Mytanija [MYT] qualifiers
VCL: Atletik, Olympic, Dinamo; Host bid: NacZat Arena, Esca (capacity: 12,500)
WorldLeague: Mytanija; Host bid: NacZat Arena, Esca (capacity: 12,500)
WBVC: Stevan Yusupov/Irfo Trijkovski, Salija Herzatovic/Ana Matoslin, Aziz Kladnik/Sara-Maria Sangare
MOF TOP LEAGUE VOLLEYBALL 35/36 SEASON REVIEW
Volleyball is an extremely popular sport within Mytanija, particularly among women, with it enjoying the largest participation numbers for women out of any team sports. The MOF Top League is seen as the equivalent of football's Top League for Mytanar women, with wages not being significantly below those that footballers take home. The MOF Top League has been traditionally dominated by the sports' so-called 'big three': Olympic, Litala ’93 and OK Rauchnya. This represents quite a dramatic geographic spread of teams, with Olympic being based in Thessia, Litala ’93 in the capital Esca and OK Rauchnya in the region's second city Severyan. Due to the popularity of the sport there are teams throughout Mytanija, but only those three have ever managed to win a championship. Olympic and Litala ’93 split the first twelve seasons with 6 title apiece before OK Rauchnya burst onto the scene and since then it has pretty much always been a three-horse race for the Top League title. The three have fostered excellent youth systems for the sport, drawing the best talent from their local area and this means they consistently produce some of the nation's top volleyball stars. They often produce so many good players that some cannot actually get a game with the club's first team and therefore some women have had to leave the 'big three' clubs to leave to smaller teams in order to compete in the Top League. A team from outside the 'big three' finally won the national title in the 30/31 season with Peruna Zivic's Dinamo taking the championship with a team devoid of real stars. Radina Ristic's Litala ’93 continued their dominance of the sport with a second IVF Champions League, going back-to-back in historic fashion, demonstrating that Mytanar teams still dominate the sport internationally.
In the past national team players have almost exclusively come from the 'big three' clubs, but in recent years that has changed and more teams now have a realistic chance at a league title. Atletik have developed a young team which has plenty of talent, whilst Avnalia Odbojka, Dinamo Esca and VK Magevskaya are following a similar trajectory. Akademija, the national academy team, is constantly producing new talent too and it means that they can be very competitive. Those players then move on to other teams once they reach the age of 22 at Akademija. It has made a for a more competitive league and that has led to greater investment, with television companies eager to pay for exclusive rights to show one of the strongest volleyball leagues. Greater foreign investment has only furthered this and it means that international stars are increasingly choosing to play volleyball in Mytanija due to the better wages on offer. The MOF are optimistic that a strong domestic game will only help the quality of the national team, something everybody can get behind as Mytanija look to build on the VWE 11 victory and Olympic gold with more success. Let's see what happened this season:
## Top League Pld W L SF SA Avg
01 Atletik 60 52 8 168 78 2.154 C, IVF CL
02 Olympic 60 48 12 156 83 1.880 IVF CL
03 Dinamo 60 47 13 153 75 2.040 IVF CL
04 Avnalia Odbojka 60 39 21 142 95 1.495
05 VK Magevskaya 60 37 23 137 102 1.343
06 Akademija 60 36 24 132 102 1.294
07 Litala ’93 60 32 28 135 120 1.125
08 OK Rauchnya 60 30 30 121 119 1.017
09 Meja 60 30 30 115 123 0.935
10 NK Thessia 60 28 32 103 136 0.757
11 NK Dyka 60 25 35 110 137 0.803
12 Arka 60 20 40 107 137 0.781
13 Crvena Zvezda 60 20 40 109 141 0.773
14 Ribari 60 15 45 81 151 0.536 R
15 Centralni 60 12 48 91 163 0.558 R
16 OK Visoravna 60 9 51 64 162 0.395 R
## Druga Liga Pld W L SF SA Avg
01 CDSA 60 43 17 151 85 1.776 C, P
02 NK Istina 60 42 18 149 88 1.693 P
03 JK Ebor 60 40 20 145 96 1.510 P
04 Eskobirsk 60 38 22 138 104 1.327
05 Padina 60 35 25 135 114 1.184
06 Vitalia 60 31 29 113 119 0.950
07 Sigurno Odbojka 60 30 30 129 123 1.049
08 OK Prizren 60 30 30 119 119 1.000
09 Rudar 60 30 30 122 128 0.953
10 Obalna 60 29 31 116 128 0.906
11 Slavia 60 27 33 114 129 0.884
12 Ostrova Odbojka 60 27 33 116 135 0.859
13 OK Miago 60 26 34 117 132 0.886
14 Zenit 60 24 36 107 136 0.787
15 Partizan 60 17 43 91 147 0.619
16 Rotor 60 11 49 79 158 0.500
