The Albanian Volleyball League for women is a league competition featuring professional women

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. It was founded in 1946 from the

Albanian Federation of Volleyball The Albanian Volleyball Federation (FSHV) ( sq, Federata Shqiptare e Volejbollit) is the head governing body for the sport of professional volleyball in Albania. It organises the first division, second division leagues and a cup competition. Hist ...

, 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

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and Dinamo each with 20 championship trophies won.Giovanni Armillotta for the Albanian Volleyball
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and it's one of the oldest volleyball competition in the

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having started in 1946. The sport rapidly grew in

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

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 B2 League. 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 B2 League. 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

Trophy Ranking

20 times KS Dinamo 20 times Skënderbeu Korçë 6 times Studenti Tiranë 5 times

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4 times SK Lushnja 4 times UMB Volej 4 times Vllaznia Shkodër 3 times Minatori 2 times Flamurtari Vlorë 1 time

References

External links

FSHV Official Website

Albanian Volleyball League. women.volleybox.net
{{Professional Women's Volleyball Leagues Volleyball in Albania

Volleyball 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 Sum ...

Competition

Winners

Trophy Ranking

See also

References

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