List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences

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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've won a Grand Slam.

Types of conferences

Types of conferences, along with the current cup holders:

  1. All Filipino conferences - only players with Filipino citizenship are allowed to compete.
  2. Import-laden conferences - players with other citizenship/nationality are allowed to compete, with teams usually limited with one non-Filipino on their active lineup.
  3. Special conferences - teams may or may not include imports. but championships won don't count to the championship tally.

Active tournaments

  1. All-Filipino Cup/Philippine Cup - San Miguel Beermen
  2. Commissioner's Cup - Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
  3. Governors' Cup - San Mig Coffee Mixers

Inactive tournaments

  1. All-Philippine Championship - Crispa Redmanizers (1976)
  2. Reinforced Filipino - Crispa Redmanizers (1983)
  3. Fiesta - Alaska Aces (2010)
  4. Open - San Miguel Beermen (1989)
  5. Reinforced - Coca-Cola Tigers (2003)
  6. First Conference - Shell Rimula X (1992)
  7. Third Conference - Swift Mighty Meaties (1992)

Special tournaments

  1. PBA-IBA- Añejo Rum 65ers (1988)
  2. Centennial - Mobiline Phone Pals (1998)
  3. Invitational - Alaska Aces (2003)

List of conferences

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s



* The first and second conference 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 based on the 2013 edition of Hardcourt, the official PBA Annual.

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