Premier Volleyball League
Current season, competition or edition: Premier Volleyball League 14th Season Reinforced Open Conference
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| Sport | Volleyball |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | Jun Bernardino |
| Inaugural season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | M:6 W:6 |
| Country |
 Philippines
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| Venue(s) | Filoil Flying V Arena Philsports Arena |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Pocari Sweat (2nd title) |
| Most titles |
 UST Tigresses (6 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | S+A (local/international) |
| Official website | www |
The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. (Sports Vision). The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League, a women's collegiate league with teams coming from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation (CESAFI), among others. Since 2011, the league welcomed the participation of corporate club and non-collegiate teams. In 2014, a men's division was included in its 21st conference, serving as the precursor of the Spikers' Turf, the following year. In 2017, the league was renamed Premier Volleyball League and the Spikers' Turf was merged to the PVL.
The league was established in 2004 by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. (Sports Vision) and sponsor Shakey's Pizza Philippines (International Family Foods, Inc.). Sports Vision was founded by a group led by former PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino and is currently headed by chairman Moying Martelino and president Ricky Palou.
The UST Tigresses won the inaugural V-League championship in 2004 defeating the La Salle Lady Archers. But the De La Salle University have won the next three conferences of the said league defeating their arch-rivals, UST Tigresses in both conferences of Season 2 and SSC - R Lady Stags in Season 3, sweeping them both in the Finals of the three conferences.
The UST Tigresses returned to the League in 2007, after missing Season 3, winning both conferences of Season 4 by defeating the SSC-R Lady Stags in both finals series.
Year 2008 saw the crowning of two other schools aside from UST and DLSU. Adamson University won the championship in the first conference of Season 5 defeating the Ateneo Lady Eagles while San Sebastian College-Recoletos Lady Stags won the second conference of season 5 by sweeping the two comebacking champion teams: DLSU Lady Archers in the semifinals and UST Tigresses in the finals.
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