2025–26 PBA Philippine Cup
The 2025–26 PBA Philippine Cup, also referred to as the PBA season 50 Philippine Cup, was the first conference of the 2025–26 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The 50th PBA Philippine Cup started on October 5, 2025 and ended on February 1, 2026. A break was held from November 17 to December 4 to make way for the first window of 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.
This is the first conference of the Titan Ultra Giant Risers in the league, following Pureblends Corporation's acquisition of the NorthPort Batang Pier franchise. The San Miguel Beermen entered this conference as the defending Philippine Cup champions, and successfully defended the title in a rematch of the last year's finals against the TNT Tropang 5G.
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.
- * Beginning with this conference, there will no longer be a one-game playoff for the eighth seed in case of a tie. The standard tiebreakers will be used instead.
- 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