2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Explained

2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's
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League:	V.League Division 1
Sport:	Volleyball
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Duration:	22 October 2022 – 23 April 2023
No Of Teams:	10
No Of Games:	187
Attendance:	263,221
Tv:	V.TV by Easy sports^[1] Gaora Sports Fuji TV
Season:	Regular round
Top Seed:	Wolfdogs Nagoya
Top Scorer:	Krisztián Pádár (859)^[2]
Promote:	Voreas Hokkaido
Promote From:	V.1
Relegate:	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler
Relegate To:	V.2
Finals:	Final stage
Finals Link:	Final stage_2
Finals Champ:	Wolfdogs Nagoya
Finals Runner-Up:	Suntory Sunbirds
Finals Mvp:	Bartosz Kurek
Seasonslist:	V.League_(Japan)#Men
Seasonslistnames:	Men's V.League Division 1
Prevseason Link:	2021–22 V.League Division 1 Men's
Prevseason Year:	2021–22
Nextseason Link:	2023–24 V.League Division 1 Men's
Nextseason Year:	2023–24

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.^[3]

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

style=background:blue colspan=8	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	align=center		Suntory
Wolfdogs Nagoya	Valerio Baldovin	Bartosz Kurek	Inazawa, Aichi	align=center		Toyoda Gosei
Panasonic Panthers	Laurent Tillie	Akihiro Yamauchi	Hirakata, Osaka	align=center		Panasonic
Toray Arrows	Ayumu Shinoda	Yudai Minemura	Mishima, Shizuoka	align=center		Toray Industries
Osaka Blazers Sakai	Shinya Chiba	Dekita Takashi	Sakai, Osaka	align=center		Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
JT Thunders Hiroshima	Raúl Lozano	Taishi Onodera	Hiroshima, Hiroshima	align=center		Japan Tobacco
JTEKT Stings	Federico Fagiani	Ryuta Homma	Kariya, Aichi	align=center		JTEKT
Tokyo Greatbears	Koichiro Shimbo	Koga Taichiro	Sumida, Tokyo	align=center		NatureLab Tokyo
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Murray Pole	Masato Kubota	Oita, Oita	align=center		The Oita Bank Ltd.
VC Nagano Tridents	Shinji Kawamura	Kohta Ikeda	Takamori, Nagano	align=center		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	^[4]
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	^[5]
Yuji Nishida	Volley Callipo	JTEKT Stings
Foreign players
Aaron Russell	Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza	JT Thunders Hiroshima	^[6]
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	^[7]
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	^[8]
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	^[9]

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:Navy Blue colspan=3	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^[10]
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^[11] (CSV)	Zhang Binglong
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Enock Some^[12] (CAVB)	Kantapat Koonmee^[13]
VC Nagano Tridents	Carlos Alberto Araujo^[14] (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.

style=background:#48BD73 colspan=4	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	^[15]
Daigo Iwamoto	Waseda University	JTEKT Stings
Ryu Yamamoto	Tokai University	Suntory Sunbirds	^[16]
Ren Oniki	Nippon Sport Science University	Suntory Sunbirds
Tobias Takeshi	Waseda University	Toray Arrows	^[17]
Tatsunori Otsuka	Waseda University	Panasonic Panthers	^[18]
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	^[19]
Takumi Kameyama	Juntendo University	Tokyo Great Bears
Hiroki Koto	Chukyo University	VC Nagano Tridents	^[20]
Taiga Itoyama	Fukuoka University	VC Nagano Tridents
Kosuke Yasui	Meiji University	Osaka Blazers Sakai	^[21]
Naoto Akima	Waseda University	Osaka Blazers Sakai
Shigeru Muto	Nippon Sport Science University	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[22]
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	^[23]
Shuto Kawaguchi	Nippon Sport Science University	JT Thunders Hiroshima	^[24]
Taisei Deguchi	International Budo University	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	^[25]

Competition format

Regular round

1. 10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times.
2. Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by:
   • Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate
3. The top four teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage
4. 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

1. Top 4 teams of Regular Round to compete each other in one robin round to determine rankings.
2. 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.
3. Teams are ranked in the Final Stage by:
   • Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate ->Ranking of Regular Round
4. The 3rd and 4th team of Final Stage will be the final ranking for 3rd and 4th place.
5. The top 2 teams of Final stage to play against each other in a one match Final.

Season standing procedure

1. The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories
2. 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
3. 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

Match results

• All times are Japan Standard Time .

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

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	Wolfdogs Nagoya
	Suntory Sunbirds
	Panasonic Panthers
4	Osaka Blazers Sakai
5	Toray Arrows
6	JTEKT Stings
7	JT Thunders Hiroshima
8	Tokyo Greatbears
9	VC Nagano Tridents
10	Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

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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:^[26]

V.League Honour award

The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more.

• (Tokyo Great Bears)^[27]
• (Panasonic Panthers)^[28]
• (JT Thunders Hiroshima)^[29]
• (JTEKT Stings)^[30]

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.^[31]

• Teams from Division 2 must obtain S1 license.

Teams from V.1	Teams from V.2
VC Nagano Tridents	Voreas Hokkaido
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler	Fujitsu 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

width=10px bgcolor=#FF7300		Promoted to/Stayed in Division 1
width=10px bgcolor=#FFFF4D		Deomoted to/Stayed in Division 2

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VC Nagano Tridents
Voreas Hokkaido
Fujitsu Kawasaki Red Spirits
Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: V.TVをリニューアル！新サービスの開始について！！～2022-23V.LEAGUE DIVISION1を全試合LIVE配信 . Renewal of V.TV! About the start of the new service! ! ~ 2022-23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION 1 will be streamed live for all matches . 18 October 2022 . 一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構 . ja.
2. Web site: ja:個人ランキング RECORD / RANKING バレーボール Vリーグ オフィシャルサイト . Individual Ranking RECORD / RANKING Volleyball V League Official Site . https://www.vleague.jp/record/player_ranking_by_season?league=2&season=737&round=334&leg=%E9%80%9A%E7%AE%97&ranking_type=11 . vleague.jp . April 9, 2023 . ja.
3. Web site: 2022–23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 の試合をフジテレビ(BS,CS)にて放送 . 2022–23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 matches will be broadcast on Fuji TV (BS, CS) . vleague.jp . 28 September 2022 . ja . 20 September 2022.
4. Web site: ネイチャーラボ . 戸嵜嵩大選手 2022–23シーズン 新規選手契約のお知らせ – NEWS – ニュース｜東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . 5 October 2022 . 東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . ja.
5. Web site: 31 August 2022 . 【2022–23契約情報】山岸隼選手 . 5 October 2022 . voreas.co.jp . ja.
6. Web site: 新外国籍選手入部のお知らせ JTサンダーズ広島 JTウェブサイト . 5 October 2022 . JTサンダーズ JTウェブサイト . ja.
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8. Web site: ネイチャーラボ . ラファエル アラウージョ選手 2022–23シーズン 新規選手契約のお知らせ – NEWS – ニュース｜東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . 5 October 2022 . 東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . ja.
9. Web site: ネイチャーラボ . 張 秉龍（ジャン・ビンロン）選手 2022–23シーズン 新規選手契約のお知らせ – NEWS – ニュース｜東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . 5 October 2022 . 東京グレートベアーズ公式サイト . ja.
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16. Web site: 2023年度 内定選手のお知らせ サントリーサンバーズ . 13 October 2022 . SUNBIRDS サントリー . ja.
17. Web site: 内定選手加入について 東レアローズ男子バレーボール部 TORAY . 13 October 2022 . www.toray-arrows.jp . ja.
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21. Web site: 新加入選手について . 1 December 2022 . ja.
22. Web site: 新加入内定選手のお知らせ｜大分三好ヴァイセアドラー｜男子バレーボール . 2022-12-06 . weisseadler.com.
23. Web site: 2022-12-07 . 2022–23シーズン新入団選手のお知らせ 【公式】VC長野トライデンツ . 2022-12-09 . ja.
24. Web site: 2023年度加入予定選手（内定選手）のお知らせ JTサンダーズ広島 JTウェブサイト . 2022-12-22 . JTサンダーズ JTウェブサイト . ja.
25. Web site: 新加入内定選手のお知らせ｜大分三好ヴァイセアドラー｜男子バレーボール . 2023-03-06 . weisseadler.com.
26. Web site: ウルフドッグス名古屋、首位争いを制して2年連続優勝 . 2023-03-26 . 一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構.
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31. Web site: 新シーズンはV1男女ともに4チームがV･ファイナルステージへ ～V・ファイナルステージとV・チャレンジマッチの詳細が決定～ . 11 October 2022 . 一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構 . ja.