2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men Explained

2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's
League:	V.League Division 1
Sport:	Volleyball
Duration:	October 26, 2019 – February 29, 2020
No Of Teams:	10
No Of Games:	135 (Regular round) 4 (Final stage)
Attendance:	216,564
Season:	2019–2020
Season Champs:	JTEKT Stings
Mvp:	Yuji Nishida
Top Scorer:	Yuji Nishida
Finals Runner-Up:	Panasonic Panthers
Seasonslistnames:	Men's V.League Division 1
Prevseason Year:	2018–19
Nextseason Year:	2020–21

The Volleyball 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's was the 26th tournament of the V.League and the highest level men's tournament in Japan, which was held from October 26, 2019 – February 29, 2020.^[1]

Clubs

Personnel

style=background:navy colspan=8	2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's Personnel
Club	Head Coach	Captain	Province/City	Colors	Main Sponsor
Suntory Sunbirds	Masaji Ogino	Kentaro Hoshiya	Minoh, Osaka	align=center		Suntory
Panasonic Panthers	Mauricio Paes	Hideomi Fukatsu	Hirakata, Osaka	align=center		Panasonic
Wolf Dogs Nagoya	Tommi Tiilikainen	Koichiro Koga	Inazawa	align=center		Toyoda Machine Works
JTEKT Stings	Shinji Takahashi	Ryuta Homma	Kariya, Aichi	align=center		JTEKT
Toray Arrows	Shinoda Ayumu	Hidetomo Hoshino	Mishima, Shizuoka	align=center		Toray Industries
JT Thunders	Tine Sattler	Shohei Yamamoto	Hiroshima, Hiroshima	align=center		Japan Tobacco
Osaka Blazers Sakai	Gordon Mayforth		Sakai, Osaka	align=center		Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
FC Tokyo	Koichiro Shimbo	Yuma Nagatomo	Sumida, Tokyo	align=center		Tokyo Gas
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Takashi Ogawa	Kouki Komeda	Oita, Oita	align=center		The Oita Bank Ltd.
VC Nagano Tridents	Ahmad Masajedi	Tsubasa Osada	Takamori, Nagano	align=center		Jermo Corporation Ltd.

Transfer players

The list of transfer players in the 2019–20 season^[2]
Player	Moving from	Moving to
Japanese players
Tatsuya Fukuzawa	Panasonic Panthers	Paris Volley
Shun Wanabe	JTEKT Stings	Vardar Skopje	^[3]
Yuki Hirose	JTEKT Stings
Yamato Fushimi	Toray Arrows	JTEKT Stings	^[4] ^[5]
Shunsuke Watanabe	Toray Arrows		^[6]
Masato Kubota		Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[7]
Shintaro Tajiri		Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[8]
Foreign players
Ji Daoshuai	Shandong Volleyball	Suntory Sunbirds	^[9]
Chien-Chen Chen	Panasonic Panthers	JT Thunders	^[10]
Hung-Min Liu		Panasonic Panthers
Valentin Bratoev	JTEKT Stings	Al Arabi S.C	^[11]
Zhen Qin	JTEKT Stings	Shanghai Golden Age
Shuhan Rao	Shanghai Golden Age	JTEKT Stings	^[12]
Matey Kaziyski	NBV Verona	JTEKT Stings
Igor Omrčen	Wolf Dogs Nagoya	OK Split
Hong-Jie Liu		Wolf Dogs Nagoya	^[13]
Mitja Gasparini	Incheon Korean Air Jumbos	Wolf Dogs Nagoya
Nikola Gjorgiev	Osaka Blazers Sakai	VfB Friedrichshafen
Maurice Torres	Mets de Guaynabo	Osaka Blazers Sakai
Liu Libin	JT Thunders	Beijing BAIC Motor
Jason DeRocco	FC Tokyo	Al Ahly SC
Petar Premović	Kioene Padova	FC Tokyo	^[14]
Artem Kiselev	VC Nagano Tridents	Gazprom-Ugra Surgut
Patryk Strzeżek	Lindemans Aalst	VC Nagano Tridents
Marck Espejo	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Visakha	^[15]
Bryan Bagunas	Philippine Air Force	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[16]
Yves Mutabazi	Niksar Belediyesi	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[17]

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.

style=background:purple colspan=3	The list of 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's Foreign Players
Club	Player	From AVC
Suntory Sunbirds	Dmitry Muserskiy (CEV)	Ji Daoshuai
Panasonic Panthers	Michał Kubiak (CEV)	Hung-Min Liu
Wolf Dogs Nagoya	Mitja Gasparini (CEV)	Hong-Jie Liu
JTEKT Stings	Matey Kaziyski (CEV)	Rao Shuhan
Toray Arrows	Antonin Rouzier (CEV)	Aung Thu
JT Thunders		Chien-Chen Chen Thomas Edgar
Osaka Blazers Sakai	Maurice Torres (NORCECA)
FC Tokyo	Petar Premović (CEV)
VC Nagano Tridents	Patryk Strzeżek (CEV)
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Yakan Guma (CAVB)	Bryan Bagunas

Withdrawn and retired players

The list of withdrawn and retired players that officially announced the withdrawal or retirement since April 2019 to February 2020.^[18]

The list of withdrawn and retired players in the 2019–20 season
Date	Player	2019–20 Club	Note
7 May 2019	Yuta Abe	Toray Arrows	Retired from being Player-coach. Transferred to full time coach assistant.	^[19] ^[20]
31 May 2019	Tatsuya Yoneyama	Suntory Sunbirds	Retired	^[21] ^[22]
31 May 2019	HIdeaki Okamoto	Wolf Dogs Nagoya	Retired
	Masayuki Ikeda	Panasonic Panthers	Retired	^[23]
	Shinichi Seino	JTEKT Stings	Retired	^[24]
	Kosuke Matsubara	JTEKT Stings	Retired
	Shohei Nose	FC Tokyo	Withdrew, due to the injury	^[25]
19 July 2019	Naoto Tomita	FC Tokyo	Withdrew, due to the injury	^[26]
13 September 2019		FC Tokyo	Withdrew, due to the injury	^[27] ^[28]
2 December 2019	Hiroki Fujita	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Withdrew	^[29]
6 January 2020	Tomoya Tsujiguchi	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Withdrew	^[30]
20 February 2020	Tomoya Tsujiguchi	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Retired	^[31]
20 February 2020	Hiroki Fujita	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Retired

Informal players

An informal player is a trainee who came in the team and has not registered as V.League player yet. Mostly, the player still is in the last year of university or high school.

The list of Japanese informal players in the 2019–20 season
Club	Player	University / High school
Suntory Sunbirds	Hiroki Nishida	Hosei University	^[32]
Suntory Sunbirds	Yuito Takahashi	University of Tsukuba
Suntory Sunbirds	Tatsuki Kashiwada	Senshu University
Toray Arrows	Shoma Tomita	Chuo University
Toray Arrows	Hiroki Ozawa	University of Tsukuba
Toray Arrows	Takumi Yamaguchi	University of Tsukuba
Osaka Blazers Sakai	Tomohiro Horie	Waseda University
FC Tokyo	Tetsuya Muto	Waseda University	^[33]
FC Tokyo	Koga Matsuda	Fukuoka University
VC Nagano Tridents	Ryusuke Nakamura	Juntendo University	^[34]
VC Nagano Tridents	Tatsuki Ito	Tokai University
VC Nagano Tridents	Yudai Kawahigashi	Nippon Sport Science University
VC Nagano Tridents	Taihei Hazama	University of Toyama
VC Nagano Tridents	Masaya Kado	Juntendo University

Squads

See main article: article and 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's squads.

Season standing procedure

1. The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: the most point gained per match as follows:
3. 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
4. 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

Leg 1

Week 1

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Shimabara	Nagoya	Matsumoto
Shimabara Reconstruction Arena	Takeda Teva Ocean Arena	Matsumoto City Gymnasium
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler JT Thunders Toray Arrows Osaka Blazers Sakai	Wolf Dogs Nagoya Suntory Sunbirds JTEKT Stings FC Tokyo	VC Nagano Tridents Panasonic Panthers

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 2

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Fukuyama	Fukui	Tajimi
	Fukui Prefectural Gymnasium
JT Thunders FC Tokyo Suntory Sunbirds Osaka Blazers Sakai	Panasonic Panthers Toray Arrows Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents	Wolf Dogs Nagoya JTEKT Stings

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 3

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Kitakyushu	Sumida	Ehime
Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium	Sumida City Gymnasium	Ehime Prefecture Budokan
Osaka Blazers Sakai Wolf Dogs Nagoya JT Thunders JTEKT Stings	FC Tokyo Panasonic Panthers Suntory Sunbirds VC Nagano Tridents	Toray Arrows Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 4

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Matsumoto	Shizuoka	Sendai
Matsumoto City Gymnasium	Konohana Arena	Kamei Arena Sendai
Panasonic Panthers JT Thunders VC Nagano Tridents Osaka Blazers Sakai	Toray Arrows Wolf Dogs Nagoya JTEKT Stings Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Suntory Sunbirds FC Tokyo

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 5

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Kariya	Sakai	Ōta
Wing Arena Kariya	Sakai City Kanaoka Park Gymnasium	Ota City General Gymnasium
Wolf Dogs Nagoya VC Nagano Tridents JTEKT Stings Panasonic Panthers	Osaka Blazers Sakai JT Thunders	Suntory Sunbirds Toray Arrows FC Tokyo Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Leg 2

Week 1

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Kure	Ina	Komaki
Kure City General Gymnasium	ELECOM Logitech Arena	Park Arena Komaki
JT Thunders FC Tokyo Toray Arrows JTEKT Stings	VC Nagano Tridents Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Wolf Dogs Nagoya Osaka Blazers Sakai Panasonic Panthers Suntory Sunbirds

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 2

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Matsumoto	Wakayama	Tokyo
Matsumoto City Gymnasium	Wakayama Big Whale	Komazawa Gymnasium
JTEKT Stings Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents JT Thunders	Osaka Blazers Sakai Suntory Sunbirds	FC Tokyo Panasonic Panthers Toray Arrows Wolf Dogs Nagoya

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 3

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Beppu	Tokushima	Hirakata
Beppu B-con Plaza	Asty Tokushima	Panasonic Arena
FC Tokyo VC Nagano Tridents Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Toray Arrows	JTEKT Stings Suntory Sunbirds JT Thunders Osaka Blazers Sakai	Wolf Dogs Nagoya Panasonic Panthers

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 4

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Hiroshima	Mishima	Nagoya
Higashi Hiroshima Athletic Park Gymnasium	Mishima City Gymnasium	Takeda Teva Ocean Arena
	JTEKT Stings JT Thunders	Toray Arrows Osaka Blazers Sakai Suntory Sunbirds FC Tokyo	Wolf Dogs Nagoya VC Nagano Tridents Panasonic Panthers Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 5

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Hiroshima	Kumamoto	Sumida
Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center	Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium	Sumida City Gymnasium
JT Thunders Panasonic Panthers Wolf Dogs Nagoya JTEKT Stings	Suntory Sunbirds Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Osaka Blazers Sakai VC Nagano Tridents	Toray Arrows FC Tokyo

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Leg 3

Week 1

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Kashihara	Okinawa	Ichinomiya
JTEKT Arena Nara	Okinawa City Gymnasium	DIADORA Arena
Toray Arrows FC Tokyo JTEKT Stings VC Nagano Tridents	JT Thunders Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Panasonic Panthers Osaka Blazers Sakai	Wolf Dogs Nagoya Suntory Sunbirds

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week2

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Ōta	Hirakata	Minato-ku
Ota City General Gymnasium	Panasonic Arena	Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler Osaka Blazers Sakai	Toray Arrows JT Thunders Panasonic Panthers VC Nagano Tridents	Suntory Sunbirds FC Tokyo JTEKT Stings	Wolf Dogs Nagoya

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 3

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Kariya	Shizuoka	Komaki
Wing Arena Kariya	Konohana Arena	Park Arena Komaki
JTEKT Stings FC Tokyo	Toray Arrows Osaka Blazers Sakai Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler VC Nagano Tridents	JT Thunders Panasonic Panthers Suntory Sunbirds Wolf Dogs Nagoya

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 4

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Sakai	Otsu	Okayama
Sakai City Kanaoka Park Gymnasium	Shiga Prefectural Gymnasium	Zip Arena Okayama
Osaka Blazers Sakai Wolf Dogs Nagoya Suntory Sunbirds Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Toray Arrows VC Nagano Tridents	JTEKT Stings FC Tokyo JT Thunders Panasonic Panthers

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Week 5

Stadium

width=25%	Stadium 1	width=25%	Stadium 2	width=25%	Stadium 3
Matsumoto	Kashihara	Okayama
Matsumoto City Gymnasium	JTEKT Arena Nara	Tottori Prefectural Fuse Sports Park Athletics Stadium
Toray Arrows Suntory Sunbirds VC Nagano Tridents Wolf Dogs Nagoya	FC Tokyo Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler JTEKT Stings Osaka Blazers Sakai	JT Thunders Panasonic Panthers

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

Final Stage

Game 1 (5th place playoff)

Procedure

The 5th place of Regular Round will compete against the 4th place, the winner will pass to the 4th place playoff

Result

Game 2 (4th place playoff)

Procedure

The winner of Game 1 will compete against the 3rd place of Regular Round, the winner will pass to the Semifinal Round

Result

Semifinal (3rd place playoff)

Procedure

The winner of Game 2 will compete against the 2nd place of Regular Round, the winner will pass to the Final Round

Result

Final

The final match was held without spectators due to COVID-19 pandemic.^[35]

Result

Final standing

width=40	Rank	width=240	Team
	JTEKT Stings
	Panasonic Panthers
	Suntory Sunbirds
4	JT Thunders
5	Osaka Blazers Sakai
6	Toray Arrows
7	Wolf Dogs Nagoya
8	FC Tokyo
9	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler
10	VC Nagano Tridents

Awards

The list of awards which distributed at the end of the season^[36]

Individual

Most Valuable Player

• Yuji Nishida

Winner Head Coach

• Shinji Takahashi

Fighting-spirit

• Kunihiro Shimizu

Top scorer

• Yuji Nishida

Best Spiker

• Taishi Onodera

Best Blocker

• Taishi Onodera

Best Server

• Yuji Nishida

Best Serve Receiver

• 

Best Receiver

• 

Best 6

• Yuji Nishida
• Michał Kubiak
• Dmitry Muserskiy
• Rao Shuhan
• Taishi Onodera
• Hideomi Fukatsu

Best Libero

• Ryuta Homma

Best New Player

• 

Special Award

V.League Honor AwardThe award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more. Except for Takeshi Nagano who received 10 or more individual awards.

• 
• 
• Kunihiro Shimizu
• 
• Takeshi Nagano

See also

• 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Women's

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: 2019-20V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 MEN開幕記者会見を開催 . 5 November 2021 . vleague.jp . ja.
2. Web site: 0205sekikouji_all men.pdf . vleague.jp . JVA . 14 December 2021 . ja.
3. News: 渡邉峻選手 海外移籍のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . www.jtekt-stings.jp . . ja.
4. News: 選手入部のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . www.jtekt-stings.jp . . ja.
5. News: 退団選手について(ご報告) . 14 December 2021 . www.toray-arrows.jp . . ja.
6. News: 渡辺選手退団コメントについて . 14 December 2021 . www.toray-arrows.jp . . ja.
7. News: 新加入選手のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . . ja.
8. News: 新加入選手のお知らせ！. 14 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . . ja.
9. News: 季道帥(ジー・ダオスワイ)選手　入団のお知らせ . www.suntory.co.jp . . ja.
10. News: 退団選手のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . panasonic.co.jp . . ja.
11. News: この度、#6 ブラトエフ･ヴァレンティン選手･#18 秦臻選手が退団することになりました。 . 14 December 2021 . www.jtekt-stings.jp . . ja.
12. News: ラオ･シュハン選手 入部及び マテイ･カジ—スキ選手 再入部のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . www.jtekt-stings.jp . . ja.
13. News: 台湾で劉鴻杰(リュウ･ホンジェ)選手の入団会見を実施しました！ . 14 December 2021 . www.wolfdogs.jp . . ja.
14. News: プレモビッチ ピーター選手 加入のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . www.fctokyo.co.jp . . ja.
15. News: 退団選手情報 . 14 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . . ja.
16. News: アジア枠外国人選手加入のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . . ja.
17. News: A登録外国人選手変更のお知らせ . 14 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . . ja.
18. Web site: Transfer and withdrawan players as of August 18, 2020 . vleague.jp . 15 December 2021 . ja.
19. News: 阿部コーチ兼選手引退コメントについて . 15 December 2021 . www.toray-arrows.jp . ja.
20. News: 阿部コーチ兼選手引退について（ご報告）. 15 December 2021 . www.toray-arrows.jp . ja.
21. News: 勇退選手のお知らせ . 15 December 2021 . www.suntory.co.jp . . ja.
22. News: 米山選手から皆様へ . 15 December 2021 . www.suntory.co.jp . . ja.
23. News: 池田政之選手 引退のお知らせ . 15 December 2021 . panasonic.co.jp . . ja.
24. News: 第68回黒鷲旗 全日本男女選抜バレーボール大会をもちまして､松原広輔選手(#10)と清野真一選手(#5)が引退することになりました｡ . 15 December 2021 . www.jtekt-stings.jp . JTEKT Stings.
25. News: 【続報】野瀬将平選手 手術に伴う離脱について. 15 December 2021 . www.fctokyo.co.jp . . ja.
26. News: 藤田裕城選手 2019/20シーズン限りで現役引退のお知らせ . 15 December 2021 . www.fctokyo.co.jp . . ja.
27. News: 長友優磨選手 手術に伴う離脱について . 18 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . ja.
28. News: 【続報】長友優磨選手 手術に伴う離脱について. 18 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . ja.
29. News: 藤田裕城選手 2019/20シーズン限りで現役引退のお知らせ. 15 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . ja.
30. News: 辻口智也選手 2019/20シーズン限りで現役引退のお知らせ . 15 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . ja.
31. News: 引退選手（辻口智也選手・藤田裕城選手）コメント . 15 December 2021 . weisseadler.com . ja.
32. News: 2020年　新入団選手のお知らせ . 18 December 2021 . www.suntory.co.jp . . ja.
33. News: 新加入選手について . 18 December 2021 . www.fctokyo.co.jp . ja.
34. News: 内定選手のお知らせ . 18 December 2021 . vcnagano.jp . VC Nagano Tridents.
35. News: 2019-20 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 MEN V.FINAL STAGE FINAL チケット払い戻しについて . 11 November 2021 . www.vleague.jp . V.League Japan . ja.
36. News: 2019-20 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 MEN V・ファイナルステージ　ファイナル　試合結果のお知らせ . 5 November 2021 . vleague.jp . ja.