2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Duration	August 21–31, 2025
Teams	6
Matches	15
TV partner(s)	One Sports One Sports+ RPTV
Streaming partner(s)	Pilipinas Live
Results
Champions	PLDT High Speed Hitters
Runners-up	Kobe Shinwa University
Third place	Creamline Cool Smashers
Fourth place	Chery Tiggo Crossovers
Awards
Conference MVP	Savi Davison
Finals MVP	Kath Arado
Best OH	Jema Galanza Nagisa Komatsuda
Best MB	Jeanette Panaga Rizza Nogales
Best OPP	Ara Galang
Best Setter	Sakura Furuta
Best Libero	Kath Arado
PVL Invitational Conference chronology
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PVL conference chronology
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The 2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the first conference of the 2025–26 Premier Volleyball League season and the second tournament of the season. The fourth Invitational Conference runs from August 21 to 31, 2025 and featured five of the league's local teams alongside one foreign guest team. The tournament was initially set to start on August 19, two days before its current schedule.

The PLDT High Speed Hitters won the conference after beating the guest team Kobe Shinwa University in the championship match in four sets, giving them back-to-back gold medals following their preseason triumph. The Creamline Cool Smashers swept the Chery Tiggo Crossovers in the 3rd medal match to complete the podium and retain their streak of nineteen consecutive podium finishes.

Qualification

The 2025 Invitational Conference follows the same format as the 2024 edition. It is a smaller-scale tournament where only a selection of teams will qualify based on performance from the previous conference.

Four slots were allocated for the semifinalists of the 2025 PVL on Tour. These were Chery Tiggo Crossovers, Cignal HD Spikers, Creamline Cool Smashers, and PLDT High Speed Hitters. As part of the Invitational Conference, the league invited two foreign guest teams to compete. The Kurashiki Ablaze and Kobe Shinwa University, both from Japan, were announced to compete on August 13. Kobe Shinwa will make their debut after backing out of the 2022 edition.

On August 21, it was announced that Kurashiki, which would have made their third consecutive Invitational appearance, will no longer compete due to a "serious compliance violation" by head coach Hideo Suzuki. An invitation was first sent to the Farm Fresh Foxies, but the team instead gave the invitation to the Zus Coffee Thunderbelles, which accepted it.

Participating teams

2025 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
Local teams
CTC	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group	Norman Miguel	Aby Maraño
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Shaq Delos Santos	Dawn Macandili-Catindig
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Rebisco	Sherwin Meneses	Alyssa Valdez
HSH	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	Rald Ricafort	Kath Arado
ZUS	Zus Coffee Thunderbelles	Zuspresso Sdn. Bhd. / Strong Group Athletics	Jerry Yee	Cloanne Mondoñedo
Foreign guest team
KSU	Kobe Shinwa University		Kiyokazu Yamamoto	Sakura Furuta

Venues

Preliminaries	Preliminaries, Finals
Pasig	Quezon City
PhilSports Arena (PSA)	Smart Araneta Coliseum (SAC)
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 20,000

Transactions

Format

The following format is being conducted for the entirety of the conference:

Preliminary round

• The preliminary round is a single round-robin tournament, with each team playing one match against all other teams for a total of five matches. Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
  • Results from the 2025 PVL on Tour semifinals were carried over. Because of this, the four semifinalists will not play against their respective opponents from the conference and will only play four matches.
• The top two teams will advance to the championship match while teams ranked third and fourth will play in the third-place match.
• Teams ranked fifth and sixth will be eliminated and be ranked accordingly in the final standings.

Finals

• Both the championship (gold medal) and third-place (bronze medal) matches will be singular matches.
• The match-ups will be as follows:
  • Championship match: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team
  • Third-place match: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team

Pool standing procedure

• First, teams are ranked by the number of matches won.
• If the number of matches won is tied, the tied teams are then ranked by match points, wherein:
  • 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.
• In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used:
  • Set ratio: the number of sets won divided by number of sets lost.
  • Point ratio: the number of points scored divided by the number of points allowed.
  • Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
• The results from the PVL On Tour Semifinals will be carried over.

Final round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Final standings

Rank Team PLDT High Speed Hitters Kobe Shinwa University Creamline Cool Smashers 4 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 5 Cignal HD Spikers 6 Zus Coffee Thunderbelles

2025 PVL Invitational champions PLDT High Speed Hitters Second title Team roster Kath Arado (c), Maria Nieza Viray, Shiela Mae Kiseo, Mika Reyes, Alleiah Jan Lina Malaluan, Savi Davison, Zenneth Irene Perolino, Kim Fajardo, Majoy Baron, Kim Kianna Dy, Dell Palomata, Anne Esguerra, Keisha Dazzie Bedonia, Angelica Legacion, Angelica Alcantara, Jessey Laine de Leon, Jovie Prado Head coach Rald Ricafort

Awards and medalists

References