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Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.

The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically, the first two touches are used to set up for an attack. An attack is an attempt to direct the ball back over the net in such a way that the team receiving the ball is unable to pass the ball and continue the rally, thus, losing the point. The team that wins the rally is awarded a point and serves the ball to start the next rally. A few of the most common faults include: (Full article...)

General articles

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  The qualification for 2004 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 7 September 2003 to 30 May 2004. (Full article...)
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  Beach volleyball is an optional sport at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games. It first appeared at the 2018 Games with both men's and women's contests, followed by a second time at the 2022 Games. It is scheduled for a third time at the 2026 Games. (Full article...)
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  The Men's European Volleyball League is a continental volleyball competition senior men's national volleyball teams of Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). Created in 2004, the competition serves as a qualifying tournament for the FIVB World League (until 2016) and its successor the FIVB Challenger Cup since 2018.
  
  This event should not be confused with the other, more prestigious, continental competition for European national volleyball teams, the European Volleyball Championship. (Full article...)
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  The Croatian 1-A Volleyball League is the highest level of volleyball competition in Croatia. It is organized by the Croatian Volleyball Federation. It was founded in 1992. (Full article...)
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  This article shows the roster of all participating teams at the 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 21 players, which every week's 14-player roster must be selected from. Each country must declare its 14-player roster two days before the start of each week's round-robin competition. (Full article...)
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  The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Beijing, China from 10 to 24 August 2008.
  
  The twelve competing teams were split equally into two pools of six teams. Each team played all other teams in their pool with the winning team gaining 2 points and the losing side 1 point. The top four teams from each pool progressed through to the quarterfinals. The rest of the tournament was a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match held between the two semifinal losers. (Full article...)
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  The New Zealand Volleyball League is the major national volleyball competition for men in New Zealand, established in 1968. It is organized by New Zealand Volleyball Federation (VNZ). (Full article...)
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  The Boys' U17 South American Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national volleyball teams with players under 17 years, currently held biannually and organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV), the South American volleyball federation. (Full article...)
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  The Top Volleyball League (Chinese: 企業排球聯賽), literally 'Enterprise Volleyball League', often abbreviated to the TVL, is the top-tier amateur men's and women's volleyball leagues run by Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association (CTVA). It was founded in 2004 with the purpose of increasing Taiwan's competition ability in volleyball. CTVA plans to make the league become semi-professional or professional in the future. (Full article...)
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  The 2018 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international women's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World Grand Prix in the international calendar. The competition was held between May and July 2018, and the final round took place in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, China.
  
  Six-time World Grand Prix winners, United States won the inaugural edition, defeating Turkey in five sets on the final. This was Turkey's first ever final on a senior world-level premier competition (World Championship, World Cup, Summer Olympic Games and the aforementioned Grand Prix). Reigning Olympic champions and host nation, China defeated 12-time Grand Prix champions Brazil in straight sets for the bronze medal. Michelle Bartsch-Hackley from USA was elected the MVP. (Full article...)
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  The following teams and players took part in the men's volleyball tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona. (Full article...)
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  Beach volleyball competition has been in the Universiade in 2011 and 2013 as optional sport. (Full article...)
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  The Italian Women's Volleyball League Serie A1 (Italian: Serie A1 italiana di pallavolo femminile), is the highest women's volleyball league in Italy. It is organized and administered by the Italian Volleyball Federation (FIPAV). It is considered one of the oldest women's top national leagues in European volleyball, being established in 1946, and its clubs have achieved significant success in the continental European club competitions. (Full article...)
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  The Brazilian Volleyball Super League (Portuguese: Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol) is the top level Brazilian professional volleyball competition. It is organized by the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation. It shares the same name with the women's tournament, and are disputed simultaneously. The number of participating clubs varies every year. The champion team qualifies for the South American Championship. Vôlei Natal, who play at the 10,000-capacity Ginásio Nélio Dias, are the current champions. (Full article...)
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  The Albanian Volleyball League is the top flight professional volleyball league competition in Albania, which currently features 7 clubs in 1 division. The league was founded in 1946, shortly after the formation of the Albanian Federation of Volleyball (FSHV) and it has remained the top flight men's volleyball competition in the country ever since. Dinamo Tirana have won the most championship titles with 25, but they have won just 2 titles since 1991, as Studenti later became a dominant club in the country, winning 14 out of a possible 18 titles between 2000 and 2016.
  
  The league currently consists of 9 clubs in 1 division, but other formats have been used such as a division consisting of 7 clubs, as well as 2 divisions consisting of 12 clubs. Having started in 1946, it is one of the oldest and longest running volleyball competitions Balkans, and the sport experiences its peak in popularity during the Communist era in the 70s and 80s. Since the fall of communism in Albania in 1991 many volleyball clubs struggled to remain active due to a lack of funding, which led to the decline in the popularity of the sport as a whole in the country. However, since 1993 there has been some re-establishment of clubs that had previously folded, as private investment along with some state funded has allowed some of these clubs to continue functioning. (Full article...)
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  The Superliga de Voleibol Masculina, (SVM) is the top level of the Spanish volleyball. The championship was founded in 1983. Formerly known as Campeonato Nacional de División de Honor Masculina, and, since 1983 as the current name. The administration of the league is carried out by the Real Federación Española de Voleibol. (Full article...)
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  The A Grupė is highest level of women's volleyball club tournament in Lithuania. Current champions is Achema-KKSC from Jonava. (Full article...)
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  The 2018 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, a new annual international men's volleyball tournament contested by 16 national teams that replaced the former World League in the international calendar. The competition was held between May and July 2018, and the final round took place in the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Lille metropolitan area, France.
  
  South Korea were the last placed challenger team after the preliminary round and were replaced by 2018 Challenger Cup winners Portugal in the 2019 edition. (Full article...)
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  The Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship is a biennial competition contested by the under-18 women's national teams of the Asian Volleyball Confederation as part of the Asian Youth Volleyball Championship. The competition broke its biennial design only in 2008, a year after it held its 2007 competition in Kamphaeng Phet, and in 2018, following the holding of a competition in 2017 in Chongqing after the tournament skipped the year 2016. It formerly carried the title Asian Youth Women's Volleyball Championship (in the tournament's 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions), the Asian Youth Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 4th-9th editions), and the Asian Girls' Volleyball Championship (in the 10th and 11th editions, with the difference that the 10th edition, like the 9th edition, labeled the tournament as a U17 championship, while the 11th edition touted it as a U18 one, like the 8th edition).
  
  In 2018, the championship's 12th edition now carried the title Asian Women's U17 Volleyball Championship, which, despite its use of the gendered possessive determiner "Women's" for its title, had lowered the age group back to U17. The tournament's age group would be reverted back to U18 in 2022, however, in accordance with decisions made during the March 21–22, 2022, FIVB Board of Administration meeting, which considered it important for the representative women's age-group teams from Asia to compete in the FIVB Age Group Championships in 2023. The board announced the adjustment of all 2022 Age Group Championships to align themselves with the 2023 FIVB age-group categories per gender of Under-19 and Under-21 for both genders, and thus the top 4 teams of the 2022 Asian Women's U18 Volleyball Championship qualified for the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship. (Full article...)
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  The FIVB Volleyball Girls' U19 World Championship is the world championship of volleyball for female players under the age of 19 organized by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). It was held in U18 age group until 2021.
  
  The first edition was staged in 1989 in Curitiba, Brazil and tournaments have been played every two years since then. The most recent tournament was hosted by Croatia and Hungary and won by United States. (Full article...)
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  Elitserien (Swedish: Elitserien i volleyboll för damer) is the Swedish women's volleyball top division. The regular season usually takes place from October to late February or early March and is followed up by play-offs to determine the Swedish national champion. (Full article...)

Did you know (auto-generated)

• ... that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
• ... that Turkish carom billiards champion Güzin Müjde Karakaşlı grew up playing volleyball for about 12 years?
• ... that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston, Zoe Fleck, and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022?
• ... that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated Lichtenstein?
• ... that the USC Trojans team that won the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had been compared to the Marvel Comics' Avengers?
• ... that Canadian pentathlon champion J. Howard Crocker introduced volleyball to China?

International volleyball

Selected volleyball images

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  Volleyball positions
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  Team handshake at a Polish volleyball match
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  Tactics: Receiving serve
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  Variants; World footvolley championships, 2010
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  Play in progress: Final of the Volleyball French Cup, 2013
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  An official signals "ball out"
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  Tactics: Defence
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  Play in progress: The attack or "spike"
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  Volleyball scoreboard (United States)
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  Play in progress: International match Italy vs. Russia, 2005
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  Tactics: Serve
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  Variants: Beach volleyball at the 2016 Rio Olympics
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  Volleyball court
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  Variants: Sitting volleyball at the 2012 Paralympics
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  Play in progress: The "set" (second contact), Iran vs. Japan, Olympic qualification match 2016
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  Tactics: The "libero" (defence player)
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  Tactics: Team practising passing
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  Tactics: Kill against three blockers
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  Tactics: Jump serve

Current and recent events

• 2019 Asian Championship – Men's • Women's
• 2019 European Championship – Men's • Women's
• 2019 South American Championship – Men's • Women's
• 2019 FIVB World Cup – Men's • Women's
• 2019–20 CEV Champions League (Women's) • CEV Cup (Women's) • CEV Challenge Cup (Women's)
• 2020 Olympics • 2020 Paralympics
• 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship
• 2020 FIVB Nations League Men's • Women's

Volleyball terms

• Ace : A serve which lands in the opponent's court without being touched, or is touched, but unable to be kept in play by one or more receiving team players.
• Assist : Usually the second of a team's three contacts, an assist is awarded for any set ball that results in a kill on the ensuing attack.
• Attack : Usually the third of a team's three contacts, an attack is any attempt by the offense to score a point against the defense (this does not include free balls or over-passes).
• Stack Blocking : A blocking strategy where the front row players start close to each other at the center of the net, leaving space for swing blocking out to the pins.
• Cut / Cut shot : attack with an extreme angle (nearly parallel to the net).
• Dig : A defensive contact following an opponent's attack resulting in a playable ball.

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Beach volleyball images

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  US women's team has cited several advantages to bikini uniforms, such as comfort while playing on sand during hot weather. Photo shows US national team players (Jennifer Fopma (left) and Brooke Sweat) in their uniforms. (from Beach volleyball)
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  A player jump serving (from Beach volleyball)
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  Dancers during a match at the 2012 FIVB Moscow Grand Slam (from Beach volleyball)
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  A beach volleyball game between members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party at Key West, Florida in 1950 (from Beach volleyball)
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  A beach volleyball referee determines if a fault has been committed. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Open-handed tips/dinks are not allowed. Players may instead use their knuckles to attack the ball for a "pokey" shot. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Olympics 2016 tournament (from Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics)
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  Unlike indoor volleyball, a touch off the block counts as one of the three allowed touches. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Horse Guards Parade beach volleyball stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (from Beach volleyball)
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  A beach volleyball game in Tanna, Vanuatu (2009) (from Beach volleyball)
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  Phil Dalhausser attempts to block Fábio Luiz Magalhães's attack (from Beach volleyball)
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  The Horse Guards Parade hosted the 2012 tournament. (from Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics)
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  A linesman signals that a ball is "in" (from Beach volleyball)
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  Unlike indoor volleyball, beach volleyball is played on soft sand which makes it safer for players to dive. Picture shows Nick Lucena of the United States diving to "dig" the ball. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Brazil's Emanuel Rego signals for an "angle" block for the opposing player on the left and a "line" block for the opposing player on the right (from Beach volleyball)
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  Mikasa VLS300, official ball for the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (from Beach volleyball)
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  A beach volleyball match at the 2008 Summer Olympics (from Beach volleyball)
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  A women's match at the 2017 Hermosa Beach Open, one of the tournaments in the AVP tour. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Public beach volleyball courts in Santa Monica, where the modern two-man version originated. (from Beach volleyball)
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  The USC Trojans women's beach volleyball team poses with the National Championship trophy after winning the inaugural 2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst at the 2000 tournament. (from Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics)
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  Brazil's Maria Antonelli making a forearm pass, also known as a bump (from Beach volleyball)
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  Officials keep score during a beach volleyball match at the 2017 Canada Summer Games (from Beach volleyball)
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  Ágatha Bednarczuk embraces the home crowd after the 2016 final. (from Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics)
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  Beach volleyball players at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, ca. 1915 (from Beach volleyball)
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  Dalhausser and Rogers celebrate their gold medal win in 2008 with George W. Bush (from Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics)
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  Two opposing players simultaneously contact the ball above the net with open hands, known as a "joust". The receiving team is entitled to another three contacts. (from Beach volleyball)
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  Germany's Sara Goller (left) and Laura Ludwig with blue kinesio tape. (from Beach volleyball)
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  A player hand sets the ball (from Beach volleyball)

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Mikasa VLS300 official beach volleyball

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• And in the most profound place where land, sea and sky are one - there ye shall play volleyball. – Simon Munnery
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