2019 PVL season

2019 Premier Volleyball League
League	Premier Volleyball League
Sport	Volleyball
TV partner(s)	ABS-CBN Sports and Action ; Liga (TV channel)
Reinforced
Season champions	PetroGazz Angels
Runners-up	Creamline Cool Smashers
Season MVP	Alyssa Valdez
Open
Season champions	Creamline Cool Smashers
Runners-up	PetroGazz Angels
Season MVP	Jessica Margarett Galanza
Collegiate
Season champions	Adamson Lady Falcons
Runners-up	UST Tigresses
Season MVP	Trisha Mae Genesis
Seasons
	← 2nd, 2018 4th, 2020 →

Last updated November 10, 2019

The 2019 Premier Volleyball League (PVL) season is the third season of the Premier Volleyball League (16th season of the former Shakey's V-League) that started on May 26, 2019 and ended on November 9, 2019 at the Filoil Flying V Center in San Juan.^[1]

The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League, a women's collegiate league with teams coming from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation (CESAFI), and other associations. Since 2011, the league welcomed the participation of corporate clubs and non-collegiate teams.

The Shakey's V-League conference results present the final rankings of each conference in the Shakey's V-League from 2004 to 2016. The league was renamed Premier Volleyball League in 2017. The men's division became the Spikers' Turf in 2015.

All-Star game

Alyssa Valdez and Myla Pablo headed the two teams, blue and red, respectively. The all-star game was staged to generate funds for the benefit of the Help Educate and Rear Orphans (Hero) Foundation.^[1]

Alyssa Caymo Valdéz is a Filipino volleyball player who currently plays for a local club team named Creamline Cool Smashers. She was a star player of the collegiate varsity women's volleyball team of Ateneo de Manila University in both indoor and beach volleyball, where she brought multiple championship titles and a lot of honor for the university. She is a current member of Philippines national team, where she is a standout. Her global recognition paved the way for her to play in other countries like Thailand for 3BB Nakornnont and Chinese Taipei for Attack Line Volleyball Club. To date, Alyssa Valdez is the most influential volleyball player in the Philippines and is hailed as the Face of Philippine Volleyball.

Myla Pablo is a Filipino volleyball player. She was part of the Philippines women's national volleyball team in 2015.

Blue team	Red team
Alyssa Valdez, Deanna Wong, Maddie Madayag, Dani Ravena, Chie Saet, Jessey De Leon, Michele Gumabao, Melissa Gohing, Risa Sato, Nicole Tiamzon, Kathy Bersola, Grazielle Bombita, Isa Molde Head coach: Jerry Yee Assistant coach: Tai Bundit	Myla Pablo, Jia Morado, Jema Galanza, Jem Ferrer, Joy Dacoron, Kat Tolentino, Vanessa Gandler, Bea De Leon, Jonah Sabete, Cherry Nunag, Dimdim Pacres, Dell Palomata, Thang Ponce Head coach: Oliver Almadro Assistant coach: Jasper Jimenez

Match result

Philippines Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Teams	Set	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Report
Feb 02	18:00	Red team	3	25	25	25			75	P–2 ^[2]
Feb 02	18:00	Blue team	0	19	16	20			55	P–2 ^[2]

Reinforced conference

The 2019 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference was the seventh conference of the Premier Volleyball League (34th conference of the former Shakey's V-League ). Conference started on May 26, 2019. Grand Fans Day was held at the Trinoma Activity Center, Quezon City on April 25, 2019.^[3] Games were held at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan City, Philippines. Philippine Army returned as Pacific Town-Army Lady Troopers^[4] and Motolite Power Builders returned with a new set of players.^[5]

The Filoil Flying V Centre, formerly Filoil Flying V Arena and The Arena in San Juan, also known as the Entertainment and Recreational Arena of the People, is an indoor sporting arena located in Bonny Serrano Avenue, Corazon de Jesus, San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines.

San Juan, officially the City of San Juan,, or simply known as San Juan City, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 122,180 people. It is geographically located at its approximate center and is also the country's smallest city in terms of land area.

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. Bounded by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

Participating teams

2019 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference
Abbr.	Team	Company	Colors	Head coach	Team captain	Imports
BLP	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	Balibago Waterworks System, Inc.		Rommel Abella	Grazielle Bombita	Danijela Dzakovic Alexandra Vajdovä
BPS	BanKo Perlas Spikers	BPI Direct BanKo, Inc. and Beach Volleyball Republic		Apichat Kongsawat	Nicole Anne Tiamzon	Sutadta Chuewulim Stiix Horton Lakia Bright (replaced)^{[nb 1]} Yasemin Sahin Yildirim (replaced)^{[nb 2]}
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation		Anusorn "Tai" Bundit	Alyssa Valdez	Aleoscar Blanco Kuttika Kaewpin
MOT	Motolite Power Builders	Philippine Batteries Inc.		Airess Padda	Myla Pablo	Edina Selimovic (replaced)^{[nb 3]} Krystle Esdelle Channon Thompson
PGZ	PetroGazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils. Corp.		Arnold Laniog	Janisa Johnson	Wilma Salas Janisa Johnson
PTA	PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers	PacificTown Property Ventures Inc. and Philippine Army		Emilio Reyes Jr.	Mary Jean Balse-Pabayo	Olena Lymareva-Flink Jenelle Jordan

Notes:

↑ Chuewulim replaced Bright.^[6]
↑ Yildirim was replaced by Horton during the semis.^[7]
↑ Selimovic was replaced by Esdelle due to injury.^[8]

Preliminary round

Team standings

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	PetroGazz Angels	9	1	27	28	4	7.000	792	624	1.269
2	Creamline Cool Smashers	9	1	27	27	7	3.857	817	673	1.214
3	PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers	5	5	15	18	19	0.947	818	817	1.001
4	BanKo Perlas Spikers	4	6	12	16	21	0.762	776	858	0.904
5	Motolite Power Builders	3	7	8	13	25	0.520	809	856	0.945
6	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders	0	10	1	4	30	0.133	649	833	0.779

Qualified to the semifinals
Qualified to semifinals playoff

Final round

All series are best-of-three.

Semifinals					Finals


1	PetroGazz Angels	3	3	–

4	BanKo Perlas Spikers	1	0	–
						PetroGazz Angels	1	3	3

						Creamline Cool Smashers	3	1	1
2	Creamline Cool Smashers	3	3	–

3	PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers	1	0	–	3rd place


						PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers	2	3	3

						BanKo Perlas Spikers	3	1	2

Awards

Award		Player	Ref.
Most Valuable Player	Finals	Janisa Johnson	^[9]
Most Valuable Player	Conference	Alyssa Valdez	^[10]
Best Outside Spikers	1st: 2nd:	Nicole Anne Tiamzon Alyssa Valdez
Best Middle Blockers	1st: 2nd:	Katherine Adrielle Bersola Cherry Rose Nunag
Best Opposite Spiker		Angeline Marie Gervacio
Best Setter		Julia Melissa Morado
Best Libero		Angela Nunag
Best Foreign Guest Player		Wilma Salas

Final standings

Rank	Team
	PetroGazz Angels
	Creamline Cool Smashers
	PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers
4	BanKo Perlas Spikers
5	Motolite Power Builders
6	BaliPure Purest Water Defenders

Venues

Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan City (main venue)^[4]
University of San Agustin, Iloilo City (PVL on tour)^[11]
Imus City Sports Complex, Cavite (PVL on tour)^[12]
Alonte Sports Arena, Biñan, Laguna (PVL on tour)^[13]
Ynares Center, Antipolo, Rizal (PVL on tour)^[14]

The University of San Agustin is a private Catholic university in Iloilo City, Philippines.The first University in Western Visayas. With 40 initial students, it was established in 1904 as a preparatory school for boys by the Spanish Catholic missionaries of the oldest Roman Catholic religious order in the Philippines during the American colonial period, the Order of Saint Augustine with the help of the order's American confreres. In 1917, it was incorporated and became Colegio de San Agustin de Iloilo. In March 1953, San Agustin attained university status making it the first university in Western Visayas. San Agustin is the first and only Augustinian university in the Asia-Pacific region.

Iloilo City, officially the City of Iloilo is a highly urbanized city on the southeastern tip of Panay island in the Philippines. It is the capital city of the province of Iloilo where it is geographically situated but, in terms of government and administration, it is politically independent. In addition, it is the center of the Iloilo-Guimaras Metropolitan Area, as well as the regional center and primate city of the Western Visayas region. In the 2015 census, Iloilo City had a population of 447,992 inhabitants, with a 1.02% population annual growth rate. For the metropolitan area, the total population is 946,146 inhabitants.

The Ynares Center is an indoor sporting arena located along the Circumferential Road in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines. The facility which has a seating capacity of 7,400 is managed by the Provincial Government of Rizal. Aside from hosting basketball, boxing, and other indoor sports, the Ynares sports center is also use for concerts and other crowd gatherings.

Open conference

The 2019 Premier Volleyball League Open Conference is the eight conference of the Premier Volleyball League (35th conference of the former Shakey's V-League ). The conference started on August 11, 2019 and ended on November 9, 2019 at the Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines.^[15] Philippine Air Force Women's Volleyball Team returned in action^[16] and two new teams joined the conference named Chef's Classics Lady Red Spikers and Choco Mucho Flying Titans (second team of Rebisco).^[17]

Metropolitan Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR), is the seat of government and one of the three defined metropolitan areas of the Philippines. It is composed of 16 cities namely: the City of Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, as well as the municipality of Pateros. The region encompasses an area of 619.57-square-kilometer (239.22 sq mi) and has a population of 12,877,253 as of 2015. It is the second most populous and the most densely populated region of the Philippines. It is also the 9th most populous metropolitan area in Asia and the 5th most populous urban area in the world.

The Philippine Air Force women's volleyball team is the official women's volleyball team of the Philippine Air Force. It competes in various tournaments, including the Premier Volleyball League, where it is known as the Philippine Air Force Jet Spikers and formerly, Philippine Air Force Air Spikers. The team is composed of enlisted personnel and reinforced with civilian players from time to time.

The Choco Mucho Flying Titans is a professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League. The team is owned by Republic Biscuit Corporation.

Teams will play a double-round robin elimination round to determine the final four teams that will advance to the semifinals.^[18]

A round-robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants are eliminated after a certain number of losses.