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2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

Tournament details
Dates	July 9 – August 14, 2022
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4
Champions	Creamline (5th title)
Runners-up	KingWhale
Third place	Cignal HD
Fourth place	PLDT
Tournament awards
MVP	Tots Carlos (Conference) Celine Domingo (Finals)
Best Setter	Liao Yi-Jen
Best OH	Alyssa Valdez Frances Molina
Best MB	Mika Reyes Dell Palomata
Best OPP	Tots Carlos
Best Libero	Qiu Shi-Qing
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Attendance	92,271 (2,796 per match)
Official website
pvl.ph
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The 2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the twelfth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its third conference as a professional league.

The tournament began on July 9, 2022. Originally slated for the July 2, the tournament was pushed back due to the requests of the club teams.

This is the first (second for the former SVL) conference of the league to commence an invitational conference. A total of eight teams will compete in this event, including one international team — KingWhale Taipei from Taiwan. The BaliPure Purest Water Defenders and F2 Logistics begged off from joining the conference. A second guest team, Kobe Shinwa University, was supposed to join the semi-final round but backed out at the last minute. Replacement guest Philippine National Team, composed mostly of NU Lady Bulldogs team members, also backed out.

Participating teams

2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
Local teams
ABM	Army Black Mamba Lady Troopers	Philippine Army and Corbridge Group	Emilio Reyes Jr.	Jovelyn Gonzaga
CTC	Chery Tiggo 7 Pro Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group, Inc.	Clarence Esteban	Maika Ortiz
CMF	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Oliver Almadro	Bea De Leon
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Cesael Delos Santos	Rachel Daquis
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Sherwin Meneses	Alyssa Valdez
PGA	Petro Gazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils. Corp.	Arnold Laniog	Relea Ferina Saet
PLD	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	George Pascua	Rhea Dimaculangan
Foreign guest team
KWT	KingWhale Taipei	Enterprise Volleyball League	Teng Yen-Min	Liao Yi-Jen

• On August 6, the league announced that the Philippines women's national team will replace Kobe Shinwa Women's University due to COVID-19 concerns in Japan, the national team is eligible to vie for the championship.
• A day after the announcement of the supposed entrance of the Philippine national team into the tournament, the team begged off due to concerns of possible injuries that the players may sustain. The final round will only consist of five teams (top 4 local clubs, 1 guest club). The team's core was composed of player and staff from the National University (NU) Lady Bulldogs. NU players and staff were released from the national team program by the Philippine National Volleyball Federation shortly after their withdrawal. The team was due to participate in the 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup and the new core of the squad is planned to compose the best finishing non-guest team in the conference.

Venues

The preliminary games will start at Filoil Flying V Center, beginning the conference with live spectators. All of the elimination playdates will be held there, with the exemption of the match between Army Black Mamba and PLDT, and Creamline and Choco Mucho that will held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, and matches between Petro Gazz and Chery Tiggo, and Cignal and Creamline that will take place in Santa Rosa Sports Complex. After the preliminaries, the semifinals will be held at Ynares Center, MOA Arena and Filoil Flying V Center, with most of the games will take place at the latter. The finals will be held at the MOA Arena.

Preliminaries	Preliminaries, Semifinals
Santa Rosa City	San Juan City
Santa Rosa Sports Complex	Filoil EcoOil Centre
Capacity: 5,700	Capacity: 6,000
Semifinals	Preliminaries, Semifinals, Finals
Antipolo	Pasay City
Ynares Center	SM Mall of Asia Arena
Capacity: 7,400	Capacity: 15,000

Transactions

National team players

• The following players are part of the national team that played in the Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) International Challenge on June 11–12.

Team additions and transfers

The following are the players who transferred to another team for the upcoming conference.

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Ref
Chery Tiggo Crossovers	Aaron Velez	Replaced	Clarence Esteban
Petro Gazz Angels	Jerry Yee	Replaced	Arnold Laniog

Format

The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:

Preliminary Round

1. Single-round robin preliminaries; 7 local teams; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
2. Top four local teams will advance to the Final Round.

Semifinals

1. Single-round robin format; Top 4 local teams & 1 guest team; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
2. The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
3. The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the winner-take-all gold medal match.

Finals

1. All games are knockout matches.
2. Bronze medal: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team
3. Gold medal: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd 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: number of points scored divided by 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+8:00).

Ranking

Match results

Final round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8:00).

Semifinals

Ranking

Match results

Finals

3rd place match

Championship match

Final standing

Rank Team Creamline Cool Smashers KingWhale Taipei Cignal HD Spikers 4 PLDT High Speed Hitters 5 Army Black Mamba Lady Troopers 6 Petro Gazz Angels 7 Choco Mucho Flying Titans 8 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro Crossovers

2022 PVL Invitational champions Creamline Cool Smashers Fifth title Team Roster Alyssa Valdez (c), Celine Domingo, Risa Sato, Jeanette Panaga, Diana Mae Carlos, Michele Gumabao, Jorella Marie De Jesus, Lorielyn Bernardo, Maria Paulina Soriano, Kyla Atienza, Julia Melissa Morado-De Guzman, Fille Cainglet-Cayetano, Kyle Negrito, Rizza Jane Mandapat, Rosemarie Vargas, Jessica Margarett Galanza Head coach Sherwin Meneses

Awards and medalists

Individual awards

Medalists

2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup

As announced on August 7, the Philippine National Volleyball Federation stated that the best performing local team of the invitational conference will represent the Philippines in the 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup. As the semifinal round progressed, the PLDT High Speed Hitters is the first to initially accept its invitation to possibly participate on the mentioned tourney as the other top teams, Creamline and Cignal, have yet to express its interest to join.

In spite of that, Creamline will represent the country since they accepted the federation's invitation to suit up in the national team as they emerged as the champions of the invitational conference.

Statistics leaders

Preliminary round

Statistics leaders correct at the end of preliminary round.

Final round

Statistics leaders correct as of Day 5 (August 9, 2022) of the final round.

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