The 2024 Big West Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held from November 3 to November 10, 2024. The Semifinals and Final of the five-match tournament took place at Waipiʻo Peninsula Soccer Stadium in Waipahu, Hawaii and on the campus of the higher seed hosted First Round games. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the UC Irvine Anteaters.[2][3] The Anteaters were unable to defend their title as they fell in the First Round to Cal State Bakersfield. Third seed UC Santa Barbara went on to win the title in a penalty shoot-out over Cal State Bakersfield in the Final.[4][5] This was the third Big West tournament title for the UC Santa Barbara program and the third for head coach Paul Stumpf.[6] As tournament champions, UC Santa Barbara earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament.
Seeding
The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the tournament and teams were seeded by regular season conference record. A tiebreaker was required to determine the third and fourth seeds as UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara both finished with 4–2–4 regular season records. UC Santa Barbra earned the third seed by virtue of their 1–0 regular season win over UC Irvine on October 6. A second tiebreaker was required for the fifth and sixth seeds as Cal State Bakersfield and Cal State Fullerton both finished with 4–3–3 regular season records. The two teams tied on the final day of the regular season 1–1. The second tiebreaker was goal differential in conference play, where the two teams tied again. The two teams also tied the third tiebreaker, goals scored in conference play. The tie was finally broke on the fourth tiebreaker which was goals scored overall. Cal State Bakersfield won this tiebreaker 23 to 22 and earned the fifth seed.[7][8]
