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2025–26 PBA Philippine Cup

The 2025–26 PBA Philippine Cup, also referred to as the PBA season 50 Philippine Cup, was the first conference of the 2025–26 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 50th PBA Philippine Cup started on October 5, 2025 and ended on February 1, 2026. A break was held from November 17 to December 4 to make way for the first window of 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.

Format
• All participating teams play in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference. • Teams are ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties are broken using tiebreaker criteria. • Beginning with this conference, there will no longer be a one-game playoff for the eighth seed in case of a tie. The standard tiebreakers will be used instead. • The playoff formats are as follows: • Quarterfinals (higher seeds twice-to-beat): • QF1: #1 vs #8 • QF2: #2 vs #7 • QF3: #3 vs #6 • QF4: #4 vs #5 • Semifinals (best-of-seven series): • SF1: QF1 winner vs. QF4 winner • SF2: QF2 winner vs. QF3 winner • Finals (best-of-seven series) ==Elimination round==
Elimination round
Team standings Results table ==Bracket==
Quarterfinals
The top four seeds have the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance. (1) San Miguel vs. (8) NLEX (2) Rain or Shine vs. (7) Meralco (3) TNT vs. (6) Magnolia (4) Converge vs. (5) Barangay Ginebra ==Semifinals==
Semifinals
(1) San Miguel vs. (5) Barangay Ginebra (3) TNT vs. (7) Meralco ==Finals==
Awards
Players of the Week ==Statistics==
Statistics
Individual statistical leaders Individual game highs Team statistical leaders ==References==
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