2025 WMPBL season
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Philippines |
| Dates | June 29 – TBA 2025 |
| Teams | 6 |
The 2025 WMPBL season is the inaugural regular season of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League as a professional league.
It follows the Invitational Tournament which was held from January to April 2025. The WMPBL season itself will commence on June 29, 2025.[1]
Pilipinas Aguilas, defending champions and an amateur team are not participating.[2]
Format
The 2025 regular season will start with the elimination round where all six participating teams will figure in a double round robin. The top two teams will earn a bye to the semifinals. The remaining teams will advance to the semifinals where the third and fourth ranking teams having a twice-to-beat advantage. The semifinals and the finals will be a best-of-three series.[1]
Teams
Six professional teams will take part at the 2025 WMPBL season. The RK Hoops–Quezon City will make their debut while the rest of the team were 2025 Invitational Tournament participants.[2] The Invitational Tournament had 14 teams, including amateur and collegiate sides.[2][3]
- Discovery–Rizal Perlas
- New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries
- San Juan Lady Knights
- Tagaytay–Tol Patriots
- Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns
- RK Hoops–Quezon City
Elimination round
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | GB | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries | 5 | 4 | 1 | 457 | 323 | +134 | — | Semifinals |
| 2 | Discovery–Rizal Perlas | 5 | 3 | 2 | 392 | 336 | +56 | 1 | |
| 3 | San Juan DN Steel Lady Knights | 5 | 3 | 2 | 377 | 331 | +46 | 1 | Twice-to-beat in quarterfinals |
| 4 | Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns | 5 | 3 | 2 | 371 | 390 | −19 | 1 | |
| 5 | Tagaytay 'Tol Patriots | 5 | 1 | 4 | 326 | 383 | −57 | 3 | Twice-to-win in quarterfinals |
| 6 | RK Hoops–Quezon City. | 5 | 1 | 4 | 265 | 425 | −160 | 3 |
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2a) If two teams are tied, head-to-head match-up and aggregate; 2b) If three or more teams are tied, head-to-head point differential; 3) overall point differential; 4) coin toss.
Results
| Team | Game | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Batangas (BTG) | TAG 86–56 | RZL 101–87 | QC 99–45 | SJ 71–74 | PGS 100–61 | |||||
| Pangasinan (PGS) | QC 68–71 | RZL 77–63 | TAG 79–73 | SJ 86–83* | BTG 61–100 | |||||
| Quezon City (QC) | PGS 71–68 | SJ 47–85 | BTG 45–99 | RZL 39–82 | TAG 63–91 | |||||
| Rizal (RZL) | PGS 63–77 | BTG 87–101 | QC 82–39 | TAG 79–60 | SJ 81–59 | |||||
| San Juan (SJ) | QC 85–47 | TAG 76–46 | BTG 74–71 | PGS 83–86* | RZL 59–81 | |||||
| Tagaytay (TAG) | BTG 56–86 | SJ 46–76 | PGS 73–79 | RZL 60–79 | QC 91–63 | |||||
Legend: Blue = win; Red = loss; Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime. (*) Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods
Playoffs
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. Teams in italics have twice-to-beat advantage for the series.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals (knockout) | Finals (best-of-three) | |||||||||||
| (3 – twice-to-beat) | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| (4 – twice-to-beat) | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ a b "WMPBL tips off pro era with six teams". Tiebreaker Times. 22 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ a b c Morales, Luisa (22 June 2025). "WMPBL flaunts six-team cast in first professional season". One Sports. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "Basketball: WMPBL to launch first pro season with 6-team cast". ABS-CBN News. 22 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.