Portal:Volleyball
Introduction
Volleyball is a popular team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.
The complete set of rules are extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to 3 times, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically, the first two touches are used to set up for an attack, an attempt to direct the ball back over the net in such a way that the serving team is unable to prevent it from being grounded in their court.
General articles
The 2011 FIVB Women's World Cup was played from November 4 to November 18 in Japan. The tournament was the first step in the qualification process for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The top three teams qualified for the Olympics, and joined Great Britain as they had already secured a berth as the host country. Read more...- Elitserien (Swedish: Elitserien i volleyboll för damer) is the Swedish women's volleyball top division. The regular season usually takes place from October to late February or early March and is followed up by play-offs to determine the Swedish national champion. Read more...
This page presents the results of male and female volleyball during the Olympic Games of Los Angeles in the summer of 1984. The competition was held in the Long Beach Arena, which had a capacity of 12,033. Read more...- The 1995 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from November 3 to
November 17, 1995, in Japan. Twelve women's national teams played in cities all over Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the Olympic Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia 1996. Read more... - The following teams and players took part in the women's volleyball tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in Moscow. Read more...
- The FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship is an international women's club volleyball competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 1991 in Brazil. It was not held between 1995 and 2009, but since 2010, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Qatar, Switzerland, the Philippines and Japan. FIVB has announced that the following two editions of the competition (2018 and 2019) will be held in Zhejiang Province of China.
The current format of the tournament involves eight teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about one week; the winners of that year's AVC Club Volleyball Championship (Asia), African Clubs Championship (Africa), Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship (South America) and CEV Women's Champions League (Europe), along with the host city's team and a nominated team from North America. The number of teams is increased through wild card invitees. Read more... - The Portuguese First Division Women's Volleyball National Championship (Portuguese: Campeonato Nacional de Voleibol – 1ª Divisão) is the highest professional women's volleyball league in Portugal. It is organized and administrated by the Portuguese Volleyball Federation (FPV). Read more...
- The Baltic Men Volleyball League, known as the Credit24 Champions League (Estonian: Credit24 Võrkpalli Meistriliiga, Latvian: Credit24 Meistarlīga volejbolā) for sponsorship reasons, is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs in Estonia and Latvia. Previously, clubs from the fellow Baltic nation of Lithuania have also participated. Read more...
- The African Volleyball Championship U21 is a sport competition for national teams with players under 21 years, currently held biannually and organized by the African Volleyball Confederation, the Africa volleyball federation. Read more...
- The Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the under 20 men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Tournaments have been awarded evry two years since 1980. The tournament doubled as the World Championship qualifiers, where the top 2 teams qualified for the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship. The current champion is Iran, which won its sixth title at the 2018 tournament.
The 19 Asian Championship tournaments have been won by four different national teams. Iran have won six times as well as South Korea.China, with four titles; and Japan, with three titles. Read more... - The 1999 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup was held from November 18 to December 2, 1999, in Japan. Twelve men's national teams played in cities all over Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the Olympic Tournament in Sydney, Australia 2000.
The twelve competing teams played a single-round robin format, in two parallel groups (site A and site B). The men played in Tokyo, Kagoshima, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Yoyogi, and Komazawa. Japan is the traditional host of the tournament since 1977. Read more... - The A1 Ethniki (Greek: Α1 Εθνική Κατηγορία), often referred to as the Greek Volleyball League, is the highest professional volleyball league in Greece. It is run by the Hellenic Volleyball Federation. It is considered one of the top national leagues in European volleyball, as its clubs have made significant success in European competitions. Read more...
- The following volleyball players took part in the women's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Read more...
- Volleyball at the Pacific Games (previously known as the South Pacific Games) has been played since 1963. Read more...
- The Tunisian Volleyball League is the highest level of men's volleyball in Tunisia and it is organized by Tunisian Volleyball Federation. Tunisia Volleyball League is currently contested by 10 clubs.
The regular season is played by 10 teams, playing each other twice, once at home and once away from home. After the regular season, the four best-placed teams enter the play-offs and the last six teams enter the play-out. Read more... - The Men's European Volleyball League is a continental volleyball competition senior men's national volleyball teams of Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). Created in 2004, the competition serves as a qualifying tournament for the FIVB World League (until 2017) and to its successor the FIVB Nations League since 2018.
This event should not be confused with the other, more prestigious, continental competition for European national volleyball teams, the European Volleyball Championship. Read more... - The Iranian Super League (ISL) is a professional volleyball league in Iran at the top of the Iranian volleyball league system. It was founded in 1975 as the Pasargard Cup, but after the Iranian Revolution it was renamed to the first Division. In 1997 the league system was revamped and the Iranian Super League was established. Paykan Tehran has won the most titles in the new Super League with 12 titles. Read more...
- The qualification for 2000 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 12 June 1999 to 27 July 2000. Read more...
- The NORCECA Women's Junior Continental Championship U-20 is a sport competition for national teams, currently held biannually and organized by the NORCECA, the North America, Central America and Caribbean volleyball federation. The competition is played by women's under 20. Read more...
- A new indoor professional league, the Premier Volleyball League (sanctioned by USA Volleyball), began in 2012. In 2013 the PVL incorporated and launched a men's division. The PVL was discontinued in 2017. Read more...
- ... that volleyball player Chen Zhaodi, who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
- ... that Emma Wiggs, a gold medallist in paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a sitting volleyball player?
- ... that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective?
- ... that with the USC Trojans, beach volleyball player Sara Hughes won 103 consecutive matches and 2 NCAA Championships?
- ... that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"?
International volleyball
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Volleyball court
Play in progress: The attack or "spike"
Variants: Beach volleyball at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Tactics: Receiving serve
Volleyball scoreboard (United States)
Play in progress: International match Italy vs. Russia, 2005
Tactics: Defence
Tactics: Kill against three blockers
Tactics: Jump serve
Team handshake at a Polish volleyball match
Play in progress: The "set" (second contact), Iran vs. Japan, Olympic qualification match 2016
Tactics: Team practising passing
Variants; World footvolley championships, 2010
Tactics: The "libero" (defence player)
Tactics: Serve
Variants: Sitting volleyball at the 2012 Paralympics
Play in progress: Final of the Volleyball French Cup, 2013
An official signals "ball out"
Volleyball positions
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Current events
- 2019 in volleyball
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League – Men's • Women's
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball World Cup – Men's • Women's
- 2019 Pan American Games
- 2019 Summer Universiade
- 2020 Olympics • 2020 Paralympics
Volleyball terms
- Ace : A serve which lands in the opponent's court without being touched, or is touched, but unable to be kept in play by one or more receiving team players.
- Assist : Usually the second of a team's three contacts, an assist is awarded for any set ball that results in a kill on the ensuing attack.
- Attack : Usually the third of a team's three contacts, an attack is any attempt by the offense to score a point against the defense (this does not include free balls or over-passes).
- Stack Blocking : A blocking strategy where the front row players start close to each other at the center of the net, leaving space for swing blocking out to the pins.
- Cut / Cut shot : attack with an extreme angle (nearly parallel to the net).
- Dig : A defensive contact following an opponent's attack resulting in a playable ball.
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Quotes
- And in the most profound place where land, sea and sky are one - there ye shall play volleyball. – Simon Munnery
- Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball. – Emo Philips
