List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences


This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association conferences. Conferences are tournaments within a season, as opposed to the North American usage where a conference is a grouping of teams. If a team wins all of the conferences in a season, it is said that they have won a Grand Slam.

Types of conferences

As of the 2024–25 season, there is a total of 137 conferences/tournaments held by the PBA since 1975. It was further broken down into three categories:
  • All Filipino conferences - only players with Filipino citizenship are allowed to compete.
  • Import-laden conferences - players with other citizenship/nationality are allowed to compete, with teams usually limited with one non-Filipino on their active lineup.
  • Special tournaments - teams may or may not include imports but championships won don't count to the championship tally.

Active tournaments

Inactive tournaments

Special tournaments

Number of conferences

There had always been three conferences in a PBA season. The exceptions are:

List of conferences

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s