2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's
Japanese volleyball league
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The 2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's was the 30th tournament of the V.League between 14 October 2023 and 31 March 2024.[1][2][3][4]
| 2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's | |
|---|---|
| League | V.League Division 1 |
| Sport | Volleyball |
| Duration | 14 October 2023 – 31 March 2024 |
| Games | 187 |
| Teams | 10 |
| TV partner(s) | V.TV by Easy sports Gaora Sports Fuji TV |
| Regular round | |
| Final stage | |
| Champions | Suntory Sunbirds |
| Runners-up | Panasonic Panthers |
Voreas Hokkaido is promoted to V.League Division 1 after winning the 2022–23 V.League Division 2.[4]
Club
Personnel
| 2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | Head coach | Captain | Province/City | Colors | Main Sponsor | ||
| Wolfdogs Nagoya |  Valerio Baldovin |
 Bartosz Kurek |
Inazawa, Aichi | Toyoda Gosei | |||
| Suntory Sunbirds |  Kota Yamamura |
Masaki Oya |
Minoh, Osaka | Suntory | |||
| Panasonic Panthers |  Laurent Tillie |
Akihiro Yamauchi |
Hirakata, Osaka | Panasonic | |||
| Toray Arrows | Ayumu Shinoda |
Yudai Minemura |
Mishima, Shizuoka | Toray Industries | |||
| Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | Shinya Chiba |
Dekita Takashi |
Sakai, Osaka | Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal | |||
| JTEKT Stings | Michał Gogol |
Ryuta Homma |
Kariya, Aichi | JTEKT | |||
| JT Thunders Hiroshima |  Raúl Lozano |
Shinichiro Inoue |
Hiroshima, Hiroshima | Japan Tobacco | |||
| Tokyo Greatbears |  Kasper Vuorinen |
Koga Taichiro |
Sumida, Tokyo | NatureLab Tokyo | |||
| VC Nagano Tridents | Shinji Kawamura |
Kohta Ikeda |
Takamori, Nagano | Melco Holdings INC. | |||
| Voreas Hokkaido |  Edo Klein |
Asahikawa, Hokkaido | Voreas, INC. | ||||
Transfer players
Foreign players
The total number of foreign players is restricted to one per club. Player from Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) nations are exempt from these restrictions.
| The list of 2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's Foreign Players | ||
|---|---|---|
| Club | Player | From AVC |
| Suntory Sunbirds |  Dmitry Muserskiy (CEV) |
 Yu Yuantai |
| Wolfdogs Nagoya | Bartosz Kurek (CEV) |
Wang Dongchen |
| Panasonic Panthers |  Thomas Jaeschke (NORCECA) |
none |
| Toray Arrows |  Krisztián Pádár (CEV) |
Xu Ke |
| Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers |  Sharone Vernon-Evans (NORCECA) |
none |
| JT Thunders Hiroshima | Aaron Russell (NORCECA) |
Jiang Chuan |
| JTEKT Stings |  Tine Urnaut (CEV) |
Rao Shuhan |
| Tokyo Greatbears |  Rafael Araújo (CSV) |
none |
| VC Nagano Tridents |  Trent O'Dea |
Xiu Chengcheng |
| Voreas Hokkaido | none |  Chang Yu-sheng |
Informal players
An informal player is a player still in high school or university but given a contract. Informal players are formally registered in V.League Organization and able to play on court.
| The list of 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Informal players | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Players | From High schools/Universities | To Club | Ref. |
Competition format
The competition format was approved and released to the public.[1]
Regular round
- 10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times.
- Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by:
- Winning percentages ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate
- The top six teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage
- Ranking of 7th to 10th place ranking of the Regular Round is the final ranking.
- As 2024–25 season will be reformed into S-V League, so there will be no relegation in this season.
Final stage
- Top 6 teams of Regular Round to complete in a tournament format.
- The teams ranked 3rd to 6th in the regular round will advance to the quarterfinals. The winner of the Quarterfinals advances to the Semifinals and the loser advances to the 5th place match.
- The top two teams from the regular round and the winner of the quarterfinals will advance to the semifinals. The semi-final winner advances to the final, and the loser advances to the third-place match.
- All matches will be 5-set matches.
Season standing procedure
- The teams will be ranked by the winning percentages
- The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
- Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
- Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
- Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
- If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
- Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on total number of victories, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
- Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
- If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Regular round
Regular round standing
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suntory Sunbirds | 12 | 11 | 1 | 32 | 34 | 10 | 3.400 | 360 | 347 | 1.037 | Qualified for the Semi-finals |
| 2 | JT Thunders Hiroshima | 12 | 10 | 2 | 28 | 31 | 15 | 2.067 | 160 | 165 | 0.970 | |
| 3 | Panasonic Panthers | 10 | 9 | 1 | 27 | 27 | 6 | 4.500 | 154 | 127 | 1.213 | Qualified for the Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Wolfdogs Nagoya | 12 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 14 | 2.143 | 142 | 134 | 1.060 | |
| 5 | Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | 12 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 1.000 | 355 | 318 | 1.116 | |
| 6 | Tokyo Greatbears | 12 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 0.957 | 314 | 349 | 0.900 | |
| 7 | Toray Arrows | 12 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 29 | 0.655 | 349 | 333 | 1.048 | |
| 8 | JTEKT Stings | 10 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 23 | 0.565 | 134 | 142 | 0.944 | |
| 9 | Voreas Hokkaido | 12 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 33 | 0.212 | 159 | 194 | 0.820 | Relegation |
| 10 | VC Nagano Tridents | 12 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 0.167 | 163 | 181 | 0.901 |
Results table
TBA
Match results
- All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Matchday 1
| 14 October 2023 12:10 |
Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | 3-1 | Toray Arrows | Ohama Daishin Arena Attendance: 1,774 Referees: Shin Muranaka, Tomohito Shiro |
| 25-22, 20-25, 29-27, 25-23 Report Statistics | ||||
| 14 October 2023 14:05 |
Suntory Sunbirds | 3-1 | Tokyo Greatbears | Daiichi Sports Complex Attendance: 1,032 Referees: Taisuke Togawa, Seiji Kiuchi |
| 16-25, 25-19, 25-22, 25-17 Report Statistics | ||||
| 15 October 2023 12:00 |
Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | 3-0 | Toray Arrows | Ohama Daishin Arena Attendance: 1,737 Referees: Junichi Hayashi, Shin Muranaka |
| 25-19, 25-21, 25-18 Report Statistics | ||||
| 15 October 2023 13:35 |
Suntory Sunbirds | 3-2 | Tokyo Greatbears | Daiichi Sports Complex Attendance: 968 Referees: Hiroyuki Hara, Taisuke Togawa |
| 18-25, 25-23, 25-18, 21-25, 15-13 Report Statistics | ||||
Matchday 2
| 21 October 2023 13:00 |
Wolfdogs Nagoya | 3-0 | JTEKT Stings | Toyoda Gosei Memorial Gymnasium Attendance: 2,018 Referees: Yutaka Moriguchi, Hiroyuki Hara |
| 25-20, 25-22, 25-17 Report Statistics | ||||
| 21 October 2023 13:00 |
JT Thunders Hiroshima | 3-1 | Suntory Sunbirds | FPCO Arena Fukuyama Attendance: 1,280 Referees: Shingo Yamamoto, Akira Honma |
| 25-23, 25-23, 20-25, 25-19 Report Statistics | ||||
| 21 October 2023 14:00 |
Toray Arrows | 3-1 | Voreas Hokkaido | Mishima Citizen Gymnasium Attendance: 1,080 Referees: Tomohito Shiro, Taisuke Togawa |
| 25-13, 25-16, 23-25, 25-16 Report Statistics | ||||
| 21 October 2023 14:00 |
VC Nagano Tridents | 2-3 | Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | Matsumoto City Gymnasium Attendance: 981 Referees: Hiroaki Takahashi, Hajime Sawada |
| 17-25, 25-18, 22-25, 25-22, 14-16 Report Statistics | ||||
| 21 October 2023 15:05 |
Tokyo Greatbears | 0-3 | Panasonic Panthers | Yoyogi National Gymnasium Attendance: 2,783 Referees: Takashi Masaoka, Yui Asai |
| 22-25, 19-25, 17-25 Report Statistics | ||||
| 22 October 2023 13:00 |
Wolfdogs Nagoya | 0-3 | JTEKT Stings | Toyoda Gosei Memorial Gymnasium Attendance: 2,271 Referees: Hiroyuki Hara, Tomohiro Kurukawa |
| 22-25, 23-25, 22-25 Report Statistics | ||||
| 22 October 2023 13:00 |
VC Nagano Tridents | 0-3 | Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers | Matsumoto City Gymnasium Attendance: 940 Referees: Tatsuhiro Sawa, Hiroaki Takahashi |
| 18-25, 23-25, 19-25 Report Statistics | ||||
| 22 October 2023 13:00 |
JT Thunders Hiroshima | 0-3 | Suntory Sunbirds | FPCO Arena Fukuyama Attendance: 1,625 Referees: Akira Honma, Yasuo Chiyonobu |
| 22-25, 23-25, 20-25 Report Statistics | ||||
| 22 October 2023 14:00 |
Toray Arrows | 3-1 | Voreas Hokkaido | Mishima Citizen Gymnasium Attendance: 1,211 Referees: Taisuke Togawa, Tsuyoshi Komatsu |
| 25-22, 25-20, 21-25, 25-22 Report Statistics | ||||
| 22 October 2023 15:05 |
Tokyo Greatbears | 0-3 | Panasonic Panthers | Yoyogi National Gymnasium Attendance: 2,745 Referees: Yui Asai, Hiroyuki Nitta |
| 27-29, 21-25, 21-25 Report Statistics | ||||
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5th place match
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Semifinals
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3rd place match
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Final
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Final standing
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Awards
Individual awards (technical performance)
- Best scorer
- Best spiker
- Best blocker
- Best server
- Best receiver
V.League Honour award
The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more.
Outstanding personal records
Final stage
- Most valuable player
- Fighting spirit award
- Best Six
- Best libero
- Receive award
- Best newcomer award
- Best coach award
- Matsudaira Yasutaka award
Notes
- For season 2023–24 only