Albanian Volleyball League

Albanian Volleyball League

Country	Albania
Confederation	FIVB
Founded	1946
Divisions	Albanian Volleyball League
Number of teams	12 ( six per division )
Level on pyramid	1
Current champions	Studenti Tiranë
TV partners	TVSH and Supersport (highlights)
Website	Facebook
Albanian Volleyball League 2013-14

The Albanian Volleyball League is a league competition featuring professional 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 is Dinamo with 25 championships.^[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 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. This makes 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 qualifies the team that gets first two victories 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 team that gets first the 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 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

Season	Champion
1946	Teuta
1947	17 Nëntori
1948	17 Nëntori
1949	17 Nëntori
1950	Partizani Tirana
1951	Teuta
1952	Partizani Tirana
1953	Partizani Tirana
1954	Partizani Tirana
1955	Partizani Tirana
1956	KS Dinamo
1957	Spartaku Tiranë/17 Nëntori
1958	Partizani Tirana
1959	Partizani Tirana
1960	Partizani Tirana
1961	Partizani Tirana
1962	Partizani Tirana(*)
1963	Teuta
1964	KS Dinamo
1965	KS Dinamo
1966	KS Dinamo
1967	KS Dinamo
1969	KS Dinamo
1970	KS Dinamo
1971	KS Dinamo
1972	KS Dinamo
1973	Partizani Tirana
1974	KS Dinamo(*)
1975	KS Dinamo
1976	Partizani Tirana
1977	KS Dinamo
1978	KS Dinamo
1979	KS Dinamo
1980	KS Dinamo
1981	Partizani Tirana
1982	KS Dinamo
1983	KS Dinamo
1984	KS Dinamo
1985	KS Dinamo
1986	KS Dinamo(**)
1987	17 Nëntori
1988	17 Nëntori
1989	KS Dinamo
1990	KS Dinamo
1991	KS Dinamo
1992	Tirana
1993	Tirana
1994	Tirana
1995	Studenti Tiranë
1996	Olimpik
1997	Erzeni Shijak
1998	Erzeni Shijak
1999	Erzeni Shijak
2000	Studenti Tiranë
2001	Teuta
2002	Studenti Tiranë
2003	Studenti Tiranë
2004	Studenti Tiranë
2005	Studenti Tiranë
2006	KS Dinamo
2007	Studenti Tiranë
2008	Studenti Tiranë
2009	Studenti Tiranë
2010	Studenti Tiranë(*)
2011	Teuta
2012	Studenti Tiranë
2013	Studenti Tiranë
2014	Studenti Tiranë
2015	Studenti Tiranë
2016	Studenti Tiranë