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{{Short description|Filipino sports executive}}
{{Use Philippine English|date=February 2023}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Willie Marcial
| image = Willie Marcial PR Asian Games 2018 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Marcial in 2018
| office =
| order = 10th Commissioner of the PBA
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| predecessor = [[Chito Narvasa]]
| successor =
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| occupation = Sports executive, businessman
| nationality = Filipino
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'''Wilfrido "Willie" O. Marcial''' (born October 12, 1961<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pamintuan |first1=Carlo |title=PBA Commissioner Willie Marcial's birthday wish is to finish Philippine Cup safely |url=https://tv5.espn.com/basketball/pba/story/_/id/30104262/willie-marcial-marks-birthday-taking-biggest-challenge-pba-history |access-date=12 October 2021 |work=TV5 |date=13 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The bubble chief: A day in the life of Willie Marcial |url=https://mb.com.ph/2020/11/22/the-bubble-chief-a-day-in-the-life-of-willie-marcial/ |access-date=12 October 2021 |work=Manila Bulletin |date=22 November 2020}}</ref>) is a Filipino sports executive who serves as the tenth commissioner of the [[Philippine Basketball Association]]. He became the league's officer-in-charge after [[Chito Narvasa]] resigned on December 31, 2017. On January 25, 2018, he was appointed by the PBA Board of Governors as the 10th commissioner of the league.<ref name="spin">{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/news/erstwhile-oic-willie-marcial-named-pba-commissioner-given-three-year-term|title=Erstwhile OIC Willie Marcial named PBA commissioner, given three-year term|website=SPIN.ph|accessdate=2018-01-25}}</ref><ref>[https://pba.ph/news/willie-marcial-is-new-pba-commissioner Willie Marcial is new PBA Commissioner], PBA.ph, January 25, 2018</ref>
==PBA career==
Marcial, a native of Batangas, started as a statistician in {{pbay|1983}} during the time of former PBA Commissioner [[Leo Prieto]]. He also worked with the league's former TV partner, [[Vintage Television]], as a floor director and also became a co-head statistician (alongside current head statistician Fidel Mangonon III) before being appointed as the league's Media Bureau Chief and Special Assistant to the Commissioner in 2003 during the time of former commissioner [[Noli Eala]].<ref>[http://www.philstar.com/sports/2018/01/25/1781303/pba-banking-healing-commissioner-willie-marcial PBA banking on 'healing commissioner' Willie Marcial], Nelson Beltran, [[The Philippine Star]], January 25, 2018</ref>
He is contracted to be the PBA commissioner until the end of the 2026–27 PBA season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pba.ph/news/pba-board-affirms-confidence-on-marcial-with-new-three-year-contract-extension|title=PBA Board affirms confidence on Marcial with new three-year contract extension|date=May 27, 2023|access-date=May 29, 2023|work=pba.ph}}</ref>
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