2025 WMPBL season
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country | Philippines |
| Dates | June 29 – November 16 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | New Zealand Bluefire |
| Runners-up | Discovery–Perlas |
| Awards | |
| MVP | Afril Bernardino[1] (New Zealand) |
The 2025 WMPBL season is the inaugural regular season of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League as a professional league.
It follows the Invitational Tournament which was held from January to April 2025. The WMPBL season itself will commence on June 29, 2025.[2]
Pilipinas Aguilas, defending champions and an amateur team are not participating.[3]
Format
The 2025 regular season will start with the elimination round where all six participating teams will figure in a double round robin. The top two teams will earn a bye to the semifinals. The remaining teams will advance to the semifinals where the third and fourth ranking teams having a twice-to-beat advantage. The semifinals and the finals will be a best-of-three series.[2]
Teams
Six professional teams will take part at the 2025 WMPBL season. The RK Hoops–Quezon City will make their debut while the rest of the team were 2025 Invitational Tournament participants.[3] The Invitational Tournament had 14 teams, including amateur and collegiate sides.[3][4]
- Discovery–Rizal Perlas
- New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries
- San Juan Lady Knights
- Tagaytay–Tol Patriots
- Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns
- RK Hoops–Quezon City
Elimination round
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | GB | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries | 10 | 8 | 2 | 855 | 633 | +222 | — | Semifinals |
| 2 | San Juan DN Steel Lady Knights | 10 | 7 | 3 | 749 | 631 | +118 | 1 | |
| 3 | Discovery–Rizal Perlas | 10 | 6 | 4 | 735 | 630 | +105 | 2 | Twice-to-beat in quarterfinals |
| 4 | Tagaytay 'Tol Patriots | 10 | 4[a] | 6 | 679 | 721 | −42 | 4 | |
| 5 | Solar–Pangasinan Home Suns | 10 | 4[a] | 6 | 693 | 742 | −49 | 4 | Twice-to-win in quarterfinals |
| 6 | RK Hoops–Quezon City. | 10 | 1 | 9 | 498 | 852 | −354 | 7 |
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2a) If two teams are tied, head-to-head match-up and aggregate; 2b) If three or more teams are tied, head-to-head point differential; 3) overall point differential; 4) coin toss.
Notes:
Results
| Team | Game | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Batangas (BTG) | TAG 86–56 | RZL 101–87 | QC 99–45 | SJ 71–74 | PGS 100–61 | SJ 72–74 | TAG 75–66 | QC 101–47 | PGS 78–54 | RZL 72–69 |
| Pangasinan (PGS) | QC 68–71 | RZL 77–63 | TAG 79–73 | SJ 86–83* | BTG 61–100 | TAG 70–82 | RZL 58–70 | SJ 58–72 | BTG 54–78 | QC 82–50 |
| Quezon City (QC) | PGS 71–68 | SJ 47–85 | BTG 45–99 | RZL 39–82 | TAG 63–91 | SJ 35–92 | TAG 56–72 | BTG 47–101 | RZL 45–80 | PGS 50–82 |
| Rizal (RZL) | PGS 63–77 | BTG 87–101 | QC 82–39 | TAG 79–60 | SJ 81–59 | TAG 66–56 | PGS 70–58 | SJ 58–63 | QC 80–45 | BTG 69–72 |
| San Juan (SJ) | QC 85–47 | TAG 76–46 | BTG 74–71 | PGS 83–86* | RZL 59–81 | BTG 74–72 | QC 92–35 | PGS 72–58 | RZL 63–58 | TAG 71–77 |
| Tagaytay (TAG) | BTG 56–86 | SJ 46–76 | PGS 73–79 | RZL 60–79 | QC 91–63 | PGS 82–70 | RZL 56–66 | BTG 66–75 | QC 72–56 | SJ 77–71 |
Legend: Blue = win; Red = loss; Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime. (*) Number of asterisks denotes number of overtime periods
Playoffs
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. Teams in italics have twice-to-beat advantage for the series.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals (best-of-three) | Finals (best-of-three) | |||||||||||
| (4 – twice-to-beat) | 1 | Batangas | 2 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Tagaytay | 81 | 4 | Tagaytay | 0 | ||||||||
| 5 | Pangasinan | 76 | 1 | Batangas | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 | Rizal | 0 | |||||||||||
| (3 – twice-to-beat) | 2 | San Juan | 0 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Rizal | 90 | 3 | Rizal | 2 | ||||||||
| 6 | Quezon City | 52 | |||||||||||
Finals
November 12
|
| New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries 98, Discovery–Rizal Perlas 87 |
Villar Coliseum, Las Piñas
|
November 16
|
| New Zealand Blufire–Batangas Valkyries 79, Discovery–Rizal Perlas 77 | ||
| New Zealand wins series, 2–0 |
Enderun Gym, Taguig
|
Notable events
- August 24 – Stefanie Berberabe becomes the first female player to record a quadruple-double statistics in women's professional basketball history after making 20 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists, and 10 steals.[5]
References
- ^ Dannug, Jonash (November 16, 2025). "Afril Bernardino continues to make history, hailed WMPBL's first pro MVP". Tiebreaker Times. Retrieved November 17, 2025.
- ^ a b "WMPBL tips off pro era with six teams". Tiebreaker Times. June 22, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
- ^ a b c Morales, Luisa (June 22, 2025). "WMPBL flaunts six-team cast in first professional season". One Sports. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
- ^ "Basketball: WMPBL to launch first pro season with 6-team cast". ABS-CBN News. June 22, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
- ^ Morales, Luisa (August 24, 2025). "WMPBL: Stefanie Berberabe makes history as first Filipina to record quadruple-double". One Sports. Retrieved August 24, 2025.