| Year: | 1980 |
| Conference Name: | Invitational championship |
| Duration: | August 16 - September 6, 1980 |
| Tv: | GTV/MBS |
| Champion: | Nicholas Stoodley |
| Runner-Up: | Toyota Tamaraws |
| Prevconf Link: | 1979 PBA Invitational championship |
| Prevconf Year: | 1979 |
| Nextconf Link: | 1982 PBA Invitational championship |
| Nextconf Year: | 1982 |
| Prev Conf: | 1980 Open |
| Prev Conf Link: | 1980 PBA Open Conference |
| Next Conf: | 1980 All-Filipino |
| Next Conf Link: | 1980 PBA All-Filipino Conference |
The 1980 PBA Invitational championship was a short tournament featuring two foreign teams and the top three local squads of the Open Conference. It started on August 16 and ended on September 6, 1980.
The following format will be observed for the duration of the tournament:
The muses for the participating teams are as follows:
| style= width="45%" | Team | style= width="55%" | Muse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adidas/France | (Miss Young 1980 - France) | ||
| Nicholas Stoodley/USA | |||
| Toyota Tamaraws | Unnur Steinsson (Miss Young 1980 - Iceland) | ||
| U-Tex Wranglers | (Miss Young 1980 - Austria) | ||
| Walk Tall Jeans | Ma. Felicidad Luis (Miss Young 1980 - Philippines) |
| width=15px bgcolor="#98fb98" | Qualified for finals | |
| Qualified for battle for third |
| width=15 |
| width=200 | Team standings! | width=20 | W! | width=20 | L! | width=35 | PCT! | width=25 | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicholas Stoodley (USA) | 5 | 3 | .625 | -- | ||||||
| 2 | 5 | 3 | .625 | -- | |||||||
| 3 | Adidas Rubberworld (France) | 5 | 3 | .625 | -- | ||||||
| 4 | 5 | 3 | .625 | -- | |||||||
| 5 | 0 | 8 | .000 | 5 |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Conference: | Invitational championship |
| Champion: | Nicholas Stoodley |
| Champion Coach: | Jerry Webber |
| Champion Games: | 2 |
| Runnerup Games: | 0 |
| Date: | September 5 & 6, 1980 |
| Next Conf: | 1982 Open |
| Prev Conf: | 1980 All-Filipino |
The 1980 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Invitational championship finals was the best-of-3 basketball championship series of the 1982 PBA Invitational Conference, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. Nicholas Stoodley and Crispa Redmanizers played for the 25th championship contested by the league.
Guest team Nicholas Stoodley won the championship.
The following scoring summary is written in a line score format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers.
| align=left width=28% | Team | width=6% | Game 1 | width=6% | Game 2 | width=6% | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas | 120 | 112 | 2 | ||||
| Toyota | 118 | 113 | 0 | ||||
The Tamaraws raced to a 76-62 lead early in the third period, but Larry Pounds, Ollie Matson and Ron Richardson pulled the Americans back into the game at 83-86. Kenny Tyler pushed Nicholas Stoodley ahead for only the second time at 106-105. With the Tamaraws missing easy baskets and connecting two free throws from four attempts, Tyler's back-to-back hits stayed the Americans in front, 112-107. Tyler proved to be the main man for Stoodley, his 15-foot jumper with 30 seconds left preserve their victory.