PBA Schedule 2026: Upcoming Games, Dates and Times

The next PBA games: dates and tip-off times

• Dates and tip-off hours are given in Manila time (PHT); the day changes over at 05:00 PHT
• A season is usually made of three conferences and, since 2004, starts in October
• A postponed game stays on this page marked as postponed until the source gives a new date
• The league publishes its own schedule on www.pba.ph

The next PBA games: dates and tip-off times

Each row here is one upcoming game: the date, the hour of the first tip, the two teams and the conference it belongs to. The read time sits above the list, so you can judge how old the figures are before you build an evening around them.

The dates come from the English Wikipedia article of the running PBA conference, read through the standard MediaWiki API, earliest date first. Where the source gives a date but no hour, the hour stays empty rather than filled in. For a one-screen answer on whether a game is on right now, start from the home page for PBA games today.

How the season calendar works: conferences and the October start

The list belongs to one conference, not to a whole year. A PBA season is usually composed of three conferences and has no single season champion; since 2010-11 they are named the Philippine, Commissioner's and Governors' Cups. A new conference therefore means a fresh set of dates and the old rows stop applying.

That is why a fixture can carry a year that surprises you: in 2004 the season start moved from January to October, so a season opens late in one calendar year and finishes in the next. Each conference closes with a best-of-seven series. The Governors' Cup page follows the conference these games belong to.

Postponed and rescheduled games on this page

A postponed game is not deleted. The row keeps its original date and gains a postponed label, so you can see that the evening you were planning no longer holds. A rescheduled game shows the new date the source states and drops the old one.

A row with no status at all has been read but not confirmed, which is where a quick look at the league's list is worth the minute. Blank evenings are a different matter from postponements, and the note on why some days have no game separates the two.

Manila time and when a day changes over

The hour of the first tip is the hour to plan around, and it is given in Manila time (PHT, Asia/Manila). The board also switches the date at 05:00 PHT rather than at midnight, so a game that tips past midnight still sits under the evening it started.

Take the date and the hour as a pair. A very late tip can otherwise look like it belongs to the following day, and you end up leaving for the arena a night early. Write both down from this page before you book a ride or set an alarm.

Where the league publishes its own schedule

The league publishes its own schedule on www.pba.ph and www.pba.com.ph, and that is the place of record. This is an independent scoreboard: it shows the dates it read, with the time of reading, and does not claim to be the league's fixture list.

The source is re-read every 15 minutes inside a game window, from 15 minutes before tip-off until the game is final, and once an hour otherwise, capped at 60 requests on any day. Outside a window, a change can take up to an hour to appear here.

The dates on this page are read from the 2026 PBA Governors’ Cup article, whose schedule section is edited as games are announced; the league’s own history is summarised in the Philippine Basketball Association article.

Reading the dates on this page

Calendar figures: pba.ph, read 21.10.2026. Reading rules: this board's own parser.

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