The Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup, also known as GlobalPort Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league comprises teams from the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines. The league is the first basketball league to be based in the Visayas–Mindanao region since the

Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association The Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association (MVBA) was a community-based amateur commercial basketball league in Southern Philippines sanctioned by the country's National Sports Association for basketball, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP). ...

(MVBA), which merged with the National Basketball Conference in 2008 to form Liga Pilipinas, which folded in 2011. As with its predecessors, the league aims to find and scout talent from southern Philippines (which comprises the Visayas and Mindanao regions). The first tournament for the inaugural season of the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup opened on April 9, 2021. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, at least its first conference will be held in a

bio-secure bubble A bio-secure bubble, also known as a bubble, or hub city, was a hosting arrangement for sporting events that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, under which events were held at a centralized site, often behind closed doors, with strict quarant ...

, with

Alcantara, Cebu Alcantara, officially the Municipality of Alcantara ( ceb, Lungsod sa Alcantara; tgl, Bayan ng Alcantara), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 16,910 people. Al ...

and Pagadian City serving as hubs for Visayas- and Mindanao-based teams, respectively. Cebu City was supposed to host the bubble for Visayas teams, but due to the rising cases of COVID-19 in the city and its surrounding localities, the town of

Alcantara Alcantara, Alcântara (Portuguese), Alcántara (Spanish), Alcàntara, Alcàntera, El-Qantarah and (El) Kantara are all transliterations of the Arabic word ''al qantara'' (القنطرة), meaning "the bridge". Alcantara may refer to: People * A ...

, located roughly 100 kilometers southwest of Cebu City, was chosen as replacement host.

Format

The Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup 1st Conference in 2021 has two phases, the divisional tournaments and the Southern Finals. Participating teams are divided into divisions in the first phase, where they only play teams within their geographic region (e.g. Visayas-based teams will only play against fellow Visayas-based teams; Mindanao-based teams will play only against fellow Mindanao-based teams). The Southern Finals, acts as the league's grand finals where the champions of the Visayas and Mindanao divisions face off against each other. Originally there was a plan to hold two tournaments (or

conferences A conference is a meeting of two or more experts to discuss and exchange opinions or new information about a particular topic. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main pu ...

as customarily known in the Philippines) within a season: the All-Filipino Conference & the other was the Reinforced Conference were imports are allowed to play. In addition, teams are also required to have at least six "home-grown" players: players who are from the general area the team is representing.

Teams

The Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup consists entirely of teams from the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines.

Current teams

Former teams

; Notes

List of champions

Overall champions

Division champions

Visayas

Mindanao

External links

*
Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup
on FIBA Live Stats - Genius Sports *

References

{{Sports Leagues in the Philippines Basketball leagues in the Philippines 2020 establishments in the Philippines Sports leagues established in 2020