The 2024 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference held from October 31 through November 10, 2024. The Opening round and Second round was held at campus sites. The semifinals and finals took place at Allison South Stadium in Springfield, Missouri. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Valparaiso Beacons, who were unsuccessful in defending their crown as they did not qualify for the tournament after finishing last in conference play. The top-seeded Missouri State Bears would go on to win the title, defeating second seed Drake 4–0 in the final. The conference tournament title was the fourth for the Missouri State women's soccer program, and second for head coach Kirk Nelson. As tournament champions, Missouri State earned the Missouri Valley's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.
Seeding The top eight of the eleven Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer programs qualified for the 2024 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on their regular season records. A tiebreaker was required to determine the second and third seed in the tournament as Drake and UIC finished with identical 6–2–2 regular season records. The teams faced off on October 17 and Drake won 2–0, therefore earning the second seed. A tiebreaker was required to determine the fifth and sixth seeds as Indiana State and Northern Iowa finished the regular season with identical 4–3–3 records. The two teams tied their regular season match 0–0. The second tiebreaker was record against teams above them in the standings. Indiana State won this tiebreaker and earned the fifth seed.
SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints 1 Missouri State 9–0–1 28 2 Drake 6–2–2 20 3 UIC 6–2–2 20 4 Belmont 5–4–1 16 5 Indiana State 4–3–3 15 6 UNI 4–3–3 15 7 Illinois State 3–4–3 12 8 Southern Illinois 2–5–2 9
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Schedule
Opening Round
Second Round
Semifinals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
All-Tournament team
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Player Team Allison Brockelman Belmont Kate Virtel Caite Johnson Drake Lily Overstreet Madeline Smith Erika Wells Illinois State Mackenzie Kent Indiana State Jenna Anderson Missouri State Camielle Day Julia Kristensen Grace O'Keefe Sophia Balistreri Northern Iowa Lucy Horn Southern Illinois Riley Collett UIC Emmy Higgins MVP in bold
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