The 2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the fifteenth conference of the
Premier Volleyball League and its six conference as a professional league. The tournament was originally scheduled to start on June 6, 2023, however, it was moved to June 27, 2023, due to the
Philippines women's national volleyball team competing at the
2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup
The 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup was the fourth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyba ...
.
This conference introduced three debuting teams in the league —
Farm Fresh Foxies and
Quezon City Gerflor Defenders as newly formed teams, and the return of
Foton Tornadoes in the Filipino volleyball scene after the original team was rebranded as
Chery Tiggo Crossovers
The Chery Tiggo Crossovers is a professional women's volleyball team in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). The team is owned by United Asia Automotive Group, Inc. (UAAGI).
History
The team debuted in the Philippine Superliga (PSL) during the ...
in 2020.
Philippine Army Lady Troopers
The Philippine Army Lady Troopers, also known as the Black Mamba–Army Lady Troopers for sponsorship reasons, is the official women's professional volleyball team of the Philippine Army. The team is composed of enlisted personnel and reinforced ...
is skipping this conference due to military training to most of its players. Two foreign teams,
Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan and
Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh
The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native la ...
of Vietnam, also participated in the conference.
With these new additions alongside the two foreign guest teams, this is the first conference of the PVL that has more than ten participating corporate teams. Moreover, this is also the most contested conference of the league, by having thirteen teams — the most by any conference so far.
Participating teams
Pools composition
The teams are grouped into two pools using the
serpentine system
The serpentine system (also called snake seeding) is a method employed in the organization of a competition to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m ...
with the
2023 All-Filipino Conference final standings as basis.
Quezon City Gerflor Defenders is drawn to Pool A, and
Farm Fresh Foxies and
Foton Tornadoes are drawn to Pool B.
Measures were placed to ensure that sister teams (Creamline and Choco Mucho; PLDT and Cignal HD; Chery Tiggo and Foton) would not be drawn in the same pool.
Venues
Transactions
National team players
The following players are part of the
Philippines women's national volleyball team that played in the
Volleyball at the 2023 SEA Games – Women's tournament and the
2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup
The 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup was the fourth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup, an annual international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Indonesian Volleyba ...
.
Team additions and transfers
The following are the players who are newly added and/or transferred to another team for the upcoming conference.
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Format
The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:
;Preliminary Round
# Single-round robin preliminaries; 2 pools; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
# The top 2 teams in each pool will advance to the semifinals.
# Teams not advancing to the semifinals will relegate to the classification round.
# The last-placed team in Pool B will automatically be ranked 13th.
;Classification
# 11th place: A5 vs. B5
# 9th place: A4 vs. B4
# 7th place: A3 vs. B3
;Semifinals
# Single-round robin preliminaries; 4 local teams and 2 foreign guest teams; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
# Teams from the same pool will carry over their head-to-head record.
# The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
# The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the winner-take-all gold medal match.
;Finals
# All games are knockout matches.
# Bronze medal: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team
# Gold medal: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team
Pool standing procedure
# Number of matches won
# Match points
# Sets ratio
# Points ratio
# If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.
Preliminary round
* All times are
Philippine Standard Time (
UTC+08:00).
Ranking
Pool A
Pool B
Match results
Pool A
Pool B
Classification round
* All times are
Philippines Standard Time (
UTC+08:00).
11th place match
9th place match
7th place match
Final round
* All times are
Philippine Standard Time (
UTC+8:00).
Semifinals
Ranking
Match results
Finals
3rd place match
Championship match
Final standing
Awards and medalists
Individual awards
Medalists
Statistics leaders
''Statistics leaders correct at the end of the preliminary round.''
References
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2023 Premier Volleyball League season