List of American Athletic Conference champions

The American Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I conference that sponsors championships in 22 sports (10 men's and 12 women's). For every sport except football, the champion is determined using a postseason tournament or meet.

Members
The American has 13 full member institutions:


 * Charlotte
 * East Carolina
 * Florida Atlantic
 * Memphis
 * North Texas
 * Rice
 * South Florida
 * Temple
 * Tulane
 * Tulsa
 * UAB
 * UTSA
 * Wichita State (non-football member)

In addition, the conference has 6 current affiliate members:
 * Army (football)
 * FIU (men's soccer and women's swimming and diving)
 * James Madison (women's lacrosse)
 * Navy (football)
 * Old Dominion (women's lacrosse)
 * Vanderbilt (women's lacrosse)

Former members
Seven schools were formerly full members of The American:
 * Cincinnati (2013–23)
 * Houston (2013–23)
 * Louisville (2013–14)
 * Rutgers (2013–14)
 * SMU (2013–24)
 * UCF (2013–23)
 * UConn (2013–20)

Several other schools have been affiliate members in the past. Five have completely left The American. One current affiliate member had previously been an affiliate in a second sport. Five others, indicated in italics, were affiliate members for one season before becoming full conference members.


 * Charlotte (men's soccer, 2022–23)
 * Cincinnati (women's lacrosse, 2023–24)
 * Florida (women's lacrosse, 2018–24)
 * Florida Atlantic (men's soccer, women's swimming & diving; 2022–23)
 * North Texas (women's swimming & diving, 2022–23)
 * Old Dominion (women's rowing, 2020–24) — still a women's lacrosse affiliate
 * Rice (women's swimming, 2022–23) – Rice dropped diving from its women's aquatics program in 1991 and did not reinstate the discipline until 2024, after it had become a full conference member.
 * Sacramento State (women's rowing, 2015–24)
 * San Diego State (women's rowing, 2015–21)
 * UAB (men's soccer, 2022–23)
 * Villanova (women's rowing, 2013–15)

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Key: MS – Men's Soccer; WSD – Women's Swimming and Diving; WR – Women's rowing; WL – Women's lacrosse

Baseball
Baseball is sponsored by 10 of the 14 full American Conference members. The only schools which do not sponsor baseball are North Texas, departing member SMU, Temple, and Tulsa (though Temple had a team in the 2014 season, which was dropped after that season).

†: No longer members of the conference

Men's basketball
All 13 full members of The American support men's basketball, making it the only men's sport sponsored by every team in the conference. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's basketball
Like men's basketball, women's basketball is also sponsored by all 11 full members of the conference. It is also played by all six schools joining The American in 2023–24. †: No longer members of the conference

Men's cross country
Men's cross country is supported by 12 of the 14 American Conference teams, with the only exceptions being UAB and departing member SMU. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's cross country
Unlike men's cross country, women's cross country is sponsored by every full member of the conference. †: No longer members of the conference

Football
Football is sponsored by every full member of The American except for Wichita State. Affiliate member Navy also plays football in the conference, and Army becomes a football affiliate in 2024. †: No longer members of the conference

Men's golf
Tulane and Tulsa are the only schools in the conference that do not sponsor men's golf, though Tulsa did until the 2016 season. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's golf
Rice and Temple are the only full members of the conference that do not sponsor women's golf. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's lacrosse
Only two full members of the conference offer women's lacrosse, which the conference began sponsoring in 2019. Those schools are East Carolina and Temple. Five affiliate members play women's lacrosse in the AAC: Cincinnati, Florida, James Madison, Old Dominion, and Vanderbilt. South Florida has announced plans for a women's lacrosse team to begin play in the 2024 season (later pushed back to 2025). None of the six schools that joined the conference in 2023–24 sponsored women's lacrosse, though Charlotte has announced that it will have a team beginning in 2025. Cincinnati remained an affiliate member of The American for women's lacrosse after otherwise joining the Big 12, which at the time did not sponsor the sport. Cincinnati will leave after the 2024 season when the Big 12 adds women's lacrosse as a sponsored sport.

Women's rowing
4 full members offer women's rowing: SMU, Temple, Tulsa, and UCF. They are joined by affiliate members Old Dominion and Sacramento State. Villanova competed as an affiliate member in rowing from 2013 to 2015 before leaving for the Colonial Athletic Association (now known as the Coastal Athletic Association) and San Diego State competed as an affiliate member in rowing from 2015 to 2021 but discontinued their program because of financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. None of the six schools that joined The American in 2023–24 sponsor the sport. †: No longer members of the conference

Men's soccer
Men's soccer is offered by 8 full members of the conference: Charlotte, FAU, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulsa, and UAB; it is also sponsored by affiliate member FIU. Cincinnati also had a men's soccer team before cutting it in April 2020. Charlotte, FAU, FIU and UAB joined the conference in 2022–23 as affiliate members for men's soccer. This was one year before those schools (besides FIU) joined as full members. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's soccer
Women's soccer is sponsored by every school in the conference except Tulane and Wichita State. †: No longer members of the conference

Softball
Softball is sponsored by 10 of the 14 schools in the conference, the exceptions being Rice, departing member SMU, Temple, and Tulane (though Temple sponsored it until 2014). †: No longer members of the conference

Men's swimming and diving
The American dropped men's swimming & diving after the 2022–23 season. Of the conference's 14 members in 2023–24, only Florida Atlantic and departing member SMU offer men's swimming and diving. East Carolina competed in the sport until 2020 but eliminated the program in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both FAU and SMU joined the ASUN Conference for that conference's inaugural swimming & diving season in 2023–24, with SMU moving from there to the ACC in 2024–25. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's swimming and diving
The conference features 7 women's swimming and diving teams: full members FAU, East Carolina, North Texas, Rice, SMU, and Tulane plus affiliate member FIU. FAU, North Texas, and Rice joined as affiliate members along with FIU in 2022–23, the year before the former three joined the conference as full members. Note: Rice only competes in swimming, not diving. †: No longer members of the conference

Men's tennis
Every school in The American apart from East Carolina and North Texas offers men's tennis; though East Carolina offered the sport until 2020 when it was dropped due to budget concerns brought on by the COVID-19. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's tennis
All current American Conference schools sponsor women's tennis. †: No longer members of the conference

Men's indoor
Men's indoor track & field is sponsored by seven AAC schools: Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, Tulsa, and Wichita State. Of the members joining in 2023–24, it is sponsored by Charlotte, North Texas, Rice, and UTSA. Temple sponsored the sport in 2014 but dropped it after that season.

Men's outdoor
Men's outdoor track and field is sponsored by all the same schools that sponsor men's indoor track and field with the addition of Tulane. It is sponsored by the same four future members that sponsor indoor track and field. Like with men's indoor track and field, Temple sponsored men's outdoor track and field until 2014. †: No longer members of the conference

Women's track and field
Every school in the conference sponsors both indoor and outdoor women's track and field.

Women's outdoor
†: No longer members of the conference

Volleyball
Every American Conference school sponsors women's volleyball. No conference member sponsors men's volleyball.

†: No longer members of the conference

Summary
Note: Shared titles (ex: 2014 football, 2020 men's basketball) are counted as a full title for each co-champion.

Accurate as of June 14, 2023.

* - Does not include vacated championships

†- No longer a member of the AAC

‡- Affiliate member