2023 Prime Volleyball League

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2023 Prime Volleyball League
League Prime Volleyball League
Sport Men's volleyball
Duration4 February – 5 March 2023
Number of teams8
Finals
Champions Ahmedabad Defenders (1st title)
  Runners-up Bengaluru Torpedoes
Finals MVPGuru Prasanth (Hyderabad Black Hawks)
Prime Volleyball League seasons
  2022
2024  

2023 Prime Volleyball League (also known as PVL 2023 or RuPay PVL 2023) was the second season of the Prime Volleyball League, a franchise based Indian indoor volleyball league, organized by Baseline Ventures. [1]

Contents

The Prime Volleyball League 2023 winner will qualify for the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship 2023 to be held in India from December 6 to 10.

Format

Eight teams are contesting in the second season. There are a total of 31 matches with each team plays against each other in a single round-robin format with the top 4 teams moving into the play-offs.

Venue

Bengaluru’s Koramangala Indoor Stadium scheduled to host the first 10 matches till February 12. The venue for the next 10 matches scheduled to be held at GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad. The final leg of PVL 2023, including the semi-finals and final, scheduled to be held at Regional Sports Centre in Kochi.

League standings

Win by 5-0 margin: 3 Points

Win by any other margin: 2 Points

Loss: 0 Points

If the teams are level on points, the number of sets won will be taken into consideration. The top four teams at the end of the league stage will move into the semifinals.

PosTeamPldWLPtsSWSLSRSPWSPLSPRQualification
1 Kolkata Thunderbolts 7611223121.9174804221.137 Qualified for play-offs
2 Ahmedabad Defenders 7521122131.6924764431.074
3 Calicut Heroes 743820151.3334594660.985
4 Bengaluru Torpedoes 743819161.1884604630.994
5 Hyderabad Black Hawks 743815200.7504484610.972
6 Mumbai Meteors 725515200.7504504640.970
7 Kochi Blue Spikers 725416190.8424514580.985
8 Chennai Blitz 716210250.4004274740.901
Source: [2]

League stage

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
4 Feb19:00 Bengaluru Torpedoes 2–3 Kolkata Thunderbolts 11–1511–1514–1515–1015–1466–69 1
5 Feb19:00 Mumbai Meteors 1–4 Calicut Heroes 15–109–158–1514–1511–1557–70 2
6 Feb19:00 Ahmedabad Defenders 2–3 Hyderabad Black Hawks 15–139–1514–1511–1515–1064–68 3
7 Feb19:00 Kochi Blue Spikers 2–3 Chennai Blitz 9–1515–1110–1515–89–1558–64 4
8 Feb19:00 Kolkata Thunderbolts 4–1 Hyderabad Black Hawks 15–1315–715–915–128–1568–56 5
9 Feb19:00 Ahmedabad Defenders 3–2 Bengaluru Torpedoes 14–1515–1014–1515–1015–1073–60 6
10 Feb19:00 Chennai Blitz 0–5 Mumbai Meteors 14–156–1511–1512–159–1552–75 7
11 Feb19:00 Calicut Heroes 4–1 Hyderabad Black Hawks 15–1415–1215–114–1515–1464–66 8
12 Feb19:00 Mumbai Meteors 1–4 Bengaluru Torpedoes 10–1515–1213–159–159–1556–72 9
12 Feb21:30 Kolkata Thunderbolts 4–1 Kochi Blue Spikers 15–915–1115–1415–1112–1572–60 10
15 Feb19:00 Hyderabad Black Hawks 3–2 Kochi Blue Spikers 15–1310–1515–1315–613–1568–62 11
16 Feb19:00 Bengaluru Torpedoes 3–2 Chennai Blitz 15–118–1515–1015–1310–1563–64 12
16 Feb21:30 Kolkata Thunderbolts 2–3 Calicut Heroes 14–1515–711–1515–1313–1568–65 13
17 Feb19:00 Ahmedabad Defenders 4–1 Mumbai Meteors 14–1515–1215–1415–1315–1474–68 14
17 Feb21:30 Bengaluru Torpedoes 3–2 Kochi Blue Spikers 15–1415–117–1515–1214–1566–67 15
18 Feb19:00 Hyderabad Black Hawks 3–2 Chennai Blitz 10–1515–1415–912–1515–1167–64 16
19 Feb19:00 Ahmedabad Defenders 5–0 Chennai Blitz 15–1115–1315–1015–915–1275–55 17
20 Feb19:00 Kolkata Thunderbolts 3–2 Mumbai Meteors 12–1515–612–1515–1115–1169–58 18
20 Feb21:30 Ahmedabad Defenders 3–2 Calicut Heroes 15–1313–1515–1313–1515–1171–67 19
21 Feb19:00 Hyderabad Black Hawks 3–2 Bengaluru Torpedoes 15–1314–159–1515–1015–1268–65 20
24 Feb19:00 Calicut Heroes 3–2 Chennai Blitz 13–1515–815–1415–138–1566–65 21
25 Feb19:00 Kochi Blue Spikers 3–2 Calicut Heroes 15–1314–1512–1515–715–1171–61 22
26 Feb19:00 Kochi Blue Spikers 2–3 Ahmedabad Defenders 5–1515–1115–912–1514–1561–65 23
26 Feb21:30 Hyderabad Black Hawks 1–4 Mumbai Meteors 15–149–1512–1511–158–1555–74 24
27 Feb19:00 Kolkata Thunderbolts 4–1 Chennai Blitz 15–1215–915–1415–1310–1570–63 25
28 Feb19:00 Bengaluru Torpedoes 3–2 Calicut Heroes 15–1115–1113–1510–1515–1468–66 26
01 Mar19:00 Mumbai Meteors 1–4 Kochi Blue Spikers 14–1511–1512–1515–1210–1562–72 27
02 Mar19:00 Kolkata Thunderbolts 3–2 Ahmedabad Defenders 15–715–415–138–1511–1564–54 28

Source: [3]

Play-offs

Semifinals

Top four teams of League stage are qualified to two different semifinal pairs.

Semifinal 1

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
3 March19:00 Kolkata Thunderbolts 1–3 Bengaluru Torpedoes 10–1515–1013–1510–15 48–55 29

Semifinal 2

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
4 March19:00 Ahmedabad Defenders 3–1 Calicut Heroes 17–159–1517–1515–11 58–56 30

Finals

DateTimeScoreSet 1Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5TotalReport
05 March19:00 Bengaluru Torpedoes 2–3 Ahmedabad Defenders 7–1510–1520–1815–1310–1562–76 31

Final standings

Awards

PlayerTeamAward
Angamuthu Ramaswamy Ahmedabad Defenders Player of the Final Match
Dakshinamoorthy S Ahmedabad Defenders Coach of the Season
Mohan Ukkrapandian Calicut Heroes Setter of the Season
R Ramanathan Chennai Blitz Libero of the Season
Guru Prasanth Hyderabad Black Hawks Spiker of the Season
Jose Antonio Sandoval Calicut Heroes Blocker of the Season
Ibin Jose Bengaluru Torpedoes Emerging Player of the Season
Guru Prasanth Hyderabad Black Hawks Most Valuable Player

Source: [4]

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