Austrian Volley League Women

This article covers the Austrian women's volleyball league.
For the men's Austrian volleyball league, see Austrian Volley League .

Austrian Volley League Women

Full name	Austrian Volley League Women
Current season	2019/20
sport	volleyball
abbreviation	AVLW
Association	Austrian volleyball association
League foundation	1953–1961: Vienna championship 1962–1975: Bundesliga championships from 1976 league championships
Teams	10
Title holder	ASKÖ Linz footbridge
Record champions	Post SV Vienna (19)
Website	http://www.volleyleague.at/
Qualification too	Champions League CEV Cup Central European Volleyball League
↓ 2nd Volleyball Bundesliga (II) 2nd Bundesliga North 2nd Bundesliga South

The Austrian Volley League Women (AVL), formerly also known as Women VolleyLeague (WVL), is the 1st national volleyball league for women in Austria and part of the Austrian Volleyball Association . It is organized as an association and was founded in 2002.

Competitions

The Austrian Volley League Women is divided into the following phases

• Basic round
• Master playoff
• Relegation
• U21 competition

Basic round

The maximum of ten participants, including two volleyball man sheep at the Central European Volleyball League (English Middle European Volleyball Zonal Association (MEVZA)) to participate, playing in a regular season in two round in a second round to the qualification play-off -Phase.

Master playoff

The quarter-finals and semi-finals take place in the best of five mode. The team with the better placement in the regular season has home rights in the first game, then it changes at every game. The final takes place in the best of seven mode and is otherwise the same as the quarter and semi-finals.

A special feature of the Austrian Volley League is that the losers in the quarter-finals play out places 5 to 8. The teams compete analogously to the semi-final pairings. The two series winners play for 5th place, while the losers battle for 7th place.

The losers of the semi-finals also duel for third place. All games for third to eighth place are played in best of three mode.

Round of hope

The last four teams of the regular season play in the Austrian Volley League Women Hope Round for two places in the Austrian Volley League Women. The two other teams have to fight to remain in the Austrian Volley League Women in the Austrian Volley League Women relegation.

Relegation

In the relegation teams of the Hope Round, 2nd Bundesliga North and South meet.

U21 competition

In a weekend tournament, a maximum of ten teams play the Austrian championship title in this class.

Austrian volleyball champion

Winner of the Vienna Championship (1953–1961)

1953: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1954: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1955: TJ Sokol V Vienna

1956: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1957: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1958: TJ Sokol V Vienna

1959: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1960: ÖMV Olympia Vienna 1961: SG SK Slovan / ÖMV Olympia Vienna

Winner of the national championships (1962–1975)

1962: SG SK Slovan / ÖMV Olympia Vienna 1963: SG SK Slovan / ÖMV Olympia Vienna 1964: SG SK Slovan / ÖMV Olympia Vienna 1965: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna 1966: SG SK Slovan / ÖMV Olympia Vienna

1967: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna 1968: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna 1969: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna 1970: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna 1971: SC ÖMV blue yellow Vienna

1972: SC ÖMV Blue Yellow Vienna 1973: Post SV Vienna 1974: Post SV Vienna 1975: Post SV Vienna

Winner of the National League or Bundesliga (1976-2016)

1976: Post SV Vienna 1977: Post SV Vienna 1978: Post SV Vienna 1979: SC ÖMV Blue Yellow Vienna 1980: SC ÖMV Blue Yellow Vienna 1981: SC ÖMV Blue Yellow Vienna 1982: SC ÖMV Blue Yellow Vienna 1983: TJ Sokol V Vienna 1984 : Post SV Wien 1985: Post SV Wien 1986: SG IAC / ITV 1987: Post SV Wien 1988: Post SV Wien 1989: Post SV Wien-PSK

1990: Post SV Wien-PSK 1991: Post SV Wien-Teleges 1992: Post SV Wien-Teleges 1993: SG UVC / Wüstenrot Salzburg 1994: Post SV Wien-Teleges 1995: Post SV Wien-Gulet 1996: Post SV Wien-Gulet 1997 : Post SV Wien-Gulet 1998: Fujitsu-Post SV Wien 1999: Fujitsu-Post SV Wien 2000: Post SV-Telekom Austria 2001: Post SV Wien 2002: SG SV Schwechat / PSV Telekom 2003: SG SV Schwechat / PSV Kuoni

2004: SG SV Schwechat / PSV Kuoni 2005: SG SV Schwechat / PSV Kuoni 2006: SG SV Schwechat / Post SV 2007: SG SV Schwechat / Post SV 2008: SG SV Schwechat / Post SV 2009: SG SV Schwechat / Post SV 2010 : SG SVS Post 2011 : SG SVS Post 2012 : SG SVS Post 2013 : SG SVS Post 2014 : SG SVS Post 2015 : SG SVS Post 2016 : SG SVS Post

Winner of the Austrian Volley League Women (from 2017)

2017 : SG SVS Post 2018 : UVC Holding Graz 2019 : ASKÖ Linz Steg

List of titleholders from 1976

19 tracks

Post SV Wien : 1976, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

The association was champion under Post SV Wien, Post SV Wien-PSK, Post SV Wien-Teleges, Post SV Wien-Gulet, Fujitsu-Post SV Wien and Post SV-Telekom Austria.

16 tracks

SG VB NÖ Sokol / Post : 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

The club became champions under SG SV Schwechat / PSV Telekom, SG SV Schwechat / PSV Kuoni, SG SV Schwechat / Post SV and SG SVS Post.

4 tracks

SC Blau Gelb Wien : 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982

The club became champions under SC ÖMV Blau Gelb Wien.

1 title

UVC Graz : 2018

The club became champions under UVC Holding Graz.

SG IAC / ITV : 1986

ASKÖ Linz Steg : 2019

UVC Salzburg : 1993

The club became champions under SG UVC / Wüstenrot Salzburg.

TJ Sokol V Vienna : 1983

Web links

• Austrian Volleyball Association (ÖVV)
• Hall of Fame

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://oevv.volleynet.at/Ligen/9930