Albanian Volleyball League (Women)

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Albanian Volleyball League
Founded1946
CountryAlbania Albania
ConfederationFIVB
DivisionsAlbanian Volleyball League
Number of teams12 ( six per division )
Level on pyramid1
Current champions
TV partnersTVSH and Supersport (highlights)
WebsiteFacebook

The Albanian Volleyball League for women is a league competition featuring professional women volleyball clubs from Albania. It was founded in 1946 from the Albanian Federation of Volleyball, several days after the latter was formed. It is the top level volleyball league in Albania from its foundation. The team with the most championships are KV Tirana and each with 20 championship trophies won.[1]

The Albanian Volleyball League consists of 12 professional volleyball clubs in Albania and it's one of the oldest volleyball competition in the Balkans having started in 1946. The sport rapidly grew in Albania and by the 70s almost every city and town had its own volleyball club and volleyball field. After communism fell many of the volleyball clubs folded as many players left the country to play for foreign teams. The volleyball attendance decreased and the popularity of this sport fell down worryingly. However, after 1993 volleyball rose up again with many cities re-establishing their teams. Now in Albania there are twelve professional teams while there are plenty of amateur teams ready to enter the league.

Competition[]

The members of the Albanian Volleyball League are grouped in two divisions: Albanian Volleyball League and . Each division has six teams and they have to play four times against each other in two different phases during the regular season. In every phase a club plays each of the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 20 games played per season in the regular season.

After the regular season ends, the top four clubs qualify for the play-offs, where the team placed first faces the one placed fourth while the second and the third-placed teams play each other. From these encounters the team that gets first two victories qualifies while games are played once home, once away until the two victories are reached. The teams that win their encounters qualify for the finals which are played in the clubs' respective grounds; the game will once be played home and once away, depending on the draw. The first team that gets three victories is crowned as champion.

Clubs that win get two points and the ones that lose get one point. At the end of the regular season, the bottom two clubs miss the play-offs. The bottom club gets relegated while the fifth-placed club will play the second-placed club of the . The team that wins the play-out has the right to play in Albanian Volleyball League.

Winners[]

These are the winners of the Albanian Volleyball League

Season Champion
1946 17 Nëntori
1947 Vllaznia Shkodër
1948 17 Nëntori
1949 Teuta
1950 17 Nëntori
1951 17 Nëntori
1952 17 Nëntori
1953
1954
1955 17 Nëntori
1956
1957 Vllaznia Shkodër
1958 Skënderbeu Korçë
1959 17 Nëntori
1960 Vllaznia Shkodër
1961 17 Nëntori
1962 17 Nëntori
1963 17 Nëntori (*)
1964 17 Nëntori
1965 Flamurtari Vlorë
1966 17 Nëntori
1967 17 Nëntori
1969 17 Nëntori
1970
1971
1972 Skënderbeu Korçë
1973 Skënderbeu Korçë
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983 (*)
1984
1985 Skënderbeu Korçë
1986 Skënderbeu Korçë
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992 Tirana
1993
1994 Tirana
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999 Teuta
2000 Teuta
2001 Teuta
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006 Teuta
2007 (**)
2008 Tirana
2009 Tirana
2010 Tirana
2011
2012
2013 Tirana (**)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 cancelled due to pandemic
2021


Trophy Ranking[]

KV Tirana 20 times

20 times

5 times

Skënderbeu Korçë 5 times

Teuta 4 times

4 times

4 times

4 times

Vllaznia Shkodër 3 times

2 times

Flamurtari Vlorë 1 time


See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Giovanni Armillotta for the Albanian Volleyball

External links[]

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