These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2024 NCHSAA boys soccer playoffs.

The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.

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4A East Soccer Projection

Time of last update — Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 2:12 p.m.

Automatic bids

• Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or “best win”). If projections are updated before conference play begins, we use RPI to project the conference champion.
• Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.

*All American 1-seed: Overhills
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Leesville Road
Cap-6 2nd place: Cardinal Gibbons
DAC-VI champ: Riverside
DAC-VI 2nd place: Chapel Hill
Greater Neuse River champ: Clayton
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Corinth Holders
*Mideastern 1-seed: Ashley
Northern Athletic champ: Wakefield
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Heritage
*Sandhills champ: Hoke County
Southwest Wake champ: Green Hope
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Holly Springs
*United 8 1-seed: Gray’s Creek

*-Split conference with 3A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.

Last five in, first five out

• Note: We will start to implement the “no leapfrogging” stipulation two weeks before official brackets come out. This rule prevents a team from making the playoffs over a team that it finished behind in the final conference standings. Once this process is implemented, there could be changes towards the bottom of the field.

In:

28. Chapel Hill
29. Lumberton
30. Corinth Holders
31. Green Level
32. Overhills

Out:

1. Southeast Raleigh
2. Fuquay – Varina
3. Sanderson
4. Willow Spring
5. Athens Drive

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Ashley vs (32) Overhills
(16) Rolesville vs (17) Apex Friendship
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(8) D.H. Conley vs (25) Topsail
(9) Gray’s Creek vs (24) Enloe
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(5) Leesville Road vs (28) Chapel Hill
(12) Heritage vs (21) Cardinal Gibbons
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(13) Millbrook vs (20) Middle Creek
(4) Wakefield vs (29) Lumberton

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(3) Clayton vs (30) Corinth Holders
(14) Cary vs (19) New Hanover
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(6) Hoke County vs (27) Pinecrest
(11) Holly Springs vs (22) Broughton
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(7) Riverside-Durham vs (26) Wake Forest
(10) Hoggard vs (23) Jack Britt
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(15) Apex vs (18) Laney
(2) Green Hope​​​​​​​ vs (31) Green Level

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