Philippine volleyball in one place: the Premier Volleyball League table and fixture list, and UAAP volleyball through the collegiate season, all in Philippine Standard Time (GMT+8).
Nine clubs contest the PVL: ZUS Coffee Thunderbelles, Nxled Chameleons, PLDT Home Fiber High Speed Hitters, Creamline Cool Smashers, Akari Chargers, Galeries Tower Highrisers, Farm Fresh Foxies, Choco Mucho Flying Titans and Capital1 Solar Spikers. Creamline are the league's most decorated side and the one most fixtures are built around.
The league does not play everything in Manila. Recent playdates have been staged in Lanao del Norte and Victorias City in Negros Occidental, part of the touring format that takes conferences to provincial venues — so the venue column on the fixture list is worth reading before travelling to a game.
Standings are decided on match wins first. Where clubs are level, the set ratio separates them — sets won divided by sets lost — and then the points ratio, which is why a club can sit above another on the same win-loss record. A five-set win is worth two points to the winner and one to the loser in the conferences that use that scoring.
The UAAP is the collegiate half of the same ecosystem, and the pipeline runs one way: most PVL rosters are built from players who came through UAAP and NCAA programmes. Women's volleyball draws the larger audience of the two, and a UAAP finals series regularly outdraws every domestic sporting event outside basketball.
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