Coastal Carolina successfully defended their SBC Tournament championship, defeating Georgia State in penalties in the final.
The Sun Belt shuttered its men's soccer league after all of its members moved the sport to other conferences by the end of the 2020–21 school year.
[2] In January 2021 the ASUN Conference announced three schools as incoming full members, including Sun Belt men's soccer associate Central Arkansas.
[6] With all three schools joining in 2022 instead of the originally intended 2023 timeline, the SBC announced on April 6, 2022 that men's soccer would instead return in 2022.
[7] The tournament served as the culmination of the SBC's regular season, which was extensively modified due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.