2025 WMPBL Invitational Tournament


The WMPBL Invitational Tournament was a tournament that serves as the launch event of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. The tournament featured fourteen teams and ran from January 19 to April 23, 2025.

Background

In October 2024, seven years after the founding of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League, league founder Manny Pacquiao established the women's MPBL together with commissioner Haydee Ong. As preparation for the league's full launch in mid-2025, it will host an invitational tournament similar to its men's counterpart.

Format

Fourteen teams will compete in the tournament and were divided into two groups: Group A and Group B. Each team played one game against each team from the opposing group, for a total of seven games for each team. At the end of the elimination round, the top four teams in each group will advance to the playoffs. Tiebreakers are broken by point differential as per FIBA rules.
The top four teams from each group advanced to the playoffs with the two gaining a twice-to-beat advantage in the quarterfinals. The semifinals are a knockout single-game playoffs and the finals was a best-of-three series. In the quarterfinals and semifinals, teams will be playing against teams from the same group.

Roster regulations

For this tournament only, the minimum age requirement for all players is 18 years of age. Each team will also be able to field up to one import and two Filipino-foreigner players during the tournament. In addition, each team is limited to two players who play for the Philippine national team.

Elimination round

The elimination round began on January 19, 2025 at the Quadricentennial Pavilion in Sampaloc, Manila, home of the UST Growling Tigresses.

Playoffs

Teams in bold advanced to the next round. Teams in italics have twice-to-beat advantage for the series.

Media

The league's games was broadcast by IBC on television. The network had previously broadcast the Maharlika Pilipinas men's leaguem specifically the 2021 MPBL Invitational. The league streamed the games on its social media platforms.