2025–26 TPBL season

The 2025–26 TPBL season is the second season of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League, 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. The regular season started on October 11, 2025 and is scheduled to end on May 3, 2026.

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
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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.
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.
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.
Finals series: Best-of-seven series. The series are contested by the winners of semifinals series.

Import players restrictions

Each team is able to register 4 import players.
* 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.
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.
Each team is able to select 2 to 3 import players into active roster in each match.
8-Imports-In-4-Quarters Rule : each quarter can have 2 import players on the court.

Import players

: 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.
On August 31, 2025, Jeremy Lin announced his retirement from professional basketball.
On September 11, 2025, Chen Chun-Han joined the Chih Ping Senior High School basketball team as coach, ending his playing career.

Draft

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

Coaching changes

Off-season

On July 1, 2025, the Formosa Dreamers named Jamie Pearlman as their associate head coach.
On July 3, 2025, the New Taipei CTBC DEA announced that Lee Yi-Hua left the team.
On July 5, 2025, the New Taipei Kings announced that Ryan Marchand left the team for career decision.
On July 9, 2025, the New Taipei Kings hired John Patrick as their new head coach.
On July 22, 2025, the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards announced that Charles Dubé-Brais left the team. And the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards hired Henrik Rödl as their new head coach.
On July 29, 2025, the Formosa Dreamers named Douglas Creighton, the captain of the Formosa Dreamers, as their new head coach.
On August 25, 2025, the New Taipei CTBC DEA promoted Momir Ratković, the assistant coach of the New Taipei CTBC DEA, as their new head coach.

In-season

On November 11, 2025, the New Taipei Kings announced to terminate contract relationship with John Patrick. And the New Taipei Kings named Hung Chih-Shan as their interim head coach after Thomas Wisman, the assistant coach of the New Taipei Kings, coached as interim head coach for one game.
On December 31, 2025, the Kaohsiung Aquas announced to terminate contract relationship with Mathias Fischer, and named Zhu Yong-Hong, the Kaohsiung Aquas assistant coach, as their interim head coach.

Preseason

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

Regular season

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

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.
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.
Finals Series: The winners of the semifinals series play the best-of-seven finals series.

Bracket

Bold Series winner

Italic Team with home-court advantage

Awards

Yearly awards

All-TPBL First Team:

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* All-TPBL Second Team:
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* All-Defensive First Team:
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* All-Defensive Second Team:
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Arenas

The Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards announced that their home games on January 9 to April, 2026 would change to Taoyuan City Zhongli Civil Sports Center.

Media

The games will be broadcast on television via VL Sports, MOMOTV, Sportcast, and online via YouTube.
The games will be broadcast on television via AXN Asia since January 31, 2026.

Notable occurrences

On July 11, 2025, the Taipei Taishin Mars traded Wang Lu-Hsiang to the TSG GhostHawks for cash considerations. And this trade became the first interleague trade between the teams of the P. League+ and TPBL.
On July 16, 2025, the TPBL and P. League+ announced the cooperation for 7+3 teams playing in 2025–26 season.
On July 24, 2025, the New Taipei Kings were invited to participate in 2025–26 East Asia Super League.
On July 25, 2025, the TPBL cancelled the cooperation with P. League+, and the TPBL only discussed with P. League+ for league merging.
On July 31, 2025, the TPBL stopped the discussion with P. League+ for league merging, and started to prepare for the 2025–26 season.
On August 1, 2025, Jonah Morrison was reinstated by TPBL.
On August 7, 2025, the TPBL modified the player eligibility rules, and the heritage player was cancelled.
On August 27, 2025, the TPBL announced that Larry Chi resigned from secretary general for career decision, and named Wang Chih-Chun and Cheng Po-Jen, the deputy secretary and commissioner secretary of the league, as their interim secretary general and new deputy secretary.
On September 16, 2025, the TPBL announced that the semifinals series changed to best-of-five series.
On October 18, 2025, Brandon Gilbeck of the Formosa Dreamers became the first player to record 100 blocks in TPBL history.
On October 19, 2025, Lasan Kromah of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards became the first import player to record 200 assists in TPBL history.
On October 26, 2025, Hu Long-Mao of the Kaohsiung Aquas recorded 1,000 rebounds in his career.
On October 26, 2025, Gao Jin-Wei of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 1,000 points in his career.
On October 29, 2025, Hu Long-Mao of the Kaohsiung Aquas recorded 1,500 points in franchise career.
On November 1, 2025, Ma Chien-Hao of the Formosa Dreamers recorded 500 points in TPBL career.
On November 2, 2025, Malcolm Miller of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 500 points in TPBL career.
On November 9, 2025, Lasan Kromah of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards became the first player to record 100 steals in TPBL history.
On November 15, 2025, Samuel Manu of the Taipei Taishin Mars became the first local player to record 200 rebounds in TPBL history.
On November 16, 2025, Gao Jin-Wei of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 100 steals in his career.
On November 16, 2025, Lasan Kromah of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 1,500 points in Taiwan career.
On December 2, 2025, the TPBL announced that Kao Kuo-Hao of the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers was issued an indefinite suspension.
On December 14, 2025, Su Wen-Ju of the Kaohsiung Aquas recorded 500 points in TPBL career.
On December 19, 2025, Kao Kuo-Hao of the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers was reinstated by TPBL.
On December 20, 2025, Lasan Kromah of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards became the first player to record 1,000 points in TPBL history.
On December 21, 2025, Ting Sheng-Ju of the Taipei Taishin Mars recorded 200 assists in TPBL career.
On January 4, 2026, Chiang Yu-An of the Formosa Dreamers recorded 100 assists in TPBL career.
On January 9, 2026, Wang Hao-Chi of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 1,500 points in his career.
On January 11, 2026, Chris McCullough of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 1,000 points in Taiwan career.
On January 24, 2026, Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga of the New Taipei CTBC DEA recorded 2,500 points in his career.
On January 31, 2026, Kao Kuo-Hao of the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers recorded 2,000 points in his career.
On January 31, 2026, Lasan Kromah of the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards recorded 1,200 points in TPBL history.