The 2024 North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. It was the 48th season of the university fielding a program. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Damon Nahas and played their home games at Dorrance Field in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The Tar Heels were set to be led by Anson Dorrance but he announced his retirement just four days prior to the season beginning on August 11, 2024. Damon Nahas was selected to be the interim head coach.
Despite a coaching change between the preseason and the start of the regular season, the Tar Heels started the season with two wins on a trip to . They returned home to face sixteenth ranked who they defeated 4âÂÂ3. They followed that with another Power 4 win against . They won two games against non-Power 4 opponents before losing to an unranked Duke. The Tar Heels were ranked second for that matchup and fell to tenth to start ACC play. They began the ACC season with a six game winning streak which included defeats of Wake Forest, nineteenth ranked Virginia, and seventeenth ranked California. The streak was broken at seventh ranked Stanford. The Tar Heels rebounded to defeat Clemson before losing the final two games of the ACC season. The losses were against seventeenth ranked Florida State and another loss to Duke, this time the Blue Devils were ranked first in the nation.
The Tar Heels finished the regular season 14âÂÂ4âÂÂ0 and 7âÂÂ3âÂÂ0 in ACC play to finish in fourth place. As the fourth seed in the ACC Tournament, they hosted fifth seed and twevlth ranked Virginia Tech in the First Round and defeated them 2âÂÂ0. They faced-off against rival Duke for the third time in the season, and got their first win 2âÂÂ1 to make the Finals. The Final was a regular season rematch between the Tar Heels and Florida State. The Tar Heels again lost, this time 3âÂÂ2, to finish as runners up. The Tar Heels received an at-large bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament where they were the second-seed in the Florida State bracket. They defeated in the First Round, in the Second Round, and sixth-seed in the Round of 16. Upsets elsewhere in the bracket saw the Tar Heels host in the Quarterfinals. The Tar Heels won 2âÂÂ1 in overtime to advance to the College Cup. Their semifinal match-up was a fourth meeting on the season with Duke. The Tar Heels won this one 3âÂÂ0, making the record on the season 2âÂÂ2, with Duke winning both regular season matches, and the Tar Heels winning both postseason matches. They faced off against Wake Forest in the final, and defeated them 1âÂÂ0 to win their twenty-second national title and first in twelve years. The Tar Heels' final record was 22âÂÂ5âÂÂ0.
The Tar Heels finished the season 13âÂÂ2âÂÂ8 and 5âÂÂ0âÂÂ5 in ACC play to finish in fourth place. As the fourth seed in the ACC Tournament, they hosted Pittsburgh in the first round and were upset 1âÂÂ2 in overtime. They received an at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament where they were the third-seed in the BYU Bracket. They defeated in the first round, six-seed Alabama in a second-round rematch, and second-seed in the Round of 16. They then had to travel to Provo, Utah to face one-seed BYU in the Quarterfinals. The Tar Heels raced out to a 3âÂÂ0 lead in the first twenty minutes of the match, but surrendered four goals, three in the last ten minutes to lose 3âÂÂ4 to end their season.
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|- !colspan=6 style=""| Exhibition
|- !colspan=6 style=""| Non-conference Regular season
|- !colspan=6 style=""| ACC regular season
|- !colspan=6 style=""| <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">ACC tournament</span>
|- !colspan=6 style=""| <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">NCAA tournament</span>