The 2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference was the fourteenth conference of the

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and its fifth conference as a professional league. The tournament began on February 4, 2023, at the

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. Formerly known as the Open Conference, the conference was rebranded as the "All-Filipino Conference" to better reflect the fact that the tournament's participation is restricted to Filipino players, including Filipino-Foreigners.

Participating teams

Venues

This conference eyes hosting games again outside of Metro Manila such as in

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, and

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, just like in previous seasons from

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and prior. As of February 3, the league is set to arrange games in Iloilo City on March 14.

Transactions

National team players

The following players that played in the

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and the 2022 ASEAN Grand Prix are solely composed of the players from

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Team additions and transfers

The following are the players who are newly added and/or transferred to another team for the upcoming conference.

Format

Originally, the semifinal format was single

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. However, the league reverts to its most used format — a crossover best-of-3 series between the 1st and 4th, and 2nd and 3rd ranked teams. ;Preliminary Round # The nine teams will compete in a single round-robin elimination. # Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System. # Top four teams will advance to the semifinals. ;Semifinals #

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series. # 1st ranked team vs. 4th ranked team # 2nd ranked team vs. 3rd ranked team ;Finals #

series. # Bronze medal: SF1 Loser vs. SF2 Loser # Gold medal: SF1 Winner vs. SF2 Winner

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # 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.

Preliminary round

Ranking

Match results

* All times are

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( UTC+8:00).

Final round

* All times are

( UTC+8:00). * All are

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series.

Semifinals

Rank 1 vs Rank 4 * Creamline wins series, 2–0

Rank 2 vs Rank 3 * Petro Gazz wins series, 2–1

Finals

3rd place

* F2 wins series, 2–0

Championship

* Creamline wins series, 2–1

Final standing

Awards and medalists

Individual awards

Medalists

Statistics leaders

''Statistics leaders correct at the end of the

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References

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