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.[3]
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.
The total number of foreign players is restricted to one per club. Player from Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) nations are exempt from these restrictions.
The list of 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Foreign 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.
The list of 2022–23 V.League Division 1 Men's Informal players
10 teams participate in round robin system, playing each other team 4 times.
Teams are ranked in the Regular Round by:
Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate
The top four teams from the Regular Round will advance to the Final Stage
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
Top 4 teams of Regular Round to compete each other in one robin round to determine rankings.
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.
Teams are ranked in the Final Stage by:
Wins ->Points ->Set Percentage ->Scoring Rate ->Ranking of Regular Round
The 3rd and 4th team of Final Stage will be the final ranking for 3rd and 4th place.
The top 2 teams of Final stage to play against each other in a one match Final.
Season standing procedure
The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories
The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
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:
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.
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.
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.
^"2022–23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 の試合をフジテレビ(BS,CS)にて放送" [2022–23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 matches will be broadcast on Fuji TV (BS, CS)]. vleague.jp (in Japanese). 20 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.