2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's

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
LeagueV.League Division 1
SportVolleyball
Duration14 October 2023 – 31 March 2024
Number of games187
Number of teams10
TV partner(s)V.TV by Easy sports
Gaora Sports
Fuji TV
Regular round
Final stage
ChampionsSuntory Sunbirds
  Runners-upPanasonic Panthers
Men's V.League Division 1 seasons
2024–25 →

Voreas Hokkaido is promoted to V.League Division 1 after winning the 2022–23 V.League Division 2.[4]

Club

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Personnel

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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

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The list of transfer players in the 2023–24 season
Player Moving from Moving to Ref.
Japanese players
  Yuma Nagatomo   Tokyo Great Bears   Fragolad Kagoshima [5]
  Issei Maeda   Wolfdogs Nagoya   JT Thunders Hiroshima [6]
  Taishi Onodera   JT Thunders Hiroshima   Suntory Sunbirds [7]
  Akihiro Fukatsu   Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers   Tokyo Great Bears [8]
  Shohei Nose   Tokyo Great Bears   SWD Powervolleys Düren [9]
  Wataru Taniguchi   Tokyo Great Bears   Pallavolo Padova [10]
  Shunsuke Watanabe   Dinamo București   Toray Arrows [11]
  Ryu Yamamoto   Suntory Sunbirds   Dinamo București [12]
  Masahiro Yanagida   JTEKT Stings   Tokyo Great Bears [13]
  Cole Hogland   Hawaii Rainbow Warriors   Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers [14]
  Dai Tezuka   Toray Arrows   JTEKT Stings [15]
  Yuji Nishida   JTEKT Stings   Panasonic Panthers [16]
  Tomohiro Yamamoto   Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers   Panasonic Panthers [17]
  Shohei Ono   Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler   VC Nagano Tridents [18]
  Shota Fujiwara   Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler   VC Nagano Tridents [18]
  Kosuke Hata   Suntory Sunbirds   JTEKT Stings [19]
  Takahiko Imamura   Panasonic Panthers   Kladno volejbal cz [20]
  Hiromasa Miwa   VC Nagano Tridents   JT Thunders Hiroshima [21]
  Kenta Koga   Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler   Voreas Hokkaido [22]
  Kandai Goto[a]   Biwako Seikei Sport College   Tokyo Great Bears [23]
  Kenshi Morisaki   VC Nagano Tridents   Reve's Tochigi
  Ito Tatsuki   VC Nagano Tridents   Hokkaido Yellow Stars [24]
  Kota Yamada   Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler   Hokkaido Yellow Stars [25]
  Hirohito Kashimura   Voreas Hokkaido   Suntory Sunbirds [26]
  Kouhei Yanagisawa   JTEKT Stings   Diamond Food VC [27]
  Koki Yonemura   Hokkaido Yellow Stars   Voreas Hokkaido [28]
Foreign players
  Rao Shuhan   Shanghai Bright   JTEKT Stings [15]
  Thomas Jaeschke   Halkbank Ankara   Panasonic Panthers [29]
  Xiu Chengcheng   Shanghai Bright   VC Nagano Tridents [18]
  Xu Ke   Bao Ding   Toray Arrows [30]
  Michał Kubiak   Panasonic Panthers   Shanghai Bright
  Yu Yuantai   Al Arabi   Suntory Sunbirds [31]
  Carlos Alberto Araujo   VC Nagano Tridents   Enosis Anagennisi Deryneias
  Trent O'Dea   Canberra Heat   VC Nagano Tridents [32]

Foreign players

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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

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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

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The competition format was approved and released to the public.[1]

Regular round

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  1. 10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times.
  2. Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by:
    • Winning percentages ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate
  3. The top six teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage
  4. Ranking of 7th to 10th place ranking of the Regular Round is the final ranking.
  5. As 2024–25 season will be reformed into S-V League, so there will be no relegation in this season.

Final stage

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  1. Top 6 teams of Regular Round to complete in a tournament format.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. All matches will be 5-set matches.


Season standing procedure

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  1. The teams will be ranked by the winning percentages
  2. 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
  3. 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

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Regular round standing

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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

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TBA


Match results

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Matchday 1

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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
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Matchday 2

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Final stage

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Quarterfinals

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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

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Individual awards (technical performance)

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  • Best scorer
  • Best spiker
  • Best blocker
  • Best server
  • Best receiver

V.League Honour award

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The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more , 230 games or more.

Outstanding personal records

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Final stage

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  • Most valuable player
  • Fighting spirit award
  • Best Six
  • Best libero
  • Receive award
  • Best newcomer award
  • Best coach award
  • Matsudaira Yasutaka award

Notes

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  1. ^ For season 2023–24 only

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