The 2025–26 TPBL season is the second season of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL), with the Formosa Dreamers, Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers, Kaohsiung Aquas, New Taipei CTBC DEA, New Taipei Kings, Taipei Taishin Mars, and the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards participating in this competition.[1][2]
Teams
- Each team plays against another six times, three at home and three on the road, respectively. Each team plays 36 matches total in the regular season.[3]
- Play-in series: Best-of-three series. The series are contested by the teams that finished the regular season as the fourth seed and fifth seed. The fourth seed is awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify to the semifinals series.[3]
- Semifinals series: Best-of-seven series. Matchup is decided by seeding in regular season. The first seed plays against the winner of play-in series, and the second seed plays against the third seed. The winners can qualify for the finals series.[3]
- Finals series: Best-of-seven series. The series are contested by the winners of semifinals series.[3]
Import players restrictions
- Each team is able to register 3 to 4 import players, and 1 foreign student player or Asian import player.[3][4]
- Each team can sign a foreign student player with the contract until 2025–26 season. The eligibility of the foreign student player is same as import player.[3] Players with original foreign student player contract can play as local player until 2025–26 season.[5]
- The teams represented the league at the East Asia Super League can register 1 Asian import player. The eligibility of the Asian import player is same as foreign student player.[3]
- Each team is able to register 1 naturalised player as local player when naturalised player stayed in the same team for three years after finishing naturalisation.[3]
- Each team is able to select 2 to 3 import players into active roster in each match.[3]
- 8-Imports-In-4-Quarters Rule : each quarter can have 2 import players on the court.[3]
Import players
Transactions
Retirement
- On July 29, 2025, Douglas Creighton was named as the head coach of the Formosa Dreamers, ending his playing career.[6]
Draft
The 2025 TPBL draft was held on August 11, 2025, at Grand Hilai Taipei in Taipei City.[7][8]
Coaching changes
Off-season
- On July 1, 2025, the Formosa Dreamers named Jamie Pearlman as their associate head coach.[9]
- On July 3, 2025, the New Taipei CTBC DEA announced that Lee Yi-Hua left the team.[10]
- On July 5, 2025, the New Taipei Kings announced that Ryan Marchand left the team for career decision.[11]
- On July 9, 2025, the New Taipei Kings hired John Patrick as their new head coach.[12]
- On July 22, 2025, the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards announced that Charles Dubé-Brais left the team.[13] And the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards hired Henrik Rödl as their new head coach.[14]
- On July 29, 2025, the Formosa Dreamers named Douglas Creighton, the captain of the Formosa Dreamers, as their new head coach.[6]
Regular season
League table
Playoffs
- Play-in series: The fourth and fifth seeds play the best-of-three play-in series. The fourth seed will be awarded a one-win advantage. The winner can qualify the semifinals series.[3]
- Semifinals Series: The winner of play-in series and the top three seeds play the best-of-seven semifinals series. The winners can qualify the finals series.[3]
- Finals Series: The winners of the semifinals series play the best-of-seven finals series.[3]
Bracket
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Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage
Statistics
Individual statistic leaders
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Individual game highs
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Team statistic leaders
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Awards
Yearly awards
2025–26 TPBL awards
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| Most Valuable Player |
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| Most Valuable Import |
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| Defensive Player of the Year |
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| Rookie of the Year |
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| Sixth Man of the Year |
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| Most Improved Player |
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| Coach of the Year |
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| General Manager of the Year |
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| Home-Court of the Year |
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| Most Popular Player of the Year |
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| Cheerleading Team of the Year |
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| Most Popular Cheerleader of the Year |
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| Plays of the Year |
Clutch Play of the Year |
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| Dunk of the Year |
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| Assist of the Year |
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| Block of the Year |
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- All-Defensive First Team:
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Statistical awards
2025–26 TPBL statistical awards
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Finals awards
2026 TPBL Finals awards
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| Champion |
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Player of the Week
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Player of the Month
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Notable occurrences
- On July 11, 2025, the Taipei Taishin Mars traded Wang Lu-Hsiang to the TSG GhostHawks for cash considerations. And this trade became the first interleague trade between the teams of the P. League+ and TPBL.[16]
- On July 16, 2025, the TPBL and P. League+ announced the cooperation for 7+3 teams playing in 2025–26 season.[1]
- On July 24, 2025, the New Taipei Kings were invited to participate in 2025–26 East Asia Super League.[17]
- On July 25, 2025, the TPBL cancelled the cooperation with P. League+, and the TPBL only discussed with P. League+ for league merging.[2]
- On July 31, 2025, the TPBL stopped the discussion with P. League+ for league merging, and started to prepare for the 2025–26 season.[18]
- On August 1, 2025, Jonah Morrison was reinstated by TPBL.[19]
- On August 7, 2025, the TPBL modified the player eligibility rules, and the heritage player was cancelled.[4]
TPBL team in Asian competition
See also
- EASL
- TPBL
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