The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.
The defending champions were the Missouri State Bears[1] They were unable to defend their title, losing in the final to the Western Michigan Broncos[2][3] This was the first conference tournament title for the Western Michigan men's soccer program, as the joined the conference in 2023.
Western Michigan had two MAC conference tournament titles prior to joining the MVC.
Six of the nine Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer programs qualified for the 2023 Tournament.
A tiebreaker was required to determine the fifth and sixth seeds of the tournament as Belmont and Northern Illinois both finished with 3–4–1 regular season records.