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2025–26 TPBL season

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2025–26 TPBL season
LeagueTaiwan Professional Basketball League
SportBasketball
Duration
Number of games36 per team
Number of teams7
TV partner(s)AXN Asia
Draft
Picked byHsinchu Toplus Lioneers
Regular season
Playoffs
Finals
Taiwan Professional Basketball League seasons
2026–27 →

The 2025–26 TPBL season is the second season of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL), with the Formosa Dreamers, Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers, Kaohsiung Aquas, New Taipei CTBC DEA, New Taipei Kings, Taipei Taishin Mars, and the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards participating in this competition.[1][2]

Teams

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Team Chinese name Location Arena Map
Formosa Dreamers 福爾摩沙夢想家 Taichung City Taichung Intercontinental Basketball Stadium
Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 新竹御嵿攻城獅 Hsinchu County Hsinchu County Stadium
Kaohsiung Aquas 高雄全家海神 Kaohsiung City Kaohsiung Arena
New Taipei CTBC DEA 新北中信特攻 New Taipei City Xinzhuang Gymnasium
New Taipei Kings 新北國王 New Taipei City Xinzhuang Gymnasium
Taipei Taishin Mars 臺北台新戰神 Taipei City Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 桃園台啤永豐雲豹 Taoyuan City Taoyuan Arena

Season format

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  • Each team plays against another six times, three at home and three on the road, respectively. Each team plays 36 matches total in the regular season.[3]
  • Play-in series: Best-of-three series. The series are contested by the teams that finished the regular season as the fourth seed and fifth seed. The fourth seed is awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify to the semifinals series.[3]
  • Semifinals series: Best-of-seven series. Matchup is decided by seeding in regular season. The first seed plays against the winner of play-in series, and the second seed plays against the third seed. The winners can qualify for the finals series.[3]
  • Finals series: Best-of-seven series. The series are contested by the winners of semifinals series.[3]

Import players restrictions

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  • Each team is able to register 3 to 4 import players, and 1 foreign student player or Asian import player.[3][4]
  1. Each team can sign a foreign student player with the contract until 2025–26 season. The eligibility of the foreign student player is same as import player.[3] Players with original foreign student player contract can play as local player until 2025–26 season.[5]
  2. The teams represented the league at the East Asia Super League can register 1 Asian import player. The eligibility of the Asian import player is same as foreign student player.[3]
  • Each team is able to register 1 naturalised player as local player when naturalised player stayed in the same team for three years after finishing naturalisation.[3]
  • Each team is able to select 2 to 3 import players into active roster in each match.[3]
  • 8-Imports-In-4-Quarters Rule : each quarter can have 2 import players on the court.[3]

Import players

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Team Import players Former players
Formosa Dreamers United StatesTaiwan Brandon Gilbeck
United States Aric Holman
United States James Ennis
United States Trey Thompkins
Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers
Kaohsiung Aquas Lithuania Edgaras Želionis
United States Justin James
Haiti Cady Lalanne
United States Reid Travis
New Taipei CTBC DEA
New Taipei Kings
Taipei Taishin Mars
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards LiberiaUnited States Lasan Kromah

Transactions

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Retirement

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Draft

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The 2025 TPBL draft is scheduled to hold on August 11, 2025, at Grand Hilai Taipei in Taipei City.[7]

Coaching changes

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Coaching changes
Team 2024–25 season 2025–26 season
Off-season
Formosa Dreamers Jamie Pearlman Douglas Creighton
New Taipei CTBC DEA Lee Yi-Hua
New Taipei Kings Ryan Marchand John Patrick
Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards Charles Dubé-Brais Henrik Rödl

Off-season

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Regular season

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W L PCT GB Qualification
1 Taipei Taishin Mars 0 0 0 Advance to semifinals
2 New Taipei CTBC DEA 0 0 0
3 New Taipei Kings 0 0 0
4 Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards 0 0 0 Advance to play-in
5 Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers 0 0 0
6 Formosa Dreamers 0 0 0
7 Kaohsiung Aquas 0 0 0
Source: TPBL

Playoffs

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  • Play-in series: The fourth and fifth seeds play the best-of-three play-in series. The fourth seed will be awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify the semifinals series.[3]
  • Semifinals Series: The winner of play-in series and the top three seeds play the best-of-seven semifinals series. The winners can qualify the finals series.[3]
  • Finals Series: The winners of the semifinals series play the best-of-seven finals series.[3]

Bracket

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Play-in Semifinals Finals
         
1
TBD  
4 1
5   0
TBD  
TBD  
2
3  

Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage

Statistics

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Individual statistic leaders

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Category Player Team Statistic
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game
Turnovers per game
Fouls per game
Minutes per game
FG%
3P%
FT%

Individual game highs

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Category Player Team Statistic
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Steals
Blocks
Turnovers
Three pointers

Team statistic leaders

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Category Team Statistic
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game
Turnovers per game
Fouls per game
FG%
3P%
FT%

Awards

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Yearly awards

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2025–26 TPBL awards
Award Recipient Team Ref.
Most Valuable Player
Most Valuable Import
Defensive Player of the Year
Rookie of the Year
Sixth Man of the Year
Most Improved Player
Coach of the Year
General Manager of the Year
Home-Court of the Year
Most Popular Player of the Year
Cheerleading Team of the Year
Most Popular Cheerleader of the Year
Plays of the Year Clutch Play of the Year
Dunk of the Year
Assist of the Year
Block of the Year

Statistical awards

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2025–26 TPBL statistical awards
Award Recipient Team Statistic Ref.
Points Leader
Rebounds Leader
Assists Leader
Steals Leader
Blocks Leader

Finals awards

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2026 TPBL Finals awards
Award Recipient Team Ref.
Champion
Finals MVP

Player of the Week

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Week Recipient Team Ref.
1

Player of the Month

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Month Local player Import player Ref.
Recipient Team Recipient Team
2025
October & November
December
2026
January & February
March
April
May

Media

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Notable occurrences

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TPBL team in Asian competition

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Team Competition Progress Result
New Taipei Kings East Asia Super League Group stage Group C TBD

See also

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EASL
TPBL

References

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