List of Philippine Basketball Association champions
The Philippine Basketball Association awards a championship trophy to the winning team at the end of each conference.
To determine a champion for a conference, a double-round elimination round is usually held. After the elimination round, the playoffs would be held.
There had been a variety of ways the league conducted its playoffs, such as:
- Single-elimination tournament
- The twice-to-beat advantage
- Round-robin
- Best-of-three series
- Best-of-five series
- Best-of-seven series
However, the teams which are both boldfaced and italicized, the Crispa Redmanizers, the San Miguel Beermen, the Alaska Milkmen and the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers, hold the distinction of winning all three conferences in one season and have the distinction of winning the "Grand Slam". Winning the Grand Slam is the equivalent of the "season championship," where the team is said to be the undisputed champion in the league.
There are two types of conferences: All-Filipino or import-laden. The All-Filipino conferences are tournaments where the teams are prohibited from hiring a foreigner as an additional player. An import-laden conference is a tournament where teams are allowed to hire a foreigner as an additional player.
The league previously holds a "battle for third place" playoff to determine the third place team in a conference. This practice was abandoned beginning the 2010-11 season.
Champions by season
1975–1983: Prieto years
1984–1991: Yenko and R. Salud years
1992–2002: Marquez and Bernardino years
2003–2010: Eala and Barrios years
2010–2017: C. Salud and Narvasa years
2018–present: Marcial years
Champions by franchise
Championships won from conferences shaded in gray above, such as Mobiline's 1998 Centennial Cup and Añejo's 1988 PBA-IBA Championship titles are not included in the table below.| Franchise | Championships | Runners-up | Third places | Total trophies | Last championship |
| San Miguel / Petron / Magnolia / Gold Eagle / Royal | 27 | 15 | 15 | 57 | 2019 Commissioner's Cup |
| Alaska / Hills Bros. | 14 | 17 | 12 | 43 | 2013 Commissioner's |
| Magnolia / Star / Purefoods / San Mig Coffee / B-Meg / Coney Island | 14 | 16 | 1 | 31 | 2018 Governors' |
| Crispa / Walk Tall | 13 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 1984 First All-Filipino |
| Barangay Ginebra / Ginebra / Gordon's Gin / Tondeña / Añejo / Gilbey's Gin / St. George | 12 | 14 | 7 | 33 | 2019 Governors' |
| Toyota | 9 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 1982 Open |
| TNT / Talk 'N Text / Mobiline / 7-Up / Pepsi | 7 | 11 | 5 | 23 | 2015 Commissioner's |
| Great Taste / Presto / N-Rich | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 1990 All-Filipino |
| Shell | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 1999 All-Filipino |
| Swift / Pop Cola / Sunkist / Diet Sarsi / Sarsi | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 1995 Commissioner's |
| Tanduay | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 1987 Open |
| Red Bull / Barako Bull | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2005-06 Fiesta |
| Rain or Shine / Welcoat | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2016 Commissioner's |
| Powerade / Coca-Cola | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2003 Reinforced |
| U/Tex | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1980 Open |
| Sta. Lucia | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2007-08 Philippine |
| Northern Cement* | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1985 Reinforced |
| Nicholas Stoodley * | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1980 Invitational |
| Manila Beer / Beer Hausen | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | — |
| Meralco | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | — |
| Barako Bull / Burger King / Air21 / FedEx | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — |
| Noritake / Mariwasa | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — |
| Filmanbank | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Adidas * | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Emtex * | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — |
| South Korea* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — |
Italics denotes defunct franchise
Championships by coach
Listed below are the coaches who won at least two PBA championships. Championships won from conferences shaded in gray above, such as Eric Altamirano's 1998 Centennial Cup and Rino Salazar's 1988 PBA-IBA Championship titles are not included in the table below. Both coaches otherwise would have won two titles each if those were included, instead of just one.| ^ | Denotes coach who is still active |
| * | Elected to the PBA Hall of Fame |
| *^ | Active coach who has been elected to the PBA Hall of Fame |