Big West Conference men's soccer tournament explained

Big West Conference
men's soccer tournament
Sport:College soccer
Conference:Big West Conference
Number Of Teams:6
Format:Single-elimination tournament
Current Stadium:Campus Sites (Higher Seed)
Years:2008–present
Most Recent:2023
Current Champion:UC Irvine
Most Championships:UC Irvine (5)
Television:ESPN+

The Big West men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Big West Conference. The tournament has been held every year since 2008. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's soccer championship.

UC Irvine is the most winning team with 5 titles.

Champions

The following is a list of Big West Conference tournament winners:

Year by year

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2008UC Irvine 4–2 UC Santa BarbaraAnteater StadiumIrvine, CA Andrew Fontein, UC Irvine
2009UC Irvine 4–1UC Santa BarbaraAnteater StadiumIrvine, CA Carlos Aguilar, UC Irvine
2010UC Santa Barbara 3–1Cal State FullertonHarder StadiumSanta Barbara, CA Luis Silva, UCSB
2011UC Irvine align=center style="background-color:#FBCEB1"3–2 UC Santa BarbaraAnteater StadiumIrvine, CA Miguel Ibarra, UC Irvine
2012Cal State Northridge 1–0UC DavisAggie Field • Davis, CA Sagi Lev-Ari, CSUN
2013UC Irvine 1–0Cal State NorthridgeAnteater StadiumIrvine, CA Enrique Cardenas, UC Irvine
2014Cal State Fullerton align=center style="background-color:#cedff2"0–0 UC IrvineAnteater StadiumIrvine, CA Jeff Salt, CSU Fullerton
2015Cal State Fullerton 1–0UC Santa BarbaraHarder StadiumSanta Barbara, CA David Rodriguez, CSU
2016Cal State Northridge align=center style="background-color:#FBCEB1"2–1 Cal State Fullerton Kevin Marquez, CSUN
2017Cal State Fullerton align=center style="background-color:#cedff2"0–0 UC DavisAggie Field • Davis, CA Paul-Andre Guerin, UC Davis
2018UC Riverside align=center style="background-color:#cedff2"0–0 UC DavisUC Soccer StadiumRiverside, CA Daniel Aguiree, UC Riverside
2019UC Davis 2–0UC Santa BarbaraAggie Field • Davis, CA Adam Mickelson, UC Davis
2020(Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2021UC Santa Barbara 4–0UC IrvineHarder Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA Finn McBride, UCSB
2022UC Riverside 1-0UC Santa BarbaraUC Soccer Stadium • Riverside, CA Carlos Gonzalez, UC Riverside
2023UC Irvine align=center style="background-color:#cedff2"0–0 UC DavisAnteater Stadium • Irvine, CA Oscar Cervantes, UC Irvine

Performance by school

Most championships

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UC Irvinealign=center 52008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2023
Cal State Fullertonalign=center 32014, 2015, 2017
Cal State Northridgealign=center 22012, 2016
UC Santa Barbaraalign=center 22010, 2021
UC Riversidealign=center 22018, 2022
UC Davisalign=center 12019
TOTALalign=center 15

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Big West Tournament Champions - Big West Men's Soccer Record Book. Big West Conference. BigWest.org. January 21, 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085919/http://www.bigwest.org/sports/msoccer/info/record.pdf. March 4, 2016.