Coaching changes The following coaching changes occurred during the 2022–23 offseason.
Conference realignment The ongoing
conference realignment had two especially significant impacts on men's soccer in the 2023 season. First, the
Mid-American Conference announced on November 11, 2022 that it would no longer sponsor men's soccer after the 2022 season. The MAC had dropped to five men's soccer members during the realignment cycle, and was unable to find the sixth member needed to maintain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The four full MAC members that sponsored the sport found new conference homes within a week, with Akron joining the
Big East Conference and Bowling Green, Northern Illinois, and Western Michigan joining the
Missouri Valley Conference. The one associate member of the group, full independent Chicago State, was temporarily left without a home for its own program. Then, on March 28, 2023, the
Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) announced that it would launch a men's soccer league in the 2023 season with eight members, equally divided between full members and associates. Three full OVC members (Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Southern Indiana) moved men's soccer from the
Summit League, with the other full member (SIU Edwardsville) leaving the
Missouri Valley Conference. The new associates are the aforementioned Chicago State; Houston Christian, which formerly housed men's soccer in the
Western Athletic Conference; Incarnate Word, which had played the 2022 season as an independent; and Liberty, which left the
Atlantic Sun Conference (which sponsors soccer for both sexes) for
Conference USA (which sponsors it only for women). Western Illinois later joined the Ohio Valley for all sports this season as well. Western had originally planned to join the OVC's new league as its ninth men's soccer program. However, the conference had already built its schedule, which includes air travel. Therefore, Western instead opted to stay with the
Summit League as an affiliate in order for the conference to stay at 6 members and retain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament while they look to add more members, and will move the sport over to the OVC in 2024. The 2023 season was the last for at least 11 men's college soccer teams in their then-current conferences: ==New programs==