List of defunct Philippine Basketball Association teams

Last updated November 07, 2024

This is a list of defunct Philippine Basketball Association teams, both regular and guest.

Defunct franchises

*	Denotes team that won a championship

Team	Company	Principal owner	Years active	Seasons played	Overall win–loss record	Win %	Championships	Acquired by
Carrier/Quasar/Fiberlite	Concepcion Industries, Inc.	José N. Concepcion Sr.	1975–1976	2	26–44	37.1%	0	none
7-Up (Syjuco group)	Seven-Up Bottling Company of the Philippines	Santiago Syjuco	1975–1977	3	25–74	25.2%	0	Filmanbank
Filmanbank	Filipinas Manufacturers Bank	Ricardo C. Silverio Sr.	1978–1979	2	32–57	35.9%	0	Galleon Shipping/CDCP
Galleon Shipping/CDCP	Galleon Shipping Corporation/ Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines	Rodolfo Cuenca	1980–1981	2	32–28	53.3%	0	none
Tefilin	Filipinas Synthetic Fiber Corporation	Patricio L. Lim Carlos Palanca Jr.	1980–1981	2	29–33	46.7%	0	none
U/Tex	Universal Textile Mills, Inc.	Patricio L. Lim Walter Euyang Sr.	1975–1982	8	210–187	52.9%	2	Manhattan/Sunkist/Winston/Country Fair
Mariwasa Noritake/Mariwasa Honda/Finance Inc./Galerie Dominique	Mariwasa/ Galerie Dominique	Emerson CoSeteng/ Nikki CoSeteng	1975–1983	9	117–217	35.0%	0	none
Toyota	Delta Motor Corporation	Ricardo C. Silverio Sr.	1975–1983	9	338–178	65.5%	9	Beer Hausen/Manila Beer
Crispa	P. Floro and Sons, Inc.	Pablo B. Floro	1975–1984	10	403–186	68.4%	13	Shell
Manhattan/Sunkist/Winston/Country Fair	Sanyu Group of Companies		1983–1984	2	15–48	23.8%	0	none
Beer Hausen/Manila Beer	Asia Brewery	Lucio Tan	1984–1986	3	79–76	50.9%	0	none
Tanduay/Yco-Tanduay (Elizalde group)	Elizalde and Company, Inc.	Manolo Elizalde	1975–1987	13			3	Purefoods/Magnolia*
Presto/N-Rich/Great Taste/Tivoli	CFC Corporation	John Gokongwei Jr. Ignacio Gotao	1975–1992	18			6	Sta. Lucia
Pop Cola/Sarsi/Sunkist/Swift	RFM Corporation	Jose Ma. Concepcion III	1990–2001	12			4	Coca-Cola/Powerade
Tanduay (Tan group)	Tanduay Distillers, Inc.	Lucio Tan	1999–2001	3			0	FedEx/Air21/Burger King/Barako Bull Energy
Shell Helix/Shell Rimula X/Shell Azodrin/Pilipinas Shell Oilers/Formula Shell	Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation	Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation	1985–2005	21			4	Welcoat/Rain or Shine*
Sta. Lucia	Sta. Lucia Realty & Development Corporation	Exequiel Robles	1993–2010	17			2	Meralco*
Red Bull/Barako Bull	Photokina Marketing Corporation	Tony Chua	2000–2011	10			3	Shopinas.com/Air21
Coca-Cola/Powerade	Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc.	Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc.	2002–2012	11			2	GlobalPort/NorthPort*
FedEx/Air21/Burger King/Barako Bull Energy	Airfreight 2100, Inc.	Alberto Lina	2002–2016	14			0	Phoenix*
Shopinas.com/Air21	Lina Group of Companies	Alberto Lina	2011–2014	3			0	NLEX*
Alaska/Hills Bros. Coffee	Alaska Milk Corporation	Wilfred Steven Uytengsu	1986–2022	35			14	Converge*

*Acquiring team still active

Genealogies

These are the franchise lineage of present PBA teams (present to oldest):

Blackwater
Converge → Hills Bros./Alaska
Gilbey's Gin/St. George Whisky/Añejo Rhum/Gordon's Gin/Ginebra San Miguel
Purefoods/B-Meg/San Mig Coffee/Star/Magnolia Chicken → Tanduay (1987)
Meralco → Sta. Lucia → Great Taste/Presto
NLEX → Shopinas.com/Air21 → Red Bull/Barako Bull (2000)
GlobalPort/NorthPort → Coca-Cola/Powerade → Pop Cola/Diet Sarsi/Swift/Sunkist
Rain or Shine → Shell → Crispa
Phoenix Super LPG → FedEx/Air21/Burger King/Barako Bull Energy → Tanduay (1999)
Royal Tru-Orange/Gold Eagle Beer/Magnolia/Petron Blaze/San Miguel Beer
Kia/Mahindra/Columbian/Terrafirma
Pepsi/7-Up/Mobiline/Talk 'N Text/TNT

These are the franchise lineage of defunct PBA teams (oldest to latest):

Carrier/Quasar/Fiberlite
7-Up (1975) → Filmanbank → Galleon/CDCP
Mariwasa Noritake/Mariwasa Honda/Finance Inc./Galerie Dominique
U/Tex → Manhattan/Sunkist/Winston/Country Fair
Toyota → Manila Beer/Beer Hausen
Tefilin

All records of a franchise cease after it is acquired by a new company, except for:

The Pepsi/7-Up/Mobiline/Talk 'N Text/TNT franchise: Before the start of the 1996 season, Frederick Dael took over as the new president of Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, Inc. (PCPPI). As such, a change in marketing priority took effect and PCPPI was considering to disband its PBA team. To prevent the disbandment, Luis Lorenzo Sr., chairman of PCPPI, intended to sell the franchise to Duty Free Philippines for one peso (P1) to retain its franchise. Should Duty Free disband the PBA franchise, it would be returned to PCPPI.^[1] The sale was rejected by the Board of Governors on a special meeting on January 5, 1996, since Duty Free was not majority-owned by Lorenzo.^[2] After the All-Filipino Cup, PBA Board of Governors approved the transfer of the franchise from PCPPI to Lapanday Holdings Corporation, Lorenzo's holding company. This would enable Lorenzo to use a different brand for his PBA team. In May 1996, Pagemark Philippines, Inc., a company under Lapanday Holdings, and Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel) were tasked to find a new name for the team. After negotiations, the team was rechristened as the Mobiline Cellulars.^[3] Since Lorenzo still owned the team, the records of the Pepsi team were retained.

The Tanduay franchise: Originally owned by Elizalde & Company Inc., Tanduay was one of the founding teams of the league. In 1988, the Elizalde group sold the Tanduay business assets to Lucio Tan and its PBA franchise to Pure Foods Corporation (Purefoods) as an expansion team. When Tanduay rejoined the PBA in 1999, the records of the original Tanduay team (1975–1987) were carried over.

Air21 Express and Barako Bull Energy records

A unique situation regarding the Air21 Express' team records occurred before the start of the 2011–12 season when the Lina Group of Companies acquired the Red Bull/Barako Bull PBA franchise from Photokina Marketing Corporation (along with the "Barako Bull" brand). This team was renamed as the Shopinas.com Clickers. At the same time, the Fedex/Air21/Burger King franchise was renamed "Barako Bull Energy". After the dismal performance of Shopinas.com during the Philippine Cup, the Lina Group decided to rename the team as Air21 Express.

After the two franchises switched names in 2012, the Shopinas.com/Air21 team was now considered as a new team. The team records and transaction history of its predecessor, FedEx/Air21/Burger King, were transferred to the new Barako Bull team. The lineage, team records and championships of the Red Bull/Barako Bull team were not carried over to either of the two franchises, except for the transaction history involving trades which were carried over to the Shopinas.com/Air21 team, following several precedents (the franchise acquisitions between Shell-Welcoat, Sta. Lucia-Meralco and Powerade-GlobalPort).

To create a distinction between the two Air21 franchises, the original is abbreviated as "AIR21" and the second one as "AIR21X" in the official PBA annual, Hardcourt. In some instances, the team records of the original Air21 franchise is "shared" with the second Air21 franchise. An example would be during the jersey retirement of Vergel Meneses – although he played for the original Air21 franchise, his jersey was retired by the second Air21 franchise.

Guest teams

Ramrod (1977)
Emtex (1977)
Adidas (1980)
Nicholas Stoodley (1980 PBA Invitational champions)
South Korea (1982)
Philippine national basketball team (on various occasions from 1986–2003)
Northern Consolidated Cement (1985 PBA Reinforced Conference champions)
KK Novi Sad (2003 Invitational)
Magnolia-Jilin Tigers (2003 Invitational)
Yonsei University (2003 Invitational)
U.S. Mail and More Pro-Am Selection (2004 PBA Fiesta Conference)
UBC Thunderbirds (2004 PBA Fiesta Conference)
Smart Gilas national basketball team (2009–10 and 2010–11)
Bay Area Dragons (2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup runner-up)

Graphical timeline

List of defunct Philippine Basketball Association teams

Key: Red = founding franchises; yellow = 1970s; blue = 1980s; orange = 1990s; green = 2000s; purple = 2010s; light purple = 2020s

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References

↑ Asensi, Francis (January 5, 1996). "Mega Bottlers for sale". Sports Weekly Magazine.
↑ Asensi, Francis (January 19, 1996). "Change of heart by the Bottlers". Sports Weekly Magazine.
↑ "Pepsi signs off". Sports Weekly Magazine. May 10, 1996.

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[1] Asensi, Francis (January 5, 1996). "Mega Bottlers for sale". Sports Weekly Magazine.

[2] Asensi, Francis (January 19, 1996). "Change of heart by the Bottlers". Sports Weekly Magazine.

[3] "Pepsi signs off". Sports Weekly Magazine. May 10, 1996.

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