2025 Spikers' Turf Invitational Conference

2025 Spikers' Turf Invitational Conference
Duration	October 27 – November 29, 2025
Teams	10
TV partner(s)	One Sports One Sports+ Pilipinas Live
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The 2025 Spikers' Turf Invitational Conference will be the twenty-first conference and the last tournament of the eighth season of the Spikers' Turf. The tournament will start on October 27, 2025 and end on November 29. ^[1]

Ten teams will battle for the championship, including two foreign guest teams which has byes to the semifinals. ^[2]

Participating teams

2025 Spikers' Turf Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
Local regular teams
ALP	Alpha Insurance Protectors	Alpha Insurance & Surety Company Inc.	Mike Santos	Jefferson Abuniawan
CSS	Cignal Super Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Dexter Clamor	John Paul Bugaoan
CKC	Criss Cross King Crunchers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Tai Bundit	Ysay Marasigan
PJN	PGJC-Navy Sea Lions	Philippine Navy	George Pascua	Greg Dolor
SVG	Savouge Spin Doctors	Savouge Aesthetics Philippines	Sydney Calderon	Hero Austria
VNS	VNS-Laticrete Griffins	VNS Management Group	Ralph Raymund Ocampo	Jerremy Pedrosa
2025 V-League Collegiate Challenge qualifying teams
FEU	Far Eastern University–DN Steel (champions)	Far Eastern University / DN Group	Eddieson Orcullo	Ariel Cacao
UST	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville (third-place)	University of Santo Tomas / Gameville	Odjie Mamon	Dux Euan Yambao
Foreign guest teams
	Kindai University (Japan)		TBA	TBA
	ProVolley Academy (Australia)		TBA	TBA

• The De La Salle University, the runners-up of the 2025 V-League Collegiate Challenge originally qualified but withdrew due to academic commitments. UST was their replacements. ^[2]

Venues

Preliminaries, Semifinals, Finals	Semifinals		Preliminaries
San Juan	Dasmariñas, Cavite	Rodriguez, Rizal	Manila
Filoil Centre (FIL)	City of Dasmariñas Arena (DAS)	Ynares Center II (YC2)	Paco Arena (PAC)
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 8,000	Capacity: 1,000

Format

Preliminary round

• The preliminary round will be a single round-robin tournament between the eight local teams. Each team will play one match against all other teams for a total of seven matches. Teams will be ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
• The top four teams will advance to the semifinals.
• Teams ranked fifth to eighth will be eliminated and be ranked from seventh to tenth in the final standings.

Semifinals

• The semifinals will be another single round-robin between the top four teams from the prelims and the two foreign guest teams. All teams will have played a total of five matches in the semifinals. Teams will continue to be ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
• 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 based on results from the semifinals:
  • Championship match: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team
  • Third-place match: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team

Transactions

National team players

Players who are part of the Philippines men's national team will be released by the participating clubs in November 2025 as part of their preprations for the 2025 SEA Games. Affected teams will be allowed to sign substitute players to replace the national team players once they leave. ^{[3] [4]}

Team	Player/s
Cignal Super Spikers	Owa Retamar Lloyd Josafat Vince Lorenzo Louie Ramirez
Criss Cross King Crunchers	Marck Espejo Kim Malabunga Eco Adajar
Philippine Navy Sea Lions	Jack Kalingking
University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	Josh Ybañez

Preliminary round

Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cignal Super Spikers	2	2	0	5	6	3	2.000	208	187	1.112	Final round
2	Alpha Insurance Protectors	2	1	1	4	5	4	1.250	201	200	1.005
3	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	1	1	0	3	3	0	MAX	75	60	1.250
4	Criss Cross King Crunchers	1	1	0	3	3	1	3.000	98	77	1.273
5	Savouge Spin Doctors	2	1	1	3	4	4	1.000	192	184	1.043
6	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	1	0	1	0	1	3	0.333	89	98	0.908
7	VNS Griffins	1	0	1	0	1	3	0.333	81	102	0.794
8	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	2	0	2	0	1	6	0.167	137	173	0.792

Updated to match(es) played on October 29, 2025. Source: Spikers' Turf – Standings

Match results

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
Preliminary round
Oct. 27	2:00 pm	FIL	Savouge Spin Doctors	1–3	Alpha Insurance Protectors	25–19	23–25	24–26	22–25		94–95	P2
Oct. 27	4:00 pm	FIL	Cignal Super Spikers	3–1	VNS Griffins	25–23	25–15	27–29	25–14		102–81	P2
Oct. 27	6:00 pm	FIL	Criss Cross King Crunchers	3–1	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	25–15	23–25	25–23	25–14		98–77	P2
Oct. 29	2:00 pm	PAC	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	1–3	Savouge Spin Doctors	22–25	21–25	25–23	21–25		89–98	P2
Oct. 29	4:00 pm	PAC	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	0–3	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	22–25	17–25	21–25			60–75	P2
Oct. 29	6:00 pm	PAC	Alpha Insurance Protectors	2–3	Cignal Super Spikers	25–20	22–25	25–21	23–25	11–15	106–106	P2
Oct. 31	2:00 pm	PAC	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	–	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	–	–			0–0
Oct. 31	4:00 pm	PAC	Savouge Spin Doctors	–	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	–	–			0–0
Oct. 31	6:00 pm	PAC	VNS Griffins	–	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 02	2:00 pm	FIL	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	Alpha Insurance Protectors	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 02	4:00 pm	FIL	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	VNS Griffins	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 02	6:00 pm	FIL	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	Cignal Super Spikers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 05	4:00 pm	PAC	Savouge Spin Doctors	–	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 05	6:00 pm	PAC	Cignal Super Spikers	–	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 07	2:00 pm	PAC	VNS Griffins	–	Savouge Spin Doctors	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 07	4:00 pm	PAC	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	Alpha Insurance Protectors	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 07	6:00 pm	PAC	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	Cignal Super Spikers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 09	2:00 pm	FIL	Savouge Spin Doctors	–	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 09	4:00 pm	FIL	VNS Griffins	–	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 09	6:00 pm	FIL	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 12	2:00 pm	PAC	Alpha Insurance Protectors	–	VNS Griffins	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 12	4:00 pm	PAC	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	Cignal Super Spikers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 12	6:00 pm	PAC	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 14	4:00 pm	PAC	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	–	Alpha Insurance Protectors	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 14	6:00 pm	PAC	Cignal Super Spikers	–	Savouge Spin Doctors	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 16	2:00 pm	PAC	VNS Griffins	–	PGJC–Navy Sea Lions	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 16	4:00 pm	PAC	Alpha Insurance Protectors	–	Criss Cross King Crunchers	–	–	–			0–0
Nov. 16	6:00 pm	PAC	Far Eastern University–DN Steel	–	University of Santo Tomas–Gameville	–	–	–			0–0

Final round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8:00).

Semifinals

Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Kindai University	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	Championship match
2	ProVolley Academy	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
3	SF1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	3rd place match
4	SF2	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
5	SF3	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—
6	SF4	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: TBA. Source: Spikers' Turf – Standings

Finals

3rd place

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
TBA	TBA	TBA	SF3		SF4

Championship

Date	Time	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
TBA	TBA	TBA	SF1		SF2

Final standing

Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2025 Spikers' Turf Open champions TBD ? title Team roster: TBD Head coach: TBD

References

1. "FEU, UST, international teams set for action-packed Invitationals". Spikers' Turf. October 20, 2025. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
2. "10 teams to contest Spikers' Turf Invitational crown". ABS-CBN News. October 20, 2025. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
3. Agcaoili, Lance (October 20, 2025). "Spikers' Turf shoulders major role after Alas Pilipinas breakthrough". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
4. Demigillo, Kiko (October 20, 2025). "Alas Men to start Spikers' Turf campaign, exit mid-conference for SEA Games build-up". One Sports. Retrieved October 20, 2025.