NCAA general championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association General Championship is awarded to the school with the most points garnered in an academic year in the NCAA. It is split into the Juniors' division (for male high school students) and to the Seniors' division (for college students).

The champion school in a given sport receives 30 points, with the runner-up receiving 20, and the last place receiving one point. All of the points from the different sports are then tabulated, and the school with the most points is the General Champion. Only sports that are official are included (cheerleading is excluded).

The awarded school is judged as the best athletic program in the NCAA for the given academic year.

The General Championship is similar to the NACDA Director's Cup of the American NCAA.

Points distribution

Finish	Current	Previous
Champion	40	40
2nd	35	30
3rd	30	20
4th	25	15
5th	20	10
6th	10	8
7th	9	6
8th	8	5
9th	4	--
10th	2	--

General champions

Denotes school won both juniors' and seniors' championship in the same year.

Early years

The NCAA was founded by Ateneo, La Salle, FEU, NU, San Beda, UM, UP and UST in 1924. Only in 1960 the NCAA started the general championship race during the time of Ateneo, Letran, La Salle, JRC, Mapúa and San Beda also known as the old-timer six.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
1960–61	(1)	Not awarded
1961–64		Not awarded
1964–65	(2)	(1)
1965–66	(3)	(1)
1966–67	(4)	(2)
1967–68	(5)	(1)
1968–69	(1)	(2)

First expansion

San Sebastian was added. Trinity was also added as a full member in 1974; it left the league in 1986.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
1969–70	(6)	(3)
1970–71	(7)	(4)
1971–72	(8)	(1)
1972–73	(1)	(5)
1973–74	(9)	(2)
1974–75	(2)	(3)
1975–76	(10)	(4)
1976–77	(3)	(2)
1977–78	(4)	(5)

First contraction

Ateneo left in 1978 followed by La Salle in 1980.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
1978–79	(11)	(6)
1979–80	(1)	(7)
1980–81	(5) (12)	(8)
1981–82	Not awarded
1982–83	(13)	(1)
1983–84	(14)	(1)

Second expansion

Perpetual Help College of Rizal was added in 1984, the same year San Beda left which rejoined in 1986.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
1984–85	(1)	(1)
1985–86	Not awarded	(6)
1986–87	(15)	(2)
1987–88	(16)	(3)
1988–89	(2)	(2)
1989–90	(3)	(3)
1990–91	(16)	(4)
1991–92	(17)	(5)
1992–93	(18)	(2)
1993–94	(19)	(6)
1994–95	(4)	(7)
1995–96	(1)	(7)

Third expansion

In 1996, PCU became a member and followed by CSB in 1998. PCU was suspended in 2007 and had an indefinite leave in 2009.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
1996–97	(2)	(8)
1997–98	(2)	(9)
1998–99	(3)	(4)
1999–00	(4)	(5)
2000–01	(5)	(6)
2001–02	(6)	(7)
2002–03	(7)	(8)
2003–04	(8)	(9)
2004–05	(1)	(10)
2005–06	(1)	(3)*
2006–07	(2)	(4)
2007–08	(2)	(11)
2008–09	(3)	(12)

Note: *In the 2005-06 season, San Sebastian College - Recoletos had more championships (4) than La Salle Green Hills (3), San Sebastian won the General Championship, despite being tied for first place.

Fourth expansion

In 2009, AUF, Arellano and EAC were added as guest members. Only Arellano and EAC were accepted as probationary members. Lyceum was added as a guest member in 2011. In 2013, Arellano was granted full membership, followed by EAC and Lyceum in 2015.

Academic Year	Seniors	Juniors
2009–10	(9)	(5)
2010–11	(1)	(6)
2011–12	(2)	(7)
2012–13	(3)	(8)
2013–14	(4)	(10)
2014–15	(5)	(11)
2015–16	(4)	(12)
2016–17	(5)	(13)
2017–18	(6)	(14)
2018–19	(7)	(1)
2019–20	Not awarded due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Metro Manila.
2020–21
2021–22	Not awarded due to not all sports being celebrated.
2022–23
2023–24	(8)	(2)

Number of general championships by school

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School	Seniors	Juniors	Total
	19	8	27
	8	15	23
	9	8	17
	0	12	12
	4	6	10
	5	2	7
	5	0	5
	2	2	4
	1	2	3
	2	0	2

NOTE

• LSGH, an NCAA juniors team, won eight (8) general championships as the DLSU juniors team and four (4) as the CSB juniors team.

Total NCAA Championships per school

Demonstration sports are not included.

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School	Athletics	Badminton	Basketball	3×3 basketball	Beach volleyball	Cheerleading	Chess	Football	Lawn Tennis	Soft Tennis	Softball	Swimming	Table tennis	Taekwondo	Volleyball	Total
	9	6	46	2	2	0	10	45	38	10	5	62	25	21	4	285
^	38	0	26	0	1	1	17	19	35	0	13	62	5	0	10	227
	12	5	34	0	8	0	20	12	18	0	1	4	30	9	26	179
	15	3	17	0	9	0	23	0	10	0	2	2	9	2	47	139
^	22	0	11	0	0	0	0	42	15	0	5	4	0	0	7	106
^	7	3	1	0	0	0	5	23	6	0	6	21	1	11	5	89
	5	0	1	0	11	9	3	2	5	2	0	4	5	0	30	77
^	0	8	1	0	8	0	6	2	10	2	0	2	16	12	5	72
	19	0	25	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	65
	13	0	14	2	0	1	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	42
	3	3	0	1	5	7	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	3	4	32
	3	0	1	0	3	0	2	3	0	0	0	3	3	0	4	22
	5	1	0	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	19
	6	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	17
	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	11
Trinity College of Quezon City	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	6
	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
^	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Saint Vincent de Paul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Notes

a.^ LSGH, a juniors team, has been playing in the NCAA as a junior to both DLSU and CSB, but has never been directly under either institution.

b.^ The Mapúa High School was closed down in 2005. Since 2008, the Malayan High School of Science Red Robins represented Mapúa University in the juniors' division.

References

• Champions list at the NCAA Philippines official website
• Champions list at Web Archive

See also

• UAAP Overall Championship