The Volleyball 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's was the 26th tournament of the V.League and the highest level men's tournament in Japan, which was held from October 26, 2019 – February 29, 2020.[1]
^Withdrew due to the injury, replaced by Yakan Guma
Foreign players
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 2019–20 V.League Division 1 Men's Foreign Players
An informal player is a trainee who came in the team and has not registered as V.League player yet. Mostly, the player still is in the last year of university or high school.
The list of Japanese informal players in the 2019–20 season
The teams will be ranked by the total number of victories (matches won, matched lost)
In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: the most point gained per match as follows:
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.
The award was distributed to players who participate in 10 seasons or more, 230 games or more. Except for Takeshi Nagano who received 10 or more individual awards.[36]