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The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the local YMCA. [1]
FIVB Volleyball Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournaments (2 C, 2 P) N. ... Pages in category "International volleyball competitions"
The 2025 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament will be a single-elimination tournament of 64 teams that will determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's volleyball national champion for the 2025 season. It will be the 45th edition of the tournament. It will begin in December, 2025 in various college ...
The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup was an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's and women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was created in 1993 after radical changes made on the biggest tournaments ...
The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League will be the seventh edition of the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League, an annual men's international volleyball tournament. The competition will be held from 11 June to 3 August 2025.
Following volleyball's increase in popularity, they raised steadily to over 20 in the 1970s and part of the 1980s, were then cut short to 16 in the 1990s, and finally set up in 24 after 2002. Today, the World Championship is the most comprehensive of all events organized by the FIVB, and arguably the most important, alongside the Olympic Games .
The 14 World Cup tournaments have been won by six different national teams. China have won five times. The other World Cup winners are Cuba, with four titles; Italy, with two titles; Japan and Russia (as Soviet Union) with one title each. This tournament should not be confused with the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
One of the main goals of the 1947 Congress was achieved two years later with the establishment of the first international major volleyball event, the World Championship. In 1952, a women's version of the tournament was also introduced. In 1964, the IOC endorsed the addition of volleyball to the Olympic programme. By this time, the number of ...