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
1New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries1082855633+222—Semifinals
2San Juan DN Steel Lady Knights1073749631+1181
3Discovery–Rizal Perlas1064735630+1052Twice-to-beat in quarterfinals
4 Tagaytay 'Tol Patriots 104 [a] 6679721−424
5Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns104 [a] 6693742−494Twice-to-win in quarterfinals
6RK Hoops–Quezon City.1019498852−3547
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.
Notes:
  1. 1 2 Tagaytay wins tiebreaker over Pangasinan based on head-to-head aggregate (155–149).

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
78–54		RZL
72–69
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
54–78		QC
82–50
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
45–80		PGS
50–82
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
80–45		BTG
69–72
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
71–77
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
77–71
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)1Batangas
3Rizal903Rizal
6Quezon City52
(4 – twice-to-beat)2San Juan
4 Tagaytay
5Pangasinan

Notable events

References

  1. 1 2 "WMPBL tips off pro era with six teams". Tiebreaker Times. June 22, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Morales, Luisa (June 22, 2025). "WMPBL flaunts six-team cast in first professional season". One Sports. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Basketball: WMPBL to launch first pro season with 6-team cast". ABS-CBN News. June 22, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 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.
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