The 2025 Big West Conference men's soccer tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held on November 5 through November 14, 2025. 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 Davis was unable to defend its crown as the fifth seed, falling to the first seed in the Semifinals, 3–2. The UC Irvine Anteaters won their sixth title defeating UC Santa Barbara 2–1, and earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2025 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.
Seeding The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the 2025 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 earn a bye into the Semifinals, and hosted their Semifinal game. There was a three-way tie for the first, second, and third seeds in the tournament as , , and all finished with 17 points in the conference regular season records. UC Santa Barbara defeated Cal Poly and tied UC Irvine during the regular season and is therefore the first seed. UC Irvine tied both UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly during the regular season and is therefore the second seed, while Cal Poly is the third seed. Another tiebreaker was required for the sixth and final seed in the tournament as and both finished with 11 points in the conference regular season records. UC San Diego received the sixth seed by virtue of their 2–1 win over Cal State Bakersfield during the regular season.
SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints 1 4–0–5 17 2 4–0–5 17 3 5–2–2 17 4 5–3–1 16 5 4–3–2 14 6 2–2–5 11
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Schedule
First Round
Semifinals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
All-Tournament team
Player Team 2025 Big West Men's Soccer All-Tournament team Nico Baltazar Cal Poly Jackson Miller Luke Goodman UC Davis Gavin House Travis Babieau UC Irvine Nolan DiCenzo Isaac Powell Brady Treinen Owen Beninga UC Santa Barbara Steinar Bjornsson Kaden Standish MVP in Bold
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