• Championship Central

The 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Soccer Championship field is set.

This marks the third year of men's soccer in the OVC and the first time the Championship will be held on the campus of Lindenwood University. The event features six of the league's eight teams.

Regular season champion Lindenwood finished the season with the top record in the League (6-2-2) and earned the No. 1 seed and a bye to the semifinals which will be played on Wednesday, November 12. The No. 2 seed, who also gets a bye to the semifinals, will be HCU. The Huskies were 5-3-2 in OVC action.

The No. 3 seed Liberty will take on No. 6 seed Eastern Illinois in the First Round while No. 4 seed SIUE will challenge No. 5 seed Western Illinois. Those games will be held on Sunday, November 9.

The Championship Match will be played on Saturday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. CT.

Eastern Illinois has now made the OVC Tournament field in two of the three years the event has been contested.  In the inaugural year EIU faced Liberty in the opening round knocking off the Flames in penalty kicks before being eliminated by Incarnate Word in the tournament semifinals. 
 
The entire championship will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
2025 OVC Men's Soccer Championship Schedule
 
Sunday, November 9
Match 1 - #4 SIUE vs. #5 Western Illinois, 12:00pm CT (ESPN+)
Match 2 - #3 Liberty vs. #6 Eastern Illinois, 3:00pm CT (ESPN+)

Wednesday, November 12
Match 3 - Winner Match 1 vs. #1 Lindenwood, 4:00pm CT (ESPN+)
Match 4 - Winner Match 2 vs. #2 HCU, 7:00pm CT (ESPN+)

Saturday, November 15
Match 5 - Semifinal Winners, 7:30pm CT (ESPN+)

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