25 October 2024 will certainly be a historic date for our volleyball, because on this day, for the first time in its history, the Sokal team will play in the Ukrainian Premier League – VC Danish Textile will play against Lutsk team Olutrans-LNTU in Sniatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region.
In total, 10 teams will compete in the top league in the 2024/2025 season. The competition will be held in three stages. In the first stage, the teams will play each other in one round, meaning that each team will play 9 games. VC Danish Textile will play the rounds in Sniatyn, Lutsk (two rounds) and Ivano-Frankivsk.
The teams that take 1-2 places after the first stage will go directly to the third (final) stage. In the second stage, Team 3 will play Team 6, and Team 4 will play Team 5 based on the results of the first stage.
The second stage matches will be played until two wins. This will determine two more participants in the third stage.
In the third (final) stage, which will involve four teams, 1 team will play the winner of the 4-5th place match, and 2 teams will play the winner of the 3-6th place match. The winners of these pairs will play for the major league gold, and the losing teams will play for the bronze. The matches of the final stage will also be played up to two wins (in case of a tie, a gold set will be played).
In fact, to reach the second stage, you need to take a place not lower than 6 in the first stage.
In the Ukrainian Cup, VC Danish Textile will start from the 2nd stage, which will take place in January next year.
The Danish Textile team is planning to have 6 new volleyball players who did not play in the Ukrainian Championship last season for the Sokal team. We will tell you about each of the so-called newcomers separately after the end of the application process.