2025 MPBL season

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2025 MPBL season
League Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League
Sport Basketball
DurationRegular season:
begins March 8, 2025
Regular season
Playoffs
Finals
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The 2025 MPBL season is the upcoming seventh season of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) and its fourth under professional status. The regular season will begin on March 8, 2025. [1]

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The league will expand to the Cagayan Valley region for the first time with the addition of Ilagan City while Basilan confirmed its intent to return this season as the Basilan Starhorse after a three-season absence. Additional details in regard to this season will be announced by February 8. [2]

Entering this season, the Pampanga Giant Lanterns are two-time defending champions and reigning North Division champions while the Quezon Huskers are the reigning South Division champions. [3] [4]

League business

Expansion and potential contraction

This season, teams are given until February 1 to submit their intent to compete in this season. [2]

On January 16, 2025, commissioner Kenneth Duremdes announced that an expansion team based in Ilagan, Isabela will join the regional league this season, with the formal signing to be held later that month on January 27. It will mark the first time the league has a team based in the Cagayan Valley region and will continue the league's expansion into Northern Luzon following the additions of the Pangasinan Heatwaves and Abra Weavers last season. [1] After being absent in the last three seasons, the Basilan MPBL team is set to return to the league this season as the Basilan Starhorse, having last competed full-time in the 2019–20 season as the Basilan Steel, and as a guest team in the 2021 Preseason Invitational as the Basilan Jumbo Plastic. [5] Based on location, the Ilagan City MPBL team will likely be placed in the North Division while the Basilan Starhorse will likely return to the South Division.

The organization of the Manila Batang Sampaloc is considering departing from the league following their division quarterfinals exit in last season's playoffs. [6] [7] On January 3, 2025, the league announced on social media that the Bacolod City of Smiles franchise doesn't have any representatives heading into this season. [8] [9] The status of both franchises currently remains unknown.

Preseason Invitational cancellation

On January 22, 2025, the league announced that it will not host a Preseason Invitational tournament this season. This is so that competing teams can focus on building their rosters for the season. This will mark the first time in the professional era that the league will not host such a tournament. [2]

Team name changes

2024 team name2025 team name
Basilan Steel (2019–20) Basilan Starhorse

Transactions

Notable moves

Departures
Transfers

Coaching changes

Off-season changes
TeamDeparting coachIncoming coach
Basilan Starhorse —Mac Tan
Mindoro Tamaraws JR Cawaling Rodney Santos

Regular season

The regular season will begin on March 8, 2025. The Ilagan City MPBL team has shown intent in host the opening gameday. [1]

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