The Big Ten women's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the Big Ten Conference. The tournament is single-elimination format and seeding is based on regular season records. The top four highest-seeded teams host the quarterfinal matches and the highest remaining seed after the quarterfinal round. The highest remaining seeded teams following the quarterfinal round hosts the semifinals and likewise for the championship match.

The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I women's soccer championship. Penn State is the winningest team in championship history with 9 titles.

Champions

Source: Big Ten (2023) and Big Ten (2025)

Finals

Ed. Year Champion Score Runner-up Location MVP (offensive) MVP (defensive) 1 1994 Wisconsin 3–0 Minnesota McClimon Stadium • Madison, Wisconsin 2 1995 Minnesota 1–0 Wisconsin Bill Armstrong Stadium • Bloomington, In 3 1996 Indiana 1–0 Wisconsin Jesse Owens Stadium • Columbus, Oh 4 1997 Michigan 1–0 Northwestern National Sports Center • Blaine, Mn 5 1998 Penn State 2–0 Ohio State Jeffrey Field • University Park, Pa 6 1999 Michigan 4–2 Penn State Bill Armstrong Stadium • Bloomington, In 7 2000 Penn State 1–0 Michigan Demirjian Park • Champaign, Il 8 2001 Penn State 2–1 Illinois Folk Field • West Lafayette, In 9 2002 Ohio State 2–1 Wisconsin DeMartin Complex • East Lansing, Mi 10 2003 Illinois 2–0 Michigan McClimon Stadium • Madison, Wi 11 2004 Ohio State 2–0 Penn State Jesse Owens Stadium • Columbus, Oh 12 2005 Wisconsin 3–1 Michigan U-M Soccer Stadium • Ann Arbor, Mi 13 2006 Penn State 3–1 Illinois Jeffrey Field • University Park, Pa 14 2007 Purdue 3–1 Ohio State Elizabeth Lyle Stadium • Falcon Heights, Mn 15 2008 Penn State 2–1 Minnesota Iowa Soccer Complex • Iowa City, Ia 16 2011 Illinois 2–1 Penn State Lakeside Field • Evanston, Il 17 2012 Ohio State 2–1 Illinois Bill Armstrong Stadium • Bloomington, In 18 2013 Nebraska 1–0 Iowa Demirjian Park • Champaign, Il 19 2014 Wisconsin 1–0 Iowa Folk Field • West Lafayette, In 20 2015 Penn State 2–0 Rutgers Jeffrey Field • University Park, Pa 21 2016 Minnesota 2–1 Rutgers Elizabeth Lyle Stadium • Falcon Heights, Mn Sydney Squires, Minnesota Tori Burnett, Minnesota 22 2017 Penn State 2–1 Northwestern Grand Park • Westfield, In 23 2018 Minnesota 0–0 Penn State Grand Park • Westfield, In April Bockin, Minnesota Maddie Nielsen, Minnesota 24 2019 Penn State 2–1 Michigan Yurcak Field • Piscataway, NJ Payton Linnehan, Penn State Amanda Dennis, Penn State 25 2020 Iowa 1–0 Wisconsin Jeffrey Field • University Park, Pa 26 2021 Michigan 1–0 Rutgers Yurcak Field • Piscataway, Nj Raleigh Loughman, Michigan Alia Martin, Michigan 27 2022 Penn State 3–2 Michigan State Lower.com Field • Columbus, Oh Ally Schlegel, Penn State Katherine Asman, Penn State 28 2023 Iowa 1–0 Wisconsin Lower.com Field • Columbus, Oh Emma Jaskaniec, Wisconsin Samantha Cary, Iowa 29 2024 UCLA 5–0 Rutgers Energizer Park • St. Louis, Missouri Quincy McMahon, UCLA 30 2025 Washington 1–1 Michigan State Energizer Park • St. Louis, Missouri Samiah Shell, Washington

By school

School Finals Titles Title Years Illinois 37 16 15 5 5 2 2003, 2011 Indiana 20 5 14 1 1 1 1996 Iowa 25 11 12 2 4 2 2020, 2023 Maryland 1 0 1 0 0 0 — Michigan 44 23 17 4 7 3 1997, 1999, 2021 Michigan State 25 6 16 3 2 0 — Minnesota 36 17 14 5 5 3 1995, 2016, 2018 Nebraska 11 5 4 2 1 1 2013 Northwestern 26 8 17 1 2 0 — Ohio State 37 14 18 5 5 3 2002, 2004, 2012 Penn State 64 42 16 6 13 9 1998, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008,2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 Purdue 20 9 9 2 1 1 2007 Rutgers 22 9 9 4 4 0 — UCLA 5 4 1 0 1 1 2024 USC 3 1 1 1 0 0 — Washington 5 2 1 2 1 1 2025 Wisconsin 47 20 22 4 8 3 1994, 2005, 2014

Big Ten Medal of Honor The Big Ten Medal of Honor is awarded to a player from the graduating class of a Big Ten Conference university who "demonstrated athletic and academic excellence throughout their college career." The recipients include:

Year Player Team 1991 Emily Coatney Michigan State 1992 Heather Taggart Wisconsin 1994 Susie Holt Wisconsin 1998 Jennifer McElmury Golden Gophers 1999 Shannon Brown Wisconsin 2001 Kacy Beitel Michigan 2003 Emily Oleksiuk Penn State 2005 Joanna Lohman Penn State 2006 Jessica Ring Wisconsin 2006 Christen Karniski Illinois 2006 Courtney O'Bryan Indiana 2008 Mary Therese McDonnell Illinois 2006 Lindsey Cottrell Michigan 2008 Shauna Stapleton Purdue 2009 Emily Zurrer Illinois 2009 Zoe Bouchelle Penn State 2011 Jenna Carosio Illinois 2012 Laurie Nosbusch Wisconsin 2014 Vanessa DiBernardo Illinois 2016 Rachel Beanlands Maryland 2016 Britt Eckerstrom Penn State 2016 Brianne Reed Rutgers

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