List of Philippine Basketball Association champions
Season Conference Champion Series Runner-Up Third place Winning coach
1992 First Conference Shell 4-1 San Miguel Alaska Rino Salazar
1992 All-Filipino San Miguel 4-3 Purefoods Swift Norman Black
1992 Third Conference Swift 4-0 7-Up Ginebra Yeng Guiao
1993 All-Filipino Coney Island 4-2 San Miguel Swift Chot Reyes
1993 Commissioner 's Swift 4-2 Purefoods San Miguel Yeng Guiao
1993 Governors ' San Miguel 4-1 Swift Sta . Lucia Norman Black
1994 All-Filipino San Miguel 4-2 Coney Island Alaska Norman Black
1994 Commissioner 's Purefoods 4-1 Alaska Swift Chot Reyes
1994 Governors ' Alaska 4-2 Swift Pepsi Tim Cone
1995 All-Filipino Sunkist 4-3 Alaska Sta . Lucia Derrick Pumaren
1995 Commissioner 's Sunkist 4-2 Alaska Sta . Lucia Derrick Pumaren
1995 Governors ' Alaska 4-3 San Miguel Sunkist Tim Cone
1996 All-Filipino Alaska 4-1 Purefoods San Miguel Tim Cone
1996 Commissioner 's Alaska 4-3 Shell Sta . Lucia Tim Cone
1996 Governors ' Alaska 4-1 Ginebra Shell Tim Cone
1997 All-Filipino Purefoods 4-2 Gordon 's Gin Sta . Lucia Eric Altamirano
1997 Commissioner 's Gordon 's Gin 4-2 Alaska San Miguel Robert Jaworski
1997 Governors ' Alaska 4-1 Purefoods San Miguel Tim Cone
1998 All-Filipino Alaska 4-3 San Miguel Pop Cola Tim Cone
1998 Commissioner 's Alaska 4-2 San Miguel Pop Cola Tim Cone
Champions by season -- 1992–2002 : Marquez and Bernardino years
The Philippine Basketball Association awards a championship trophy (or cup) to the winning team at the end of each conference (tournament). To determine a champion for a conference, a double-round elimination (sometimes a classification) round is usually held. After the elimination (or classification) round, the playoffs would be held. There had been a variety of ways the league conducted its playoffs, such as: