List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences
This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) conferences. Conferences are tournaments within a season, as opposed to the North American usage where a conference is a grouping of teams. If a team wins all of the conferences in a season, it is said that they have won a Grand Slam.
Types of conferences
As of the 2023–24 season, there is a total of 134 conferences/tournaments held by the PBA since 1975. It was further broken down into three categories:
- All Filipino conferences - only players with Filipino citizenship are allowed to compete. (45 tournaments as of 2023–24 season)
- Import-laden conferences - players with other citizenship/nationality are allowed to compete, with teams usually limited with one non-Filipino on their active lineup. (89 tournaments as of 2023–24 season)
- Special tournaments - teams may or may not include imports but championships won don't count to the championship tally.
Active tournaments
- All-Filipino Conference/All-Filipino Cup/Philippine Cup - Meralco Bolts
- Commissioner's Cup - San Miguel Beermen
- Governors' Cup - TNT Tropang Giga
Inactive tournaments
- All-Philippine Championship - Crispa Redmanizers (1976)
- Reinforced Filipino - Crispa Redmanizers (1983)
- Fiesta - Alaska Aces (2010)
- Open - San Miguel Beermen (1989)
- Reinforced - Coca-Cola Tigers (2003)
- First Conference - Shell Rimula X (1992)
- Third Conference - Swift Mighty Meaties (1992)
- Invitational - Alaska Aces (2003)
Special tournaments
- PBA-IBA- Añejo Rum 65ers (1988)
- Centennial - Mobiline Phone Pals (1998)
Number of conferences
There had always been three conferences in a PBA season. The exceptions are:
- 1981 PBA season had two conferences due to Manila's hosting of the 1981 Southeast Asian Games.
- 1998 PBA season had four conferences due to the celebration of the centennial of the Philippine Declaration of Independence.
- There were two conferences from 2004 to 2010 due to modification of the season format from three conferences to two, and from changing the season calendar from January or February–December to October–July. To do this, there was a transitional 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference. The association reverted to three conferences for the 2010–11 PBA season.
- 2020 PBA season had one conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
- 2021 PBA season had two conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
- 2023–24 PBA season had two conferences due to the Philippines' hosting of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 19th Asian Games in China in 2023.
List of conferences
1970s
- 1975 PBA season
- 1975 PBA First Conference[a]
- 1975 PBA Second Conference[a]
- 1975 PBA All-Philippine Championship
- 1976 PBA season
- 1976 PBA First Conference[a]
- 1976 PBA Second Conference[a]
- 1976 PBA All-Philippine Championship
- 1977 PBA season
- 1977 PBA All-Filipino Conference
- 1977 PBA Open Conference
- 1977 PBA Invitational Championship
- 1978 PBA season
- 1978 PBA All-Filipino Conference
- 1978 PBA Open Conference
- 1978 PBA Invitational Championship
- 1979 PBA season
- 1979 PBA All-Filipino Conference
- 1979 PBA Open Conference
- 1979 PBA Invitational Championship
1980s
- 1980 PBA season
- 1980 PBA Open Conference
- 1980 PBA Invitational Championship
- 1980 PBA All-Filipino Conference
- 1981 PBA season
- 1981 PBA Open Conference
- 1981 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference
- 1982 PBA season
- 1983 PBA season
- 1984 PBA season
- 1985 PBA season
- 1986 PBA season
- 1987 PBA season
- 1988 PBA season
- 1989 PBA season
1990s
- 1990 PBA season
- 1991 PBA season
- 1992 PBA season
- 1993 PBA season
- 1994 PBA season
- 1995 PBA season
- 1996 PBA season
- 1997 PBA season
- 1998 PBA season
- 1999 PBA season
2000s
- 2000 PBA season
- 2001 PBA season
- 2002 PBA season
- 2003 PBA season
- 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference
- 2004–05 PBA season
- 2005–06 PBA season
- 2006–07 PBA season
- 2007–08 PBA season
- 2008–09 PBA season
2010s
- 2009–10 PBA season
- 2010–11 PBA season
- 2011–12 PBA season
- 2012–13 PBA season
- 2013–14 PBA season
- 2014–15 PBA season
- 2015–16 PBA season
- 2016–17 PBA season
- 2017–18 PBA season
- 2019 PBA season
2020s
Notes
- ^ a b c d The first and second conferences of the 1975 and 1976 seasons were officially named as All-Filipino Conference and Open Conference respectively. The All-Filipino Conference was reclassified in the 2010s as an import-laced tournament since the league gave teams the option to hire foreign players or "imports". Both tournaments were renamed as First and Second Conference since the 2001 edition of Hardcourt, the official PBA Annual.
References
- Past PBA seasons
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