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2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

Tournament details
Dates	June 27 – July 30
Teams	13
Venue(s)	Filoil EcoOil Centre PhilSports Arena
Champions	Kurashiki Ablaze (1st title)
Runners-up	Creamline Cool Smashers
Third place	Cignal HD Spikers
Fourth place	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers
Tournament awards
MVP	Frances Molina (Conference) Kyoka Ohshima (Finals)
Best Setter	Gel Cayuna
Best OH	Asaka Tamaru Alyssa Valdez
Best MB	Majoy Baron Celine Domingo
Best OPP	Tots Carlos
Best Libero	Kath Arado
Tournament statistics
Matches played	43
Attendance	137,016 (3,186 per match)
Official website
pvl.ph
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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 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup.

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 Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh 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

2023 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
Local teams
AKA	Akari Chargers	Akari Lighting & Technology	Jorge Edson	Michelle Cobb
CTC	Chery Tiggo Crossovers	United Asia Automotive Group	Aaron Velez	Mylene Paat
CMF	Choco Mucho Flying Titans	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Dante Alinsunurin	Bea de Leon
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Shaq Delos Santos	Rachel Anne Daquis
CCS	Creamline Cool Smashers	Republic Biscuit Corporation	Sherwin Meneses	Alyssa Valdez
FTL	F2 Logistics Cargo Movers	F2 Logistics Philippines	Regine Diego	Aby Maraño
FFF	Farm Fresh Foxies	Farm Fresh Philippine International	Jerry Yee	Cloanne Mondoñedo
FOT	Foton Tornadoes	United Asia Automotive Group	Brian Esquibel	Shaya Adorador
PGA	Petro Gazz Angels	PetroGazz Ventures Phils.	Oliver Almadro	Relea Ferina Saet
HSH	PLDT High Speed Hitters	PLDT Inc.	Rald Ricafort	Mika Reyes
GFD	Quezon City Gerflor Defenders	Gerflor Philippines / Quezon City Sports Management Services	Edgar Barroga	Justine Dorog
Foreign teams
KBB	Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh	Volleyball Vietnam League	Phạm Văn Long	Nguyễn Thị Kiều Oanh
KUR	Kurashiki Ablaze	Ablaze Co., Ltd. / V.League (Japan)	Hideo Suzuki	Ohshima Kyoka

Pools composition

The teams are grouped into two pools using the serpentine system 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

Preliminaries	Preliminaries, Classification, Semifinals, Finals
San Juan City	Pasig City
Filoil EcoOil Centre	PhilSports Arena
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 10,000

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 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup.

Team additions and transfers

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

Note

a. The following players annotated above are current NCAA players that are competing as "guest players" to their respective teams through a special guest license (SGL) granted by the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) and honored by their collegiate league. This license allows them to play in a professional league without foregoing their remaining collegiate playing years.

Format

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

Preliminary Round

1. Single-round robin preliminaries; 2 pools; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
2. The top 2 teams in each pool will advance to the semifinals.
3. Teams not advancing to the semifinals will relegate to the classification round.
4. The last-placed team in Pool B will automatically be ranked 13th.

Classification

1. 11th place: A5 vs. B5
2. 9th place: A4 vs. B4
3. 7th place: A3 vs. B3

Semifinals

1. Single-round robin preliminaries; 4 local teams and 2 foreign guest teams; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
2. Teams from the same pool will carry over their head-to-head record.
3. The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
4. 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+08:00).

Ranking

Pool A

Pool B

Match results

Pool A

Pool B

Classification round

• All times are Philippine 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

Rank Team Kurashiki Ablaze Creamline Cool Smashers Cignal HD Spikers 4 F2 Logistics Cargo Movers 5 PLDT High Speed Hitters 6 Kinh Bắc Bắc Ninh 7 Choco Mucho Flying Titans 8 Chery Tiggo Crossovers 9 Petro Gazz Angels 10 Akari Chargers 11 Foton Tornadoes 12 Quezon City Gerflor Defenders 13 Farm Fresh Foxies

2023 PVL Invitational champions Kurashiki Ablaze First title Team roster Wako Omura, Saya Taniguchi, Kyoka Ohshima (c), Sayaka Tanida, Momoka Yamashiro, Ayane Watanabe, Kaoru Takahashi, Yukino Yano, Akane Hiraoka, Asaka Tamaru, Miho Kawamura, Kaho Bessho, Saki Tanabe, Mihaya Hata, Reina Fujiwara, Nana Fujiwara, Kokoro Taiko, Honoka Okuda Head coach Hideo Suzuki

Awards and medalists

Individual awards

Medalists

Statistics leaders

Statistics leaders correct at the end of the preliminary round.

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