2023 Premier Volleyball League season

2023 Premier Volleyball League season
League	Premier Volleyball League
Sport	Volleyball
Duration	February 4 – December 16, 2023
TV partner(s)	One Sports Cignal TV
Conferences
First All-Filipino champions	Creamline
First All-Filipino runners-up	Petro Gazz
Invitational champions	Kurashiki Ablaze
Invitational runners-up	Creamline
Second All-Filipino champions	Creamline
Second All-Filipino runners-up	Choco Mucho
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The 2023 Premier Volleyball League (PVL) season was the sixth season of the Premier Volleyball League. The season started on February 4, 2023 with the beginning of the 2023 First All-Filipino Conference and ended on December 16, 2023 with the conclusion of the 2023 Second All-Filipino Conference.

First All-Filipino conference

Main article: 2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference

The 2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference ^{[lower-alpha 1] [1]} was the fourteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its fifth conference as a professional league. The tournament began on February 4, 2023, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City. ^[2]

Formerly known as the Open Conference, the conference was rebranded as the "All-Filipino Conference" to better reflect the fact that the tournament's participation is restricted to Filipino players, including Filipino-Foreigners. ^[3]

Participating teams

2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affliation	Head coach	Team captain
AKA	Akari Chargers	Akari Lighting & Technology Corporation	Jorge Edson	Michelle Cobb
ABM	Army Black Mamba Lady Troopers	Philippine Army and Corbridge Group Philippines	Randy Fallorina	Angela Nunag
CTC	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group, Inc.	Aaron Velez	Mylene Paat
CMF	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Dante Alinsunurin	Bea de Leon
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Shaq Delos Santos	Rachel Daquis
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Sherwin Meneses	Jia Morado
FTL	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	F2 Logistics Philippines	Regine Diego	Aby Maraño
PGA	Petro Gazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils. Corp.	Oliver Almadro	Chie Saet
HSH	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	Rald Ricafort	Mika Reyes

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Creamline Cool Smashers	8	7	1	22	23	5	4.600	674	509	1.324	Final round
2	Petro Gazz Angels	8	6	2	19	20	7	2.857	651	550	1.184
3	PLDT High Speed Hitters	8	6	2	18	20	10	2.000	697	613	1.137
4	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	8	6	2	16	18	12	1.500	646	653	0.989
5	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	8	4	4	13	15	13	1.154	633	595	1.064
6	Cignal HD Spikers	8	3	5	8	9	17	0.529	616	660	0.933
7	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	8	2	6	6	10	20	0.500	613	696	0.881
8	Akari Power Chargers	8	2	6	5	8	21	0.381	590	705	0.837
9	Army Black Mamba Lady Troopers	8	0	8	1	5	24	0.208	532	708	0.751

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Final round

	Semifinals							Championship
	March 18–21
	1	Creamline Cool Smashers		3	3
								March 26–30
	4	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers		1	0
								Creamline Cool Smashers		1	3	3
	March 18–23
								Petro Gazz Angels		3	2	1
	2	Petro Gazz Angels	3	1	3
	3	PLDT High Speed Hitters	1	3	0
								3rd place
								March 26–28
								F2 Logistics Cargo Movers			3	3
								PLDT High Speed Hitters			1	1

Final standings Rank Team Creamline Cool Smashers Petro Gazz Angels F2 Logistics Cargo Movers 4 PLDT High Speed Hitters 5 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 6 Cignal HD Spikers 7 Choco Mucho Flying Titans 8 Akari Power Chargers 9 Army Black Mamba Lady Troopers

Awards Award Player Team Ref. Conference Most Valuable Player Tots Carlos Creamline [4] [5] Finals Most Valuable Player Jia De Guzman Creamline 1st Best Outside Spiker Tots Carlos Creamline 2nd Best Outside Spiker Jema Galanza Creamline 1st Best Middle Blocker Remy Palma Petro Gazz 2nd Best Middle Blocker Mar-Jana Phillips Petro Gazz Best Opposite Spiker Michele Gumabao Creamline Best Setter Jia De Guzman Creamline Best Libero Kath Arado PLDT

Invitational conference

Main article: 2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

The 2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the fifteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its six conference as a professional league. The tournament was originally scheduled to start on June 6, 2023, however, it was moved to June 27, 2023, due to the Philippines women's national volleyball team competing at the 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup. ^[6]

This conference introduced three debuting teams in the league — Farm Fresh Foxies and Quezon City Gerflor Defenders as newly formed teams, and the return of Foton Tornadoes in the Filipino volleyball scene after the original team was rebranded as Chery Tiggo Crossovers in 2020. ^{[7] [8]} Philippine Army Lady Troopers is skipping this conference due to military training to most of its players. ^[9] Two foreign teams, Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan and Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh of Vietnam, also participated in the conference. ^{[10] [11]}

With these new additions alongside the two foreign guest teams, this is the first conference of the PVL that has more than ten participating corporate teams. Moreover, this is also the most contested conference of the league, by having thirteen teams — the most by any conference so far.

Participating teams

2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
Local teams
AKA	Akari Chargers	Akari Lighting & Technology	Jorge Edson	Michelle Cobb
CTC	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group	Aaron Velez	Mylene Paat
CMF	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Dante Alinsunurin	Bea de Leon
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Shaq Delos Santos	Rachel Anne Daquis
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Sherwin Meneses	Alyssa Valdez
FTL	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	F2 Logistics Philippines	Regine Diego	Aby Maraño
FFF	Farm Fresh Foxies	Farm Fresh Philippine International	Jerry Yee	Cloanne Mondoñedo
FOT	Foton Tornadoes	United Asia Automotive Group	Brian Esquibel	Shaya Adorador
PGA	Petro Gazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils.	Oliver Almadro	Relea Ferina Saet
HSH	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	Rald Ricafort	Mika Reyes
GFD	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	Gerflor Philippines / Quezon City Sports Management Services	Edgar Barroga	Justine Dorog
Foreign teams
KUR	Kurashiki Ablaze [12]	Ablaze Co., Ltd. / V.League (Japan)	Hideo Suzuki	Ohshima Kyoka [13]
KBB	Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh	Volleyball Vietnam League	Phạm Văn Long	Nguyễn Thị Kiều Oanh [13]

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Creamline Cool Smashers	4	4	0	12	12	1	12.000	325	252	1.290	Final round
2	PLDT High Speed Hitters	4	3	1	8	9	5	1.800	213	190	1.121
3	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	4	2	2	6	8	8	1.000	240	226	1.062	Classification round
4	Akari Chargers	4	1	3	3	6	11	0.545	352	388	0.907
5	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	4	0	4	1	2	12	0.167	266	340	0.782

Source: ^[14]

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cignal HD Spikers	5	4	1	12	13	4	3.250	413	349	1.183	Final round
2	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	5	4	1	12	14	6	2.333	462	432	1.069
3	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	5	3	2	9	11	8	1.375	416	367	1.134	Classification round
4	Petro Gazz Angels	5	3	2	9	12	9	1.333	479	458	1.046
5	Foton Tornadoes	5	1	4	2	4	14	0.286	356	436	0.817
6	Farm Fresh Foxies	5	0	5	1	2	15	0.133	339	421	0.805

Source: ^[14]

Classification round

11th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 20	09:00	PSA	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	1–3	Foton Tornadoes	24–26	25–13	21–25	24–26		94–90	P2

9th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 20	11:30	PSA	Petro Gazz Angels	3–2	Akari Chargers	25–19	25–18	20–25	20–25	15–7	105–94	P2

7th place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 22	09:00	PSA	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	0–3	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	20–25	24–26	15–25			59–76	P2

Final round

Semifinals

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Kurashiki Ablaze	5	5	0	15	15	3	5.000	439	351	1.251	Championship match
2	Creamline Cool Smashers	5	4	1	10	13	7	1.857	447	416	1.075
3	Cignal HD Spikers	5	2	3	7	9	9	1.000	330	348	0.948	3rd place match
4	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	5	2	3	7	8	11	0.727	323	350	0.923
5	PLDT High Speed Hitters	5	2	3	6	7	9	0.778	270	268	1.007
6	Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh	5	0	5	0	2	15	0.133	193	248	0.778

Updated to match(es) played on July 28, 2023. Source: ^[14]

Finals

3rd place match

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 30	16:00	PSA	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	1–3	Cignal HD Spikers	22–25	25–23	20–25	18–25		85–98	P2 P–2

Championship

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Jul 30	18:30	PSA	Kurashiki Ablaze	3–2	Creamline Cool Smashers	19–25	25–23	25–19	20–25	15–13	104–105	P2 P–2

Final standings Rank Team Kurashiki Ablaze Creamline Cool Smashers Cignal HD Spikers 4 F2 Logistics Cargo Movers 5 PLDT High Speed Hitters 6 Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh 7 Choco Mucho Flying Titans 8 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 9 Petro Gazz Angels 10 Akari Chargers 11 Foton Tornadoes 12 Quezon City Gerflor Defenders 13 Farm Fresh Foxies

Awards Award Player Team Ref. Conference Most Valuable Player Frances Molina Cignal [15] [16] [17] Finals Most Valuable Player Kyoka Ohshima Kurashiki Ablaze 1st Best Outside Spiker Tamaru Asaka Kurashiki Ablaze 2nd Best Outside Spiker Alyssa Valdez Creamline 1st Best Middle Blocker Majoy Baron F2 Logistics 2nd Best Middle Blocker Celine Domingo Creamline Best Opposite Spiker Tots Carlos Creamline Best Setter Angelica Cayuna Cignal Best Libero Kath Arado PLDT

Second All-Filipino conference

Main article: 2023 Premier Volleyball League Second All-Filipino Conference

The 2023 Premier Volleyball League Second All-Filipino Conference ^[18] was the sixteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League. The tournament began on October 15, 2023. ^{[19] [20]} This tournament was set to be the second post-pandemic import-laden conference known as the 2023 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference, with the Angels set to defend their crown, but was made into a second All-Filipino Conference as a consequence of sanctions from the Philippine National Volleyball Federation.

The conference not only marked the arrival of two debuting teams – Nxled Chameleons, the sister team of Akari Chargers, and Galeries Tower Highrisers, but it also marked the return of using a cross-over format for the semifinals which was last implemented on the same conference earlier this year which is the 2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference. ^[21] Meanwhile the Foton Tornadoes withdrew from the PVL. This is the first conference of the league catering to the most local club teams with twelve.

Due to PNVF sanctions

The tournament was originally planned to be organized as the Reinforced Conference and was meant to feature teams reinforced by an import or a foreign player. However, the Philippine National Volleyball Federation penalized the PVL for violating Article 6.1.1.b of the FIVB Regulations 2022 which states that the national team period should be prioritized by professional leagues. However, the league proceeded with the opening of the Invitational Conference on June 27. ^[22]

The FIVB has allowed the PVL to organize a third conference but the PNVF will not be able to issue international transfer certificates which would allow clubs to sign in foreign players for the tournament. ^[22]

Timeout

The timeout regulations was changed starting from this conference in a bid to minimize match duration. A technical timeout lasting from one to two minutes will come to effect when one team reaches 13 points. Teams will have one regular timeout and another 30-second timeout for each set. ^[23]

Participating teams

2023 Premier Volleyball League Second All-Filipino Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affliation	Head coach	Team captain
AKA	Akari Chargers	Akari Lighting & Technology	Jorge Edson	Michelle Cobb
CTC	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group	Aaron Velez	EJ Laure
CMF	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Dante Alinsunurin	Bea de Leon
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Shaq Delos Santos	Frances Molina
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Sherwin Meneses	Alyssa Valdez
FFF	Farm Fresh Foxies	Farm Fresh Philippine International / Strong Group Athletics	Jerry Yee	Louie Romero
FTL	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	F2 Logistics Philippines	Regine Diego	Aby Maraño
GTH	Galeries Tower Highrisers	Grand Taipan Land Development	Lerma Giron	Fenela Emnas
NXL	Nxled Chameleons	Akari Lighting & Technology	Takayuki Minowa	Danielle Ravena
PGA	PetroGazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils.	Timmy Santo Tomas	Chie Saet
HSH	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	Rald Ricafort	Mika Reyes
GFD	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	Gerflor Philippines / Quezon City Sports Management Services	Sammy Acaylar	Pia Sarmiento

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Creamline Cool Smashers	11	11	0	32	33	7	4.714	977	786	1.243	Final round
2	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	11	10	1	29	31	7	4.429	899	724	1.242
3	Cignal HD Spikers	11	8	3	25	26	15	1.733	947	842	1.125
4	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	11	8	3	22	26	16	1.625	851	809	1.052
5	PLDT High Speed Hitters	11	7	4	21	25	15	1.667	914	901	1.014
6	Petro Gazz Angels	11	6	5	20	25	17	1.471	941	900	1.046
7	Akari Chargers	11	5	6	14	19	22	0.864	912	922	0.989
8	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	11	4	7	13	18	23	0.783	790	780	1.013
9	Nxled Chameleons	11	4	7	12	14	23	0.609	786	851	0.924
10	Farm Fresh Foxies	11	2	9	7	13	28	0.464	878	933	0.941
11	Galeries Tower Highrisers	11	1	10	2	6	32	0.188	704	925	0.761
12	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	11	0	11	1	2	33	0.061	531	857	0.620

Source: 2023 PhilSports.ph

Final round

• All are best-of-three series.

	Semifinals							Championship
	1	Creamline Cool Smashers		3	3
	4	Chery Tiggo Crossovers		0	0
								Creamline Cool Smashers		3	3
								Choco Mucho Flying Titans		1	2
	2	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	2	3	3
	3	Cignal HD Spikers	3	0	1
								3rd place
								Chery Tiggo Crossovers		1	1
								Cignal HD Spikers		3	3

* If necessary

Final standings Rank Team Creamline Cool Smashers Choco Mucho Flying Titans Cignal HD Spikers 4 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 5 PLDT High Speed Hitters 6 Petro Gazz Angels 7 Akari Chargers 8 F2 Logistics Cargo Movers 9 Nxled Chameleons 10 Farm Fresh Foxies 11 Galeries Tower Highrisers 12 Quezon City Gerflor Defenders

Awards Award Player Team Ref. Conference Most Valuable Player Sisi Rondina Choco Mucho [24] [25] Finals Most Valuable Player Tots Carlos Creamline 1st Best Outside Spiker Ejiya Laure Chery Tiggo 2nd Best Outside Spiker Jema Galanza Creamline 1st Best Middle Blocker Jeanette Panaga Creamline 2nd Best Middle Blocker Ria Meneses Cignal Best Opposite Spiker Michele Gumabao Creamline Best Setter Gel Cayuna Cignal Best Libero Tonnie Rose Ponce Choco Mucho

Conference results

Conference	Champion	Runner-up	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th
First All-Filipino	Creamline	Petro Gazz	F2 Logistics	PLDT	Chery Tiggo	Cignal	Choco Mucho	Akari	Army Black Mamba	—
Invitational	Kurashiki	Creamline	Cignal	F2 Logistics	PLDT	Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh	Choco Mucho	Chery Tiggo	Petro Gazz	Akari	Foton	Gerflor	Farm Fresh
Second All-Filipino	Creamline	Choco Mucho	Cignal	Chery Tiggo	PLDT	Petro Gazz	Akari	F2 Logistics	Nxled	Farm Fresh	Galeries Tower	Gerflor	—

See also

• 2023 Spikers' Turf season

Notes

1. Known as the All-Filipino Conference at the time of competition. Retroactively designated as the First All-Filipino Conference after the introduction of the Second All-Filipino Conference.

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