2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's

The 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's is the 29th tournament of the V.League which began from 22 October 2022 to 23 April 2023.

Wolfdogs Nagoya beat defending champion Suntory Sunbirds with straight sets in final match to regain the title of V.League after seven years. Bartosz Kurek was named the MVP of the season. Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler demoted to V.League Division 2 after losing in the V.Challenge match.

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.

Informal players
An informal player is a player still in high school or university but given a contract. Informal players are formally registered in V.League Organization and able to play on court.

Regular round

 * 1) 10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times.
 * 2) Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by:
 * 3) * Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate
 * 4) The top four teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage
 * 5) Ranking of 5th to 10th place will be the ranking of the Regular Round and will be the final ranking. The 9th and 10th placed teams will compete in the V.Challenge Match.

Final stage

 * 1) Top 4 teams of Regular Round to compete each other in one robin round to determine rankings.
 * 2) To begin with the Final stage, the winner of regular season will be given 3 points, the 2nd team will be given 2 points, the third one will be given 1 point as advantage.
 * 3) Teams are ranked in the Final Stage by:
 * 4) * Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate ->Ranking of Regular Round
 * 5) The 3rd and 4th team of Final Stage will be the final ranking for 3rd and 4th place.
 * 6) The top 2 teams of Final stage to play against each other in a one match Final.

Season standing procedure

 * 1) The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories
 * 2) The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
 * 3) *Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
 * 4) *Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
 * 5) *Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
 * 6) 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:
 * 7) *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.
 * 8) *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.
 * 9) *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.

Match results

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

Final four
* Bonus points of regular round: 1st place–3 point, 2nd place–2 point, 3rd place–1 point, 4th place–0 point.

All-Star

 * VOM: 🇵🇱 Bartosz Kurek (Team Billy)

Individual awards (technical performance)

 * Best scorer
 * 🇭🇺 Krisztián Pádár
 * Best spiker
 * 🇯🇵 Hiromasa Miwa
 * Best blocker
 * 🇯🇵 Kentaro Takahashi
 * Best server
 * 🇺🇸 Aaron Russell
 * Best receiver
 * 🇯🇵 Kazuma Sonae

Source:

V.League Honour award
The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more.
 * 🇯🇵 Hidetomo Hoshino (Tokyo Great Bears)
 * 🇯🇵 Shin Takahiro (Panasonic Panthers)
 * 🇯🇵 Takuya Yasunaga (JT Thunders Hiroshima)
 * 🇯🇵 Ryosuke Hakamaya (JTEKT Stings)

Outstanding personal records

 * (vacancy for this season)

Final stage

 * Most valuable player
 * 🇵🇱 Bartosz Kurek
 * Fighting spirit award
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Muserskiy
 * Best Six
 * 🇵🇱 Bartosz Kurek
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Muserskiy
 * 🇯🇵 Tatsunori Otsuka
 * 🇯🇵 Ryota Denda
 * 🇯🇵 Akihiro Yamauchi
 * 🇯🇵 Masaki Oya
 * Best libero
 * 🇯🇵 Tomohiro Ogawa
 * Receive award
 * 🇯🇵 Kenya Fujinaka
 * Best newcomer award
 * (vacancy for this season)
 * Best coach award
 * 🇮🇹 Valerio Baldovin
 * Matsudaira Yasutaka award
 * 🇮🇹 Valerio Baldovin
 * Special award
 * 🇯🇵 Naonobu Fujii

Qualification
Division 1 Teams ranked 9th and 10th and Division 2 teams ranked 1st and 2nd.


 * Teams from Division 2 must obtain S1 license.

Format
V1 9th place team vs V2 2nd place team V1 10th place team vs V2 1st place team

Teams to play 2 match system. The winning teams to promote to/ stay in 2023–24 V.League.

The winning team is determined as follow:

Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate -> V.1 Teams

Matches

 * Group 1


 * Group 2