List of former Philippine Basketball Association teams
The Philippine Basketball Association currently has twelve active teams, but there have been numerous teams that departed the league whether through acquisition and dissolution. Additionally, some teams, local and foreign, also competed as guest teams that took part in a number of conferences.
The NorthPort Batang Pier are the most recent team to go defunct, with the franchise being sold in 2024. The Alaska Aces have the most championships among defunct teams with 14, closely followed by the Crispa Redmanizers at 13.
Defunct franchises
Franchise lineage
As a result of franchise acquisitions, teams share their lineage with the teams acquired by their respective companies.Active lineages
The lineages listed below are sorted from oldest to newest based on the establishing team. Bold indicates the active team in the lineage.- Crispa → Shell → Welcoat / Rain or Shine
- N-Rich / Great Taste / Presto / Tivoli → Sta. Lucia → MeralcoRoyal / Gold Eagle / Magnolia / Petron / San Miguel
- Tanduay → Purefoods / B-Meg / San Mig Coffee / Star / MagnoliaGilbey's Gin / St. George Whisky / Añejo Rhum / Gordon's Gin / Ginebra / Barangay Ginebra
- Hills Bros. / Alaska → ConvergePepsi / 7-Up / Mobiline / Talk 'N Text / TNT
- Pop Cola / Sarsi / Sunkist / Swift → Coca-Cola / Powerade → GlobalPort / NorthPort → Titan Ultra
- Tanduay → FedEx / Air21 / Burger King / Barako Bull Energy → Phoenix
- Red Bull / Barako Bull Energy Boosters → Shopinas.com / Air21 → NLEXBlackwater
- '''Kia / Mahindra / Columbian / Terrafirma'''
Ended lineages
The following lineages have ended due to the final team having dissolved without any acquisitions.- 7-Up → Filmanbank → Galleon / CDCP
- Carrier / Quasar / Fiberlite
- Mariwasa Noritake / Mariwasa Honda / Finance Inc. / Galerie Dominique
- Toyota → Manila Beer / Beer Hausen
- Tefilin
- U/Tex → Manhattan / Sunkist / Winston / Country Fair
Record-keeping
Once a franchise is acquired by a new entity, the previous team is considered to be ceased and all of its records are kept with that team. The new team resulting from the acquisition will then start its records fresh akin to an expansion team. However, there have been a few special cases.Special cases
Pepsi Mega Bottlers transfer to Lapanday Holdings
When Frederick Dael took over as president of Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, Inc., which owned the Pepsi Mega Bottlers, changes were made in the company's priorities which would see the team be disbanded. PCPPI chairman Luis Lorenzo Sr. sought to transfer ownership of the franchise to one of his other entities, and in January 1996, the team's franchise was transferred to Lapanday Holdings, Lorenzo's holding company. The new team became known as the Mobiline Cellulars after partnering with the Pilipino Telephone Corporation, now known as the TNT Tropang 5G, with the records of the 7-Up / Pepsi franchise carrying over.Tanduay's return
Tanduay's first PBA franchise was owned by Elizalde & Company Inc. It was one of the PBA's founding teams, competing from 1975 to 1987. In 1988, Tanduay was sold to Lucio Tan's Twin Ace Holdings Corporation while the PBA franchise was acquired by Pure Foods Corporation, forming today's Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots.Tan's LT Group would later bring Tanduay back to the PBA in 1999 with the Tanduay Rhum Masters and with it the records of the company's previous franchise carried over. The new Rhum Masters played until 2002 when the team was acquired by the Lina Group, forming the FedEx Express.
Air21 and Barako Bull switch names
When the Lina Group acquired a majority stake in Energy Food and Drinks, the distributor of Red Bull to the Philippines, the group now owned the Barako Bull Energy Boosters alongside their existing team, the Air21 Express. In the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup, the Energy Boosters were renamed to the Shopinas.com Clickers while the Express were renamed to the Barako Bull Energy. In the following Commissioner's Cup, the Clickers were renamed to the Air21 Express, meaning that the two franchises had switched names.To prevent any confusion, most of the Shopinas / Air21 franchise history and records were separated from the Red Bull / Barako Bull Energy Boosters franchise as if the Lina Group acquired the latter, with the only elements carrying over being the transaction history and lineage. As with most cases, the Barako Bull Energy franchise retained its history and lineage with FedEx / Burger King / Air21.
To create a distinction between the two Air21 franchises, the original is abbreviated as "AIR21" and the second one as "AIR21X" in the official PBA annual, Hardcourt. In some instances, the team records of the original Air21 franchise is "shared" with the second Air21 franchise. An example would be during the jersey retirement of Vergel Meneses – although he played for the original Air21 franchise, his jersey was retired by the second Air21 franchise.
Air21 were acquired by Manila North Tollways Corporation in 2014, becoming the NLEX Road Warriors, while Phoenix Petroleum acquired the Barako Bull Energy in 2016, establishing the Phoenix Fuel Masters.
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