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.
Voreas Hokkaido is promoted to V.League Division 1 after winning the 2022–23 V.League Division 2.
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 IndustriesNippon 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 TokyoVC Nagano Tridents Shinji Kawamura Kohta Ikeda Takamori, Nagano Melco Holdings INC. Voreas Hokkaido Edo Klein Asahikawa, Hokkaido Voreas, INC.
Transfer players The list of transfer players in the 2023–24 season Player Moving from Moving to Japanese players Yuma Nagatomo Tokyo Great Bears Fragolad Kagoshima Issei Maeda Wolfdogs Nagoya JT Thunders Hiroshima Taishi Onodera JT Thunders Hiroshima Suntory Sunbirds Akihiro Fukatsu Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers Tokyo Great Bears Shohei Nose Tokyo Great Bears SWD Powervolleys Düren Wataru Taniguchi Tokyo Great Bears Pallavolo Padova Shunsuke Watanabe Dinamo București Toray Arrows Ryu Yamamoto Suntory Sunbirds Dinamo București Masahiro Yanagida JTEKT Stings Tokyo Great Bears Cole Hogland Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers Dai Tezuka Toray Arrows JTEKT Stings Yuji Nishida JTEKT Stings Panasonic Panthers Tomohiro Yamamoto Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers Panasonic Panthers Shohei Ono Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents Shota Fujiwara Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents Kosuke Hata Suntory Sunbirds JTEKT Stings Takahiko Imamura Panasonic Panthers Kladno volejbal cz Hiromasa Miwa VC Nagano Tridents JT Thunders Hiroshima Kenta Koga Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Voreas Hokkaido Kandai Goto Biwako Seikei Sport College Tokyo Great Bears Kenshi Morisaki VC Nagano Tridents Reve's Tochigi Ito Tatsuki VC Nagano Tridents Hokkaido Yellow Stars Kota Yamada Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Hokkaido Yellow Stars Hirohito Kashimura Voreas Hokkaido Suntory Sunbirds Kouhei Yanagisawa JTEKT Stings Diamond Food VC Koki Yonemura Hokkaido Yellow Stars Voreas HokkaidoForeign players Rao Shuhan Shanghai Bright JTEKT Stings Thomas Jaeschke Halkbank Ankara Panasonic Panthers Xiu Chengcheng Shanghai Bright VC Nagano Tridents Xu Ke Bao Ding Toray Arrows Michał Kubiak Panasonic Panthers Shanghai Bright Yu Yuantai Al Arabi Suntory Sunbirds Carlos Alberto Araujo VC Nagano Tridents Enosis Anagennisi Deryneias Trent O'Dea Canberra Heat VC Nagano Tridents
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) Toray Arrows Krisztián Pádár (CEV) Xu Ke Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers Sharone Vernon-Evans (NORCECA) JT Thunders Hiroshima Aaron Russell (NORCECA) Jiang Chuan JTEKT Stings Tine Urnaut (CEV) Rao Shuhan Tokyo Greatbears Rafael Araújo (CSV) VC Nagano Tridents Trent O'Dea Xiu Chengcheng Voreas Hokkaido 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
Competition format The competition format was approved and released to the public.
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
Results table TBA
Match results All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Matchday 1
Matchday 2
Final stage
Quarterfinals
5th place match
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final standing
RankTeamSuntory SunbirdsPanasonic PanthersToray Arrows4JT Thunders5Wolfdogs Nagoya6Osaka Blazers Sakai7Tokyo Great Bears8JTEKT Stings9Voreas Hokkaido10VC Nagano Tridents Qualified for the 2025 Asian Club Championship
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
References
External links