2025 PBA Philippine Cup
The 2025 PBA Philippine Cup, was the third and final conference of the 2024–25 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The 49th PBA Philippine Cup started on April 4 and ended on July 25, 2025. The tournament did not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.
The 2025 PBA All-Star Weekend was supposed to be held from May 2 to 4 in Metro Davao, but was cancelled. The playoffs began on June 18 with the finals between the San Miguel Beermen and the TNT Tropang 5G starting on July 13.
The Meralco Bolts entered this conference as the defending Philippine Cup champions while TNT attempted to accomplish a Grand Slam by winning the conference championship.
Format
- All participating teams play in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference.
- Teams are ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties are broken using tiebreaker criteria.
- * If there is a tie for 8th place, a one-game playoff is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot.
- The playoff formats are as follows:
- * Quarterfinals :
- **QF1: #1 vs #8
- **QF2: #2 vs #7
- **QF3: #3 vs #6
- **QF4: #4 vs #5
- * Semifinals :
- **SF1: QF1 winner vs. QF4 winner
- **SF2: QF2 winner vs. QF3 winner
- * Finals
Elimination round
PBA 50th anniversary games
On April 9, 2025, two games of the 2025 PBA Philippine Cup were held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum as part of the 50th anniversary of PBA's foundation ahead of the 50th PBA season. Plans for the commemorative games were underway as early as March 2025.The sole team still playing in the PBA when it was founded in 1975 are the San Miguel Beermen. The game between Meralco and San Miguel featured teams wearing "retro" jerseys. San Miguel's wore throwbacks from the 1982 season while Meralco's honor the 1971 Meralco Reddy Kilowatts from the MICAA. The television broadcast likewise had "retro" graphics. Spectators got discounted fare rates.