List of Filipino football champions

The historical absence of a continuously operating national league and a multi-division football system has made it difficult to truly determine and recognize the highest level tournament of the Philippines. The Philippine Football Federation, the governing body of football in the Philippines, has held men's national championship tournaments in various forms since 1911. The latest of these national tournaments is the National Men's Club Championship, which was started in 2011. These annual championship tournaments are not regularly recurring professional leagues, but are usually the only notable football competitions occurring in the country for that year. The winners of these tournaments are therefore considered the de facto football champions of the Philippines.

Given the complex history of football in the Philippines, this article takes into account all notable "national" football competitions organized by the Philippine Football Federation. Also included are newer leagues such as the United Football League, the Philippines Football League, and the Philippine Premier League.

Philippine Football Federation competitions

National championship

Various tournaments and leagues have been directly organized by the Philippine Football Federation, such as the National Men's Open Championship, the Philippine Football League (P-League), the Manila Premier Football League (MPFL), and the Filipino Premier League, among others. These leagues were often short-lived, and thus do not have a champions list readily available. The champions of these tournaments are lumped together in the following tables as "national champions".

Manila Football League (1930–1967)
Season Champions From
1930 De la Salle College Manila
No tournament from 1931 to 1935
1936 De la Salle College Manila
1937 De la Salle College Manila
1938 De la Salle Football Club Manila
1939 YCO Athletic Club Manila
1940 YCO Athletic Club Manila
1941 YCO Athletic Club Manila
No tournament from 1942 to 1946
1947 Turba Salvaje Manila
1948 Turba Salvaje Manila
1949 Turba Salvaje Manila
No tournament in 1950
1951 San Miguel Brewery Manila
1952 Turba Salvaje Manila
1953 IL-FGU (Insurance Life Fidelity Guaranty Underwriters) Manila
1954 YCO Athletic Club Manila
1955 Manila Lions Manila
1956 Manila Lions Manila
1957 Manila Lions Manila
1958 Manila Lions Manila
1959 Manila Lions Manila
1960 Manila Lions Manila
1961 Manila Lions Manila
not known from 1962 to 1965
1966 Philippine Navy F.C. Manila
1967 not known
First attempt
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
1995MakatiNo playoffsLipa-Pasay
Relaunch

Relaunched as the "P-League" in 1998.

SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
1998National Capital Region-South3–1Negros Occidental
1999National Capital Region-B
Navy and Air Force combination		Davao
2000National Capital Region-South3–1Negros Occidental

Manila Premier Football League
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
1997Philippine Air Force EaglesPhilippine Army Tamaraws

Filipino Premier League
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
2008Philippine Army F.C.2–0Giligan's F.C.

Men's National Club Championship (2011–15)
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
2011Teknika F.C.
(Leyte)		3–0
0–2
Aggregate: 3–2		Smart–San Beda F.C.
(Rizal)
2012–13Ceres F.C.
(Negros Occidental)		1-0
PSG F.C.
(NCR)
2013–14Ceres F.C.
(Negros Occidental)		2-1
1-0
Aggregate: 3-1		Global F.C.
(NCR)
2014–15Loyola Meralco Sparks F.C.
(NCR)		2-0
Global F.C.
(NCR)

Philippines Football League (2017–)
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
2017Ceres–Negros4–1Global Cebu
2018Ceres–NegrosNo playoffsKaya–Iloilo
2019Ceres–NegrosNo playoffsKaya–Iloilo

Women's League (2016–)
SeasonChampionsScore/sRunners-up
2016–17De La Salle UniversityNo playoffsUniversity of Santo Tomas
2018De La Salle UniversityNo playoffsUniversity of Santo Tomas

United Football League (2009–16)

The United Football League Division 1 was established as a premier league in 2009. The League is a round-robin tournament with a First Division and Second Division. The winners listed below do not include the winners of the UFL Cup, a knockout-tournament which allows teams to participate regardless of their division. In a season, the Cup competition is held first from mid-October to mid-December, followed by the League competition from January to June of the following year.

Year Champions
(number of titles)		 Runners-up Third place Leading goalscorer Goals
2010 Philippine Air Force Kaya Union Izzo Elhabbib (Kaya) 14
2011 Philippine Air Force (2) Global Philippine Army Izzo Elhabbib (Global) 7
2012 Global Kaya Loyola Phil Younghusband (Loyola) 23
2013 Stallion (1) Global Loyola Rufo Sánchez (Stallion) 18
2014 Global (2) Loyola Kaya Mark Hartmann (Global) 27
2015 Ceres (1) Global Loyola Adrián Gallardo (Ceres) 18
2016 Global (3) Ceres Loyola 30

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