Volleyball News

The Indian men's volleyball team created history on Sunday by clinching their first-ever medal at the AVC Men's Cup, defeating defending champions Bahrain 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-21, 25-17) in the bronze medal play-off in Ahmedabad.

Making their maiden appearance at the AVC Men's Volleyball Cup, India reached the last-four unbeaten, winning five consecutive matches while dropping just one set.

Spectators at a top beach volleyball competition in Japan this weekend will be banned from taking photos or videos after organisers said fans had been responsible for "malicious" shots of players.

The Goa Guardians, set to make its debut in season 4, will compete alongside top franchises in a high-energy format designed for television and digital audiences.

The scheduled dates of the tournament, to be contested among Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, have not been changed.

Iran, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan have confirmed their entries while other confirmations are awaited.

The Indian women's volleyball team started their campaign at the Asian Games on a disappointing note, losing 1-3 to North Korea

The Indian men's volleyball team finished sixth at the Asian Games after going down 0-3 to arch-rivals Pakistan on Tuesday.

The Indian men's volleyball team will take on arch-rivals Pakistan in the fifth-place playoff at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.

India put up a dominant performance to outclass Cambodia 3-0 in their opening match of the men's volleyball competition at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Tuesday

Russia has been stripped of hosting the men's Volleyball World Championships in August and September due to its invasion of Ukraine, governing body the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) announced on Tuesday.

Sanja Djurdjevic was photographed pulling at the corners of her eyes with her fingers, a derogatory gesture towards Asians.

The Volleyball Federation of India has been asked to pay Rs 4 crore to a sports event management company; VFI will appeal the order.

In the semi-finals of the girls Under-21 section, Tamil Nadu got the better of Bengal 25-20, 25-21, 25-21.

In the country's deadliest single attack since 2011, the bomber detonated his explosives on Sunday as hundreds of young men and boys attended a tournament featuring three local teams in the volatile province of Paktika.

Females are banned from attending public men's sport games, which could be only attended by public and male reporters. Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old British-Iranian woman, to a year in jail after she had cared to attend a volleyball game as a spectator.

British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami is protesting because the judge is yet to officially confirm her one-year prison sentence.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old law graduate from London, was protesting against the ban on women to watch men's volleyball matches.