Team Philippines will participate in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam with a total of 987 member-delegation.
The delegation is composed of 646 athletes, 296 officials and 45 National Olympic Committee delegates. However, categorically there are few athletes that will not be funded by the Philippine Sports Commission.
The Philippines who emerged as 2019 SEA Games overall champion will participate in 39 sports expect for the sport of Xiangqi which is also called Chinese chess or Elephant chess.
Esport is one of the sports which has a big delegation with 55 athletes or gamers and is looking to win 7 gold medals.
While most of the events where the Philippines can win gold medals are being scrapped, Team Philippines is still hoping to finish at least in the top 3 in the overall medal tally.
The 31st SEA Games will commence on May 12 but some sports will be played prior to the opening ceremony.
Three sports that will start on May 6 are football, beach handball and kickboxing while diving is one of the sports that will early give SEA Games medals.
