2025 WMPBL season

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2025 WMPBL season
Tournament details
CountryFlag of the Philippines.svg Philippines
DatesRegular season:
June 29 – October 5
Teams6

The 2025 WMPBL season is the inaugural regular season of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League as a professional league.

Contents

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]

Elimination round

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDGBQualification
1San Juan DN Steel Lady Knights972678554+124Semifinals
2New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries862705510+1950.5
3Discovery–Rizal Perlas853586513+731.5Twice-to-beat in quarterfinals
4Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns835557614573.5
5 Tagaytay 'Tol Patriots 936602650484Twice-to-win in quarterfinals
6RK Hoops–Quezon City.8174036902875.5
Updated to match(es) played on September 21, 2025. Source: [ citation needed ]
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

TeamGame
12345678910
Batangas
(BTG)
TAG
86–56
RZL
101–87
QC
99–45
SJ
71–74
PGS
100–61
SJ
72–74
TAG
75–66
QC
101–47
PGS
Sept. 28
RZL
Oct. 5
Pangasinan
(PGS)
QC
68–71
RZL
77–63
TAG
79–73
SJ
86–83*
BTG
61–100
TAG
70–82
RZL
58–70
SJ
58–72
BTG
Sept. 28
QC
Oct. 5
Quezon City
(QC)
PGS
71–68
SJ
47–85
BTG
45–99
RZL
39–82
TAG
63–91
SJ
35–92
TAG
56–72
BTG
47–101
RZL
Spet. 28
PGS
Oct. 5
Rizal
(RZL)
PGS
63–77
BTG
87–101
QC
82–39
TAG
79–60
SJ
81–59
TAG
66–56
PGS
70–58
SJ
58–63
QC
Sept. 28
BTG
Oct. 5
San Juan
(SJ)
QC
85–47
TAG
76–46
BTG
74–71
PGS
83–86*
RZL
59–81
BTG
74–72
QC
92–35
PGS
72–58
RZL
63–58
TAG
Oct. 5
Tagaytay
(TAG)
BTG
56–86
SJ
46–76
PGS
73–79
RZL
60–79
QC
91–63
PGS
82–70
RZL
56–66
BTG
66–75
QC
72–56
SJ
Oct. 5
Updated to match(es) played on September 21, 2025. Source: [ citation needed ]
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.

QuarterfinalsSemifinals
(knockout)
Finals
(best-of-three)
(3 – twice-to-beat)1
3
6
(4 – twice-to-beat)2
4
5

Notable events

References

  1. 1 2 "WMPBL tips off pro era with six teams". Tiebreaker Times. 22 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Morales, Luisa (22 June 2025). "WMPBL flaunts six-team cast in first professional season". One Sports. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  3. "Basketball: WMPBL to launch first pro season with 6-team cast". ABS-CBN News. 22 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  4. Morales, Luisa (August 24, 2025). "WMPBL: Stefanie Berberabe makes history as first Filipina to record quadruple-double". One Sports . Retrieved August 24, 2025.