7-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 1989•1991•1992•1993•1994•2009•2014 13 COLLEGE CUP APPEARANCES 1983•1989•1991•1992•1993•1994•1995 2020 CAVALIER MEN’S SOCCER 1997•2006•2009•2013•2014•2019 Contact: Scott Fitzgerald | E-mail: [email protected] | O: (434) 924-9878 | C: (908) 246-6818 | www.VirginiaSports.com SERIES AT A GLANCE MATCH DETAILS All-time Series: 38-13-8 : Nov. 18 : Dorrance Field Last Meeting: 11/17/19, W, 3-1 | First Meeting: 10/22/68, T, 0-0 (OT) Last UVA Win: 11/17/19, 3-1 | Last CU Win: 10/17/14, 1-2 : 6 p.m. : ACC Network Streak: W-2 : Chapel Hill, N.C. : https://godeacs.com/sidearmstats/msoc/summary CLEMSON VIRGINIA Head Coach Mike Noonan George Gelnovatch LAST 10 VS. CLEMSON (5-4-1) 2020 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Career Record 340-182-72 341-134-59 Date H/A/N Result Date H/A/N Result Overall: 3-3-1 | ACC: 2-3-1 Record at School 116-66-31 Same 10/10/2008 H W, 1-0 9/6/2013 A L, 0-2 Home: 2-2-0 | Away: 1-1-1 | Neutral: 0-0-0 Year at School 11th Season 25th Season 9/26/2009 H L, 0-1 10/17/2014 A L, 1-2 9/25/2010 A W, 1-0 9/17/2016 H T, 3-3 (2OT) Streak: W-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9/30/2011 A W, 2-0 10/12/2018 A W, 4-1 DATE OPPONENT TV TIME/RESULT 2020 Record 6-2-1 (3-2-1) 3-3-1 (2-3-1 ACC) 9/28/2012 H L, 0-2 11/17/2019 N39 # W, 3-1 Fri. 10/9 LOUISVILLE* ACCNX W, 2-1 (2OT) 2019 Record 18-2-2 (6-1-1 ACC) 21-2-1 (6-1-1 ACC) # ACC Tournament | $ NCAA Tournament Wed. 10/14 at Virginia Tech* ACCN T, 1-1 (2OT) MATCH NOTES Sun. 10/18 #2 PITT* ACCNX L, 2-3 (OT) Sat. 10/24 at Notre Dame* ACCNX L, 1-2 (2OT) FOR STARTERS • Wednesday will be a rematch of the 2019 ACC Championship game in which Clemson and Virginia were ranked No. 1 and No. Fri. 10/30 SYRACUSE* RSN W, 1-0 2 in the country, respectively. The Cavaliers won their 11th tournament crown after a 3-1 comeback win in Cary, N.C. Fri. 11/6 VIRGINIA TECH* RSN L, 0-1 • Clemson comes into Wednesday as the No. 2 ranked team in the country and is the third seed out of the South Region. The ACC TOURNAMENT Tigers upset Virginia Tech on Sunday, 4-1 in Durham, N.C. Sun. 11/15 at #2 Wake Forest ACCN W, 2-0 • Coming in as the No. 2 team in the country according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll, Clemson is the third top-5 opponent Virginia will face this season. The Cavaliers are 1-1 against top-5 opponents this year and went 4-1 against top-5 opponents last Wed. 11/18 vs. Clemson1 ACCN 6 p.m. season. Sun. 11/12 ACC Championship2 ESPNU TBA • The winner of Wednesday’s match will play the winner of Pittsburgh and Notre Dame on Sunday (Nov. 22) in Cary, N.C. Pitt and Home matches in BOLD CAPS Notre Dame will play at 8 p.m. in Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday night also on ACC Network. *denotes ACC matches POSTSEASON PLAYER 1Chapel Hill, N.C. | 2Cary, N.C. (WakeMed Soccer Park) • It took just one minute and 18 seconds for Cabrel Happi Kamseu to make an impact in the quarterfinal victory over Wake Forest. Shortly after checking in, Happi Kamseu scored his first goal of the season and what would eventually the game-winner on Sunday in the 31st minute. NOTABLE SPRING DATES • He went on to score his second goal of the match in the 52nd minute intercepting a pass deep in the Demon Deacon zone Wed. 2/3/20 First Day of spring competition before chipping it over the goalkeeper’s head. He vaulted himself into the team lead in goals (2) and points (4) Sun. 4/18/20 NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday • Happi Kamseu became the Cavaliers’ first multiple goal scorer since Daryl Dike’s brace against the same Wake Forest program in the semifinals of the 2019 College Cup. Thurs-Mon. 5/13-17/20 NCAA College Cup • The appearance was Happi Kamseu’s second of the season, his only other action coming in a start at Virginia Tech on Oct. 14. He logged 50 minutes of action. 2020 RECORD WHEN 2020 RECORD VS. • The two goals were his second and third ACC Tournament goals of his career. He scored the game-winner in the 2019 ACC Overtime: 1-2-1 Ranked Teams 1-1-0 Championship match against Clemson and earned a spot on the ACC All-Tournament Team Leading at half: 1-1-0 Top-10 Teams 1-1-0 • Happi Kamseu now has nine career goals, second most on the team to Nathaniel Crofts’ 11. Trailing at half: 0-2-0 Non-conf. opponents 0-0-0 QUARTERFINAL RECAP Tied at half: 2-0-1 Virginia Teams 0-1-1 • Virginia logged its first road win and second clean sheet of the season with a 2-0 upset win over Wake Forest on Sunday night. Scoring First: 3-1-0 • Coming into the match, Wake Forest’s 18 goals were the most by any ACC team this Fall. • Virginia out-shot the Demon Deacons, 11-10 and held 55 percent of the game’s possession. Of the 11 shot attempts by the 2020 VIRGINIA LEADERS Cavaliers landed seven on target compared to just two by Wake Forest. GOALS POINTS • The Cavaliers improved to 16-0-5 against Wake Forest all-time in the ACC Tournament. Cabrel Happi Kamseu 2 Cabrel Happi Kamseu 4 ROSTER REINFORCEMENTS Nathaniel Crofts 1 Joan Gibert Fuertes 3 • Virginia welcomed captain Nathaniel Crofts and All-American goalkeeper Colin Shutler back to the lineup on Sunday. Crofts Philip Horton 1 Philip Horton 3 logged 73 minutes in his first action since the opening match of the season against Louisville. Shutler missed three games and Joan Gibert Fuertes 1 Five tied (5) 2 made his first start since Oct. 18. Kaya Ignacio 1 • Sophomore Jeremy Verley, who appeared three games off the bench as a freshman and saw his first action of 2020 in the Nick Berghold 1 SAVES season finale against Virginia Tech made his first start of his career in the ACC Quarterfinal. He played all but nine minutes in Sunday’s victory. Axel Gunnarsson 1 Colin Shutler 16 • In the regular season finale against Virginia Tech, Virginia’s starting XI included just four starters (Andreas Ueland, Bret Halsey, Andreas Ueland 1 Alex Rando 10 Axel Gunnarsson, Irakoze Donasiyano) from the National Championship game last year. ASSISTS MINUTES PLAYED VIRGINIA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT Isaiah Byrd 2 Irakoze Donasiyano 683 • The Cavaliers own the most wins (46), goals (118), semifinals appearances (28), finals appearances (20) and tournament titles (11) in 33 years of the ACC Tournament. Joan Gibert Fuertes 1 Oliver Gerbig 683 • Including last year’s ACC title run, Virginia has been in the ACC Championship game, two of the last three seasons. Kaya Ignacio 1 Andreas Ueland 683 • Under George Gelnovatch, Virginia has won five ACC Tournament Championships (1997, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2019) in his 25- Philip Horton 1 Bret Halsey 683 year tenure. Rafael Caipo 1 Axel Gunnarsson 587 • Virginia is 46-19-12 in ACC Tournament games. • The Cavaliers will not play an ACC Tournament home game for the first time since 2015. TRENDING VIRGINIA IN THE POLLS • For their efforts in the quarterfinal round, Happi Kamseu and Andreas Ueland were named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of US TDS SA CSN RPI the Week. Ueland was listed for the third time in his young career while Happi Kamseu got the nod for the first time. Preseason n/a 1 n/a 7 n/a • Virginia improved to 2-1 when scoring two or more goals this season and in the program’s history, have never lost when scoring Week 1 (9/21) 3 1 n/a 7 n/a two or more goals in an ACC Tournament match (34 occasions). Week 2 (9/28) 5 2 n/a n/a n/a • Nathaniel Crofts has scored five goals in postseason play over the course of his career, two in the ACC Tournament and three in the NCAA Tournament. His five game-winning goals in 2019 were the second most in the ACC. Week 3 (10/5) 5 4 n/a n/a n/a • Colin Shutler registered his 24th career shutout, tying him with Diego Restrepo for the third most in UVA history. His 24 shut- Week 4 (10/12) 5 4 n/a n/a n/a outs are the second most among active NCAA goalkeepers (Enrique Facusse, Kentucky - 29). Week 5 (10/19) NR 6 n/a n/a n/a • Senior Irakoze Donasiyano has started in 48-straight games for the Cavaliers, the longest active streak on the team. Dating Week 6 (10/26) NR 9 n/a n/a n/a back to last season, Donasiyano has played in 978 consecutive minutes of action. Week 7 (11/2) NR 8 n/a n/a n/a • Andreas Ueland has played every minute of his college career (2,903) and has started 31 matches in a row for the Cavaliers. Last year he became one of nine UVA freshmen to start every game on one of UVA’s 13 College Cup teams and is one of two first Week 8 (11/9) NR 10 n/a n/a n/a US - United Soccer Coaches | TDS - TopDrawerSoccer.com | CSN - College Soccer News | years to have played every minute of every match on a UVA College Cup squad.