| Competition: | Philippines Football League |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| Dates: | September 28, 2024 – TBA |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League Two |
| Matches: | 34 |
| Total Goals: | 123 |
| League Topscorer: | Saikou Ceesay Shuto Komaki (7 goals each) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Kaya–Iloilo 9–1 Mendiola 1991 (Nov 23, 2024) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Mendiola 1991 0–6 Dynamic Herb Cebu (Sept 29, 2024) |
| Highest Scoring: | Kaya–Iloilo 9–1 Mendiola 1991 (Nov 23, 2024) |
| Longest Wins: | Manila Digger (Oct 5 – Nov 12, 2024) (5 matches) Kaya–Iloilo (Oct 19 – Dec 1, 2024) (5 matches) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Kaya–Iloilo (Oct 6 – Dec 1, 2024) (6 matches) |
| Longest Winless: | Mendiola 1991 (Sept 29 – Nov 30, 2024) (7 matches) |
| Longest Losses: | Mendiola 1991 (Sept 29 – Nov 23, 2024) (6 matches) |
| Prevseason: | 2024 |
The 2024–25 Philippines Football League is the seventh season of the Philippines Football League (PFL), the professional football league of the Philippines. Ten teams are participating this season which began on September 28, 2024. Kaya–Iloilo are the defending champions.[1]
The league would shift once more to an inter-year format, reverting to a double round-robin that would see the teams play each other twice. The season would also see the return of the "Finals Series" that was previously implemented in the 2017 season, with the top four qualifying for a knockout round series that would culminate in a final, the winner of whom would be crowned PFL Champions.[2]
The country's participants for the 2025–26 AFC Champions League Two and the 2025–26 ASEAN Club Championship will be determined through this tournament.[2]
Ten teams from the previous season were set to participate for the 2024–25 season.[3] [2] [4] Don Bosco Garelli, Manila Montet, Philippine Air Force, Philippine Army, and Tuloy would not participate in the season. Furthermore, before the season began, United City withdrew from the competition citing financial issues.[5]
The league announced the roster of teams in early September, also announced the participation of the Philippine national youth team as the PFF Developmental Team,[3] [4] similar to the previous Azkals Development Team that had participated in the PFL from 2020 to 2023.
As of September 29, 2024, matches have only been held Rizal Memorial Stadium. Future scheduled matches so far are also set to be held in the same venue.
The Dynamic Herb Sports Complex, the home venue of Dynamic Herb Cebu, also hosted the club's match against One Taguig on November 3.[6] [7]
| Manila | Talisay, Cebu | |
|---|---|---|
| Rizal Memorial Stadium | Dynamic Herb Sports Complex | |
| Capacity: 12,873 | Capacity: 550 | |
| Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davao Aguilas | Aber Ruzgal |  Dini Ouattara | Chronos Athletics | University of Makati, SpeedRegalo, Brodo, Wit.id |
| Dynamic Herb Cebu |  Mustafa Göksu | Florencio Badelic | RAD Apparel | Leylam |
| Kaya–Iloilo |  Yu Hoshide | Audie Menzi | LGR Sportswear | LBC |
| Loyola[8] |  Kim Chul-soo | Curt Dizon | Phenom | Elan Vita |
| Marian Mihail |  Serge Kaole | Chronos Athletics | AIA | |
| Manila Digger[9] |  Juan Manuel Saez | Dean Ebarle | UCAN | Zealand Metal Corporation, OKFly |
| Mendiola 1991 | Yuki Matsuda |  Hamed Hajimehdi | Ropa | Vill-Mell Trading, Mr. Freeze |
| One Taguig | Jovanie Villagracia | Arnel Amita | Azkals Sportswear | Chooks-to-Go, PAGSS, I Love Taguig |
| Philippine Youth National Team | Sergi Mascarell | Harry Nuñez | Skechers | Skechers Performance |
| Stallion Laguna |  Ernest Nierras | Matthew Nierras | Blaze Athletics | Giligan's Restaurant, Pythos, SCID |
| Team | Outgoing coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming coach | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manila Digger | Pong Liman | Undisclosed | August 31, 2024 | Pre-season | Oriol Mohedano | September 1, 2024 |
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | Memiş Özata | Mutual consent | August 23, 2024 | Mustafa Göksu | September 5, 2024[10] | |
| Maharlika Taguig |  Lerche Njang | Undisclosed | August 2024 | Marian Mihail | September 26, 2024 | |
| Loyola | Roxy Dorlas | Demoted to assistant manager | September 2024 | Kim Chul-soo | September 28, 2024 | |
| Mendiola 1991 | Dan Padernal | Undisclosed | September 2024 | Yuki Matsuda | September 29, 2024 | |
| Manila Digger | Oriol Mohedano | Undisclosed | November 16, 2024 | 2nd | Juan Manuel Saez | November 16, 2024 |
Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.
| Club | Players | Former players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davao Aguilas |  Gabriel Costa | Yohann Fofana[11] | Salifu Jatta | Bruno Krenkel |  Dino Tri Laksana | Mun Jun-su | Dini Ouattara | Takuto Miki |
 Salvador Pliego | Lucas Reis |  Alessandro Riggi | Zavier Zakarya | |||||
| Dynamic Herb Cebu[12] [13] | Daniel Alemão | Yusuf Çekiç[14] | Rintaro Hama[15] |  Zamoranho Ho-A-Tham | Masaya Kobayashi | Marius Kore[16] | Guytho Mijland | |
| Berke Önde |  Sam Strong |  Abou Sy | Ryoo Togashi | Ali Yanık | ||||
| Walid Birrou |  Eric Esso[17] | Daizo Horikoshi | Shuto Komaki |  Bandiougou Konate | Robert Lopez Mendy[18] | Park Yi-young | ||
| Akito Saito[19] | Kaishu Yamazaki | |||||||
| Loyola | Djumaney Burnet |  Filip Chinzorig | Nino de Leeuw |  Leon Morimoto | Anderson Pinto | Matt Silva | Alassane Wade | |
| Maharlika Taguig | Koffi Bini | Darlton Digha |  John Kamara | Serge Kaole | Mun Te-su | James Sunday | Ahmad Saidy | |
| Manila Digger | Abner | Daniel Ashley | Saikou Ceesay |  Su Diao | Pa Ousman Gai |  Robert Gingichashvili | Modou Joof | |
| Hayato Kame | Yuya Kuriyama | Modou Manneh | Ifeanyi Ugwu | Dilane Wamba | ||||
| Mendiola 1991[20] |  Bilal Akodad |  Léo Anthony | Milad Behgandom |  Ali Ghamloush | Hamed Hajimehdi |  Jangobah Johnson | Kourosh Manesh | |
| Amir Memari | Amir Moayedizadeh | Hossein Nahid | Thomas Se-hyun Nelson | Mehdi Norouzi | Kasra Masouleh | |||
| One Taguig |  Nahuel Amarilla | Henri Bandeken | Naoto Hiraishi |  Peter Nergaard | Junior Ngong Sam | Solomon Okereke | So Omae | |
| Shoma Sato | Tsukasa Shimomura | |||||||
| Philippine Youth National Team | ||||||||
| Stallion Laguna | Shayan Charalaghi | Magson Dourado | Jacques Ebene | Fahmi Ibrahim | Cristián Ivanobski | Lee Seung-won | Roberto Llamas | |
| Victor Parra | Abraham Placito | Ricardo Sendra |  Nicholas Simpson |  Terence Smith | Juan Trujillo | Johnny Wesley | ||
| Foreign players by confederation | ||
|---|---|---|
| width=10% | Australia (1), China (1), Guam (1), Indonesia (2), (6), Japan (13), Lebanon (1), Mongolia (1), (4) | |
| width=10% | Cameroon (7), (6), Ghana (2), (4), Liberia (1), Mali (1), Nigeria (2), Senegal (3), Sierra Leone (1) | |
| width=10% | Barbados (1), Canada (5), Mexico (2), Suriname (1), United States (6) | |
| width=10% | Argentina (3), Brazil (7) | |
| width=10% | Belgium (1), Israel (1), Italy (1),  Netherlands (4), Norway (1),  Portugal (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2) | |
| Team \ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | SF1 | SF2 | BF3 | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davao Aguilas | W | D | L | L | W | L | L | ||||||||||||||||
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | W | W | L | D | W | W | D | ||||||||||||||||
| Kaya–Iloilo | D | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||||||
| Loyola | L | L | W | L | L | W | D | ||||||||||||||||
| Maharlika Taguig | L | W | L | D | L | L | D | ||||||||||||||||
| Manila Digger | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | ||||||||||||||||
| Mendiola 1991 | L | L | L | L | L | L | D | ||||||||||||||||
| One Taguig | W | L | W | D | W | W | L | ||||||||||||||||
| Philippine Youth National Team | L | L | D | W | L | W | |||||||||||||||||
| Stallion Laguna | W | W | W | L | L | L | W |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manila Digger | 7 | |
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| 3 | Loyola | 6 | |
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | |||
| 5 | Manila Digger | 4 | |
| Manila Digger | |||
| Maharlika Taguig | |||
| One Taguig | |||
| 9 | Davao Aguilas | 3 | |
| Stallion Laguna | |||
| One Taguig | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| Stallion Laguna | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| One Taguig | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo |
| Rank | Player | Club | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Taguig | 4 | |
| Manila Digger | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| One Taguig | |||
| 5 | Maharlika Taguig | 3 | |
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| 8 | Maharlika Taguig | 2 | |
| Stallion Laguna | |||
| Mendiola 1991 | |||
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | |||
| Loyola | |||
| Manila Digger | |||
| Manila Digger | |||
| Mendiola 1991 | |||
| Manila Digger | |||
| Stallion Laguna | |||
| Dynamic Herb Cebu | |||
| Loyola | |||
| Kaya–Iloilo | |||
| Stallion Laguna | |||
| Davao Aguilas | |||
| Dynamic Herb Cebu |
| Player | Club | Result | Against | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saikou Ceesay | Manila Digger | 4–0 (H) | Loyola | 9 November 2024 | |
| Shuto Komaki | Kaya–Iloilo | 9–1 (H) | Mendiola 1991 | 23 November 2024 | |
| Ahmad Saidy | Maharlika Taguig | 3–3 (H) | Mendiola 1991 | 30 November 2024 |
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuya Kuriyama | Manila Digger | 4 |
| 2 | Florencio Badelic | Dynamic Herb Cebu | 3 |
| Roberto Llamas | Stallion Laguna | ||
| 4 | Quincy Kammeraad | One Taguig | 2 |
| 5 | Kenry Balobo | Maharlika Taguig | 1 |
| Henri Bandeken | One Taguig | ||
| Nathan Bata | Philippine Youth National Team | ||
| Yusuf Çekiç | Dynamic Herb Cebu | ||
| Patrick Deyto | Kaya–Iloilo | ||
| Dini Ouattara | Davao Aguilas | ||
| Jessie Semblante | Loyola |
| Rank | Player | Team | Red cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roberto Corsame | Dynamic Herb Cebu | 2 |
| 2 | James Demate | Philippine Youth National Team | 1 |
| Hamed Hajimehdi | Mendiola 1991 | ||
| Allan Machado | Davao Aguilas | ||
| Lucas Reis | Davao Aguilas | ||
| Kart Talaroc | Davao Aguilas | ||
| Ryoo Togashi | Dynamic Herb Cebu | ||
| Juan Trujillo | Stallion Laguna |
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