| Year: | 2022 |
| Conference: | Big West Conference |
| Gender: | men's |
| Teams: | 6 |
| Matches: | 5 |
| Attendance: | 3,678 |
| Venue: | Campus Sites (Higher Seed) |
| Champions: | UC Riverside |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Tim Cupello |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Broadcast: | ESPN+ |
| Mvp: | Carlos Gonzalez[1] |
| Mvpteam: | UC Santa Barbara |
The 2022 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held on November 2 through 12, 2022. All rounds of the tournament were hosted at the higher seeds home stadium. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.[2] UC Santa Barbara was unable to defend its crown, falling to UC Riverside in the Final, 1–0.[3] This was the second Big West tournament title for the UC Riverside program, both of which have come under head coach Tim Cupello.[4] As tournament champions, UC Riverside earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2022 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.
The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the 2022 tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference record and tiebreakers were used to determine seedings of teams that finished with the same record. The first and second seeds earned a bye into the Semifinals, and hosted their Semifinal game. A tiebreaker was required to break a three-way tie between UC Irvine, Cal State Northridge, and UC Santa Barbara as all the teams ended the regular season with 16 points in conference play. The tiebreaker was head-to-head record among the three teams. UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine were both 1–0–1 and Cal State Northridge was 0–2. Therefore, Cal State Northridge was the fourth seed, and UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara moved on to a second tiebreaker, goal difference. UC Santa Barbara finished with +7, while UC Irvine finished with a -1 goal difference. Therefore, UC Santa Barbara was the second seed and UC Irvine was the third.[5]
| Seed | School | Conference Record | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UC Riverside | 5–2–2 | 17 | |
| 2 | UC Santa Barbara | 4–1–4 | 16 | |
| 3 | UC Irvine | 5–3–1 | 16 | |
| 4 | Cal State Northridge | 5–3–1 | 16 | |
| 5 | UC Davis | 4–3–2 | 14 | |
| 6 | Sacramento State | 4–5–0 | 12 |
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