Wikipedia - V.League (Japan)

The V.League 1 (Japanese: Vリーグ) is the top-level professional volleyball league for both men and women in Japan. The league started in 1994.

The competitions are organized by the Japan Volleyball League Organization. The league was called V.Premier League before the reform took place in 2018.

History

V.League

In 2016, the Japan Volleyball League Organization, which hosts Premier League, held a press conference in Tokyo and announced plans to create a new league and aim for professionalization. They plan to recruit participating teams by the end of November and aim to start in the fall of 2018.

This project to create a new league was called NEW BORN V.LEAGUE. The new league was named V.League. The new V.League aims to promote the "sports business" of volleyball by realizing a system of "earning through sports and returning the profits to sports" without being bound by conventional concepts. In addition, the V.League aims to further enhance the value of volleyball, push volleyball up to Japan's top arena sports, connect with the world, and become the world's best volleyball league.

S-V League

The Japan volleyball league organization held an online press conference on January 15 to explain a new league to be launched in the 2024–25 season. Under the philosophy of "strong, broad, and connected to society," the league aims to become the world's top league by 2030.

This new league is a mid-tern project called V.LEAGUE REBORN. The official name of the new league is S-V League. S stands for Strong, Spread and Sociaty. S-V League will replace V.League as the highest level of Japanese volleyball league.

S-V League as a highest level league and the necessary requirements to be licensed include:

  1. The main arena can accommodate more than 5,000 people and more than 80% of the home games are held there;
  2. Annual revenue of more than 600 million yen;
  3. Having youth teams under the age of 18 and under the age of 15;
  4. A dedicated clubhouse;

The relation with V.League

For teams that do not wish to join the S-V League, both men's and women's leagues will be unified into one division under the name of V.League. The East-West Conference system will be introduced.

**Japan V-Premier -- Kvinner**

Japans øverste nivå av kvinnelig volleyball, Japan V-Premier, er en liga som består av de beste 12 lagene i landet. Ligaen er delt inn i to divisjoner, V·Premier League og V·Challenge League. Vinnerlaget av hver divisjon rykker opp til neste divisjon, mens vinnerne av V·Challenge League kan rykke opp til V·Premier League. V·Premier League er den mest prestisjefylte volleyballligaen i Japan, og har blitt avholdt årlig siden 1994.

**Lag:**

* NEC Red Rockets
* Toray Arrows
* Hisamitsu Springs
* JT Marvelous
* Okayama Seagulls
* Hitachi Rivale
* Denso Airybees
* Toyota Auto Body Queenseis
* Kurobe AquaFairies
* Ageo Medics
* PFU BlueCats
* Saitama Ageo Medics

**Sesongformat:**

V-Premier League-sesongen spilles fra oktober til april. Lagene spiller et dobbelt round-robin-format, noe som betyr at de spiller hverandre to ganger i løpet av sesongen. De åtte beste lagene etter endt seriespill kvalifiserer seg til sluttspillet, som spilles i et single-eliminasjon-format.

**Mest suksessrike lag:**

NEC Red Rockets er det mest suksessrike laget i V-Premier League-historien, med 10 mesterskap. Toray Arrows og Hisamitsu Springs har også vunnet flere mesterskap.

**Kjente spillere:**

Noen av de mest kjente spillerne i V-Premier League inkluderer:

* Saori Kimura
* Yukiko Ebata
* Ai Otomo
* Nanami Hirose
* Haruka Miyashita

V-Premier League er en av de sterkeste kvinnelige volleyballligaene i verden og gir fansen spennende og konkurransedyktig volleyball.