2013–14 PFF National Men's Club Championship
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 Philippines
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| Dates | December 9–21, 2013 | ||
| Teams | 9 (Finals) | ||
| Champions | Ceres | ||
| Runners-up | Global | ||
| Matches played | 22 | ||
| Goals scored | 149 (6.77 per match) | ||
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The 2013–14 PFF National Men's Club Championship (also known as 2013–14 PFF–Smart National Club Championship) was the 3rd season of the PFF National Men's Club Championship, a Filipino association football competition organized by the Philippine Football Federation.
Ceres were the defending champions after beating PSG 1-0 on February 2, 2013. This is the first time the Negros Occidental-based club won the championship.
On 21 December 2013, Ceres retained the title after beating Global, 3-1 on aggregate in a two-leg finals. The cup winners, Ceres is guaranteed a place in the 2015 AFC Cup Play-off.
This year’s competition has increased its participating teams from 33 last year to 46 thus breaking Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao clusters into regional sub-clusters. The tournament format is single round-robin in Group stage with top teams advancing to the next round. In this edition of the tournament, each team was allowed to have a maximum of 5 foreign players in their rosters with only 3 to play at a given time.
The regional cluster eliminations for the tournament started last October 2, 2013 wherein 10 teams are expected to advance to the second round of eliminations. From there, the top two teams will contest the title in two legs to be played in a home-and-away format.
North-central Luzon cluster was held from October 2 to 6, 2013 at Tarlac Sports Complex.
South-central Luzon cluster was held from October 4 to 6, 2013 at General Trias Football Field, Cavite City/De La Salle University, Dasmariñas, Cavite.
South west Luzon cluster was held from October 16 to 20, 2013 at Sta. Cruz Sports Complex, Laguna.
South Luzon cluster was held from October 23 to 25, 2013 at Naga city.
Group stage for Visayas clusters was held in Bacolod and Cebu from November 8 to 17, 2013. Visayas cluster was grouped into two: West Visayas Cluster was held from October 2 to 6, 2013 at Panaad Sports Complex, Bacolod.
East-central Visayas cluster was held from October 2 to 6, 2013 at Leyte Development Sports Center, Tacloban City.
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