2025 All-ACC Men’s Soccer Team Introduced

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 2025 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Soccer Team and season award winners had been introduced Wednesday following a vote of the league’s 15 head coaches.
 
NC State scored three of the six ACC season awards, as junior ahead Donavan Phillip was voted ACC Offensive Player of the Year, sophomore defender Nikola Markovic earned ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors and senior Logan Erb claimed Goalkeeper of the Year laurels. Virginia nabbed two awards, as ahead Nick Simmonds was named Freshman of the Year, and George Gelnovatch was chosen Coach of the Year. Clemson sophomore Ransford Gyan was chosen ACC Midfielder of the Year.
 
The 5 student-athlete award winners additionally earned First-Team All-ACC recognition. NC State led all colleges with 4 first-team picks, as Taig Healy joined three Wolfpack season award honorees. NC State and Virginia led all colleges with 5 All-ACC alternatives. Stanford senior Zach Bohane was the lone participant to repeat this season as a First-Team All-ACC honoree.
 
Phillip is the primary Wolfpack participant to earn ACC Offensive Player of the Year honors since Kyle Campbell in 1994. A local of Castries, Saint Lucia, Phillip has scored an ACC-best 15 targets this season, which is also tied for second most amongst all Division I gamers. He has totaled 31 factors in 17 matches this season and leads the convention in targets, factors, pictures (62) and pictures on purpose (33). Four of his targets had been sport winners.
                                                                                                             
Markovic is the primary NC State participant to notch Defensive Player of the Year honors because the award was established in 2004. He anchors the league’s prime protection, because the Wolfpack have surrendered simply 0.39 targets per sport, fewest amongst league groups and second fewest nationally. NC State has conceded simply seven targets, six fewer than every other ACC crew this yr. In 17 matches this season, the native of Gatineau, Quebec, additionally has chipped in a pair of targets and two assists.
 
Named ACC Freshman of the Year final season, Gyan has adopted it up with an amazing sophomore season, with eight targets and eight assists for twenty-four factors. He is tied for second within the league in assists, fourth in pictures on purpose (23), sixth in pictures (48) and eighth in targets, and leads his crew in every of these classes. A local of Sunyani, Ghana, Gyan has performed in all 16 of Clemson’s video games, with 16 begins.
 
Simmonds leads all ACC gamers in targets (7) and factors (17) in convention play this season. He has totaled 9 targets, 5 assists and 23 factors for the season and ranks third within the league in whole targets and fourth in whole factors. A local of Midlothian, Virginia, he was the lone freshman to be voted First-Team All-ACC this season.
 
Erb owns a league-low 0.41 targets towards common in addition to 10 shutouts this season for NC State, which has allowed simply seven targets this season. The native of Houston, Texas, began all 18 video games for the Wolfpack after transferring in from San Diego State and leads the convention in GAA, save share (.848), shutouts and shutouts per sport (0.56).
 
Named ACC Coach of the Year for the third time, Gelnovatch guided Virginia to the ACC regular-season championship this season, this system’s first since capturing the 2019 ACC Coastal Division. UVA earned the ACC Championship’s No. 1 seed for the primary time since 2001. The Cavaliers personal an 11-1-4 document, together with a 5-0-3 mark in convention play, and enter the ACC semifinals on a 13-game unbeaten streak. UVA at present sits within the No. 2 place within the newest NCAA RPI. Now in his thirtieth season at Virginia, Gelnovatch additionally received ACC Coach of the Year honors in 1996 and 2001.
 
The semifinals of the 2025 ACC Men’s Soccer Championship will likely be performed Thursday, November 13, at First Horizon Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, with No. 1 seed Virginia and No. 12 seed California dealing with off at 5:30 p.m. ET, adopted by No. 6 seed Syracuse enjoying No. 7 seed SMU at roughly 8 p.m. ET. ACC Network will air each matches. The championship match will likely be broadcast on ESPNU on Sunday, November 16, at 1 p.m. ET.
 
In the newest NCAA RPI on Tuesday, ACC groups maintain eight of the highest 30 spots, led by Virginia (2), Stanford (10), SMU (11) and NC State (13) within the prime 15.
 
2025 ACC Men’s Soccer Season Honors
Offensive Player of the Year – Donavan Phillip, Jr., F, NC State
Defensive Player of the Year – Nikola Markovic, So., D, NC State
Midfielder of the Year – Ransford Gyan, So., Clemson
Goalkeeper of the Year – Logan Erb, Sr., NC State
Freshman of the Year – Nick Simmonds, F, Virginia
Coach of the Year – George Gelnovatch, Virginia
 
2025 All-ACC Team
First Team
Ransford Gyan, So., M, Clemson
Kenan Hot, Sr., M, Duke
Logan Erb, Sr., GK, NC State
Taig Healy, Sr, M, NC State
Nikola Markovic, So., D, NC State
Donavan Phillip, Jr., F, NC State
Arnau Vilamitjana, Gr., M, Pitt
Fletcher Bank, Sr., M, Stanford
Zach Bohane, Sr., M, Stanford
Nick Simmonds, Fr., F, Virginia
Cooper Flax, Sr., M, Wake Forest
             
Second Team
Wahabu Musah, So., F, Clemson
Nathan Richmond, Sr., M, Clemson
Kamran Acito, Sr., D, Duke
Ulfur Bjornsson, Jr., F, Duke
Dylan Kropp, Sr., D, North Carolina
Luca Nikolai, Jr., D, North Carolina
Stephan Soghomonian, So., F, SMU
Slade Starnes, Sr., D, SMU
Nick Dang, Sr., D, Virginia
Casper Mols, Gr., GK, Virginia
Umberto Pelà, Sr., M, Virginia
             
Third Team    
Luka Lukic, Gr., F, California
Kwaku Agyabeng, Fr., M, Clemson
Misei Yoshizawa, Sr., M, Clemson
Drew Kerr, Sr., M, Duke
Jack Sandmeyer, Gr., M, North Carolina
Calem Tommy, Sr., D, NC State
Wyatt Lewis, Jr., M, Notre Dame
Nolan Spicer, Jr., M, Notre Dame
Charles-Emile Brunet, So., M, SMU
Tomas Hut, Gr., GK, Syracuse
Sebastian Pop, Gr., D, Virginia
 
2025 All-Freshman Team
Andrej Borak, GK, Boston College
Kwaku Agyabeng, M, Clemson
Max Simpson, M, Duke
Immanuel Mathe, D, North Carolina
Riley Moloney, D, NC State
Joshua Partal, M, Stanford
Jack Pymm, M, Stanford
Landon Darko, M, Syracuse
Zach Ehrenpreis, M, Virginia
Nick Simmonds, F, Virginia
Dagur Traustason, F, Virginia Tech