MANILA, Philippines — The Premier Volleyball League seeks a follow-up on a successful 2023 season as it holds three conferences next year starting with the first of two All-Filipino Conferences unfurling Feb. 17.
The league was a smashing success this year, with a season highlighted by a record-setting crowd of 24,459 in Game Two of the PVL All-Filipino Conference won by Creamline over Choco Mucho just over a week ago.
The league brings back the All-Filipino Conference as season opener that will feature a single-round robin format in the eliminations with the top four advancing to the single-round robin semis. The the top then clash for the crown.
Next season will also see the return of the Reinforced Conference, which will be combined with the Invitational Conference, after it was temporarily scrapped this year due to schedule issues.
The conference will still have two foreign guest teams participating while the local clubs will be allowed to field one foreign player each.
However, members of the national team will sit out the conference so they could focus on their training with the Nationals.
The format calls for the field to be divided into two pools playing a single-round robin with the top four of each bracket advancing to the crossover knockout quarterfinals.
The season will then close with another All-Filipino tilt set in December.