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The PBA Governors' Cup is a tournament of the Philippine Basketball Association. Along with the PBA Commissioner's Cup, the tournament is one of the two conferences that allows teams to hire a single foreign player, also known as an "import". The tournament was first held in 1993 as the third conference of the PBA season.

It was discontinued in 2003 when the Reinforced Conference was revived. From 2004 to 2010, the league only held two conferences in a season; one All-Filipino tournament, named as the Philippine Cup and one with imports, named as the Fiesta Conference The tournament was re-instated in 2011 as the third conference of the PBA season after the league re-adopted the three conference format.

The Governors' Cup also refers to the trophy awarded to the champion team.


List of champions[]

Year

Champion

Result

Runner-up

1993 San Miguel Beermen 4-1 Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs
1994 San Miguel Beermen 4-2 Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs
1995 San Miguel Beermen 4-3 Chowking Siomai Restaurant
1996 Star Hotshots 4-1 Ginebra San Miguel
1997 San Miguel Beermen 4-1 Purefoods Corte Norte Beef
1998 San Miguel Beermen 4-3 Mobiline Phone Pals
1999 Petron Letran 3-4 San Miguel Beermen
2000 San Miguel Beermen 4-1 Purefoods TJ Hotdogs
2001 Sta. Lucia Realtors 3-4 San Miguel Beermen
2002 Purefoods TJ Hotdogs 3-4 San Miguel Beermen
2003-2010 No Tournament held
2011 San Miguel Beermen 4-3 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
2012 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 3-4 Barangay Ginebra Kings
2013 San Miguel Beermen 4-3 Petron Letran
2014 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 3-4 San Miguel Beermen
2015 San Miguel Beermen 4-0 Alaska Aces
2016 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 4-2 Meralco Bolts
2017 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 4-3 Meralco Bolts
2018 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 4-2 San Miguel Beermen
2019 San Miguel Beermen 3-4 TNT KaTropa
2020 Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic


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