2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's

The 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's is the 29th tournament of the V.League which began from 22 October 2022 to 23 April 2023.

Wolfdogs Nagoya beat defending champion Suntory Sunbirds with straight sets in final match to regain the title of V.League after seven years. Bartosz Kurek was named the MVP of the season. Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler demoted to V.League Division 2 after losing in the V.Challenge match.

Club Personnel 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Club Head coach Captain Province/City Colors Main Sponsor Suntory Sunbirds Kota Yamamura Masaki Oya Minoh, Osaka Suntory Wolfdogs Nagoya Valerio Baldovin Bartosz Kurek Inazawa, Aichi Toyoda Gosei Panasonic Panthers Laurent Tillie Akihiro Yamauchi Hirakata, Osaka Panasonic Toray Arrows Ayumu Shinoda Yudai Minemura Mishima, Shizuoka Toray IndustriesOsaka Blazers Sakai Shinya Chiba Dekita Takashi Sakai, Osaka Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal JT Thunders Hiroshima Raúl Lozano Taishi Onodera Hiroshima, Hiroshima Japan Tobacco JTEKT Stings Federico Fagiani Ryuta Homma Kariya, Aichi JTEKT Tokyo Greatbears Koichiro Shimbo Koga Taichiro Sumida, Tokyo NatureLab Tokyo Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Murray Pole Masato Kubota Oita, Oita The Oita Bank Ltd.VC Nagano Tridents Shinji Kawamura Kohta Ikeda Takamori, Nagano Germo Corporation Ltd.

Transfer players The list of transfer players in the 2022–23 season Player Moving from Moving to Japanese players Hidetomo Hoshino Jakarta BNI 46 Tokyo Great Bears Hirohito Kashimura Suntory Sunbirds Voreas Hokkaido Kazuma Sonae Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents Kento Miyaura JTEKT Stings PSG Stal Nysa Masahiro Sekita Cuprum Lubin JTEKT Stings Masahiro Yanagida Suntory Sunbirds JTEKT Stings Nakano Ryu Saitama Azalea VC Nagano Tridents Shohei Nose Savo Volley Tokyo Great Bears Soshi Fujinaka VC Nagano Tridents Suntory Sunbirds Ryo Shimokawa Hyogo Delfino VC Nagano Tridents Takahiro Tozaki Toray Arrows Tokyo Great Bears Yamagishi Jun VC Nagano Tridents Voreas Hokkaido Yuji Nishida Volley Callipo JTEKT StingsForeign players Aaron Russell Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza JT Thunders Hiroshima Bryan Bagunas Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Win Streak Carlos Alberto Araujo Alahly Benghazi Sports Club VC Nagano Tridents Chen Chien-Chen JT Thunders Hiroshima Safilva Hokkaido Doni Haryono Bogor LavAni VC Nagano Tridents Enock Some Smouha Sporting Club Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Geng Xin Tianjin Food Group Panasonic Panthers Jiang Chuan Beijing BAIC Motor JT Thunders Hiroshima Kantapat Koonmee Diamond Food-Fine Chef Sport Club Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Marck Espejo FC Tokyo Cignal HD Spikers Rafael Araújo Narbonne Volley Tokyo Great Bears Rivan Nurmulki VC Nagano Tridents Bhayangkara Volleyball Club Thomas Edgar JT Thunders Hiroshima Galatasaray HDI Istanbul Tine Urnaut VC Zenit Saint Petersburg JTEKT Stings Wang Dongchen Beijing BAIC Motor Wolfdogs Nagoya Zhang Binglong Beijing BAIC Motor Tokyo Great Bears

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 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Foreign Players Club Player From AVC Suntory Sunbirds Dmitry Muserskiy (CEV) Peng Shikun Wolfdogs Nagoya Bartosz Kurek (CEV) Wang Dongchen Panasonic Panthers Michał Kubiak (CEV) Geng Xin Toray Arrows Krisztián Pádár (CEV) rowspan="2" Osaka Blazers Sakai Sharone Vernon-Evans (NORCECA)JT Thunders Hiroshima Aaron Russell (NORCECA) Jiang Chuan JTEKT Stings Tine Urnaut (CEV) Chen Longhai Tokyo Greatbears Rafael Araújo (CSV) Zhang Binglong Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Enock Some (CAVB) Kantapat KoonmeeVC Nagano Tridents Carlos Alberto Araujo (NORCECA) Doni Haryono

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 Shunichiro Sato Tokai University JTEKT Stings Daigo Iwamoto Waseda University JTEKT StingsRyu YamamotoTokai UniversitySuntory SunbirdsRen OnikiNippon Sport Science UniversitySuntory Sunbirds Tobias Takeshi Waseda University Toray Arrows Tatsunori Otsuka Waseda University Panasonic Panthers Larry Ebadedan-Dan University of Tsukuba Panasonic Panthers Yuga Tarumi University of Tsukuba Panasonic Panthers Keitaro Nishikawa University of Tsukuba Panasonic Panthers Yuki Imahashi Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo Great Bears Takumi Kameyama Juntendo University Tokyo Great Bears Hiroki Koto Chukyo University VC Nagano Tridents Taiga Itoyama Fukuoka University VC Nagano TridentsKosuke YasuiMeiji UniversityOsaka Blazers SakaiNaoto AkimaWaseda UniversityOsaka Blazers Sakai Shigeru Muto Nippon Sport Science University Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Amane Kumagai Fukuoka University Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Kou Yamashita University of East Asia Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Yuji Kudo Meiji University VC Nagano Tridents Shuto Kawaguchi Nippon Sport Science University JT Thunders Hiroshima Taisei Deguchi International Budo University Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

Competition format

Regular round 10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times. Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by: Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate The top four teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage Ranking of 5th to 10th place will be the ranking of the Regular Round and will be the final ranking. The 9th and 10th placed teams will compete in the V.Challenge Match.

Final stage Top 4 teams of Regular Round to compete each other in one robin round to determine rankings. To begin with the Final stage, the winner of regular season will be given 3 points, the 2nd team will be given 2 points, the third one will be given 1 point as advantage. Teams are ranked in the Final Stage by: Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate ->Ranking of Regular Round The 3rd and 4th team of Final Stage will be the final ranking for 3rd and 4th place. The top 2 teams of Final stage to play against each other in a one match Final.

Season standing procedure The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories 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

Results table

Match results All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Matchday 1

Matchday 2

Matchday 3

Matchday 4

Matchday 5

Matchday 6

Matchday 7

Matchday 8

Matchday 9

Matchday 10

Matchday 11

Matchday 12

Matchday 13

Matchday 14

Matchday 15

Matchday 16

Matchday 17

Matchday 18

Matchday 19

Final stage

Final four

* Bonus points of regular round: 1st place–3 point, 2nd place–2 point, 3rd place–1 point, 4th place–0 point.

Matches

Final

Final Match

All-Star

VOM: Bartosz Kurek (Team Billy)

Final standing

RankTeamWolfdogs NagoyaSuntory SunbirdsPanasonic Panthers4Osaka Blazers Sakai5Toray Arrows6JTEKT Stings7JT Thunders Hiroshima8Tokyo Greatbears9VC Nagano Tridents10Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Qualified for the 2024 Asian Club Championship

Awards

Individual awards (technical performance)

Best scorer Krisztián Pádár Best spiker Hiromasa Miwa Best blocker Kentaro Takahashi Best server Aaron Russell Best receiver Kazuma Sonae

Source:

V.League Honour award The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more. (Tokyo Great Bears) (Panasonic Panthers) (JT Thunders Hiroshima) (JTEKT Stings)

Outstanding personal records (vacancy for this season)

Final stage

Most valuable player Bartosz Kurek Fighting spirit award Dmitry Muserskiy Best Six Bartosz Kurek Dmitry Muserskiy Tatsunori Otsuka Ryota Denda Akihiro Yamauchi Masaki Oya Best libero Tomohiro Ogawa Receive award Kenya Fujinaka Best newcomer award (vacancy for this season) Best coach award Valerio Baldovin Matsudaira Yasutaka award Valerio Baldovin Special award Naonobu Fujii

V.Challenge Match

Qualification Division 1 Teams ranked 9th and 10th and Division 2 teams ranked 1st and 2nd.

Teams from Division 2 must obtain S1 license.

Teams from V.1 Teams from V.2VC Nagano TridentsVoreas HokkaidoOita Miyoshi Weisse AdlerFujitsu Kawasaki Red Spirits

Format V1 9th place team vs V2 2nd place team V1 10th place team vs V2 1st place team

Teams to play 2 match system. The winning teams to promote to/ stay in 2023–24 V.League.

The winning team is determined as follow:

Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate -> V.1 Teams

Matches

Group 1

Group 2

Results Promoted to/Stayed in Division 1 Deomoted to/Stayed in Division 2

TeamVC Nagano TridentsVoreas HokkaidoFujitsu Kawasaki Red SpiritsOita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

See also 2022 Emperor's Cup and Empress' Cup 2023 Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament Men's

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