North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer
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| Founded | 1947 | ||
| University | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
| Conference | ACC | ||
| Location | Chapel Hill, NC | ||
| Head coach | Carlos Somoano | ||
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Fetzer Field (Capacity: 6,000) |
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| Nickname | Tar Heels | ||
| Colors | Carolina Blue and White |
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| NCAA Tournament Champions | |||
| 2001, 2011 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Runner Up | |||
| 2008 | |||
| NCAA Tournament College Cup | |||
| 1987, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Quarterfinal | |||
| 1987, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 | |||
| NCAA Tournament Appearances | |||
| 1968, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 | |||
| Conference Tournament Champions | |||
| 1987, 2000, 2011 | |||
| Conference Regular Season Champions | |||
| 2011, 2012 (shared), 2016 (shared) | |||
The North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in men's NCAA Division I soccer competition. They compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels won the NCAA championship in 2001 and 2011.
The UNC men's varsity soccer team was founded in 1947 by Dr. Marvin Allen, the teams first coach. Before the team had only been at the club level. Dr. Allen led the team until 1977 when the current UNC women's soccer team coach Anson Dorrance took over. Dorrance spent 12 successful seasons with the men's team until 1988. One of the main reasons for his retirement from the men's team was to focus on the women's program, which he had begun coaching while he was the men's coach. Dorrance led the Tar Heel's to their first ACC Tournament Championship in the tournament's inaugural year, 1987. Elmar Bolowich took the reigns from Dorrance and led the team to a National Championship in 2001, the first of the program. Bolowich resigned in 2011, and the former assistant coach, and current head coach, Carlos Somoano was hired. In his first year as head coach, Somoano won the 2011 national championship, a feat only accomplished by one other coach, Indiana's Mike Freitag. The same year, he also won the ACC regular season, and the ACC Tournament, winning every title possible for the year. Since the programs founding in 1947, Carolina has posted only 2 losing seasons. Making 4 consecutive College Cup appearances from 2008–2011, UNC has established itself as a powerhouse in modern-day college soccer in one of the most dominant conferences in the country.
Fetzer Field was originally built in 1935 as a part of president Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Project Administration, which brought much needed jobs to native Tar Heels. It was originally constructed for the track and field team, named after a previous UNC athletic director, Bob Fetzer. However, Fetzer Field soon served home to men's soccer in 1947, men's lacrosse in 1949, women's soccer in 1979, and women's lacrosse in 1996. It has also served as a site for numerous men's and women's lacrosse and soccer ACC Championship events, National Junior Olympic events, and as the home training site for the U.S. Track and Field Team in 1996.
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