These are the projections for the 4A West 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 West Soccer Projection

Time of last update — Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 1:28 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.

Central Piedmont champ: West Forsyth
Central Piedmont 2nd place: East Forsyth
Greater Metro champ: Hickory Ridge
Greater Metro 2nd place: Cox Mill
Metro champ: Ragsdale
Metro 2nd place: Grimsley
*Mountain Athletic 1-seed: Asheville
*Northwestern 1-seed: Watauga
*Queen City Athletic 1-seed: Hopewell
Southwestern champ: Charlotte Catholic
Southwestern 2nd place: Garinger
So. Meck champ: Myers Park
So. Meck 2nd place: Ardrey Kell
Southern Carolina champ: Porter Ridge

*-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. South Caldwell
29. West Cabarrus
30. Weddington
31. Hough
32. Providence

Out:

1. East Mecklenburg
2. R.J. Reynolds
3. Butler
4. Olympic
5. A.L. Brown

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Ragsdale vs (32) Providence
(16) Mooresville vs (17) Northwest Guilford
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(8) Charlotte Catholic vs (25) Palisades
(9) Porter Ridge vs (24) Alexander Central
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(5) Asheville vs (28) South Caldwell
(12) Cox Mill vs (21) Chambers
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(13) Ardrey Kell vs (20) Garinger
(4) Myers Park vs (29) West Cabarrus

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(3) Hickory Ridge vs (30) Weddington
(14) Reagan vs (19) Cuthbertson
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(6) Watauga​​​​​​​ vs (27) Marvin Ridge
(11) Grimsley vs (22) South Mecklenburg
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(7) Hopewell vs (26) Parkland
(10) East Forsyth vs (23) Mount Tabor
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(15) Lake Norman vs (18) Glenn
(2) West Forsyth vs (31) Hough

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