List of Philippine Basketball Association champions
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The Philippine Basketball Association awards a championship trophy (or cup) to the winning team at the end of each conference (tournament).
To determine a champion for a conference, a double-round elimination (sometimes a classification) round is usually held. After the elimination (or classification) round, the playoffs would be held.
There had been a variety of ways the league conducted its playoffs, such as:
- Single-elimination tournament
- The twice-to-beat advantage (The higher-seeded team needs to win only once in order to advance, while the lower-seeded team needs to win twice consecutively. This is basically a modification of the best-of-three series.)
- Round-robin (or double-round robin)
- Best-of-three series
- Best-of-five series
- Best-of-seven series
- For a discussion of the different formats, see Playoff format.
The Finals is usually a best-of-seven series (although there had been notable exceptions). The winning team is said to be the champions of the conference. After each season, there would be no playoffs in order to determine a "season champion." The concept of having different champions in a season is similar to the concept of Apertura and Clausura of Latin American football.
Houwever, the teams which are both boldfaced and italicized, the Crispa Redmanizers (1979 and 1983), the San Miguel Beermen (1989), and the Alaska Milkmen (1996), hold the distinction of winning all three conferences in one season and have the distinction of winning the "Grand Slam". Winning the Grand Slam is the equivalent of the "season championship," where the team is said to be the undisputed champion in the league.
There are two types of conferences: All-Filipino or import-laden. The All-Filipino conferences are tournaments where the teams are prohibited from hiring a foreigner as an additional player. An import-laden conference is a tournament where teams are allowed to hire a foreigner (the "import") as an additional player.
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[edit] Champions by season
[edit] 1975-1983: Prieto years
| Season | Conference | Champion | Series | Runner-Up | Third place | Winning coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | All-Filipino | Toyota | 3-1 | Crispa | U/Tex | Dante Silverio |
| Open | Toyota | 2-1 | Crispa | Noritake | Dante Silverio | |
| All-Philippine | Crispa | 3-2 | Toyota | U/Tex | Baby Dalupan | |
| 1976 | All-Filipino | Crispa | 3-1 | Toyota | Mariwasa | Baby Dalupan |
| Open | Crispa | 3-1 | Toyota | Royal | Baby Dalupan | |
| All-Philippine | Crispa | 3-2 | Toyota | U/Tex | Baby Dalupan | |
| 1977 | All-Filipino | Crispa | 3-2 | Mariwasa | Toyota | Baby Dalupan |
| Open | Crispa | 3-2 | U/Tex | Toyota | Baby Dalupan | |
| Invitational | Toyota | 3-2 | Crispa | Emtex (Brazil) | Dante Silverio | |
| 1978 | All-Filipino | Toyota | 3-1 | Filmanbank | Tanduay | Dante Silverio |
| Open | U/Tex | 3-0 | Crispa | Toyota | Tommy Manotoc | |
| Invitational | Toyota | 3-1 | Tanduay | Crispa | Dante Silverio | |
| 1979 | All-Filipino | Crispa | 3-2 | Toyota | Tanduay | Baby Dalupan |
| Open | Royal | 3-1 | Toyota | Great Taste | Ed Ocampo | |
| Invitational | Toyota | 3-1 | Crispa | U/Tex | Fort Acuña | |
| 1980 | Open | U/Tex | 3-2 | Toyota | Crispa | Tommy Manotoc |
| Invitational | N. Stoodley (USA) | 2-0 | Toyota | Adidas (France) | J. Webber | |
| All-Filipino | Crispa | 3-1 | Toyota | Tanduay | Baby Dalupan | |
| 1981 | Open | Toyota | 3-2 | Crispa | U/Tex | Eddie Ocampo |
| Invitational | Crispa | 3-1 | U/Tex | Presto | Baby Dalupan | |
| 1982 | Reinforced Filipino | Toyota | 4-3 | San Miguel | Crispa | Eddie Ocampo |
| Invitational | San Miguel | 2-1 | Crispa | South Korea | Tommy Manotoc | |
| Open | Toyota | 3-0 | Gilbey's | San Miguel | Eddie Ocampo | |
| 1983 | All-Filipino | Crispa | 3-0 | Gilbey's | Great Taste | Tommy Manotoc |
| Reinforced Filipino | Crispa | 3-2 | Great Taste | Tanduay | Tommy Manotoc | |
| Open | Crispa | 3-0 | Great Taste | San Miguel | Tommy Manotoc |
[edit] 1984-1992: Yenko and Salud years
[edit] 1993-2003: Marquez and Bernandino years
[edit] 2003-present: Eala and Barrios years
| Season | Conference | Champion | Series | Runner-Up | Third place | Winning coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | All-Filipino | Talk 'N Text | 4-2 | Coca-Cola | Alaska | Joel Banal |
| Invitational*[1] | Alaska | 3-1 | Coca-Cola | FedEx | Tim Cone | |
| Reinforced | Coca-Cola | 4-3 | San Miguel | Talk 'N Text | Chot Reyes | |
| (2004)** | Fiesta | Barangay Ginebra | 3-1 | Red Bull | Talk 'N Text | Siot Tanquincen |
| 2004-05 | Philippine | Barangay Ginebra | 4-2 | Talk 'N Text | San Miguel | Siot Tanquincen |
| Fiesta | San Miguel | 4-1 | Talk 'N Text | Shell | Jong Uichico | |
| 2005-06 | Fiesta | Red Bull | 4-2 | Purefoods | Air21 | Yeng Guiao |
| Philippine | Purefoods | 4-2 | Red Bull | Alaska | Ryan Gregorio | |
| 2006-07 | Philippine | Barangay Ginebra | 4-2 | San Miguel | Talk 'N Text | Jong Uichico |
| Fiesta | Alaska | 4-3 | Talk 'N Text | Red Bull | Tim Cone | |
| 2007-08 | Philippine | Sta. Lucia | 4-3 | Purefoods | Red Bull | Boyet Fernandez |
| Fiesta | Upcoming | |||||
**The 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference was a transitional conference and was not a part of the 2003 or of the 2004-05 season.
[edit] Notes
- Conference marked with an asterisk (*) are special conferences, and do not count to the championship tally below.
[edit] Champions by franchise
| Franchise | Championships | Runners-up | Third places | Total trophies | Last championship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnolia/San Miguel/Royal | 17 | 11 | 13 | 41 | 2004-2005 Fiesta |
| Crispa* | 13 | 8 | 3 | 24 | 1984 First All-Filipino |
| Alaska/Hills Bros. | 12 | 10 | 12 | 34 | 2007 Fiesta |
| Toyota* | 9 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 1982 Open |
| Purefoods/Coney Island | 7 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 2005-2006 Philippine |
| Ginebra/Gordon's/Añejo/Gilbey's | 7 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 2006-2007 Philippine |
| Great Taste/Presto* | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 1990 All-Filipino |
| Shell* | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 1999 All-Filipino |
| Pop Cola/Sunkist/Swift/Sarsi* | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 1995 Commissioner's |
| Tanduay* | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 1987 Open |
| Red Bull | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2005-2006 Fiesta |
| U/Tex* | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1980 Open |
| Sta. Lucia | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2007-08 Philippine |
| Coca-Cola | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2003 Reinforced |
| Talk 'N Text/Mobiline/7-Up/Pepsi | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 2003 All-Filipino |
| Northern** | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1985 Reinforced |
| N. Stoodley** | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1980 Invitational |
| Beer Hausen/Manila Beer | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -- |
| Mariwasa/Noritake | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- |
| Filmanbank | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -- |
| Air21/FedEx | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -- |
| South Korea** | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Adidas** | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Emtex** | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
* Defunct franchise
** Guest team
