List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences


This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association 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.

Types of conferences

As of the 2015–16 season, there is a total of 117 conferences/tournaments held by the PBA since 1975. It was further broken down into three categories:
  1. All Filipino conferences - only players with Filipino citizenship are allowed to compete.
  2. Import-laden conferences - players with other citizenship/nationality are allowed to compete, with teams usually limited with one non-Filipino on their active lineup.
  3. Special tournaments - teams may or may not include imports but championships won don't count to the championship tally.

    Active tournaments

  4. All-Filipino Cup/Philippine Cup - San Miguel Beermen
  5. Commissioner's Cup - San Miguel Beermen
  6. Governors' Cup - Barangay Ginebra San Miguel

    Inactive tournaments

  7. All-Philippine Championship - Crispa Redmanizers
  8. Reinforced Filipino - Crispa Redmanizers
  9. Fiesta - Alaska Aces
  10. Open - San Miguel Beermen
  11. Reinforced - Coca-Cola Tigers
  12. First Conference - Shell Rimula X
  13. Third Conference - Swift Mighty Meaties
  14. Invitational - Alaska Aces

    Special tournaments

  15. PBA-IBA- Añejo Rum 65ers
  16. Centennial - Mobiline Phone Pals

    List of conferences

1970s