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

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. 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 in 2020. Philippine Army Lady Troopers is skipping this conference due to military training to most of its players. Two foreign teams, Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan and

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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

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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

Team additions and transfers

The following are the players who are newly added and/or transferred to another team for the upcoming conference. ;Note: :

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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