List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences

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This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) conferences. Conferences are tournaments within a season, as opposed to the North American usage where a conference is a grouping of teams. If a team wins all of the conferences in a season, it is said that they have won a Grand Slam.

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Types of conferences

As of the 2022–23 season, there is a total of 132 conferences/tournaments held by the PBA since 1975. It was further broken down into three categories:

Active tournaments

Inactive tournaments

Special tournaments

Number of conferences

There had always been three conferences in a PBA season. The exceptions are:

List of conferences

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

* The first and second conference of the 1975 and 1976 seasons were officially named as All-Filipino Conference and Open Conference respectively. The All-Filipino Conference was reclassified in the 2010s as an import-laced tournament since the league gave teams the option to hire foreign players or "imports". Both tournaments were renamed as First and Second Conference since the 2001 edition of Hardcourt, the official PBA Annual.

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