Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament

The Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The tournament has been held every year since the MVC began men's soccer competition in 1991. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season conference records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's soccer championship.

Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament
NCAA Tournament Qualifier
Sport	College soccer
Conference	Missouri Valley Conference
Number of teams	7
Format	Single-elimination
Current stadium	Betty & Bobby Allison South Stadium
Current location	Springfield, Missouri
Played	1991–present
Last contest	2023
Current champion	Western Michigan
Most championships	Creighton (13)
TV partner(s)	ESPN+
Official website	mvc-sports.com/msoc

Creighton is the most winning team of the competition with 13 titles.

List of champions

Sources:^[1][2][3]

Finals

Key

• (1) – Title number
•   – Match went to extra time
•   – Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time
•   – Winning team won regular season

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	MVP	Stadium	City	Att.	Season Champion	Teams to NCAA Tourney
1991	Tulsa (1)[4]	2–1	Illinois State[5]	Frank Velez, Tulsa	Chapman Stadium	Tulsa, OK	1,042	Tulsa	Tulsa
1992	Creighton (1)[6]	6–2	Illinois State [5]	Ray Ferri, Creighton	Tranquility Park	Omaha, NE	3,131	Creighton	Creighton
1993	Creighton (2)[6]	2–0	Tulsa [4]	Brian Kamler, Creighton	Tranquility Park	Omaha, NE	3,849	Creighton	Creighton
1994	Creighton (3)[6]	1–0	Drake[7]	Jay Fitzgerald, Creighton	Tranquility Park	Omaha, NE	2,700	Creighton	Creighton
1995	Creighton (4)[6]	2–1	Evansville[8]	Ross Paule, Creighton	McCutchan Stadium	Evansville, IN	1,065	Creighton	Creighton
1996	Evansville [8]	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Creighton [6]	Mike LaBerge, Evansville	Tranquility Park	Omaha, NE	2,030	Creighton	Evansville, Creighton
1997	Creighton (5)[6]	4–1	Missouri State[9]	Johnny Torres, Creighton	Black Beauty Field	Evansville, IN	750	Missouri State	Creighton Missouri State
1998	Creighton (6)[6]	1–0	Missouri State [9]	Richard Mulrooney, Creighton	Cooper Park	Springfield, MO	3,912	Bradley	Creighton
1999	Missouri State (1)[9]	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bradley[10]	Jarod Bertrand, Missouri St	Chiefs Club Field	Peoria, IL	3,073	Missouri St	Missouri St, Creighton
2000	Creighton (7)[6]	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bradley [10]	Brian Mullan, Creighton	SportPort in	Maryland Heights, MO	2,233	SMU	Creighton, Bradley, SMU
2001	SMU (1)[11]	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Creighton [6]	Luchi Gonzalez, SMU	SportPort	Maryland Heights, MO	4,758	SMU	SMU, Creighton
2002	Creighton (8)[6]	1–0	Bradley Braves[10]	Mike Tranchilla, Creighton	SportPort	Maryland Heights, MO	3,353	SMU	Creighton, Bradley, SMU
2003	SMU (2)[11]	1–1 (4–3 p)	Missouri State [9]	Kevin Hudson, SMU	SportPort	Maryland Heights, MO	4,002	Creighton	SMU, Creighton, Tulsa
2004	SMU (3)[11]	2–1	Tulsa [4]	Ugo Ihemelu, SMU	Morrison Stadium	Omaha, NE	7,199	SMU	SMU, Tulsa, Creighton
2005	Creighton (9)[6]	2–0	Bradley [10]	Matt Wieland, Creighton	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	6,056	Bradley	Creighton, Bradley
2006	Creighton (10)[6]	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bradley [10]	Byron Dacy, Creighton	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	3,033	Bradley, Creighton	Creighton
2007	Bradley (1)[10]	1–0	Creighton [6]	Teddy Anderson, Bradley	Morrison Stadium	Omaha, NE	6,507	Bradley, Creighton	Bradley, Creighton
2008	Creighton (11)[6]	1–0	Missouri State [9]	Andrei Gotsmanov, Creighton	Goebel Soccer Complex	Evansville, IN	1,121	Creighton	Creighton, Drake
2009	Drake [7]	2–1	Evansville [8]	Calvin Clark, Drake	Cownie Soccer Park	Des Moines, IA	1,955	Missouri St	Drake, Missouri St
2010	Bradley (2)[10]	0–0 (4–3 p)	SIU Edwardsville[12]	Aodhan Quinn, Bradley	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	4,185	Creighton	Bradley, Creighton
2011	Creighton (12)[6]	1–0	Missouri State [9]	Brian Holt, Creighton	Morrison Stadium	Omaha, NE	6,453	Creighton, Missouri State	Creighton, Bradley
2012	Creighton (13)[6]	2–1	SIU Edwardsville [12]	Jose Gomez, Creighton	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	1,230	Creighton	Creighton
2013	Bradley (3)[10]	1–0	Missouri State [9]	Brian Billings, Bradley	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	1,435	Missouri State	Bradley
2014	SIU Edwardsville [13]	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Missouri State	Jabari Danzy, SIUE	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	1,254	Missouri St	SIUE
2015	Drake [14]	1–0	SIU Edwardsville	Kyle Whigham, Drake	Ralph Korte Stadium	Edwardsville, IL	2,481	SIU Edwardsville	Drake
2016	SIU Edwardsville [15]	1–0	Missouri State	Austin Ledbetter, SIUE	Allison South Stadium	Springfield, MO	2,168	Loyola Chicago	SIUE, Loyola
2017	Central Arkansas (1)[16]	1–0	Missouri State	Niklas Brodacki, Central Arkansas	Shea Stadium	Peoria, IL	127	Missouri St	Cen Arkansas
2018	Central Arkansas (2)	2–1	Loyola Chicago	Daltyn Knutson, Cen Arkansas	McCutchan Stadium	Evansville, IN	157	Cen Arkansas	Cen Arkansas
2019	Loyola Chicago	1–1 (5–4 p)	Missouri State	Aidean Megally, Loyola Ch	Loyola Soccer Park	Chicago, IL	303	Missouri St	Missouri St, Loyola Ch
2020	Missouri State (2)	1–0	Loyola Chicago	Nicolo Mulatero, Missouri State	Allison Stadium	Springfield, MO	643	Missouri St	Missouri St
2021	Missouri State (3)	3–0	Evansville	Michael Creek, Missouri State	Allison Stadium	Springfield, MO	270	Missouri St	Missouri St
2022	Missouri State (4)	1–0	Evansville	Harry Townsend, Missouri St	Allison Stadium	Springfield, MO	257	Missouri St	Missouri St
2023	Western Michigan	2–1	Missouri State	Charlie Sharp, West Michigan	WMU Soccer Complex	Kalamazoo, MI	2,751	West Michigan	West Michigan, Missouri St

By school

School	Seasons	Titles	Title years	App.	Last	W	L	T	Pct
Belmont [17]	2	0		2	2023	1	4	0	.333
Bowling Green	1	0		1	2023	0	1	0	.000
Bradley [10]	33	3	2007, 2010, 2013	25	2022	23	19	7	.541
Central Arkansas* [18]	8	2	2017, 2018	5	2017	2	3	2	.429
Creighton* [6]	22	13	1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012	22	2012	34	8	1	.802
Drake [7]	33	2	2009, 2015	27	2022	16	23	2	.415
Eastern Illinois* [19]	15	0		8	2008	1	7	2	.200
Evansville [8]	33	1	1996	23	2022	10	20	4	.353
Illinois State# [5]	4	0		4	1994	3	4	0	.429
Loyola* [20]	9	1	2019	9	2021	5	6	3	.464
Missouri State [9]	33	4	1999, 2020, 2021, 2022	24	2023	24	21	7	.529
Northern Illinois	1	0		1	2023	1	1	0	.500
SIUE[12]	9	2	2014, 2016	9	2022	7	6	2	.533
SMU* [11]	5	3	2001, 2003, 2004	5	2004	10	2	1	.808
TCU* [21]	1	0		0	–	0	0	0	–
Tulsa* [4]	10	1	1991	8	2004	4	7	1	.375
UIC	1	0		1	2023	1	1	0	.500
Valparaiso# [22]	3	0		3	2019	0	3	0	.000
Vanderbilt* [23]	9	0		7	2005	1	7	1	.167
Western Kentucky* [24]	11	0		5	2003	2	4	1	.357
Western Michigan	1	1	2023	1	2023	2	0	0	1.000

• BF = Current active members
• * = Former Member or Affiliate.
• ^# = MVC member, no longer plays soccer.

References

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External links

• Official website