Albanian Volleyball League (Women)


The Albanian Volleyball League for women is a league competition featuring professional women 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 are KV Tirana and Dinamo each with 20 championship trophies won.
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, 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
SeasonChampion
194617 Nëntori
1947Vllaznia Shkodër
194817 Nëntori
1949Teuta
195017 Nëntori
195117 Nëntori
195217 Nëntori
1953Studenti Tiranë
1954Partizani Tirana
195517 Nëntori
1956Skënderbeu
1957Vllaznia Shkodër
1958Skënderbeu Korçë
195917 Nëntori
1960Vllaznia Shkodër
196117 Nëntori
196217 Nëntori
196317 Nëntori
196417 Nëntori
1965Flamurtari Vlorë
196617 Nëntori
196717 Nëntori
196917 Nëntori
1970Studenti Tiranë
1971Studenti Tiranë
1972Skënderbeu Korçë
1973Skënderbeu Korçë
1974KS Dinamo
1975KS Dinamo
1976KS Dinamo
1977KS Dinamo
1978KS Dinamo
1979KS Dinamo
1980KS Dinamo
1981KS Dinamo
1982KS Dinamo
1983KS Dinamo
1984KS Dinamo
1985Skënderbeu Korçë
1986Skënderbeu Korçë
1987KS Dinamo
1988KS Dinamo
1989KS Dinamo
1990KS Dinamo
1991KS Dinamo
1992Tirana
1993SK Lushnja
1994Tirana
1995KS Dinamo
1996SK Lushnja
1997SK Lushnja
1998SK Lushnja
1999Teuta
2000Teuta
2001Teuta
2002KS Dinamo
2003Studenti Tiranë
2004KS Dinamo
2005Studenti Tiranë
2006Teuta
2007KS Dinamo
2008Tirana
2009Tirana
2010Tirana
2011Minatori
2012Minatori
2013Tirana
2014UMB Volej
2015UMB Volej
2016UMB Volej
2017UMB Volej
2018Partizani Tirana
2019Partizani Tirana
2020cancelled due to pandemic

Trophy Ranking

20 times
KS Dinamo 20 times
Studenti Tiranë 5 times
Skënderbeu Korçë 5 times
Teuta 4 times
SK Lushnja 4 times
UMB Volej 4 times
Vllaznia Shkodër 3 times
Partizani Tirana 3 times
Minatori 2 times
Flamurtari Vlorë 1 time