2025 TPBL draft

The 2025 TPBL draft was the second edition of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League's annual draft. It was held on August 11, 2025, at Grand Hilai Taipei in Taipei City.^[2][3] There were seven teams joined the draft, including the Formosa Dreamers, Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers, Kaohsiung Aquas, New Taipei CTBC DEA, New Taipei Kings, Taipei Taishin Mars, and the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards. There were 27 players participated in the draft, and 8 players were chosen in 2 rounds.^[4]

2025 TPBL draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date	August 11, 2025
Location	Grand Hilai Taipei (Taipei City)
Network	TPBL on Youtube[1]
Overview
8 total selections in 2 rounds
League	Taiwan Professional Basketball League
First selection	Liu Cheng-Hsun (Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers)
← 2024

Draft results

G

Guard

F

Forward

C

Center

Rnd.	Pick	Player	Pos.	Team	School / Club team
1	1	Liu Cheng-Hsun	F	Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers	UCH (Sr.)
1	2	Tseng Hsin-Wu	F	New Taipei CTBC DEA	NTNU (Sr.)
1	3	Hsu Hong-Wei	G	Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards	UCH (Sr.)
1	4	Xie Ming-Jun	F	Taipei Taishin Mars	Southern Coast Academy
1	5	Mayaw Fotol	F	Kaohsiung Aquas	NTSU (Sr.)
1	6	Jonathan Smith	G/F	New Taipei Kings	NTUA (Sr.)
2	7	Wei Peng-Ho	G	Taipei Taishin Mars	NTNU (Sr.)
2	8	Ryder Hsiung	F	New Taipei Kings	Willamette (Sr.)

• Reference：^[4]

Undrafted players

These players were not selected in the 2025 TPBL draft, but have played at least one game in the TPBL.

Player	Pos.	Join team	School / Club team
Karl Breuer	F/C	Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers	NTUA (So.)
Chung Li-Hsiang	F	New Taipei Kings	NCCU (Sr.)

Draft combine

On July 26, the news reported that the TPBL cancelled the draft combine.^[5]

Entrants

On August 7, the TPBL released its official list of entrants, consisting of 27 players from college and other educational institutions in this edition of the draft.^[6]

• Karl Breuer – F/C, NTUA
• Caleb Chiang – G, Bellevue
• Chiang Chi-An – G, UT
• Chung Chun-Wei – F, HWU
• Chung Li-Hsiang – F, NCCU
• Mayaw Fotol – F, NTSU
• Hsieh Shu-Yi – G, NTSU
• Ryder Hsiung – F, Willamette
• Hsu Hong-Wei – G, UCH
• Hsu Ting-Wei – G, NTSU
• Huang Chun-Yen – G, NTUA
• Huang Wei-Cheng – F, NTSU
• Hung Yu-Hsiang – F, NUTN
• Lai En-Yuan – G/F, NFU
• Lee Cheng-Chien – G, CYCU
• Lee Yu-Chi – G, ISU
• Liang Wen-Chieh – F, UT
• Lin Hsin-Wei – G, Westcliff
• Lin Yu-Chien – G/F, Blue Mountain Christian
• Liu Cheng-Hsun – F, UCH
• Jonathan Smith – G/F, NTUA
• Tseng Chi-Hsiang – G, UT
• Tseng Hsin-Wu – F, NTNU
• Wang Cheng-Lin – C, LIT
• Wang Chun-Sheng – G, NFU
• Wei Peng-Ho – G, NTNU
• Xie Ming-Jun – F, Southern Coast Academy