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Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
Most recent season or competition:
2024 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
SportVolleyball
Founded2022; 3 years ago (2022)
First season2022
Most recent
champion(s)		Philippines Creamline Cool Smashers
(2024)
Most titlesPhilippines Creamline Cool Smashers
(2 titles)

The Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference is one of three active conferences in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). The conference was first held in 2022 making it the newest conference out of the three. The conference features foreign guest teams who are invited to compete against the PVL's local teams.[1] The PVL's predecessor, the Shakey's V-League, previously held a SEA Club Invitational in 2011.[2]

In 2022, Philippines women's national volleyball team was also given an invitation, but pulled out due to injury concerns.[3]

In 2024, the Invitational Conference was planned to be merged with the Reinforced Conference as a single "Reinforced Invitational Conference",[4] but that plan was scrapped and the two conferences continue to be held separately.

The Creamline Cool Smashers are the most recent champions, winning the 2024 Invitational Conference. Creamline also have the most Invitational titles with two. The Kurashiki Ablaze from Japan are currently the only foreign team to win the Invitational, doing so in 2023.

Format history

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In 2022 and 2023, all invited foreign guest teams received a bye into the final round. All local PVL teams start at the preliminary round, a single round-robin tournament where each team plays all other teams once. The top four teams join the guest teams in the final round, which is another single round-robin. The top two teams advance to the championship match while the third and fourth-ranked teams compete in a third place match, both of which consist of a single game as opposed to the best-of-three in other conferences.

For the 2023 edition, the local PVL teams were divided into two pools for the prelims. Sister teams cannot be placed into the same pool.[5] The top two teams advance to the final round while teams ranked third through fifth take part in a classification match against the team with the same ranking from the other group.[6]

In 2024, the structure of the conference was changed to only allow a selection of local PVL teams compete against the foreign teams. Instead of competing in an initial preliminary round, PVL teams qualify for the Invitational Conference by reaching the semifinals of the previous conference.[7] Those teams are then invited to compete alongside the foreign teams in the preliminary round, which is essentially the final round from before. Invited teams have the option of backing out Invitational Conference participation, in which the highest-ranked team not qualified is given an invitation.[8]

Medal table

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Per season

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Season Champions Runners-up Third place Details Ref.
2022 Philippines Creamline Cool Smashers Chinese Taipei KingWhale Taipei Philippines Cignal HD Spikers 2022 Invitational [9]
2023 Japan Kurashiki Ablaze Philippines Creamline Cool Smashers Philippines Cignal HD Spikers 2023 Invitational [10]
2024 Philippines Creamline Cool Smashers Philippines Cignal HD Spikers Japan Kurashiki Ablaze 2024 Invitational [11]

Per franchise

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Franchise Total
Philippines Creamline Cool Smashers 2 1 0 3
Japan Kurashiki Ablaze 1 0 1 2
Philippines Cignal HD Spikers 0 1 2 3
Chinese Taipei KingWhale Taipei 0 1 0 1

References

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  1. ^ "Kobe Shinwa, Taipei to serve as guest teams for Invitational Conference". PVL. June 20, 2022. Archived from the original on June 20, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Kobe Shinwa, Taipei to serve as guest teams for Invitational Conference". PVL. June 20, 2022. Archived from the original on June 20, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  3. ^ "Nationals beg off from Invitationals". PVL. August 7, 2022. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  4. ^ Agcaoili, Lance (February 11, 2024). "PVL aligns calendar with FIVB schedule". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  5. ^ Catacutan, Dodo (June 23, 2023). "This early, PVL plans safeguards vs 'collusion' between sister teams". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Archived from the original on June 24, 2023. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  6. ^ "13 teams to vie for PVL Invitationals crown". Tiebreaker Times. June 9, 2023. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  7. ^ Agcaoili, Lance (July 3, 2024). "PVL to use different format in return of Reinforced Conference". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  8. ^ Agcaoili, Lance (September 2, 2024). "PVL: Farm Fresh replaces PLDT in Invitational Conference". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
  9. ^ Morales, Luisa (August 14, 2022). "Creamline schools KingWhale to clinch PVL Invitational crown". Philstar.com. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  10. ^ Isaga, JR (July 30, 2023). "Japan's Kurashiki topples Creamline dynasty, wins historic PVL title". RAPPLER. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
  11. ^ Isaga, JR (September 12, 2024). "Untouchable Creamline completes PVL Grand Slam, record 10th title in five-set Cignal stunner". Rappler. Archived from the original on September 13, 2024. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
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