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Premier Volleyball League
Upcoming season or competition:
Current sports event 2024 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference
FormerlyShakey's V-League
Conference2
SportVolleyball
Founded2004
Founder
First season2004
DirectorSherwin Malonzo
MottoThe Heart of Volleyball
All Out, All Heart, All Filipino
No. of teams12
CountryPhilippines[a]
Venue(s)
ContinentAVC (Asia)
Most recent
champion(s)
Creamline
(2023 2nd All-Filipino)
Most titlesCreamline (7 titles)
TV partner(s)
Streaming partner(s)
Official websitepvl.ph

The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League (SVL), a women's collegiate league. In 2017 the league was renamed into Premier Volleyball League. From 2011 to 2020, the league was open to participation of corporate clubs and other non-collegiate teams. The league status turned professional in 2021.

The Spikers' Turf is the men's counterpart of the league.

History

2004–2016: Shakey's V-League

The Premier Volleyball League was established in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. led by Jun Bernardino, Ricky Palou, Moying Martelino and Rhea Navarro.[3] The Shakey's V-League was initially an inter-collegiate women's league with teams from the UAAP, NCAA, CESAFI among others playing in the league.[4] The league's establishment was in cooperation with Shakey's Pizza (Philippines)[3] which was the league's title sponsor until 2016.[5] Prior to the league's establishment, the sport was in a state of stagnation since the 1990s with the highest level of volleyball being the women's collegiate tournament of the Metro Manila-based UAAP.[3]

Among the unique rules implemented by the league upon its founding was allowing the collegiate and corporate managed teams to have maximum of two reinforcements - termed as "guest players" - on their roster. These guest players have ranged from alumni of their alma mater, other varsity graduates, high school recruits who use the ongoing tournament as preparation for the upcoming collegiate season and foreign imports (with the most notable being Jaroensri Buale]). Prior to 2011, guest players for colleges were eligible in both conferences (tournaments) held during the year - they were henceforth limited to the Open or Reinforced conferences until such format was succeeded by the one foreign reinforcement per team in 2016 (as "imports").

The UST Golden Tigresses won the inaugural V-League championship in 2004 defeating the DLSU Lady Archers. But the DLSU won the next three conferences, defeating UST in both conferences of Season 2 and the SSC-R Lady Stags in Season 3, sweeping both in the Finals of the three conferences.

The UST Tigresses returned to the League in 2007, after missing Season 3, winning both conferences of Season 4 by defeating the SSC-R Lady Stags in both finals series.

Year 2008 saw the crowning of two other schools aside from UST and DLSU. Adamson University won the championship in the first conference of Season 5 defeating the Ateneo Lady Eagles while San Sebastian College-Recoletos Lady Stags won the second conference of season 5 by sweeping the two comebacking champion teams: DLSU Lady Archers in the semifinals and UST Tigresses in the finals.

However, the Tigresses made history via a "three-peat" winning their fourth, fifth and sixth championships by sweeping both conferences of Season 6 by defeating SSC-R and Adamson, respectively in both championship series, and again winning the first conference of Season 7 by beating SSC-R for the fourth time in the finals. It was the battle for silver of the last two conferences when Adamson University faced the Lady Stags of SSC-R in the finals of the 2nd Conference Season 7. Adamson won its second V-League crown after defeating San Sebastian 2–1 in their Finals series.

In the 1st Conference Season 8, the Ateneo Lady Eagles won their first Shakey's V-League crown by thumping defending champions Adamson in the Finals. The 2nd Conference of Season 8 was renamed the Shakey's V-League Open Conference as it was opened to non-school teams. Four non-school teams joined the tournament, namely, the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and Maynilad. The Philippine Army won their first Shakey's V-League championship. Season 8-Open Conference, Shakey's V-League will also aired on GMA Life TV, GMA News TV and GMA Pinoy TV for the international viewers.

Philippine Navy vs. Ateneo de Manila University

The Shakey's V-League welcomed the participation of corporate and non-collegiate teams starting 2011.[4]

Season 9 was locally aired by the AKTV bloc on IBC13 and the Hyper channel.

Beginning its 10th Season, Shakey's V-League's new broadcasting partner was GMA News TV. Matches were aired at 1PM to 3PM during weekdays, and 12:45PM to 2:30PM during Saturdays. On May 26, 2013, Shakey's V-League held its first live TV coverage via GMA News TV. It is also announced that the Game 3 matches, both for Championship and the Battle for 3rd will be aired live on GMA News TV on June 2, 2013. In Season 10 Open Conference, Cagayan Valley made history as the Lady Rising Suns scored a 16–0 sweep en route to the team's first V-League title with a 2–0 series win over Smart-Maynilad Net Spikers.

On October 2, 2014, it was reported[6] that a men's division will be included in its 21st conference with four teams.

On May 24, 2016, it was officially announced that Shakey's V-League will be aired on S+A Channel 23 following an agreement between Sports Vision, Shakey's and ABS-CBN Sports.

2017–2020: Premier Volleyball League, professional status and hiatus

The Shakey's V-League changed its name to the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) starting the 2017 season.[7] The Spikers' Turf, which was spun-off from the league in 2015, was merged back to the PVL and was rebranded as the PVL's men's division.[7] The renaming was part of a bid to secure more sponsorship for the league.[8] There was a plan to rename the league to the Philippine Volleyball League instead[9][10] but this was abandoned due to another entity already owning the name.[7] The order of its conference was also changed with the league beginning with the import-laden Reinforced Conference and the Open Conference being held close to the start of the UAAP and NCAA tournaments which is usually held near the year's end. Prior to this, the Open Conference was traditionally held earlier.[11]

The PVL men's division ended with the 2018 PVL Collegiate Conference as its final tournament. The men's division reverted to the Spikers' Turf. The first tournament since the revert was the Open Conference in October 2018.[12]

The 2020 season was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic[13] and there were plans to start the season with the Open Conference instead of the Reinforced Conference in September 2020 due to logistics issue of flying in imports for the latter.[14]

In October 2020, the Philippines' Games and Amusements Board (GAB) issued a directive that players compensated for non-national team play would be considered as professionals, as well as all sporting events organized for profit. This has raised concerns regarding the status of leagues such as the PVL and its rival league, the Philippine Super Liga (PSL).[15] The PVL in particular was concerned over the financial aspects of operating as a professional league.[16]

In November 2020, the PVL announced that the league would turn professional starting with the 2021 season,[16] believing it has enough women players to make the move. The league was already considering move for some time due to the collegiate league UAAP deciding to bar its rookies from playing in commercial leagues starting its UAAP Season 81 (2018-19) in anticipation that all college players would not be allowed to play in the PVL eventually.[17] Prior to the league's professionalization, the PVL was considered as semi-professional and thus, its affairs were not supervised or regulated by the GAB.[18] Six PVL teams—BaliPure, Banko Perlas, Choco Mucho, Creamline, Motolite, and Petro Gazz—agreed to the move of the PVL turning professional.[17]

A new separate league called the V-League, was formed to accommodate collegiate and amateur teams which could no longer participate in the PVL due to the league's professionalization.[19] Prior to its professionalization, the PVL hosted a collegiate conference.[20]

2021–present: Return of the league and further expansion

Prior to the start of the 2021 season, five PSL teams—Chery Tiggo, Cignal HD, F2 Logistics, PLDT, and Sta. Lucia—joined the PVL, which rendered the PVL a "unified" professional league, leaving the PSL with only three inactive member teams.[21][22]

The PVL returned in 2021 with the 2021 Open Conference, which was staged in a bubble set-up. The recurrence of an entire season began the following year. In October 2022, PVL announced the use of video challenge system for the first time in the return of the Reinforced Conference after three years.[23]

The 2023 season saw the rebranding of the Open Conference as the All-Filipino Conference to better reflect that only Filipino players could compete in said conference.[24] After the All-Filipino Conference, the league saw the addition of two new teams in Farm Fresh Foxies and Quezon City Gerflor Defenders, and the reappearance of Foton Tornadoes in the Filipino volleyball scene.[25][26] The three teams pledged to participate in the league for at least the next three years.[27] With the inclusion of three new teams comes with the skipping of Philippine Army Lady Troopers from joining the league due to military training to most of its players.[28] Foton withdrew shortly after their participation in Invitational Conference because some of its players didn't get a contract renewal and they returned to the franchise's main team, the Chery Tiggo.[29] F2 Logistics and Gerflor Defenders were disbanded after the 2023 season.[30][31]

Starting the 2024 season, two new established teams will join the All-Filipino Conference namely Strong Group Athletics, who took over the Gerflor Defenders franchise, and Capital1 Solar Spikers.[32][33] PVL announced that the two conferences—Invitational and Reinforced—merged into one conference to align with the FIVB calendar.[34]

Teams

Premier Volleyball League active club teams
Team Affiliation Coach Captain Year joined
Akari Chargers Akari Lighting & Technology Philippines Raffy Mosuela Michelle Monique Cobb 2022
Capital1 Solar Spikers CapitalOne Energy Corp. Philippines Roger Gorayeb Jorelle Singh 2024
Chery Tiggo Crossovers United Asia Automotive Group Philippines Emilio Reyes Jr. Abigail Maraño 2021
Choco Mucho Flying Titans Republic Biscuit Corporation Philippines Dante Alinsunurin Madeleine Yrenea Madayag 2019
Cignal HD Spikers Cignal TV, Inc. Philippines Shaq Delos Santos Frances Xinia Molina 2021
Creamline Cool Smashers Republic Biscuit Corporation Philippines Sherwin Meneses Alyssa Valdez 2017
Farm Fresh Foxies Farm Fresh Philippine International / Strong Group Athletics Philippines Jerry Yee Louie Romero 2023
Galeries Tower Highrisers Grand Taipan Land Development Philippines Lerma Giron Mary Dominique Pacres 2023
Nxled Chameleons Akari Lighting & Technology Japan Takayuki Minowa Danielle Theris Ravena 2023
Petro Gazz Angels PetroGazz Ventures Phils. Japan Koji Tsuzurabara Mary Remy Joy Palma 2018
PLDT High Speed Hitters PLDT, Inc. Philippines Rald Ricafort Kathleen Faith Arado 2021
Strong Group Athletics Strong Group Athletics Philippines Rogelio Getigan Dolly Grace Versoza 2024

Result summary

Women's division

Season Conference Champions Runners-up Third place
2017 Reinforced Pocari Sweat BaliPure Creamline
Open BaliPure Pocari Sweat Creamline
Collegiate National University Far Eastern University Arellano University
2018 Reinforced Creamline PayMaya BanKo Perlas
Collegiate University of the Philippines Far Eastern University Adamson University
Open Creamline AteneoMotolite BanKo Perlas
2019 Reinforced Petro Gazz Creamline Pacific Town-Army
Open Creamline Petro Gazz BanKo Perlas
Collegiate Adamson University University of Santo Tomas Ateneo de Manila University
2020 tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Open Chery Tiggo Creamline Petro Gazz
2022 Open Creamline Petro Gazz Cignal
Invitational Creamline KingWhale Cignal
Reinforced Petro Gazz Cignal Creamline
2023 1st All-Filipino Creamline Petro Gazz F2 Logistics
Invitational Kurashiki Creamline Cignal
2nd All-Filipino Creamline Choco Mucho Cignal
2024 All-Filipino To be determined

Men's division

Season Conference Champions Runners-up Third place
2017 Reinforced Cignal Philippine Air Force Philippine Army
Open Cignal Megabuilders Philippine Air Force
Collegiate Ateneo De Manila University Far Eastern University University of Santo Tomas
2018 Reinforced Philippine Air Force Cignal Vice Cosmetics
Collegiate National University University of Santo Tomas Far Eastern University
2019 see Spikers' Turf

Medal summary

Women's division

Rank Team Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Creamline 7 3 3 13
2 Petro Gazz 2 3 1 6
3 BaliPure 1 1 0 2
Pocari Sweat
4 Chery Tiggo 1 0 0 1
Kurashiki
5 Cignal 0 1 4 5
6 AteneoMotolite 0 1 0 1
Choco Mucho
KingWhale
PayMaya
7 BanKo Perlas 0 0 3 3
8 F2 Logistics 0 0 1 1
Pacific Town-Army
Total 13 13 13 39

Champions

Women's division

Corporate

Team Champions Runners-up Third place Champion conferences
Creamline 7 3 3 2018 Reinforced, 2018 Open, 2019 Open, 2022 Open,
2022 Invitational, 2023 1st All-Filipino, 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Petro Gazz 2 3 1 2019 Reinforced, 2022 Reinforced
BaliPure 1 1 2017 Open
Pocari Sweat 2017 Reinforced
Chery Tiggo 2021 Open
Kurashiki (guest) 2023 Invitational

Collegiate

Team Champions Runners-up Third place Champion conferences
AdU 1 1 2019 Collegiate
NU 2017 Collegiate
UP 2018 Collegiate

Men's division

Team Champions Runners-up Third place Champion conferences
Cignal 2 1 2017 Reinforced, 2017 Open
Air Force 1 1 2018 Reinforced
NU 2018 Collegiate
Ateneo 2017 Collegiate

Awardees

Below is the table for the most awarded players in the league's history (2017–present):

Rank Name Current / Last team Position Years playing in PVL MVP award Positional award Total
From To
1 Alyssa Valdez Creamline OH 2017 present 4 8 12
Jia Morado Denso (Japan) S 2017 present 4 8
3 Tots Carlos Creamline OH/OP 2017 present 4 5 9
4 Myla Pablo Petro Gazz OH 2017 present 3 4 7
5 Jema Galanza Creamline OH 2017 present 1 4 5
Jeanette Panaga Creamline MB 2017 present 5
7 Jaja Santiago JT (Japan) MB 2017 2021 3 1 4
Grethcel Soltones Akari OH 2017 present 1 3
9 Isa Molde Choco Mucho OH 2017 present 2 1 3
Frances Molina Cignal OH 2021 present 1 2
Celine Domingo Akari MB 2017 present 1 2
Michele Gumabao Creamline OP 2017 present 3
Risa Sato Creamline MB 2017 present 3
Kathy Bersola Perlas MB 2017 2019 3
Riri Meneses Cignal MB 2017 present 3
Angelica Cayuna Cignal S 2017 present 3
Kath Arado PLDT L 2021 present 3

Notable records

Below is the table for the notable records of the league during its history (2017–present):

Premier Volleyball League notable records
Record Holder Conference Figures
Match records
Most contested match BanKo Perlas Spikers and Power Smashers 2017 Reinforced 29–31, 24–26, 25–19, 25–23, 21–19
Most lopsided match Creamline Cool Smashers and Adamson Lady Falcons 2018 Open 25–7, 25–11, 25–10
Longest set PacificTown-Army Lady Troopers and Choco Mucho Flying Titans 2019 Open 39-41
Shortest set BaliPure Purest Water Defenders and Creamline Cool Smashers 2021 Open 3-25
Most attended match Creamline Cool Smashers and Choco Mucho Flying Titans 2023 2nd All-Filipino 24,459
Player records
Most points in a match (Overall) Prisilla Rivera 2022 Reinforced 44 points (39 attacks, 1 block, 4 aces)
Most points in a match (Local) Alyssa Valdez 2017 Open 37 points (34 attacks, 1 block, 2 aces)
Most spikes in a match Lakia Jamiah Bright 2018 Reinforced 40 spikes
Most blocks in a match Ria Meneses 2021 Open 10 blocks
Most aces in a match Alyssa Valdez 2018 Reinforced 8 aces
Most excellent sets in a match Jia Morado-De Guzman 2017 Open 71 excellent sets
Highest reception efficiency in a match Kath Arado 2023 1st All-Filipino 100% (14/14)
Most excellent digs in a match Dawn Macandili-Catindig 2023 Invitational 48 excellent digs

Playing venues

Premier Volleyball League is located in Metro Manila
Paco Arena
Paco Arena
Filoil EcoOil Centre
Filoil EcoOil Centre
PhilSports Arena
PhilSports Arena
Smart Araneta Coliseum
Smart Araneta Coliseum
Mall of Asia Arena
Mall of Asia Arena
PVL game venues in Metro Manila.
Premier Volleyball League is located in Philippines
Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Norte
Cagayan
Cagayan
Pampanga
Pampanga
Bulacan
Bulacan
Rizal
Rizal
Cavite
Cavite
Laguna
Laguna
Iloilo
Iloilo
Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental
Ilocos Sur
Ilocos Sur
Misamis Oriental
Misamis Oriental
PVL venues outside of Metro Manila.

The Premier Volleyball League (as well as its predecessor) does not use a "home-and-away" format since most teams are managed by corporations. Games are presently held at the Filoil EcoOil Centre in San Juan, PhilSports Arena in Pasig, Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, and SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay. Aside from the regular venues, the PVL are holding games outside of Metro Manila, known as the "PVL on Tour" since its first season.

During the 2021 season, the league held its first season as a professional league at PCV Socio-Civic & Cultural Center in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte. This was held in an isolation zone (bubble) setup due to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. And in the 2022 Open, the preliminary round games were held in Paco Arena in Manila in the same bubble format as the last conference. Starting from the playoffs of the said conference, the league officially started reaccepting live audiences to watch the games.

List

Regular venues

Venue Location Capacity Year opened
Filoil EcoOil Centre San Juan (Metro Manila) 5,000 2006
PhilSports Arena Pasig 10,000 1985
SM Mall of Asia Arena Pasay 20,000 2012
Smart Araneta Coliseum Quezon City 25,000 1960

Other venues

PVL on Tour
Venue Location Capacity Year opened
Ynares Center Antipolo, Rizal 12,000 2001
Tuguegarao City People's Gym Tuguegarao, Cagayan
Batangas City Sports Coliseum Batangas City, Batangas
Iloilo Sports Complex Iloilo City, Iloilo 7,000
University of San Agustin Gymnasium Iloilo City, Iloilo 3,000
La Salle Coliseum Bacolod, Negros Occidental 8,000
Santa. Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex Santa Rosa, Laguna 5,700 2017
Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center San Fernando, Pampanga 3,000
Malolos Sports and Convention Center Malolos, Bulacan
Imus City Sports Complex Imus, Cavite
Alonte Sports Arena Biñan, Laguna 6,500 2013
Candon City Arena Candon, Ilocos Sur 5,000
Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. International Convention Center Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental 7,400 2021
PVL Bubble venues
Venue Location Capacity Year opened
PCV Socio-Civic & Cultural Center Bacarra, Ilocos Norte
Paco Arena Manila 1,000

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Premier Volleyball League has featured guest teams from outside the Philippines in the Reinforced Conference

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