Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup

The Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup is an upcoming regional professional basketball league in the Philippines, scheduled for opening in 2021. 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 (MVBA), which merged with the National Basketball Conference in 2008 to form Liga Pilipinas, which folded in 2011.[3]

Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup
SportBasketball
Founded2020
Inaugural season2021
COORocky Chan
PresidentVicente Guingona[1]
No. of teamsTBD
CountryPhilippines
TV partner(s)Solar Sports[2]

As with its predecessors, the league aims to find and scout talent from southern Philippines (which comprises the Visayas and Mindanao regions).

The first conference or tournament for the inaugural season of the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup will provisionally open 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, with Cebu City and Zamboanga City serving as hubs for Visayas- and Mindanao-based teams, respectively.[4]

Format

As accustomed for many basketball leagues in the Philippines, the league will comprise two conferences or tournaments: the first conference allows only Filipino players to play; the second conference allows each team to tap a foreign player. 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.[5]

To minimize travel costs, teams will 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). [6]

Teams

References
  1. "Pilipinas Vismin Super Cup to launch soon". SunStar Cebu. October 2, 2020.
  2. Galvez, Waylon (February 3, 2021). "GAB approves new league as VisMin Super Cup kicks off in April". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  3. Leongson, Randolph B. (October 13, 2020). "VisMin Super Cup opening in 2021 to unearth more talent from South". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  4. "VisMin Super Cup taps Dondon Hontiveros as ambassador". Tiebreaker Times. January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  5. Lozada, Bong (October 17, 2020). "VisMin hoops tournament to launch soon". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  6. "Vis-Min Super League pormahon kon wala na'y hulga sa Covid-19" [Vis-Min Super League to be formed once Covid-19 threat disappears]. SunStar Superbalita Cebu (in Cebuano). September 11, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
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