2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference

2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affliation	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 Anne 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 Katrina 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.[3]
• 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).[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[5][7]

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.[8][9] 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.[10][11]

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

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.[18]

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[19]

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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.

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.[21] 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.[22]

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.[23]