The 2022 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2022 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 76th season of the university fielding a program. The Tar Heels were led by twelfth year head coach Carlos Somoano and played their home games at Dorrance Field.
The Tar Heels finished the season 8–6–5 overall and 2–2–4 in ACC play to finish in fourth place in the Coastal Division. As the seventh overall seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Boston College in the First Round, before losing to eventual champions Syracuse in the Quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. As an unseeded team, they lost to in the First Round to end their season.
Background
The Tar Heels finished the season 11–7–2 overall and 4–4–0 in ACC play to finish in fourth place in the Atlantic Division. As the seventh overall seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Syracuse in the First Round, before losing to Clemson in the Quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. As an unseeded team, they defeated Loyola (MD) via penalty shoot-out in the First Round before losing to sixth seeded New Hampshire in the Second Round.
Player movement
Departures Departures Alec Smir 1 GK 6'2" 190 Graduate Student Greensboro, North Carolina Drafted 62nd overall in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft Filippo Zattarin 2 DF/MF 5'9" 168 Graduate Student Padua, Italy Graduated Joe Pickering 4 DF 6'0" 175 Graduate Student East Sussex, England Graduated Lucas del Rosario 7 FW/MF 5'10" 150 Graduate Student Durham, North Carolina Graduated Santiago Herrera 9 FW 5'10" 160 Graduate Student Barquisimeto, Venezuela Graduated Tega Ikoba 10 FW 6'4" 205 Freshman Madison, Alabama Signed a Homegrown Contract with Portland Timbers Antonio Lopez 11 MF 5'8" 137 Junior Austin, Texas Transferred to Duke J.P Philpot 12 GK 6'5" 195 Sophomore Greenville, North Carolina — Jonathan Jimenez 16 FW 5'10" 169 Junior Norwalk, Connecticut Signed Homegrown Contract with NYCFC Alex Rose 21 FW 6'1" 157 Graduate Student Cary, North Carolina Graduated Jake Schick 30 GK 6'2" 172 Junior Palm Harbor, Florida — Aldair Sanchez 32 DF 5'8" 148 Sophomore Vancouver, Washington — Garrett Kessel 33 MF 5'10" 150 Sophomore Oak Ridge, North Carolina — Sam Moore 35 MF/DF 6'1" 151 Junior Richmond, Virginia Transferred to DePaul Jacques Bouvery 37 MF 5'8" 155 Junior Washington, D.C. Graduated Gerit Wintermeyer 39 FW 6'3" 205 Graduate Student Wiesbaden, Germany Graduated Chris Sullivan 41 MF 6'0" 160 Graduate Student Naperville, Illinois Graduated
Incoming transfers Departures Andrew Cordes 1 GK 6'1" 190 Freshman Denver, Colorado Portland Til Zinnhardt 2 DF 6'2" 175 Graduate Student Konigstein, Germany Tulsa Juan Caffaro 10 MF 5'6" 150 Sophomore Rosario, Argentina Barry Hilli Goldhar 11 MF 5'9" 150 Graduate Student Toronto, Canada Syracuse James Person 16 DF 6'0" 160 Graduate Student Walnut Creek, California Saint Mary's Sebastian Schacht 23 MF 6'0" 175 Graduate Student Christchurch, New Zealand Saint Mary's
Recruiting class Name Nat. Hometown Club TDS Rating Columbia, Maryland Baltimore Armour Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga Red Wolves Hong Kong Black Rock FC Chesterfield, Virginia Richmond United Tampa, Florida Tampa Bay Rowdies Raleigh, North Carolina North Carolina FC Verona, New Jersey PDA Morrisville, North Carolina North Carolina FC Tenafly, New Jersey New York Red Bulls
Squad
Roster
Team management Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham Head coach Carlos Somoano Assistant Coach Grant Porter Assistant Coach Michael Harrington Volunteer Assistant Coach JR DeRose
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!colspan=6 style=""| Regular season
!colspan=6 style=""| ACC Tournament
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Awards and honors
Sebastian Schacht Pre-Season ACC Watchlist August 16 Milo Garvanian All-ACC Second Team November 9 Sam Williams ACC All-Freshman Team
2023 MLS Super Draft
Milo Garvanian CF Montréal 2 54 DF
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