina
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.[29]
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,[34] 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.[35] Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract.
No players from Conference USA signed homegrown contracts following the 2019 season ahead of the 2020 MLS season.
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