2019 Pro Volleyball League

2019 Pro Volleyball League
League	Pro Volleyball League
Sport	Men's volleyball
Duration	February 2, 2019 – February 22, 2019
Number of teams	6
Regular season
Season MVP	Ajith Lal C (Calicut Heroes)
Top scorer	Rudy Verhoeff (Chennai Spartans)
Finals
Champions	Chennai Spartans
Runners-up	Calicut Heroes
Finals MVP	Naveen Raja Jacob (Chennai Spartans)
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2019 Pro Volleyball League is the inaugural season of the Indian Indoor Volleyball League known as Pro Volleyball League organized under the supervision of Volleyball Federation of India in association with Baseline Ventures.This season was composed of six teams. ^[1] The league is approved by FIVB. The inaugural season was won by Chennai Spartans. ^[2]

Teams

City	Team Name	International Players	Team Owner
Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad Defenders	Novica Bjelica and Victor Sysoev	Bonhomie Sports Event Management Limited [3]
Calicut	Calicut Heroes	Paul Lotman and Iluoni Ngampourou	Beacon Sports [3]
Chennai	Chennai Spartans	Rudy Verhoeff and Ruslans Sorokins	Chennai Spartans Sports Private Limited [3]
Hyderabad	Black Hawks Hyderabad	Carson Clark and Alexander Bader	Agile Entertainment Private Limited [3]
Kochi	Kochi Blue Spikers	David Lee and Andrej Patuc	Thomas Muthoot [3]
Mumbai	U Mumba Volley	Tomislav Coskovic and Nicholas Del Bianco	U Sports [3]

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Calicut Heroes	5	5	0	11	19	6	3.167	358	288	1.243	Play–offs
2	Kochi Blue Spikers	5	4	1	8	13	12	1.083	326	324	1.006
3	Chennai Spartans	5	2	3	4	13	12	1.083	325	322	1.009
4	U Mumba Volley	5	2	3	4	12	13	0.923	320	323	0.991
5	Black Hawks Hyderabad	5	2	3	4	11	14	0.786	319	339	0.941
6	Ahmedabad Defenders	5	0	5	0	7	18	0.389	300	352	0.852

Source: ^{[4] [5]}

Results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
2 Feb	19:00	Kochi Blue Spikers	4–1	U Mumba Volley	15–11	15–13	15–8	15–10	5–15	65–57
3 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	4–1	Chennai Spartans	15–8	15–8	13–15	15–11	15–11	73–53
4 Feb	19:00	Black Hawks Hyderabad	3–2	Ahmedabad Defenders	15–11	13–15	15–11	14–15	15–9	72–61
5 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	3–2	U Mumba Volley	15–10	12–15	15–13	14–15	15–9	71–62
6 Feb	19:00	Kochi Blue Spikers	3–2	Ahmedabad Defenders	10–15	15–11	11–15	15–12	15–12	66–65
7 Feb	19:00	Chennai Spartans	4–1	Black Hawks Hyderabad	15–12	15–12	15–11	15–10	13–15	73–60
8 Feb	19:00	Kochi Blue Spikers	3–2	Black Hawks Hyderabad	12–15	15–11	15–12	15–10	14–15	71–63
9 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	5–0	Kochi Blue Spikers	15–11	15–9	15–14	15–13	15–10	75–57
10 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	3–2	Black Hawks Hyderabad	15–11	15–11	15–7	12–15	11–15	68–59
11 Feb	19:00	Kochi Blue Spikers	3–2	Chennai Spartans	12–15	10–15	15–11	15–13	15–10	67–64
12 Feb	19:00	Black Hawks Hyderabad	3–2	U Mumba Volley	13–15	15–11	7–15	15–14	15–11	65–66
13 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	4–1	Ahmedabad Defenders	15–14	11–15	15–11	15–9	15–8	71–57
16 Feb	19:00	Chennai Spartans	2–3	U Mumba Volley	14–15	8–15	10–15	15–10	15–10	62–65
17 Feb	19:00	Chennai Spartans	4–1	Ahmedabad Defenders	15–6	13–15	15–13	15–11	15–12	73–57
18 Feb	19:00	U Mumba Volley	4–1	Ahmedabad Defenders	10–15	15–12	15–13	15–12	15–8	70–60

Play–offs

Semifinals

Top four teams of Regular season are qualified to two different semifinal pairs.

Semifinal 1

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	3–0	U Mumba Volley	15–12	15–9	16–14	–	–	46–35

Semifinal 2

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Feb	19:00	Kochi Blue Spikers	2–3	Chennai Spartans	14–16	15–9	15–10	8–15	13–15	65–65

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Feb	19:00	Calicut Heroes	0–3	Chennai Spartans	11–15	12–15	14–16	–	–	37–46

Final standing

Rank Team Chennai Spartans Calicut Heroes Kochi Blue Spikers 4 U Mumba Volley 5 Black Hawks Hyderabad 6 Ahmedabad Defenders   Qualified for Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship

2019 Champions  Chennai Spartans Maiden title Team Roster Rudy Verhoeff, Naveen Raja Jacob,Vibin M George, Piraisoodan, Ruslans Sorokins,Shelton Moses(c),Akhin G. S.,Shikar Singh,Ashwin Raj, K. J. Kapil Dev,V. Hariharan,Prabhakaran Head coach M. H. Kumara

References

1. "Pro Volleyball League to start with 6 teams" . Retrieved 8 February 2019.
2. Sportstar, Team. "PVL Final: Chennai Spartans hammers Calicut Heroes to claim title". Sportstar. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
3. Laghate, Gaurav (2 January 2019). "Pro Volleyball signs Nippon Paint as associate sponsor for first two seasons". The Economic Times . Retrieved 21 January 2019.
4. "Fixtures & Results" . Retrieved 12 February 2019.
5. "POINTS TABLE 2019" . Retrieved 12 February 2019.