| Competition: | Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference |
| Continent: | Asia |
| Gender: | women |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Dates: | September 4–12, 2024 |
| Teams: | 5 |
| Venues: | 4 |
| Champions Other: | Creamline |
| Title Number: | 10 |
| Second Other: | Cignal |
| Third Other: | Kurashiki Ablaze |
| Fourth Other: | Est Cola |
| Mvp: | Michele Gumabao (Conference) Kyle Negrito (Finals) |
| Setter: | Kyle Negrito |
| Outside Spikers: | María José Pérez Erica May Staunton |
| Middle Blockers: | Jacqueline Acuña Low Mei Cing |
| Opposite Spiker: | Saya Taniguchi |
| Libero: | Kalyarat Khamwong |
| Matches: | 12 |
| Last: | 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference |
| Next: | 2024–25 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference |
The 2024 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the nineteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its tenth conference as a professional league.
This was the third and last conference for the 2024 season. Unlike the previous iterations of the league, this conference was a short pocket tournament, lasting about nine days, making it the shortest conference in the league. The conference started on September 4, 2024, coinciding with the finals of the 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference.
Originally, the semifinalists of the 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference are qualified and will be able to play alongside two foreign guest teams — the reigning Invitational champions, Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan, and the newcomers, Est Cola of Thailand. But due to players' injuries, the PLDT High Speed Hitters and the Akari Chargers begged off from participation. The Farm Fresh Foxies will be the sole replacement as the other PVL teams declined to join.
The Invitational Conference is a pocket tournament and only the top four among the twelve Premier Volleyball League teams in the previous tournament (the 2024 Reinforced Conference) are qualified to participate along with two foreign-based guest teams.
The PLDT High Speed Hitters qualified as semifinalists but withdrew due to injuries from the past conference.[1] It will be the eight placers Farm Fresh Foxies replaced PLDT after the next three ranked teams Chery Tiggo, Petro Gazz and Capital1 declined the PVL's invite.[2] Akari Chargers also pulled out from the conference citing the same reason with PLDT. Akari were not replaced, making the participants down to five teams.[3] This will be the conference with the least number of teams joining.
Two guest teams are Kurashiki Ablaze, the defending Invitational champions, and newcomer Est Cola will join the three local club teams to compete in this conference.[4] [5]
| Qualification method | width=180 | Date | Berths | width=230 | Qualifier(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PVL Reinforced Conference semifinalists | August 24 and 27, 2024 (Quarterfinals) | 2 | Creamline Cool Smashers | |||
| Cignal HD Spikers | ||||||
| Invited PVL teams | September 2, 2024 (announced) | 1 | Farm Fresh Foxies | |||
| Foreign guest teams | August 30–31, 2024 (announced) | 2 | Est Cola (Thailand) | |||
| Kurashiki Ablaze (Japan) | ||||||
| style=background:#0000CD colspan="6" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbr. | Team | Affiliation | Head coach | Team captain |
| CHD | Cignal HD Spikers | Cignal TV, Inc. | Shaq Delos Santos | Frances Molina |
| CCS | Creamline Cool Smashers | Republic Biscuit Corporation | Sherwin Meneses | Michele Gumabao (interim) |
| FFF | Farm Fresh Foxies | Farm Fresh Philippine International / Strong Group Athletics |  Shota Sato | Louie Romero |
| EST | Est Cola | Sermsuk Public Co. Ltd. / Thailand U20 |  Kanokporn Sangthong | |
| KUR | Kurashiki Ablaze | Ablaze Co., Ltd. / V.League (Japan) | Hideo Suzuki | Saya Taniguchi |
| Preliminaries | width=200 | Finals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pasay | Pasig | Quezon City | |
| SM Mall of Asia Arena | PhilSports Arena | Araneta Coliseum | |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 20,000 | |
| width=200 | Preliminaries |
|---|---|
| Santa Rosa | |
| Santa Rosa Sports Complex | |
| Capacity: 5,700 | |
The following players are part of the Philippine national team that played at the 2024 AVC Women's Challenge Cup, 2024 FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup and the 2024 SEA Women's V.League. They are therefore excluded from the previous Reinforced Conference, and were expected to remain unavailable for the whole duration of the Invitational Conference.[6] [7] However on September 9 they were allowed to rejoin their clubs,[8] after the national team played friendly matches with Saga Hisamitsu Springs on September 7 and 8.[9]
| Team | Player/s | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cignal HD Spikers | Vanie Gandler | Dawn Macandili-Catindig | |
| Creamline Cool Smashers | Jema Galanza |
These foreign guest players participated in the reinforced conference. Each team is only allowed to have one foreign player and can only replace them mid-conference if they suffer from injuries or if the player (not the team) abandons their commitment.[10] The teams also have the option to keep or replace their reinforcements to play in this conference.
| width=30% | Team | width=25% | Foreign player | width=25% | Moving from | width=5% class="unsortable" | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cignal HD Spikers |  María José Pérez |  Alexandria Sporting Club | [11] | ||||
| Creamline Cool Smashers |  Erica Staunton | Georgia Bulldogs | [12] | ||||
| Farm Fresh Foxies | Asaka Tamaru | Zus Coffee Thunderbelles | [13] | ||||
The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:
| Rank | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Creamline Cool Smashers | ||
| Cignal HD Spikers | ||
| Kurashiki Ablaze | ||
| 4 | Est Cola | |
| 5 | Farm Fresh Foxies |
| Team roster | |
| Alyssa Valdez (c), Kyle Negrito, Floremel Rodriguez, Risa Sato, Jeanette Panaga, Michele Gumabao, Ella de Jesus, Lorie Bernardo, Pau Soriano, Kyla Atienza, Denden Lazaro-Revilla, Bea de Leon, Theo Bea Bonafe, Rizza Mandapat, Rosemarie Vargas, Jema Galanza, Bernadeth Pons, Mafe Galanza, Tots Carlos, Erica Staunton, Aleiah Torres | |
| Head coach | |
| Sherwin Meneses |
| width=250 | Award | width=250 | Player | width=120 | Team | width=10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference Most Valuable Player | Michele Gumabao | Creamline | [14] [15] | ||||
| Finals Most Valuable Player | Kyle Negrito | Creamline | |||||
| 1st Best Outside Spiker | María José Pérez | Cignal | |||||
| 2nd Best Outside Spiker | Erica Staunton | Creamline | |||||
| 1st Best Middle Blocker | Jacqueline Acuña | Cignal | |||||
| 2nd Best Middle Blocker | Low Mei Cing | Kurashiki | |||||
| Best Opposite Spiker | Saya Taniguchi | Kurashiki | |||||
| Best Setter | Kyle Negrito | Creamline | |||||
| Best Libero | Kalyarat Khamwong | Est Cola | |||||
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| valign=top | Creamline Cool Smashers | valign=top | Cignal HD Spikers | valign=top | Kurashiki Ablaze |
| Head coach: Sherwin Meneses | Head coach: Shaq Delos Santos | Head coach: Hideo Suzuki |