Zamboanga Sikat
2025 Zamboanga Sikat season
League	MPBL (2019–present) FilBasket (2022)
Founded	2019; 7 years ago (2019)
History	Zamboanga Valientes 2018 Zamboanga Family's Brand Sardines 2019–2023 Zamboanga Master Sardines 2024 Zamboanga Sikat 2025–present
Arena	Mayor Vitaliano D. Agan Coliseum
Location	Zamboanga City
Team colors
Main sponsor	Sikat Sports
Head coach	Bong Ramos
Conference titles	MPBL:1 (2022)

TheZamboanga Sikat Family's Brand Sardines (stylized asZamboanga SiKAT), alternatively known asSikat Zamboanga, is a Filipino professionalbasketball team based inZamboanga City. The team currently competes in theMaharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as a member of the league'sSouth Division. The team plays its home games atMayor Vitaliano D. Agan Coliseum.

The team was established in 2019 after splitting from theZamboanga Valientes due to undisclosed management issues. The new team was then named theZamboanga Family's Brand Sardines,^[1] and later renamed toZamboanga Master Sardines in 2024. Universal Canning Inc. served as the team's title sponsor from 2019 to 2024.^[2]

The Zamboanga franchise is one of five teams based inMindanao and the only one from theZamboanga Peninsula region. They have also played inFilbasket and in theChooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3.

Led byHarold Arboleda andReed Juntilla, the Zamboanga franchise would finish the2018–19 season as the sixth seed in the South Division. The team would upset the third-seededMuntinlupa Cagers in three games in the division quarterfinals. Despite winning game 1 of the division semifinals, Zamboanga would lose to the defending championBatangas City Athletics in the next two games. In the succeeding2019–20 season, with the addition ofAlvin Pasaol, Zamboanga improved from their 12–13 record to move up 18–12. In the playoffs, as the fifth seed, Zamboanga would get their revenge on Batangas City by beating them in three games in the division quarterfinals. In the division semifinals, however, they would lose to the eventual championDavao Occidental Tigers.

Zamboanga initially announced that it would not participate in the succeeding season and decided their status in the MPBL on 2022.^[3]

The team opted out of the2021 Invitational, but did eventually compete in the2022 season, changing the team's prior decision. That season saw the arrival of the Marcelino twins,Jaycee and Jayvee.^[4] The "Twin Turbo" would help lead Zamboanga to their best regular season record to date, as the top seed in the South with an 18–3 record. Zamboanga then booked its first MPBL finals appearance after beating theBatangas City Embassy Chill in the South Division finals.^[5] In the2022 MPBL finals, Zamboanga lost to theNueva Ecija Rice Vanguards in four games.^[6] They would lose to theNueva Ecija Rice Vanguards in four games in the national finals series.

Zamboanga then took part in the2023 Preseason Invitational, which they would end up winning after their finals victory against Nueva Ecija. They would then record their winningest season to date, 20–8, although they would fall down to the fourth seed. After beating the expansionQuezon Huskers in three games, they division title defense came to an end after getting swept by theBacoor City Strikers. For the2024 season, the team changed their team name to Zamboanga Master Sardines. Despite matching their previous record from last season and making the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season, the team suffered its first division quarterfinals exit after losing to theParañaque Patriots in three games. After this season, the Marcelino twins would leave Zamboanga for Nueva Ecija.

Family's Brand Sardines joined theChooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3, debuting in the2020-21 season. For the President's Cup, they fielded a roster filled withnational 3x3 players;Joshua Munzon, Alvin Pasaol, Troy Rike, Santi Santillan. The decision was made as part of the preparation of thePhilippine national team for their participation in theOlympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for the2020 Summer Olympics.^[7] The team won the President's Cup title, winning four of five legs including the grand final, which granted the team of a spot at the Doha Masters of the 2020 FIBA 3x3 World Tour.^[8][9][10]

The team's former logos from 2019 to 2024 under the title sponsorship of Universal Canning, Inc.

When the franchise split from the Valientes, the logo carried over to the new ZFAMS team, which shared elements with the Valientes' logo. The former moniker had a double meaning, not only referring to the products of Universal Canning Inc., which owns both the Family's Brand Sardines and Master Sardines brands, but also as a reference to Zamboanga City being referred to as the "Sardines Capital of the Philippines".

In 2024, alongside the announcement of the name change to Master Sardines, a logo-making contest was also announced to create the new identity. The new logo was later shown on February 22, 2024. Created by Ritche Faustorilla Ocampo, it featured a sardine holding a basketball with a gold outline.^[11]

In 2025, the team had its biggest change in branding, as the team gained the backing of Sikat Sports, a group led by Kat Chua.

The Zamboanga franchise has played all of its home games atMayor Vitaliano D. Agan Coliseum. With a capacity of 12,000, it is tied withCuneta Astrodome for the highest-capacity venue in the MPBL. It hosted theMPBL All-Star Game in2024.

Venue	Location	Capacity	2018–19	2019–20	2022	2023	2024	2025
Mayor Vitaliano D. Agan Coliseum	Zamboanga City	12,000	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

Zamboanga and Batangas City have faced each other in the playoffs in three consecutive occasions from2019 to2022, all of which went the full three games. Zamboanga won the series in both2020 and in 2022. As of 2023, the two teams have met a total of thirteen times in the MPBL.

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