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The World Cup was created in 1965 with the purpose of partially filling the gap between the two most important volleyball tournaments, the Olympic Games and the World Championship, which take place in alternating four-year cycles. The establishment of a third international competition would leave only one in every four years with no major events.
Divizia A1 (men's volleyball) Past winners: Divizia A1 (women's volleyball) Past winners Russia: Russian Volleyball Super League (men's) Russian Champions, winners of the Soviet championship: Russian Women's Volleyball Super League: Results, titles by club, Lyudmila Buldakova award Serbia: Volleyball League of Serbia (men's) Champions
The 14 World Cup tournaments have been won by six different national teams. China have won five times. The other World Cup winners are Cuba, with four titles; Italy, with two titles; Japan and Russia (as Soviet Union) with one title each. This tournament should not be confused with the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
The 2019 FIVB Men's World Cup was the 14th edition of the event, contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body.
The Germany men's national volleyball team represents Germany in international volleyball competitions. It is governed by the German Volleyball Association . Germany won the gold medal at the 1970 World Championship as East Germany and the bronze medal at the 2014 World Championship .
The Lega Pallavolo Serie A is structured in several levels of importance; the highest of them is SuperLega (formerly Serie A1). Since the early 1980s, many among the best volleyball players in the world play in Superlega and the overall level of competition is considerably high. Nowadays, the SuperLega is widely considered the best league in ...
Since volleyball was to be added to the Olympic Program in 1964, the 4-cycles were advanced in 2 years after the fourth edition (1960), so that the World Championship may alternate with the Summer Olympic Games. As of 1970, teams from Africa also took part in the competition, and the original goal of having members from all five continental ...
FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup (quadrennially) 1965: 2019: Defunct FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup (quadrennially) 1973: 201923: Defunct FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup (quadrennially, replaced by the World Championship) 1993: 2017: Defunct FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League (annually) 2018: 2024: 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's ...