2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
DurationAugust 21–31, 2025
Matches15
Teams6
TV partner(s)One Sports
One Sports+
RPTV
Streaming partner(s)Pilipinas Live
PVL Invitational Conference chronology
PVL conference chronology

The 2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference will be the 21st conference of the Premier Volleyball League and the second conference and third tournament of the 2024–25 season. The fourth Invitational Conference will run from August 21 to 31, 2025 and will feature the top four teams from the preseason PVL on Tour alongside two guest teams. The tournament was initially set to start on August 19, two days before its current schedule.[1]

Qualification

The 2025 Invitational Conference will follow the same format as the 2024 edition. It will be a smaller-scale tournament where only the top four PVL teams in the previous tournament (the 2025 PVL on Tour) will qualify for this conference alongside the two foreign-based guest teams.[2][3]

The four PVL teams set to compete in this conference will be the Chery Tiggo Crossovers, Cignal HD Spikers, Creamline Cool Smashers, and PLDT High Speed Hitters. The two guest teams were announced on August 13 with the Kurashiki Ablaze and Kobe Shinwa University, both from Japan, joining the tournament. Kurashiki will make their third consecutive appearance in the Invitational Conference while Kobe Shinwa debut after backing out of the 2022 edition.[4]

Qualification method Date Berths Qualifier(s)
2025 PVL on Tour semifinalists August 7–9, 2025 4 Chery Tiggo Crossovers
Cignal HD Spikers
Creamline Cool Smashers
PLDT High Speed Hitters
Foreign guest teams August 13, 2025 (announcement) 2 Kobe Shinwa University (Japan)
Kurashiki Ablaze (Japan)

Participating teams

2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr. Team Affiliation Head coach Team captain
Local teams
CTC Chery Tiggo Crossovers United Asia Automotive Group Philippines Norman Miguel Philippines Aby Maraño
CHD Cignal HD Spikers Cignal TV, Inc. Philippines Shaq Delos Santos Philippines Dawn Macandili-Catindig
CCS Creamline Cool Smashers Rebisco Philippines Sherwin Meneses Philippines Alyssa Valdez
HSH PLDT High Speed Hitters PLDT Inc. Philippines Rald Ricafort Philippines Kath Arado
Foreign guest teams
KSU Kobe Shinwa University — TBA TBA
KUR Kurashiki Ablaze Ablaze Co., Ltd. / V.League Japan Japan Hideo Suzuki Japan Saya Taniguchi

Venues

Preliminaries Preliminaries, Finals
Pasig Quezon City
PhilSports Arena (PSA) Smart Araneta Coliseum (SAC)
Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 20,000

Transactions

National team players

The following players are part of the Philippines women's national team pool that were training and scheduled to play in several events in the 2025 national team season. They were therefore excluded from the conference.[5] On August 18, these players were allowed to report back to their respective clubs but they can only play in the Reinforced Conference and not this tournament.[6]

Team Player/s
Chery Tiggo Crossovers Jen Nierva —
Cignal HD Spikers Dawn Catindig Vanie Gandler
Creamline Cool Smashers Jia de Guzman —
PLDT High Speed Hitters Dell Palomata Alleiah Malaluan

Format

The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:

Preliminary round
  • The preliminary round will be a single round-robin tournament, with each team playing one match against all other teams for a total of five matches. Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
    • Results from the 2025 PVL on Tour semifinals were carried over.[7] Because of this, local teams will not play against their semifinal opponent from the conference and will only play four matches.
  • The top two teams will advance to the championship match while teams ranked third and fourth will play in the third-place match.
  • Teams ranked fifth and sixth will be eliminated and be ranked accordingly in the final standings.
Finals
  • Both the championship (gold medal) and third-place (bronze medal) matches will be singular matches.
  • The match-ups will be as follows:
    • Championship match: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team
    • Third-place match: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team

Pool standing procedure

  • First, teams are ranked by the number of matches won.
  • If the number of matches won is tied, the tied teams are then ranked by match points, wherein:
    • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser.
    • Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.
  • In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used:
    • Set ratio: the number of sets won divided by number of sets lost.
    • Point ratio: the number of points scored divided by the number of points allowed.
    • Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 1 1 0 3 3 1 3.000 91 86 1.058 Championship match
2 PLDT High Speed Hitters 1 1 0 2 3 2 1.500 108 101 1.069
3 Kobe Shinwa University 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 — 3rd place match
4 Kurashiki Ablaze 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
5 Creamline Cool Smashers 1 0 1 1 2 3 0.667 101 108 0.935
6 Cignal HD Spikers 1 0 1 0 1 3 0.333 86 91 0.945
First match(es) will be played: August 21, 2025. Source: Premier Volleyball League

Match results

Date Time Venue Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
Aug 21 16:00 PSA Cignal HD Spikers – Creamline Cool Smashers – – –     0–0  
Aug 21 18:30 PSA PLDT High Speed Hitters – Chery Tiggo Crossovers – – –     0–0  
Aug 23 13:30 PSA Kobe Shinwa University – Kurashiki Ablaze – – –     0–0  
Aug 23 16:00 PSA Creamline Cool Smashers – Chery Tiggo Crossovers – – –     0–0  
Aug 23 18:30 PSA PLDT High Speed Hitters – Cignal HD Spikers – – –     0–0  
Aug 25 16:00 PSA Cignal HD Spikers – Kurashiki Ablaze – – –     0–0  
Aug 25 18:30 PSA PLDT High Speed Hitters – Kobe Shinwa University – – –     0–0  
Aug 26 16:00 PSA Kurashiki Ablaze – Chery Tiggo Crossovers – – –     0–0  
Aug 26 18:30 PSA Kobe Shinwa University – Creamline Cool Smashers – – –     0–0  
Aug 28 16:00 SAC Cignal HD Spikers – Kobe Shinwa University – – –     0–0  
Aug 28 18:30 SAC PLDT High Speed Hitters – Kurashiki Ablaze – – –     0–0  
Aug 29 16:00 SAC Kobe Shinwa University – Chery Tiggo Crossovers – – –     0–0  
Aug 29 18:30 SAC Kurashiki Ablaze – Creamline Cool Smashers – – –     0–0  

Final round

3rd place match

Date Time Venue Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
Aug 31 16:00 SAC   –   – – –     0–0  

Championship match

Date Time Venue Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
Aug 31 18:30 SAC   –   – – –     0–0  

References

  1. ^ Garcia, John Mark (August 1, 2025). "PVL Invitationals set to start two days after On Tour final". Spin.ph. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  2. ^ "PVL on Tour takes Pre-season nationwide". June 4, 2025. Retrieved June 16, 2025.
  3. ^ "PVL on Tour kicks off in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, brings big-league volleyball to provinces". Tiebreaker Times. June 18, 2025. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  4. ^ Demigillo, Kiko (August 13, 2025). "Japanese teams Kurashiki, Kobe Shinwa set to spice up 2025 PVL Invitational Conference". onesports.ph. Retrieved August 13, 2025.
  5. ^ Garcia, John Mark (June 19, 2025). "Alas Pilipinas players to miss PVL action until mid-October". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  6. ^ "Alas spikers cleared to rejoin PVL mother teams". The Philippine Star. August 18, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
  7. ^ "PLDT, Chery Tiggo renew rivalry as PVL Invitational unwraps". www.pvl.ph. August 20, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
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