The 2023 MPVA season is the ongoing inaugural season of the Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association. The season began on October 22, 2023, and is expected to end in December 2023. The inaugural season features eight teams from across the country.
The opening ceremony will take place at Ynares Center in Antipolo, Rizal with a doubleheader featuring the Caloocan AM Spikers and Negros–ICC Blue Hawks in the first match, followed by the San Juan Lady Knights and Rizal Golden Coolers in the second match.
Teams
The inaugural season will feature eight teams: six from Luzon, one from Visayas, and one from Mindanao. The league had previously announced teams based in Bulacan, Manila, and Quezon City, but all three were deferred due to time constraints. Each team's roster was revealed on October 21, 2023.
Arenas
Roster regulations
The league has a set of roster regulations, putting restrictions on which and how many players and which players each team can place onto its roster. The initial roster regulations are as follows:
All players must at least eighteen (18) years old or above to be able to join a team. Each team must have at least three homegrown players – local players who are native to their team's home locality. Each team is limited to three ex-professional players – players with prior participation in professional leagues such as the Premier Volleyball League.
Regular season
Format
The regular season is divided into two stages: the round-robin stage and the group stage. In the round-robin stage, all eight teams will play one game against all other teams. In the group stage, two groups of four teams are formed, from there a round-robin format will be used within each group. In each gameday, two games are played in a team's homecourt, with the final game often featuring the designated home team.
All eight teams will automatically qualify for a three-round, single-elimination playoffs. In the Quarterfinals, the top four teams will be given a twice-to-beat advantage, requiring them to only win one game to advance while their opponents must win two games. A best-of-three format will then be used for the Semifinals and Finals. Alongside the Finals for the winning teams of the Semifinals, there will also be a best-of-three Bronze Medal Series between the losing teams of the Semifinals.
Pool standing procedure
First, teams are ranked by the number of matches each team won. Ties with teams of similar win-loss records are first broken by match points, wherein: 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. In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used: Sets ratio: number of sets won divided by number of sets lost. Setpoints ratio: number of points scores divided by number of points allowed. Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.
Standings
Schedule
Round-robin stage
Results
Not all games are in home–away format. Results on the top-right section are for round-robin games; those on the bottom-left section are for group stage games.
Detailed results
The team abbreviation in parenthesis indicate the designated home team for that gameday.
Media coverage
All games are aired on Media Pilipinas TV (MPTV) on television. For streaming, Plus Network broadcasts all of the games across its social media pages as well as on the MPVA's Facebook page.