Pro Volleyball League 2020

7 Feb 2020 - 1 Mar 2020

RuPay Pro Volleyball League is a professional men's indoor volleyball league and its second edition will take place in February 2020. The league is taking place with the collective efforts of the Volleyball Federation of India and Baseline Ventures. It will be officially broadcasted on Sony Pictures Networks India.

Pro Volleyball League Teams

Pro Volleyball League 2020 will have six teams participating in it with each team representing different Indian cities.

Last edition's teams

City	Team Name	Icon Player	Franchise Owner(s)
Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad Defenders	Novica Bjelica	Bonhomie Sports Event Management Limited
Calicut	Calicut Heroes	Paul Lotman	Beacon Sports
Chennai	Chennai Spartans	Rudy Verhoeff	Chennai Spartans Private Limited
Hyderabad	Black Hawks Hyderabad	Carson Clark	Agile Entertainment Private Limited
Kochi	Kochi Blue Spikers	David Lee	Thomas Muthoot
Mumbai	U Mumba Volley	Tomislav Coskovic	U Sports

Pro Volleyball League Auction

Every team has upto 12 players with a maximum of two reserve players. These players were bought from a salary purse of Rs. 75 lakhs that was given to each franchise. A total of 117 players were up for sale via auction or player draft.

These 117 players were divided into four categories – International Icons, Indian Icons, Sr. Indian Internationals, Nationals and U-21 players where the International icon players were picked through a draft process while the Indian players were chosen via an auction.

Format

A total of 18 matches will be played and each team will play against each other in a round-robin format. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the semi finals from the final two teams will get selected.