CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE/WGHP) — Greensboro will host four of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s championships next year, the league announced Tuesday.
Greensboro is tied with Charlotte, which is also hosting four of the ACC’s championships in 2025.
Despite the even split, the sites of the championship games indicate a continued shift towards Charlotte over Greensboro as the flagship city of the conference.
The ACC moved its headquarters to Charlotte in 2023.
The Greensboro Coliseum has been the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament’s most frequent location.
The City of Greensboro pushed to keep the tournament, even going as far as to offer to rename the Greensboro Coliseum in the tournament’s honor.
In addition to the previously announced ACC Football Championship Game returning to Bank of America Stadium, other sports crowning conference champions in the Queen City include men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse and women’s lacrosse.
The 2024-25 academic year will be the first with the ACC featuring 18 schools following the addition of Cal, SMU and Stanford. The ACC sponsors 28 sports, with 15 women and 13 men. No Power 4 conference sponsors more than 28 sports or 15 women’s sports.
The announcement also included the championship formats for the newly expanded conference.
“The upcoming year shapes up as an exciting one for our schools, our student-athletes and their incredible fan bases,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “We again have a terrific mix of on-campus sites and professional venues, including our football championship and men’s basketball tournament in Charlotte.”
The football championship is being held at Bank of America for the 14th time in 15 years. The men’s tournament returns to Queen City for the 14th time overall and the first time since 2019, when the ACC had three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and Zion Williamson and Duke defeated Virginia for the league crown.
