2024 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference
The 2024 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference will be the nineteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its tenth conference as a professional league.

This will be the third and last conference for the 2024 season. Unlike the previous iterations of the league, this conference will be a short pocket tournament, lasting about nine days, making it the shortest conference in the league. This conference starts 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.

Qualification
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. 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. 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. 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.

Qualification methodDate  Berths Qualifier(s)2024 PVL Reinforced Conference semifinalists  August 24 and 27, 2024 (Quarterfinals) 42  Creamline Cool Smashers Akari Chargers (withdrew) Cignal HD Spikers PLDT High Speed Hitters (withdrew)Invited PVL teams  September 2, 2024  (announced)  01  Chery Tiggo Crossovers (declined)Petro Gazz Angels (declined)Capital1 Solar Spikers (declined)Farm Fresh FoxiesForeign guest teams  August 30–31, 2024  (announced)   2  Est Cola (Thailand)Kurashiki Ablaze (Japan)

Participating teams

  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  Wanna Buakaew   Kanokporn Sangthong KUR Kurashiki Ablaze Ablaze Co., Ltd. / V.League (Japan)  Hideo Suzuki  Saya Taniguchi

Venues
 Regular venues
 Preliminaries Finals Pasay Pasig Quezon City SM Mall of Asia Arena PhilSports Arena Araneta Coliseum Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 20,000 250px 250px 250px

 PVL on Tour venues
 Preliminaries Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Sports Complex Capacity: 5,700 250px

Transactions
National team players
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 will still remain unavailable for the Invitational Conference due to friendly matches scheduled for September 2024.

 Team Player/s Cignal HD Spikers Vanie Gandler Dawn Macandili-Catindig Creamline Cool Smashers Jema Galanza 

Foreign guest players
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. The teams also have the option to keep or replace their reinforcements to play in this conference.

 Team Foreign player Moving from  Cignal HD Spikers  María José Pérez  Alexandria Sporting Club  Creamline Cool Smashers  Erica Staunton  Georgia Bulldogs  Farm Fresh Foxies  Asaka Tamaru  Zus Coffee Thunderbelles 

Format
The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:
Preliminary Round
 Single round-robin format
 Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
 The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
 The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the gold medal match.

Finals
 All games are knockout matches.
 Bronze medal: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team
 Gold medal: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team

Pool standing procedure
 First, teams are ranked by the number of matches won.
 If the number of matches won is tied, the tied teams are then ranked by match points, wherein:
 Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser.
 Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.
 In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used:
 Set ratio: the number of sets won divided by number of sets lost.
 Point ratio: the number of points scored divided by the number of points allowed.
 Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round
 All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Ranking

Match results

Final round
 All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

3rd place match

Championship match

Final standing

 Rank Team    4 5 

Awards and medalists
Awards

Individual awards
 Award Player Team  Conference Most Valuable Player Finals Most Valuable Player 1st Best Outside Spiker 2nd Best Outside Spiker 1st Best Middle Blocker 2nd Best Middle Blocker Best Opposite Spiker Best Setter Best Libero

Special award
 Award Team  Fair Play

Medalists
GoldSilverBronze

References

Category:2024 in Philippine sport
Category:2024 Premier Volleyball League season
Category:2024 in women's volleyball
Category:Current volleyball seasons
Category:September 2024 sports events in the Philippines