Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL)
Most recent season or competition:
2023 MPBL season
SportBasketball
FoundedAugust 29, 2017 (2017-08-29)
FounderManny Pacquiao
Inaugural season2018
COOZaldy Realubit
CommissionerKenneth Duremdes
MottoAng Liga Ng Bawat Pilipino (The League of Every Filipino)
No. of teams29
CountryPhilippines
HeadquartersPasig, Philippines
ContinentFIBA Asia (Asia)
Most recent
champion(s)		Pampanga Giant Lanterns (1st title)
Most titles5 teams (1 title each)
TV partner(s)One Sports
One PH
Cignal TV
Media Pilipinas TV
YouTube
Official websitewww.mpbl.com.ph

The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines consisting of 29 teams.

Founded in 2017 by eight-division boxing world champion Manny Pacquiao, the MPBL is not intended to be a competitor to the top-flight Philippine Basketball Association, but rather to provide a gateway for local, homegrown talents to showcase their skills. The league uses a home-and-away format, similar to the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association.[1] The MPBL started a semi-professional league before being granted professional status in 2021 by the Games and Amusement Board.[2]

Further developments include the youth-oriented Junior MPBL which launched in July 2023.[3] A volleyball counterpart called the Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association (MPVA) then launched in October 2023 with a similar purpose.[4]

The Pampanga Giant Lanterns are the current defending champions, beating the Bacoor City Strikers in three games during the 2023 MPBL Finals.

History

Founding

Pacquiao formally launched the MPBL on August 29, 2017, with the intent to feature both the commercial and barangay-level side, with teams on the commercial side to have a home locality in addition to a corporate sponsor.[5][6] Pacquiao also mentioned that the league would begin with only Luzon-based teams, with expansion to Visayas and Mindanao being planned. The expanded league would have two divisions, North and South, where one team from both divisions will face in a finals series similar to the format of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in North America.[1] The league was planned to start as early as September 23, 2017 with at least six teams.[7] A preseason tournament was held with the Bulacan Kuyas finishing as champions.[8]

Semi-professional era

The MPBL began its first season on January 25, 2018 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. The inaugural season featured ten teams, all based in Luzon as planned, with the requirement of each team having three homegrown players.[9][10] In the opening game, the Parañaque Patriots scored a 70–60 victory over the Caloocan Supremos.[11] The playoffs only featured eight teams due to its small size at the time, as the Batangas City Athletics were crowned as the league's inaugural champions when they defeated the Muntinlupa Cagers in the 2018 MPBL Finals.

In the 2018–19 season, the league pushed through with its national expansion, adding 16 expansion teams to the league to bring the roster to 26 teams. Five of the sixteen expansions are based in Visayas and Mindanao.[12] The North and South Divisions were introduced and the playoff format was changed to accommodate sixteen teams, eight per division. The league also placed roster restrictions on teams, only allowing one Filipino-foreigner and up to five ex-professional players, which caused criticism from players and fans alike.[13] The 2019 MPBL Finals featured two expansion teams, the San Juan Knights and the Davao Occidental Tigers, with San Juan winning the series in five games.

The 2019–20 season featured 31 teams participating in the league, the most the league had in its history, adding six expansion teams but also saw its first departing team, the Mandaluyong El Tigre. Roster restrictions were also relaxed, allowing more Filipino-foreigners and ex-professional players to play in the league.[14] In December 2019, Chooks-to-Go of Bounty Agro Ventures became the title sponsor of the league under what was initially a five-year deal.[15]

COVID-19 disruption

The 2019–20 season was postponed on March 12, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after the second game of the Divisional Finals. Nearly one year later, the league resumed play for the final games of the playoffs on March 10, 2021 through a bubble at the Subic Bay Gymnasium.[16] Davao Occidental beat San Juan in a rematch of last season's Finals to become the 2020 champions. Because of the long delay, the 2020–21 season was cancelled altogether.[17] In October 2021, Chooks-to-Go took over the operations of the league.[15]

Professional era

On November 9, 2021, it was announced that the MPBL would turn into a professional league. A month later, on December 9, 2021, the MPBL was granted professional status by the Games and Amusements Board (GAB).[2] This also allowed the league to feature collegiate players on team rosters, as long as the player itself is a Special Guest Licensee. The league's first professional event was the 2021 Invitational, which was the first preseason tournament under the Invitational label. During the Invitational, all roster restrictions were lifted.[18][19] The Basilan Jumbo Plastic became the Invitational champions and also won a prize pot of two million pesos.

The 2022 season would finally begin over a year after last season's conclusion, which featured 22 of the 31 teams from the previous season. The season marked a new sponsorship with sports betting platform OKBet, making them the title sponsor.[20] On October 10, 2022, Kyt Jimenez of the Sarangani Marlins became the first player in league history to record a quadruple-double.[21] The Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards went undefeated in the regular season and subsequently became the 2022 champions, winning against the Zamboanga Family's Brand Sardines.

The 2023 season featured 29 teams, including two expansion teams and five returning teams.[22] The 2023 Preseason Invitational was held in General Santos featuring eight teams, among those teams is the first guest team in the league, General Santos-based Bulalakaw.[23] Zamboanga won the preseason tournament, beating Nueva Ecija. On June 3, 2023, Jeff Viernes of the Sarangani Marlins recorded the league's first 50-point game.[24] The season culminated with the homegrown-laden Pampanga Giant Lanterns sweeping the Bacoor City Strikers in the 2023 MPBL Finals.

During this time, a trend began of teams participating in other leagues during the MPBL offseason. This first occurred in FilBasket during the Subic 2021 and Summer 2022 championships, which saw multiple teams participate due to the long gap between the 2019–20 and 2022 seasons.[25][26] In recent years, teams that were eliminated for the season would compete in the Pilipinas Super League (PSL) during the offseason.[27]

Further developments

Following the success of the MPBL, Pacquiao has made further developments in local, homegrown sports. On June 15, 2023, the Junior MPBL was unveiled in a press conference. The youth-oriented league's inaugural season began on July 9, 2023 with teams competing in 14-under, 16-under, and 18-under divisions.[28] A 21-under division is also in the works, which will be billed as the MPBL's "developmental league". In the same press conference announcing the junior league, Pacquiao also shared intent to create a volleyball counterpart similar to the MPBL that will cater to female players.[3] That league would be known as the Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association (MPVA) and began on October 22, 2023 with eight teams.[4][29]

On November 7, 2023, the league launched its social arm, the MPBL Kalinga, with the goal of providing medical assistance to MPBL players, former and current, as well as league officials and staff.[30]

Teams

The league began with ten Luzon-based teams in 2018, which was then increased to 26 teams following the national expansion in 2018–19. The number of teams has changed constantly every season: 31 in 2019–20, 22 in 2022, and currently, 29 in 2023.

Teams are usually owned by their respective local governments and backed by team sponsors. Team names can change as a result of managerial and/or sponsorship changes.

Current teams

Locations of MPBL teams outside of Metro Manila and Cavite (Metro Manila is pinned by a yellow pog for reference)
North Division South Division
Team Location Sponsors Arena[lower-alpha 1] Capacity Founded Joined Head coach
North Division
Bataan Risers Balanga, Bataan Camaya Coast Bataan People's Center 4,000 2018 Alex Callueng
Bulacan Kuyas Baliwag, Bulacan — Baliwag Star Arena 5,000 2017[lower-alpha 2] Joseph Mabagos
Caloocan Batang Kankaloo Caloocan — Caloocan Sports Complex 3,000 2017 Robert Sison
Makati OKBet Kings[31][32] Makati OKBet — 2018 Don Dulay
Manila Stars[33] Manila 747 Sports San Andres Sports Complex 3,000 2018 Bimbot Anquilo
Marikina Shoemasters[34] Marikina — Marikina Sports Center 7,000 2018 Elvis Tolentino
Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards Palayan, Nueva Ecija — Nueva Ecija Coliseum 3,000 2019 Jerson Cabiltes
Pampanga Giant Lanterns[35] San Fernando, Pampanga AMG3 Construction Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center 3,000 2018 Dennis Pineda
Parañaque Patriots Parañaque Okada Manila
Illo's Group
The Orange Platform		 Olivarez College Coliseum 3,500 2017[lower-alpha 2] Michael Saguiguit
Pasay Voyagers[36] Pasay — Cuneta Astrodome 12,000 2018[lower-alpha 2] Marlon Martin
Pasig City MCW Sports[37] Pasig MCW Sports Ynares Sports Arena 3,000 1998[lower-alpha 3] 2018 Boyet Fernandez
Quezon City Toda Aksyon Quezon City Columbia International Food Products, Inc. — 2018 Egay Macaraya
Rizal Golden Coolers[33][38] Rizal PTC Foodsphere Asia Corp.
AMRC Holdings Company, Inc.		 Ynares Center 7,400 2018 Jonathan Banal
One Arena N/A
San Juan Knights[39] San Juan Powerball Marketing & Logistics Corporation Filoil EcoOil Centre 5,500 1999[lower-alpha 3] 2018 Randy Alcantara
Valenzuela XUR Homes Valenzuela XUR Homes Realty, Inc. WES Arena N/A 2018 Eric Martinez
South Division
Bacolod City of Smiles Bacolod, Negros Occidental — — 2019 Vincent Salvador
Bacoor City Strikers[40] Bacoor, Cavite Filbet.com Strike Gymnasium 1,500 2018 Alexander Angeles
Batangas City Embassy Chill Batangas City, Batangas Tanduay Distillers Batangas City Coliseum 4,000 2018 Cholo Villanueva
Batangas State University Gymnasium 2,500
Bicol Volcanoes Bicol Region Liberty Commercial Center, Inc. — 2019[lower-alpha 2] Jason Santiago
GenSan Warriors[41] General Santos, South Cotabato — Lagao Gymnasium 6,000 2005[lower-alpha 4] 2018 Rich Alvarez
Iloilo United Royals Passi, Iloilo United Coconut Planters Life Assurance Corporation Passi City Arena 2,000 2019[lower-alpha 2] MC Abolucion
Imus SV Squad Imus, Cavite Tutok To Win Party-List Imus Sports Complex 1,000 2018 Jinino Manansala
Laguna Krah Asia[42] Laguna Krah Pipes Manila, Inc. Santa Rosa Sports Complex 5,700 2018 Nath Gregorio
Laguna Sports Complex 2,500
Mindoro Disiplinados Calapan, Oriental Mindoro — Sentrong Pangkabataan N/A 2019 Jonathan Reyes
Muntinlupa Cagers Muntinlupa Paramount Logistics, Inc. Muntinlupa Sports Center 3,000 2018 Aldrin Morante
Negros Pau Muscovados[43] Bacolod, Negros Occidental ALDRTZ Corporation La Salle Coliseum 8,000 2021[lower-alpha 5] Bonnie Garcia
Quezon Huskers[43] Lucena, Quezon — Quezon Convention Center 7,000 2004[lower-alpha 6] 2023 Eric Gonzales
Sarangani Marlins Sarangani — — 1998[lower-alpha 3] 2019 John Kallos
Zamboanga Family's Brand Sardines[41][44] Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur Universal Canning, Inc. Mayor Vitaliano D. Agan Coliseum 12,000 2018[lower-alpha 7] Louie Alas

Former teams

Team Location Sponsors Arena Capacity Founded Joined Last season Fate
Basilan Steel Lamitan, Basilan Jumbo Plastic Linoleum
Medical Depot		 Lamitan Capitol Gym 3,000 2018 2019–20[lower-alpha 8] Inactive
Cebu Casino Ethyl Alcohol Cebu International Pharmaceuticals Inc. Hoops Dome 6,500 2018 2019–20 Inactive
Aznar Coliseum 3,000
Davao Occidental Tigers[45] Davao Region[lower-alpha 9] United Coconut Planters Life Assurance Corporation RMC Petro Gazz Arena 2,000 2018 2019–20 Moved to Pilipinas Super League
Davao City Recreation Center 2,500
Mandaluyong El Tigre Mandaluyong Dataland Jose Rizal University Gym 1,000 2018 2018–19 Inactive
Navotas Uni-Pak Sardines Navotas Slord Development Corporation Navotas Sports Complex 1,000 2018 2019–20 Inactive

Timeline

Active team Former team Future team Did not participate

Junior MPBL teams

Team Location Sponsors Arena Capacity Founded Joined
North Division
Antipolo JY Titans Antipolo, Rizal — Ynares Center 7,400 2023
JT Bulacan Taipan San Jose del Monte, Bulacan — San Jose del Monte Sports Complex N/A 2023
Malabon Fisher Mall BBSD Malabon Fisher Mall Malabon Sports Complex N/A 2023
Mandaluyong Junior Microsmith Mandaluyong Microsmith — 2023
Manila Pirates Manila — San Andres Sports Complex 3,000 2023
Marikina Junior Shoemasters Marikina — Marikina Sports Center 7,000 2023
Mindoro Junior Disiplinados Mindoro Decena Foundation — 2023
Pampanga Giant Lanterns San Fernando, Pampanga — Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center 3,000 2023
Quezon City 828 Junior Giants Quezon City — Amoranto Arena 3,500 2023
Rizal Switch Fiber Antipolo, Rizal Switch Fiber Ynares Center 7,400 2023
Valenzuela Classic Jr. Valenzuela — Bahayang Pag-asa Sports Complex N/A 2023
Manotoc Covered Court N/A
South Division
Batangas City Barakitos Batangas City, Batangas — Batangas State University Gymnasium 2,500 2023
Bauan Cafe Uno Bauan, Batangas Cafe Uno Herminigildo Jasa Dolor Coliseum N/A 2023
Cavite City Aces Solar Cavite City, Cavite Aces Solar Montano Hall Gymnasium N/A 2023
Dasmariñas Don Pacundo Hoops Dasmariñas, Cavite Don Pacundo Sportswear — 2023
Davao Red Cubs Davao City, Davao del Sur — — 2023
Imus AJAA Ballers Imus, Cavite — — 2023
Las Piñas Whitening Warriors Las Piñas YSA Botanica UPHSD Las Piñas N/A 2023
Villar Coliseum N/A
Leyte XUR Homes Leyte XUR Homes Realty, Inc. — 2023
Muntinlupa JKLV Emeralds Muntinlupa JKLV Trading Corporation — 2023
Quezon Junior Huskers Quezon — — 2023
San Pedro Spartans San Pedro, Laguna — — 2023

Roster regulations

There is no draft held during the off-season, instead, teams acquire their players through the signing of contracts. However, there is a set of roster regulations, putting restrictions on which and how many players each team can place onto its roster. The regulations have changed over time to allow more players to join the league.

As of 2023, these regulations are as follows:[46]

  • Teams must have a minimum of 15 players and a maximum of 24 players.
  • All local players are eligible to play in the league – naturally-born Filipino citizens.
  • Each team must have at least three homegrown players on the roster – local players who are native to their team's home locality.
  • Each team is limited to seven ex-PBA players – players with prior participation in the Philippine Basketball Association.
  • Each team is limited to five collegiate players – players must be given a Special Guest License from the Games and Amusement Board.
  • Each team is limited to two Filipino-foreigner players – Filipinos of foreign descent; players must be a holder of a Philippine passport.

Season format

In recent seasons, the season runs through a single calendar year. The regular season opens in March or April with the culmination of the regular season coming in September or October. The playoffs would then run from October until December.

Preseason

Before the regular season begins, an invitational tournament is held as part of the preseason. The tournament is divided into two phases: the group stage and the playoff tournament. In the group stage, the participating teams are divided into multiple groups, where each team will play against their group opponents once. The top two teams of each group advance to a single-elimination playoff tournament, with cash prizes awaiting the top teams.

Regular season

The regular season uses a single round-robin format, similar to that of the PBA, where each team plays against all of the other teams once. The teams are divided into the North and South Divisions, although it doesn't have any impact on the regular season schedule and is only used for the purpose of playoff seeding.

Two or three games are scheduled in each gameday to be played in a team's homecourt. The home team typically plays in the primetime game, scheduled as the last game of the day. Occasionally, the league schedules an Invasion series, where all games are played within a single area, either locally or internationally.

Near the end of the regular season, the league holds its seasonal All-Star Game. Two teams representing the North and South Divisions are composed of fifteen players from each division, all of whom are declared as the season's all-stars. Alongside the All-Star Game are the various festivities held at the same day, including the Executives' Game, Three-Point Shootout, and Slam Dunk Contest.

The league uses the standard FIBA rules for all games. Since 2022, teams are ranked by the number of wins, not winning percentage.

Playoffs

Since the 2018–19 season, top eight teams in each division advance to the playoffs and are seeded into a single-elimination bracket consisting of four rounds. Should there be any ties, the league uses the standard FIBA tiebreaker criteria:

  1. Head-to-head record between tied teams
  2. Head-to-head point differential between tied teams
  3. Head-to-head points scored between tied teams
  4. Overall point differential
  5. Overall points scored

Once a team is eliminated from a tiebreaker, the criteria resets back to the first step for the remaining teams.

The first three rounds – First Round, Division Semifinals, and Division Finals – are played in a best-of-three series, while the fourth and final round – the National Finals – is played in a best-of-five series.

The league uses a different homecourt advantage system, specifically for the first two rounds. In the First Round, only the top four teams can host gamedays. In the Division Semifinals, only the top two remaining teams can host gamedays. The Division Finals and National Finals both use traditional 1-1-1 and 2-2-1 formats, respectively, to determine homecourt advantage.

Trophies are given out to the winning team of each Division Finals series and the National Finals, with the winning team of the National Finals also being declared as the season's champions. During the National Finals, the league also gives out its end-of-season awards to the best players in various categories, including the regular season Most Valuable Player. The best player of the National Finals is also given the Finals Most Valuable Player Award after the conclusion of the series.

Championships

Five different teams have won the league championship, with neither team having won it more than once. San Juan and Davao Occidental are tied for most appearances with two each.

TeamsWinLossTotalYear(s) wonYear(s) lost
San Juan11220192021
Davao Occidental11220212019
Batangas City1012018—
Nueva Ecija1012022—
Pampanga1012023—
Muntinlupa011—2018
Zamboanga011—2022
Bacoor City011—2023

Media coverage

The MPBL employs its own broadcast team for all games, with the broadcast feed and commentary shared across all platforms.

Current

Since 2022, Cignal TV holds the television broadcast rights to the MPBL and all of its games. As of 2023, all games are aired live on Media Pilipinas TV (MPTV) while the primetime game is aired on delayed telecast via One PH. The games are also streamed on Cignal's Pilipinas Live streaming service.

Online, the league broadcasts all of the games on its official Facebook page and YouTube channel. Bola.TV also co-streams the games with its own sportscasters.

Former

Priod to Cignal's current deal, ABS-CBN held the broadcast rights of the league from 2018 until 2021.[47] Games during that time were broadcast on ABS-CBN, A2Z, S+A, Liga, and its various regional stations in local markets, The Filipino Channel broadcast the games for international markets, and iWantTFC streamed the games worldwide. These broadcast rights came to a halt due to the network's franchise renewal controversy, which forced the league to award the broadcast rights to a new network.

Other networks which broadcasted the MPBL before Cignal's tenure tenure include Fox Sports Asia, which held the broadcast rights for Monday games throughout the 2018–19 season. Aftewards, it was the IBC broadcasting all games during the 2021 Invitational, with TAP DMV's TAP Go service streaming the games.

Commissioners

No.CommissionerTenure
FromTo
1Snow BaduaAugust 29, 2017November 22, 2017
2Kenneth DuremdesNovember 22, 2017incumbent

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Only arenas used during the 2023 season are shown here. For the full list, see List of Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League arenas.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Did not participate in 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Originally part of the Metropolitan Basketball Association.
  4. ↑ Originally part of the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association.
  5. ↑ First competed in the 2021 MPBL Invitational, became a full-time team in 2023.
  6. ↑ Originally part of the United Regional Basketball League.
  7. ↑ As the MPBL side of the Zamboanga Valientes.
  8. ↑ Also took part in the 2021 MPBL Invitational.
  9. ↑ Although based in Davao Occidental, the team played all of its home games across Davao Region, but not within the province itself.

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