Men’s Premiere League 2024-2025

The Men’s Volleyball Premier League 2024 will start on Wednesday, 2^nd October, and the finals of this competition will be held in the form of three wins out of five games.

According to the communication department of the volleyball federation, the 38th championship of Iran’s Men’s Volleyball Premier League 2024 will start on Wednesday, the 2nd of October, with the participation of 13 teams.

Shahdab Yazd, Mehregan Noor, Paykan Tehran, Sanatgaran Omid, Shahrdari Urmia, Sepehr Sadra Mashhad, Tabiaat, Mes Rafsanjan, Foolad Sirjan Iranian, Pas Gorgan, Gitipasand Isfahan, Chador Malo Ardakan and Saipa Tehran are the participating teams in these competitions.

In the preliminary round of this competition, the teams will compete against each other in the form of a group, and then the top eight teams will go to the playoffs. The quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Men’s Premier League will be held in the form of two wins out of three matches, but the finals of this year’s competition will be held for the first time in the form of three wins out of five matches.

In the Premier League 2024, the group stage matches will end after 26 weeks, and the top eight teams will advance to the playoffs, and the winning teams of two out of three matches will advance to the next stage. In this stage, the first team compete with the eighth, the second with the seventh, the third with the sixth and the fourth with the fifth.

In the second stage of the playoffs, the winning teams of the first stage will face each other in three matches so that the winning teams in two matches will advance to the finals.

According to the announcement of the Volleyball Federation League, the final of the 38th Iran Men’s Premier League is going to be held for the first time in the form of three wins out of five matches.

In the total of 37 rounds of these competitions, 20 times the leaders of the group stage table have been announced as champions, in three rounds, four teams have advanced to the semi-final stage and the champion has been announced from among them, and in 13 rounds, the top eight teams of the table have been declared champions. They advanced to the playoff stage, and finally the first to third teams of the tournament were determined. Due to the spread of Corona, one round of competitions has been left unfinished.

On the other hand, play-off matches have been held in four seasons of the Men’s Premier League, which were in 2018, 2019, 2011 and 2012.

It should be noted that the information presented in these reports is based on the documents accessible in the physical and digital archives of the media, and the communication department of the Volleyball Federation welcomes providing any kind of documentary information to complete the reports.

The table of methods for holding different periods of the Iranian Men’s Premier League is as follows:

A look at the history of the highest level of Iranian men’s competition

Examining the history of these competitions shows that the first round of Iranian club volleyball championships was held in 1975 under the name of “Pasargad Cup” with the participation of 12 teams.

Mahmoud Chaichi, Aziz Partovi, Qasem Tavakoli, Manouchehr Akhshtin, Hamid Shaltukchi, Amir Heydari, Vadud Gogani, Nader Pakrou and Sadeq Amiri were among the players of the Dokhanyat team in this competition.

This tournament was followed in 1976 with 12 teams and in 1977-1978 with 10 teams with the same name and periodically, and Tehran’s Esteghlal team under the guidance of Farough Fakhredini won the championship in both seasons.

Mustafa Zoghi, Ahmed Pourkashian, Mehdi Saberpour, Rasool Awaazi, Hassan Shamshiri, Mohsen Nakhie, Ali Tazeruni, Majid Argi and Reza Ghahveie were among the players of the Esteghlal Tehran team in these two tournaments.

After the victory of the Islamic revolution and Iraq’s attack on our country (imposed war), the Iranian volleyball league was not held for 12 years until the fourth round of these competitions was held periodically in 1990 with the participation of 10 teams. At that time, the tournament was named “Iran Volleyball League One “, which was the highest level of this sport in the country.

The team of Bonyad Shahid became the champion in the resumption of these competitions under the guidance of Mehdi Saberpour and Hossein Pouretemadi, who also won the championship title for the second time in 1991.

Since 1990, when these competitions started again after a 12-year hiatus, these competitions continued for seven years under the name of Iran Volleyball League One, until in 1997, the volleyball championship of Iran’s top clubs (Volleyball Premier League) was launched. And it has continued continuously until now.

The table of the last thirty-seventh season of the Men’s Premier League and the first to third teams is as follows:

33% increase in audience capacity

This year, despite the reduction of one team from among those present in the Premier League competitions, more spectators have the opportunity to watch their team’s matches in the hall, because due to the increasing popularity of volleyball among the people, the clubs are trying to build and renovate larger halls in the last year and we see competitions held in halls of 6 and 7 thousand people.

It is said that Sepharsadra Mashhad team is trying to hold its home matches in Shahid Beheshti Hall, which has a capacity of seven thousand people, and if this request is implemented, the average audience capacity of the 2024 Volleyball Premier League will increase to 33%, which will be a significant statistic. Currently, Sepehr club is equipping this 7,000-seat hall with the best facilities and will hold its first three matches in the 1,500 seat Mehran Hall until the largest hall in the Premier League of Volleyball is ready for operation.

Chadormelo Ardakan, which last year had a hall with a capacity of 1500 people in its home games, this year with the construction and equipping of the Shahid Soleimani Hall, which has a capacity of 6 thousand people, has increased the size of its audience by 4500 people, so that the numerous spectators of Yazd province have more space to watch the attractive sport of volleyball. A hall that, in addition to standard flooring, has also worked professionally in lighting to be another rival hall for holding world championships.

Shahrdari Urmia is another Premier League team that will host 6,000-person fans in Ghadir Hall. Although this hall is not newly established, it has the necessary standards for holding international events and last year it hosted the Asian Men’s Championship.

Shahdab Yazd has created a capacity of three thousand people in Yazd for volleyball fans by equipping and renovating its own hall (previously known as Shahdieh). A hall that recently hosted Asian men’s club competitions and has the necessary standards for holding competitions.

According to the statistics announced by the league organization regarding the capacity of the halls of the Premier League teams, the total capacity of the halls in 2024 is 46,500 people, which will be an average of 3,576 people for each hall, while last year’s figure of 14 teams in the league There were 37,500 people in the Premier League, which averaged 2,678 spectators for each hall, and this statistic indicates a 33.5% increase in the average capacity of the Premier League spectators.

The table of the halls of the Men’s Premier League in 1403 along with their capacity is as follows: