2025–26 Philippines Football League

Philippines Football League
Season	2025–26
Dates	August 30, 2025 – TBA
Matches	48
Goals	197 (4.1 per match)
Top goalscorer	Griffin McDaniel (14 goals)
Biggest home win	One Taguig 13–0 Philippine Army
Biggest away win	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola 2–9 Manila Digger
Highest scoring	One Taguig 13–0 Philippine Army
Longest winning run	One Taguig (6 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Manila Digger (8 matches)
Longest winless run	Philippine Army (8 matches)
Longest losing run	Philippine Army (8 matches)
	← 2024–25 2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 30 November 2025.

The 2025–26 Philippines Football League is the eighth season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the professional football league of the Philippines. Eleven teams are participating this season, which began on August 30, 2025.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Kaya–Iloilo are the defending champions, having clinched the previous season's title on the final match day.

Teams

The 2025–26 season have eleven teams participating.^[4] Last season's eighth- and ninth-placed teams, Loyola and the Philippine YNT, will not participate this season. In August, three teams from the 2024 season, namely DB Garelli United, Tuloy and Philippine Army, would rejoin the league.^[5]

Davao Aguilas, who finished sixth in the previous season, relocated their club to Makati and renamed to Aguilas–UMak F.C., with the latter derived from the University of Makati Stadium, where the club had previously trained and held matches.^[6] After changing its name last season, Maharlika Taguig once again changed its name to simply Maharlika F.C. Mendiola 1991 relocated from Imus, Cavite to Valenzuela and renamed to Valenzuela PB–Mendiola due to sponsorship reasons.^[7]

Team	Location^{[V 1]}
Aguilas–UMak	Makati, Metro Manila
Don Bosco Garelli United	Makati, Metro Manila
Dynamic Herb Cebu	Talisay, Cebu
Kaya–Iloilo	Iloilo City, Iloilo
Maharlika	Taguig, Metro Manila
Manila Digger	Taguig, Metro Manila
One Taguig	Taguig, Metro Manila
Philippine Army	Taguig, Metro Manila
Stallion Laguna	Biñan, Laguna
Tuloy	Muntinlupa, Metro Manila
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	Valenzuela, Metro Manila

Notes

^ General location where the club is based in. Only select clubs have their own/designated home stadium.

Stadiums

Most if not all games will be held at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.^[8]

Manila	Manila 2025–26 PFL venue
Rizal Memorial Stadium
Capacity: 12,873

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Aguilas–UMak	Franklin Muescan	Arnel Amita	Primal	A Brown Company¹, Markenburg², Blast TV³, PAGSS³
Don Bosco Garelli United	Karl Claudio	Banjo Mahinay	Blaze Athletics	Elan Vita¹, Techno Tamashi¹, Smokin' Hills²
Dynamic Herb Cebu	Glenn Ramos	Roberto Corsame	RAD Apparel	Nature's Spring¹, Herb Food Solutions²
Kaya–Iloilo	Yu Hoshide	Audie Menzi	LGR Sportswear^[9]	LBC¹
Maharlika	Moon Hong	Jorrel Aristorenas	Chronos Athletics	M1 International¹, Matchday Media², Coca-Cola²
Manila Digger	Haijun Li	Shirmar Felongco	UCAN	Zealand Metal¹, Prime Rehabilitation², Starbalm², Yison³
One Taguig	TBA	Daisuke Sato	Chronos Athletics	I Love Taguig³
Philippine Army	Roel Gener	Jalsor Soriano	Chronos Athletics	Cherry Turf²
Stallion Laguna	Ernest Nierras	Matthew Nierras	Blaze Athletics	Giligan's Restaurant¹, SCID², Pythos²
Tuloy	Taketomo Suzuki	Harry Nuñez	Skechers	Tuloy Foundation⁴
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	Dan Padernal	Ruben Doctora	MEBL Apparel	Pureblends¹, Top Down¹, Anytime Fitness², Pablings⁴

Notes:

^ Located on the front of the shirt.
^ Located on the back of the shirt.
^ Located on the sleeves.
^ Located on the shorts.

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Maharlika	Jung Dong-gyu	Undisclosed	May 28, 2025	Pre-season	Moon Hong	July 29, 2025
Aguilas–UMak	Aber Ruzgal		May 15, 2025		Jörg Steinebrunner	August 1, 2025^[6]
Manila Digger	Kim Versales		July 2025		Haijun Li	August 10, 2025
One Taguig	Arvin Soliman		July 31, 2025		Scott Cooper	August 17, 2025
Aguilas–UMak	Jörg Steinebrunner	Mutual agreement	October 16, 2025	6th (Regular season)	Franklin Muescan	October 18, 2025
One Taguig	Scott Cooper	Signed by Visakha	November 17, 2025	2nd (Regular season)	TBA

Foreign players

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Team	Players
Aguilas–UMak	Ibrahim Adamu	Nahuel Amarilla	Reycredo Beremanda	Boubacar Diallo	Issa Diallo	Tomoki Fujihira	Nathan Hancock	Ikumi Hiruta
Aguilas–UMak	Made Kaicen	David Koum	Muhammad Mishbah	Mouzinho	V. Ruventhiran^[10]	Timothy Shiraoka	Olagar Xavier	Kira Yamamoto
Don Bosco Garelli United	Michael Brobbey	Arturo	Robert Gingichashvili	Shotaro Ishii	Hiromasa Ishikawa	Yohan Mbida	Babacar Ndiaye	Desmond Ngai
Don Bosco Garelli United	Pious Owusu	Pape Malang Traore	Yuya Tanaka	Yuta Yamaguchi
Dynamic Herb Cebu	Denil Ango	Sam Azimzadeh	Hanibal Bond	Victor Cabral	Rami Jridi	Amanhom Khamis	Marius Kore	Abdulfatohi Khudoidodzoda
Dynamic Herb Cebu	Yuta Nomura	Esrom Paulos	Anderson Pinto	Kazuha Sudo	Abou Sy	Bol Tong
Kaya–Iloilo	Alfredo Cortez	Eric Esso	Shuto Komaki	Magnus Ravn	Ricardo Verza	Kaishu Yamazaki	Brandon Zambrano
Maharlika Taguig	Fahmi Ibrahim	Jo Woo-hyuk	Kang Beom-seok	Kang Young-suk	Kim Jin-hyeon	Daniel Oppong	Dini Ouattara	Park Eun-soo
Manila Digger	Daniel Ashley	Saikou Ceesay	Su Diao	Ousman Gai	Modou Joof	Hayato Kame	Lars William Kvist	Modou Manneh
Manila Digger	Omar Njie	David Sambou	Baboucarr Touray	Ifeanyi Ugwu	Dilane Wamba	Yuga Watanabe	Shou Sha
One Taguig	Hamed Aghaei	Isaac Opoku Agyemang	Henri Bandeken	Breno	Miloš Čupić	Goldeson	Hamed Hajimehdi	Stephen Halm
One Taguig	Naoto Hiraishi	Onyeka Obi	Solomon Okereke	So Omae	Yusif Abdul Razak	Arash Shahamati
Philippine Army	No foreign players registered
Stallion Laguna	Ismaila Diallo	Magson Dourado	Gabriel Farias	Cristián Ivanobski	Jorden Kananga	Michael Kedman	Jack Landreth	Matin Mohtasham
Stallion Laguna	Deane Mountney	Ricardo Sendra	Tareq Shihab	Terence Smith	Arnol Tchamgoue	Juan Trujillo	Masaya Watanabe
Tuloy	No foreign players registered
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	Franck Anoh	François Anticona	Choi Tae-yang	Jackson Etheridge	Yohann Fofana	Ali Ghamloush	Gustavo	Caleb Jrikre
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	A. Mahendran	Victor Nkoa	Gideon Obetta	Park Seo-yeom	Javon Turner

^1 Former players only include players who left after the start of the 2025–26 season.

League table

Round robin

The eleven teams will play in a double round robin consisting of two rounds.^[8]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	One Taguig	9	8	0	1	46	2	+44	24	Championship round
2	Dynamic Herb Cebu	10	7	1	2	33	7	+26	22
3	Kaya–Iloilo	9	7	0	2	38	5	+33	21
4	Manila Digger	8	6	2	0	33	8	+25	20
5	Aguilas–UMak	9	5	1	3	24	12	+12	16
6	Maharlika	9	5	0	4	23	14	+9	15
7	Stallion Laguna	9	4	2	3	26	8	+18	14	Classification round
8	Tuloy	8	1	0	7	10	38	−28	3
9	Don Bosco Garelli United	8	1	0	7	3	36	−33	3
10	Valenzuela PB-Mendiola	9	1	0	8	5	56	−51	3
11	Philippine Army	8	0	0	8	1	56	−55	0

Updated to match(es) played on November 30, 2025. Source: ^[11]

Breakout group

The top six from the round robin phase will advance to the championship round with the bottom teams to play in the classification round. Both which are considered as part of the third round will adopt a round robin format.^[8]

Championship round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	1st placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	2nd placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	3rd placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	4th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	5th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	6th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:

Classification round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	7th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	8th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	9th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	10th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	11th placed team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:

Positions by round

Regular season

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Team ╲ Round
Aguilas–UMak	8	9	6	6	4	5	6	6
Don Bosco Garelli United	9	10	10	9	9	9	9	9
Dynamic Herb Cebu	7	6	8	5	7	7	4	4
Kaya–Iloilo	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
Maharlika	3	5	4	7	5	4	5	7
Manila Digger	2	3	2	2	2	3	3	2
One Taguig	4	2	3	3	3	2	2	1
Philippine Army	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Stallion Laguna	5	8	5	4	6	6	7	5
Tuloy	6	4	7	8	8	8	8	8
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	10	7	9	10	10	10	10	10

Updated to match(es) played on November 30, 2025. Source:

Results by round

Regular season

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Team ╲ Round
Aguilas–UMak	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	D	W
Don Bosco Garelli United	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	L
Dynamic Herb Cebu	L	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	W
Kaya–Iloilo	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W
Maharlika	W	L	W	L	W	W	L	L	W
Manila Digger	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W
One Taguig	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W
Philippine Army	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L
Stallion Laguna	D	L	W	W	L	W	D	W	L
Tuloy	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L

Updated to match(es) played on November 30, 2025. Source:
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

Team	AUM	DGU	DHC	KAY	MAH	MAD	TAG	ARM	STA	TUL	VMD
Aguilas–UMak	—	3–0	0–2		2–1	Jan 17				5–2
Don Bosco Garelli United		—	0–6	1–7	0–1		0–7	Jan 17	0–8
Dynamic Herb Cebu			—
Kaya–Iloilo	1–0		3–0	—		0–2		12–0			8–0
Maharlika			1–4	Jan 18	—		0–1	5–1	3–1		7–0
Manila Digger		TBA	1–1		3–2	—	1–0		1–1	8–2
One Taguig	3–0		2–1	1–0			—	13–0			9–0
Philippine Army	0–5		0–5			0–8		—		TBA	0–1
Stallion Laguna	2–2		0–1	0–1			Jan 18	7–0	—		5–0
Tuloy		3–0	0–4	1–6	2–3		0–10		0–2	—
Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	1–7	1–2	0–9			2–9				Jan 17	—

Updated to match(es) played on November 30, 2025. Source:
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 30 November 2025

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Griffin McDaniel	Stallion Laguna	14
2	Saikou Ceesay	Manila Digger	10
3	Patrick Reichelt	One Taguig	9
4	Mike Ott	Kaya–Iloilo	7
5	Baboucarr Tourray	Manila Digger	6
	Naoto Hiraishi	One Taguig
	Ibrahim Adamu	Aguilas–UMak
8	Goldeson	One Taguig	5
8	Rico Andes	Dynamic Herb Cebu	5
10	7 players		4

Top assists

As of 30 November 2025

Rank	Player	Team	Assists
1	Juan Trujillo	Stallion Laguna	10
2	Mark Hartmann	One Taguig	9
3	Esrom Paulos	Dynamic Herb Cebu	6
4	Kim Jin-hyeon	Maharlika	4
	Saikou Ceesay	Manila Digger
	Baboucarr Touray	Manila Digger
	Abdulfattokh Khudoydodzoda	Dynamic Herb Cebu
	Glenn Ramos	Dynamic Herb Cebu
8	10 players		3

Own goals

As of 26 September 2025

Rank	Player	Team	Own goals
1	Miguel Clarino	Aguilas–UMAK	1

Hat-tricks

As of 29 November 2025

Player	Team	Result	Against	Date
Jesus Melliza	Kaya–Iloilo	12–0 (H)	Philippine Army	30 August 2025
Saikou Ceesay⁴	Manila Digger	9–2 (A)	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	30 August 2025
Sherwin Basindanan	Kaya–Iloilo	8–0 (H)	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	21 September 2025
Ibrahim Adamu	Aguilas–UMak	5–0 (A)	Philippine Army	27 September 2025
Baboucarr Touray	Manila Digger	8–2 (H)	Tuloy	5 October 2025
Goldeson	One Taguig	13–0 (H)	Philippine Army
Patrick Reichelt	One Taguig	13–0 (H)
Griffin McDaniel⁶	Stallion Laguna	7–0 (H)		25 October 2025
Griffin McDaniel⁵	Stallion Laguna	8–0 (A)	Don Bosco Garelli United	22 November 2025
Saikou Ceesay⁴	Manila Digger	8–0 (A)	Philippine Army	29 November 2025

Note

(H) – Home; (A) – Away ⁴ Player scored four goals
⁵ Player scored five goals⁶ Player scored six goals

Clean sheets

As of 30 November 2025

Rank	Player	Team	Clean sheets
1	Alfredo Cortez	Kaya–Iloilo	5
1	Miloš Čupić	One Taguig	5
3	Rami Jridi	Dynamic Herb Cebu	4
4	Jack Landreth	Stallion Laguna	2
	Kenry Balobo	Maharlika
	Matin Mohtasham	Stallion Laguna
	Omar Njie	Manila Digger
	Henri Bandeken	One Taguig
9	Jessie Semblante	Dynamic Herb Cebu	1
	Jackson Etheridge	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola
	Michael Antilo	Tuloy
	Nathan Bata	Kaya–Iloilo
	Enrico Mangaoang	Aguilas–UMak
	Timothy Shiraoka	Aguilas–UMak
	Joseph Ceniza	Dynamic Herb Cebu
	Nelson Gasic	Manila Digger

Red cards

As of 8 November 2025

Rank	Player	Team	Red cards
1	Amir Aningalan	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola	1
	Franck Anoh	Valenzuela PB–Mendiola
	Michael Asong	Manila Digger
	Pete Forrosuelo	One Taguig
	Magnus Ravn	Kaya–Iloilo
	Stephan Schröck	Stallion Laguna
	Kamil Amirul	Dynamic Herb Cebu
	Modou Joof	Manila Digger
	Anderson Pinto	Dynamic Herb Cebu

References

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[8] General location where the club is based in. Only select clubs have their own/designated home stadium.

[1] "Opening Weekend". Philippines Football League. August 27, 2025. Archived from the original on August 27, 2025. Retrieved August 27, 2025 – via Facebook.

[2] "PFL kickoffs with dominant Kaya taking Philippine Army in opener". BusinessWorld. August 27, 2025. Retrieved August 27, 2025.

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[davao-6] "Aguilas-UMak FC taps German coach". Daily Tribune. August 9, 2025. Retrieved August 10, 2025.

[7] Terrado, Jonas (September 3, 2025). "PBA to review Pureblends' bid to takeover NorthPort". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 15, 2025.

[upstream-9] Manzano, Claro; Jamlang, Jim; Alquiros, Natasha; Cordero, Diego (August 27, 2025). Philippines Football 2025 Preview. Minsan Football Show (Livestream) (in English and Filipino). Upstream Sports TV – via YouTube.

[10] Kaya Futbol Club [@KayaFC] (August 29, 2025). "Three decades of passion, pride, and the never-say-die spirit that defines Kaya—stitched into every thread" (Tweet). Retrieved August 29, 2025 – via Twitter.

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[12] "Manila Digger FC Standings, 2025-2026 Tables". Retrieved October 12, 2025.

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