SV.League

The SV.League, sponsored as the Daido Life SV.League, is the top-level professional volleyball league for both men and women in Japan, played since 2024. It succeeded the V.League as the country's premier volleyball competition, and the V.League continues beneath it as a second tier for clubs that chose not to join. The new league grew out of the V.League of the Japan Volleyball League Organization, which for a long time ran as the V.Premier League after being established in 1994, and the plan for a new top division above it was announced in January 2023. The S in the name stands for Strong, Spread and Society. To be licensed in the SV.League a club must play its home games, more than 80 percent of them, in a main arena that holds more than 5,000 people, report annual revenue above 600 million yen, field youth teams at under 18 and under 15 level, and keep a dedicated clubhouse. Osaka Bluteon, formerly the Panasonic Panthers, is one of its men's clubs.