{{short description|Filipino basketball coach and former player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox basketball biography | image = | image_size = | name = Al Vergara | alias = | number = | position = Assistant coach | league = NCAA PH | team = Lyceum Pirates | nationality = Filipino | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|12|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = Philippines | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 5 | weight_lbs = 165 | high_school = | college = St. Francis | draft_year_pba = 2006 | draft_pba = Undrafted | draft_team_pba = Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants | career_start = 2008 | career_end = 2018 | career_position = Point guard | coach_start = 2019 | coach_end = | years1 = 2008–2010 | team1 = Singapore Slingers | years2 = 2009 | team2 = Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants | years3 = 2010 | team3 = Barako Energy Coffee Masters | years4 = 2010–2011 | team4 = Singapore Slingers | years5 = 2011–2012 | team5 = Philippine Patriots | years6 = 2012 | team6 = Barako Bull Energy | years7 = 2013 | team7 = Saigon Heat | years8 = 2013–2014 | team8 = GlobalPort Batang Pier | years9 = 2014 | team9 = Singapore Slingers | years10 = 2018 | team10 = Muntinlupa Cagers | cyears1= 2019–2023 | cteam1 = Rizal Golden Coolers (assistant) | cyears2 = 2023–2025 | cteam2 = Parañaque Patriots (assistant) | cyears3 = 2024–2025 | cteam3 = LPU Cavite HS | cyears4 = 2024–present | cteam4 = Lyceum (assistant) | awards = | medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Men's basketball}} {{MedalSport|{{flag|Philippines}}}} {{MedalCompetition|SEA Games}} {{MedalGold|2007 Nakhon Ratchasima|Team}} }}
'''Al Vergara''' (born December 20, 1979) is a Filipino professional basketball coach and former player. He serves as an assistant coach for the Lyceum Pirates of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).
Vergara started off his professional career with the Singapore Slingers in the inaugural Asean Basketball League and played there for two seasons before joining Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants in the Philippine Basketball Association on loan from the Slingers, for the 2009 PBA Fiesta Conference.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090326015903/http://www.purefoodsbasketball.com/players/purefoods-signs-al-vergara/ Purefoods signs Al Vergara]}}</ref>
An undrafted player in the 2006 PBA Draft, he played collegiately for the St. Francis of Assisi College Golden Doves, with PBA players Yancy and Ranidel de Ocampo, Ervin Sotto, and Erick Canlas.
Known for his athleticism, efficiency, and excellent plays, Vergara is best remembered for his role in the so-called Harbour Centre dynasty in the amateur Philippine Basketball League from 2006 to date. That feat led to him being signed by the Singapore Slingers in 2008 and becoming its starting point guard to replace Jayson Castro.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.singaporeslingers.com/index.php/2008/09/19/slingers-welcome-new-filipino-signing-al-vergara/ |title=SLINGERS WELCOME NEW FILIPINO SIGNING AL VERGARA |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925172616/http://www.singaporeslingers.com/index.php/2008/09/19/slingers-welcome-new-filipino-signing-al-vergara/ |archive-date=September 25, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==PBA career statistics== {{PBA player statistics legend}} <ref>{{Cite web |title=Al Vergara Player Profile - PBA-Online.net |url=http://www.pba-online.net/profile/Al-Vergara/201/ |website=PBA-Online.net|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009100853/http://www.pba-online.net/profile/Al-Vergara/201/ |archive-date=October 9, 2015 }}</ref>
===Season-by-season averages=== {{PBA player statistics start}} |- | align=left| {{pbay|2008}} | align=left| Purefoods | 8 || 13.9 || .333 || .364 || .750 || .5 || 2.0 || '''.9''' || .0 || 2.4 |- | align=left| {{pbay|2009}} | align=left| Barako Energy Coffee | '''18''' || '''22.4''' || .398 || .346 || .538 || '''2.3''' || '''3.7''' || .7 || .0 || '''5.4''' |- | align=left| {{pbay|2011}} | align=left| Barako Bull | 3 || 6.7 || '''.500''' || '''.500''' || — || .7 || .0 || .3 || .0 || 1.0 |- | align=left| {{pbay|2012}} | align=left| GlobalPort | 8 || 15.0 || .312 || .250 || '''1.000''' || 1.6 || 2.4 || .5 || .0 || 3.0 |-class=sortbottom | align=center colspan=2 | Career | 37 || 17.7 || .374 || .333 || .611 || 1.7 || 2.8 || .7 || .0 || 3.9 {{end}}
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