2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men

The Volleyball 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's was the 26th tournament of the V.League and the highest level men's tournament in Japan, which was held from October 26, 2019 – February 29, 2020.

Foreign players
The total number of foreign players is restricted to one per club. Player from Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) nations are exempt from these restrictions.

Withdrawn and retired players
The list of withdrawn and retired players that officially announced the withdrawal or retirement since April 2019 to February 2020.

Informal players
An informal player is a trainee who came in the team and has not registered as V.League player yet. Mostly, the player still is in the last year of university or high school.

Season standing procedure

 * 1) The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
 * 2) In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: the most point gained per match as follows:
 * 3) The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
 * 4) *Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
 * 5) *Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
 * 6) *Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
 * 7) If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
 * 8) *Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on total number of victories, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
 * 9) *Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
 * 10) *If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Results

 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

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 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Results

 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Results

 * All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Procedure
The 5th place of Regular Round will compete against the 4th place, the winner will pass to the 4th place playoff

Procedure
The winner of Game 1 will compete against the 3rd place of Regular Round, the winner will pass to the Semifinal Round

Procedure
The winner of Game 2 will compete against the 2nd place of Regular Round, the winner will pass to the Final Round

Final
The final match was held without spectators due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Awards
The list of awards which distributed at the end of the season

Individual

 * Most Valuable Player
 * 🇯🇵 Yuji Nishida
 * Winner Head Coach
 * 🇯🇵 Shinji Takahashi
 * Fighting-spirit
 * 🇯🇵 Kunihiro Shimizu


 * Top scorer
 * 🇯🇵 Yuji Nishida
 * Best Spiker
 * 🇯🇵 Taishi Onodera
 * Best Blocker
 * 🇯🇵 Taishi Onodera


 * Best Server
 * 🇯🇵 Yuji Nishida
 * Best Serve Receiver
 * 🇯🇵 Taiki Tsuruda
 * Best Receiver
 * 🇯🇵 Taiki Tsuruda


 * Best 6
 * 🇯🇵 Yuji Nishida
 * 🇵🇱 Michał Kubiak
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Muserskiy
 * 🇨🇳 Rao Shuhan
 * 🇯🇵 Taishi Onodera
 * 🇯🇵 Hideomi Fukatsu


 * Best Libero
 * 🇯🇵 Ryuta Homma
 * Best New Player
 * 🇯🇵 Yuto Fujinaka

Special Award
The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more. Except for Takeshi Nagano who received 10 or more individual awards.
 * V.League Honor Award


 * 🇯🇵 Akitomo Kanamaru
 * 🇯🇵 Hirotaka Kon
 * 🇯🇵 Kunihiro Shimizu
 * 🇯🇵 Shohei Uchiyama
 * 🇯🇵 Takeshi Nagano