2025–26 TPBL season

2025–26 TPBL season
LeagueTaiwan Professional Basketball League
SportBasketball
Duration
  • October 11, 2025 – May 3, 2026 (regular season)
  • TBD (play-in)
  • TBD (semifinals)
  • TBD (finals)
Games36 per team
Teams7
TV partner(s)VL Sports, MOMOTV, Sportcast
Draft
Top draft pickLiu Cheng-Hsun
Picked byHsinchu Toplus Lioneers
Regular season
Playoffs
Finals

The 2025–26 TPBL season is the second season of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL), with the Formosa Dreamers, Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers, Kaohsiung Aquas, New Taipei CTBC DEA, New Taipei Kings, Taipei Taishin Mars, and the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards participating in this competition.[1][2] The regular season started on October 11, 2025 and is scheduled to end on May 3, 2026.[3]

Teams

Team Chinese name Location Arena Map
Formosa Dreamers 福爾摩沙夢想家 Taichung City Taichung Intercontinental Basketball Stadium
Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 新竹御嵿攻城獅 Hsinchu County Hsinchu County Stadium
Kaohsiung Aquas 高雄全家海神 Kaohsiung City Kaohsiung Arena
New Taipei CTBC DEA 新北中信特攻 New Taipei City Xinzhuang Gymnasium
New Taipei Kings 新北國王 New Taipei City Xinzhuang Gymnasium
Taipei Taishin Mars 臺北台新戰神 Taipei City Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 桃園台啤永豐雲豹 Taoyuan City Taoyuan Arena
Taoyuan City Zhongli Civil Sports Center[a]

Season format

  • Each team plays against another six times, three at home and three on the road, respectively. Each team plays 36 matches total in the regular season.[4]
  • Play-in series: Best-of-three series. The series are contested by the teams that finished the regular season as the fourth seed and fifth seed. The fourth seed is awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify to the semifinals series.[4]
  • Semifinals series: Best-of-five series. Matchup is decided by seeding in regular season. The first seed plays against the winner of play-in series, and the second seed plays against the third seed. The winners can qualify for the finals series.[4][3]
  • Finals series: Best-of-seven series. The series are contested by the winners of semifinals series.[4]

Import players restrictions

  • Each team is able to register 4 import players.[4][5]
    • The teams represented the league at the East Asia Super League can register 1 Asian import player. And these teams can only register 4 import players after registration deadline. The eligibility of the Asian import player is same as foreign student player.[4]
  • Each team is able to register 1 naturalised player as local player when naturalised player stayed in the same team for three years after finishing naturalisation.[4]
  • Each team is able to select 2 to 3 import players into active roster in each match.[4]
  • 8-Imports-In-4-Quarters Rule : each quarter can have 2 import players on the court.[4]

Import players

Team Import players Former players
Formosa Dreamers Brandon Gilbeck
Aric Holman
Trey Thompkins
Julian Boyd
James Ennis
Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers Anžejs Pasečņiks
TJ Holyfield
Drew Pember
Craig Sword
Kaohsiung Aquas Edgaras Želionis
Cady Lalanne
Chris Ortiz
Bogdan Bliznyuk
Kristijan Krajina
Rade Zagorac
Justin James
Reid Travis
New Taipei CTBC DEA Viktor Gaddefors
Marko Todorović
Nemanja Radović
Pavlin Ivanov
New Taipei Kings Jason Washburn
Austin Daye
Jayden Gardner
Chaundee Brown
Jalen Harris
Sani Sakakini (AI)
Taipei Taishin Mars Darral Willis
Jordy Tshimanga
Stanton Kidd
Zach Lofton
Diamond Stone
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards Lasan Kromah
Cheick Diallo
Chris McCullough
Malcolm Miller

(AI): Asian import players

Transactions

Retirement

  • On July 29, 2025, Douglas Creighton was named as the head coach of the Formosa Dreamers, ending his playing career.[6]
  • On August 31, 2025, Jeremy Lin announced his retirement from professional basketball.[7]
  • On September 11, 2025, Chen Chun-Han joined the Chih Ping Senior High School basketball team as coach, ending his playing career.[8]

Draft

The 2025 TPBL draft was held on August 11, 2025, at Grand Hilai Taipei in Taipei City.[9][10]

Coaching changes

Coaching changes
Team 2024–25 season 2025–26 season
Off-season
Formosa Dreamers Jamie Pearlman Douglas Creighton
New Taipei CTBC DEA Lee Yi-Hua Momir Ratković
New Taipei Kings Ryan Marchand John Patrick
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards Charles Dubé-Brais Henrik Rödl
In-season
New Taipei Kings John Patrick Thomas Wisman (interim)
New Taipei Kings Thomas Wisman (interim) Hung Chih-Shan (interim)

Off-season

In-season

Preseason

The Taiwan Professional Basketball League held the preseason games at the Pingtung County Stadium on October 3 to 5, 2025.[20]

Game log

October 3, 2025
Preseason #01
New Taipei CTBC DEA 109–111 Formosa Dreamers Pingtung County
14:30 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 23–33, 30–28, 27–29, 29–21
Pts: Bachir 26
Rebs: Radović 11
Asts: Gaddefors 6
boxscore Pts: Gilbeck 25
Rebs: Gilbeck 13
Asts: Holman 6
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Yeh Chun-Hung, Lo Kuo-Hsien, Chen Chien-Lin
October 3, 2025
Preseason #02
Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 98–88 Kaohsiung Aquas Pingtung County
17:00 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 13–39, 25–16, 27–23, 33–10
Pts: Reese 19
Rebs: Holyfield 9
Asts: Reese 4
boxscore Pts: Yu Chun-An 14
Rebs: Lalanne 11
Asts: Hu Long-Mao 4
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Lai Chien-Hao, Yang Shih-Hsien, Huang Po-Wei
October 4, 2025
Preseason #03
Taipei Taishin Mars 105–100 New Taipei Kings Pingtung County
12:00 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 28–33, 22–25, 27–26, 28–16
Pts: Kidd 21
Rebs: Tshimanga 13
Asts: Ting Sheng-Ju 7
boxscore Pts: Brown 19
Rebs: Sakakini 16
Asts: Lee Kai-Yan 6
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Yeh Chun-Hung, Hsieh Shang-Chien, Chen Ching-Hsiang
October 4, 2025
Preseason #04
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 81–101 New Taipei CTBC DEA Pingtung County
14:30 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 17–35, 20–32, 26–9, 18–25
Pts: McCullough 23
Rebs: Miller 10
Asts: Tsao Xun-Xiang 5
boxscore Pts: Bachir 30
Rebs: Radović 9
Asts: Gaddefors 6
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Chen Chao-Hung, Peng Shih-Hsuan, Huang Shao-Po
October 4, 2025
Preseason #05
Formosa Dreamers 94–88 Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers Pingtung County
17:00 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 25–22, 24–24, 22–20, 23–22
Pts: Chang Tsung-Hsien, Holman 21
Rebs: Gilbeck 15
Asts: Holman 4
boxscore Pts: Kao Kuo-Hao 20
Rebs: Pember 8
Asts: Reese 5
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Lin Chien-Hung, Huang Chen-Feng, Ou Yang Yu-Hsien
October 5, 2025
Preseason #06
Kaohsiung Aquas 93–79 Taipei Taishin Mars Pingtung County
12:00 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 34–24, 17–17, 19–21, 23–17
Pts: Wu Siao-Jin 23
Rebs: Lu Wei-Ting 12
Asts: Hu Long-Mao, Chen Huai-An 5
boxscore Pts: Chien 18
Rebs: Chien, Chen Kuan-Chuan 8
Asts: three players 2
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Chen Chao-Hung, Lo Kuo-Hsien, Hsu Wei-Kai
October 5, 2025
Preseason #07
New Taipei Kings 99–89 Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards Pingtung County
14:30 (UTC+8) Scoring by quarter: 17–25, 20–19, 32–21, 30–24
Pts: Brown 22
Rebs: Gardner 12
Asts: three players 5
boxscore Pts: Lin Sin-Kuan 20
Rebs: Diallo 14
Asts: Gao Jin-Wei 7
Arena: Pingtung County Stadium
Referees: Chen Hung-Ming, Sung Ming-Lu, Wu Fang-Shan

Regular season

The regular season started on October 11, 2025 and is scheduled to end on May 3, 2026.[3] On October 11, the 2025–26 season opening game, matched by the Kaohsiung Aquas and the New Taipei Kings, was played at Xinzhuang Gymnasium.[21]

League table

Pos Team Pld W L PCT GB Qualification
1 Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 12 10 2 .833 Advance to semifinals
2 New Taipei CTBC DEA 12 7 5 .583 3
3 Formosa Dreamers 12 6 6 .500 4
4 Taipei Taishin Mars 10 5 5 .500 4 Advance to play-in
5 Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 10 4 6 .400 5
6 New Taipei Kings 11 4 7 .364 5.5
7 Kaohsiung Aquas 13 4 9 .308 6.5
Source: TPBL

Results

Playoffs

  • Play-in series: The fourth and fifth seeds play the best-of-three play-in series. The fourth seed will be awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify the semifinals series.[4]
  • Semifinals Series: The winner of play-in series and the top three seeds play the best-of-five semifinals series. The winners can qualify the finals series.[4][3]
  • Finals Series: The winners of the semifinals series play the best-of-seven finals series.[4]

Bracket

Play-in Semifinals Finals
         
1
TBD  
4 1
5   0
TBD  
TBD  
2
3  

Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage

Statistics

Individual statistic leaders

Category Player Team Statistic
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game
Turnovers per game
Fouls per game
Minutes per game
FG%
3P%
FT%

Individual game highs

Category Player Team Statistic
Points Zach Lofton Taipei Taishin Mars 41
Rebounds Cheick Diallo Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 22
Assists Zach Lofton Taipei Taishin Mars 14
Lee Kai-Yan New Taipei Kings
Steals Craig Sword Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 7
Blocks Brandon Gilbeck Formosa Dreamers 6
Turnovers Aric Holman Formosa Dreamers 10
Three pointers Sani Sakakini New Taipei Kings 7
Zach Lofton Taipei Taishin Mars

Team statistic leaders

Category Team Statistic
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game
Turnovers per game
Fouls per game
FG%
3P%
FT%

Awards

Yearly awards

2025–26 TPBL awards
Award Recipient Team Ref.
Most Valuable Player
Most Valuable Import
Defensive Player of the Year
Rookie of the Year
Sixth Man of the Year
Most Improved Player
Coach of the Year
General Manager of the Year
Home-Court of the Year
Most Popular Player of the Year
Cheerleading Team of the Year
Most Popular Cheerleader of the Year
Plays of the Year Clutch Play of the Year
Dunk of the Year
Assist of the Year
Block of the Year

Statistical awards

2025–26 TPBL statistical awards
Award Recipient Team Statistic Ref.
Points Leader
Rebounds Leader
Assists Leader
Steals Leader
Blocks Leader

Finals awards

2026 TPBL Finals awards
Award Recipient Team Ref.
Champion
Finals MVP

Player of the Week

Week Recipient Team Ref.
1 Jayden Gardner New Taipei Kings [22]
2 Lasan Kromah Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards [23]
3 Drew Pember Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers [24]
4 Nemanja Radović New Taipei CTBC DEA [25]
5 Lasan Kromah Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards [26]
6 Drew Pember Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers [27]
7 Bogdan Bliznyuk Kaohsiung Aquas [28]
8 Darral Willis Taipei Taishin Mars [29]
9 Marko Todorović New Taipei CTBC DEA [30]

Player of the Month

Month Local player Import player Ref.
Recipient Team Recipient Team
2025
October & November Gao Jin-Wei Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards Lasan Kromah Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards [31]
December
2026
January
February
March
April & May

Arenas

Media

Notable occurrences

TPBL team in Asian competition

Team Competition Progress Result
New Taipei Kings East Asia Super League Group stage Group C 2nd place out of 4 teams (3–2)

See also

EASL
TPBL

Note

  1. ^ Home games of the January to April, 2026.

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