The 48-team field for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship was announced on Monday, with powers Wake Forest, Clemson, Georgetown and Akron earning the top four seeds. Each of those teams will have home-field advantage until this year's NCAA College Cup, which will be held at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas from Dec. 11-13.

Three more ACC schools – North Carolina, Syracuse and Notre Dame – were seeded Nos. 5-7, respectively, while Stanford, led by US international forward Jordan Morris, was seeded eighth.

First- and second-round games will be played this weekend, beginning Thursday, with the top 16 seeds earning byes and only having to play once in the opening week. The Round of 16 will be held the weekend of Nov. 28, and the quarterfinals will take place on the weekend of Dec. 5.

Last year's champion, Virginia (pictured), and runner-up UCLA both received at-large bids and will host opening-round games, while neither of last year's beaten semifinalists, Providence and UMBC, reached the tournament.

2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

No. 1 Wake Forest vs. Charlotte/Radford winner

No. 2 Clemson vs. Elon/Winthrop winner

No. 3 Georgetown vs. Hofstra/Lehigh winner

No. 4 Akron vs. Rutgers/LIU Brooklyn winner

No. 5 North Carolina vs. Coastal Carolina/North Florida winner

No. 6 Syracuse vs. Dartmouth/Hartwick winner

No. 7 Notre Dame vs. Tulsa/FIU winner

No. 8 Stanford vs. Cal State Fullerton/Santa Clara winner

No. 9 Ohio State vs. Dayton/Oakland winner

No. 10 Maryland vs. Virginia/Rider winner

No. 11 Seattle vs. UCLA/Cal Poly winner

No. 12 Creighton vs. Kentucky/Drake winner

No. 13 Denver vs. SMU/Utah Valley winner

No. 14 South Florida vs. Boston College/Vermont winner

No. 15 UCSB vs. South Carolina/Furman winner

No. 16 Indiana vs. UConn/Boston Univ. winner