France is the reigning champion of the World League
Major changes in World League! FIVB has announced the new format of competition, and the most important thing is that there will be 12 teams in Group 1 in the 2016 edition! The new World League Group 1 will include all 8 teams from the 2015 edition (which means that Russia will remain in top rank despite finishing as the last placed in 2015), while four more national teams were added to the main competition – France as the reigning champion, and Belgium, Argentina and Bulgaria which received wild cards.
These are the teams which will participate in World League 2016 Group 1:
France, Italy, Australia, Russia, USA, Brazil, Iran, Argentina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland.
They will all be put in the same Pool, while the main stage will last for three weeks. The format is the same like in the Grand Prix – Every weekend there will be 3 tournaments with 4 participants. Here you can see the hosts of the tournaments.
After the third weekend, the top 5 teams will advance to the Final Six, together with the host of the final tournament.
World League 2016 will last from June 17 to July 17.
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Hahaha. Fiv$. Russia was the loser but of course it doesn’t matter.
Of course Russil has to stay. Without them World League would not be the same since they ARE on of the best volleyball teams in the world. But FIVB had to find some other way to insert them back to First Division teams, not just how they made it now…
I can see how much you guys cried when Russia won 2012 Olympics gold and now frightened since Alekno is back
Russian communism flooded FIVB
FBI should check this. But do they care about marginal sport like volleyball? Ehhh… Even cricket, water polo are more valued. Lawlessness=Volleyball!
@DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND TAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT FIVB World League is a private competition organized by the FIVB and they can change rules whenever they want! Even every hour! It is true that how they did it looks like Russia has some protection, but with/without team of Russia volleyball would loose more that it would get. Don’t you agree?
world league´s next year structure is pretty bad. This year france won after coming from group 2, why couldnt happen the same next year. Right, because fivb doesnt want to. Group 2 doesnt have a chance. 🙂
What would you say if volleyball is probably the only one team sport that still doesn’t deserve on Eurosport tv transmission, any worldwide transmission except Olympics transmissions sometimes what is disgrace for FIVB. I saw even waterpolo transmissions last time but never volleyball. Almost every volleyball fan in the world, especially from countries where volleyball is not popular must watch matches on the internet and it’s even sometimes problem. Thanks to russian oligarchy this sport is getting pointless and poorer federations see no sense in showing opposition what already happened. Just do whatever you want and take whatever you want, so simple.