Portuguese Volleyball Federation

The Federação Portuguesa de Voleibol (FPV, port. for: Portuguese Volleyball Federation ) is the governing body for volleyball ( Portuguese: Voleibol ) and beach volleyball ( Portuguese: Voleibol de praia ) in Portugal. The FPV has its headquarters in Porto.

• 2.1 members
• 2.2 institutions

History

Prehistory to the establishment in 1947

The volleyball game came by American soldiers to Portugal, who were stationed in World War I on the Azores Islands. The engineer António Cavaco from the Azores island of São Miguel brought the game during his studies to Lisbon. After a short time before the complete volleyball rules in Portugal was first released, was constituted on 28 December 1938, the Associação de Voleibol de Lisboa, the first Volleyball Association in Portugal.

The first volleyball club Atlético Clube was the Campolide from the Lisbon Campolide community, the more quickly clubs followed. Even established sports clubs like Belenenses Lisbon, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon founded volleyball sections. The first volleyball tournament and the first championship organized by the Association of Lisbon 1939/40, winner was the Associação de Estudantes do Instituto Superior Técnico ( AEIS Técnico ), the sports club of the students of the Instituto Superior Técnico.

1942 founded a number of clubs in Porto the local Volleyball Association Associação de Voleibol do Porto. On June 23, 1946 for the first time came selections of the two organizations against each other, Lisbon won 2-0. 1946/47, a first national championship was played, which again won the AEIS Técnico.

From 1947 to 1999

On April 7, 1947, the Federação Portuguesa de Voleibol, first president was based in Lisbon, was Guilherme Sousa Martins. Shortly afterwards, the FPV was a founding member of the World Volleyball Federation Fédération Internationale de Volleyball in Paris. The first European Volleyball Championship in 1948 in Rome, the selection of Portugal finished fourth, their best to date ranking in the tournament.

The first national women's championship was 1959/60 played, winner was the SC Espinho. The Ministry of the Salazar dictatorship began, however, to complicate the work of the FPV. International participation of the national team as has been possible only after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the end of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime. So organized the FPV 1979, the final round of the European Youth Championships. The national teams of men and women took part in the Spring Cup, and were given as the first time the opportunity to compete internationally. As of 1990, the FPV organized in collaboration with the public television RTP an international tournament. More organized by the FPV tournaments were the third World Youth Championship in 1991 in Lisbon and Porto and the Spring Cup in 1995, the Portuguese selection in third completed ( according to a second place in the previous year ).

1993 FPV organized its first national championship in beach volleyball, and in the pre- Olympic year 1995 made ​​the World Series of beach volleyball twice a stop in Portugal. 1996 hosted the FPV a tournament with teams from Canada, Bulgaria and Venezuela, in which Portugal was second. The tournament was staged in preparation for the Olympics 1996., Where the Portuguese male duo Luis Maia / João Brenha defeated in the match for third place Canadian duo John Child / Mark Heese. Some of the most successful Olympic athletes then participated at the Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Tournament in Espinho part of what drew the attention of the general public in Portugal on the sport. 1998 organized the FPV also in Porto, in collaboration with the World Federation FIVB, the Fourth World Symposium Volleyball specific Sports Medicine.

1999 was marked by special activity of FPV. They first published their own, three -monthly magazine O Voleibol, and also launched the electronic news service ProVolei Flash in order to increase the coverage of volleyball in the Portuguese media. Also, an interactive CD with rules and information for young volleyball Gira Volei brought them out. In the same year the FPV organized the first volleyball Congress and the first of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries Countries volleyball tournament ( CPLP ), a precursor of the events to the Jogos da Lusofonia, the sports competitions of the community. Moreover, inclusion in the Volleyball World League of the national team of Portugal took place in 1999.

From 1999 to today

In the eighth RTP volleyball tournament that the FPV organized with the television in Guarda, participated in preparation for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the national teams of Germany, Japan, Poland and Portugal in part, and the hosts reached the second place. For the 2000 Olympics, the FPV - selection could not qualify, however, was the beach volleyball duo Maia / Brenha, as in Atlanta in 1996, and 2000 in fourth. The following national beach volleyball championship with eight venues brought the FPV stronger support by the media and local authorities, and many new sponsors, and consequently a higher degree of professionalism and public perception.

In 2002, the Portuguese men's national team achieved their best ever placing at the World Championship with the eighth place. All their games were also transferred from the Portuguese sports channel Sport TV. The Portuguese beach volleyball championship of the year was then played to ten appointments for three months, and a number of games were televised. In addition, the FPV expanded the number of clubs in the state championship ( Campeonato Nacional da Divisão A1) to twelve teams.

2004 organized the FPV 29 World Congress of the FIVB in Porto, where she also moved into its new headquarters. In September of the year since 1956 to qualified the FPV range, in the second qualifying stage in Germany, the first time for the men's European Championship. In beach volleyball, the national champions were now played out after twelve (men) or six ( women) rounds in Esposende. In 2004, the FPV together with the FIVB and Volleyball Regional Association of Madeira, the U -21 World Cup on the Portuguese island of Porto Santo.

The FPV organized in 2007 the Portuguese Open FIVB World Tour (then Swatch FIVB Beach Volley World Tour ), bringing the final competition of an international men's volleyball tournament was played in Portugal for the first time. In the same year the FPV opened in Resende her volleyball training center (Centro de Alto de Treino Rendimento ). The junior volleyball game of the FPV, the Gira Volei reached in 2007, the number of the nation's 1,700 match and training venues and received with giravolei.com its own website.

2008, organized by the FPV U23 Beach Volleyball European Championship was held in Espinho. Gira Volei meanwhile reached 1,815 venues, celebrated its annual event at the Estádio Nacional do Jamor, and brought henceforth with O Gira - Volei a two-month own magazine.

2010 won the FPV selection of men for the first time the European Volleyball League and also qualified for the European Championship 2011., 2011 returned it further back into the world league. In the same year the FPV taught in Porto from the U -23 European Championships, which was won in the men from the German duo Lars Flüggen / Stefan Köhler.

Organizational structure

The FPV was a founding member of the International Volleyball Federation FIVB (1947 ) and the European Association CEV (1963). It belongs to the Comité Olímpico de Portugal, the National Olympic Committee of Portugal.

Members

In the FPV regional volleyball associations in the districts of continental Portugal and the two autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira are organized. Currently, there are 18 regional volleyball associations (in brackets the District or County):

• Associação de Voleibol do Porto (Porto)
• Associação de Voleibol de Lisboa (Lisbon )
• Associação de Voleibol de Braga (Braga )
• Associação de Voleibol de Coimbra (Coimbra )
• Associação de Voleibol da Guarda ( Guarda )
• Associação de Voleibol do Alentejo ( Évora, Portalegre and Beja )
• Associação de Voleibol de Leiria (Leiria )
• Associação de Voleibol de Viana do Castelo ( Viana do Castelo )
• Associação de Voleibol de Viseu (Viseu )

• Associação de Voleibol de Vila Real ( Vila Real)
• Associação de Voleibol do Algarve (Faro)
• Associação de Voleibol da Madeira (Madeira)
• Associação de Voleibol da Ilha da Terceira ( Azores )
• Associação de Voleibol da Ilha de São Miguel ( Azores )
• Associação de Voleibol da Ilha do Faial ( Azores )
• Associação de Voleibol da Ilha do Pico ( Azores )
• Associação de Voleibol da Ilha de Santa Maria ( Azores )
• Associação de Voleibol de Bragança ( Bragança )

For this, the sublattice Gira comes FPV (Association for junior volleyball, Portuguese: Gira - Volei ).

Not mentioned here are the numerous volleyball clubs and institutional members of the Association.

Organs

President Vicente Henrique Gonçalves de Araújo. In addition to the Executive Committee and the General Assembly of the FPA has four other institutions:

• Conselho de Disciplina (English: Disciplinary )
• Conselho de Justiça (English: Judiciary )
• Conselho Fiscal ( engl.: Board or Control )
• Conselho de Arbitragem (German: Expediency )

Activities

Organised by the FPV men's national team reached the best results an eighth place finish at the 2002 World Cup, a fourth place finish at the first European Championship in 1948 and a fifth place in the World League in 2005. Moreover, they could win Europa League 2010.

The FPV organized the participation of all volleyball national teams of Portugal ( men, women, and youth teams ) in international competitions, including Olympics, World and European Championships.

The FPV foundation also organizes national league competitions, the Campeonatos Portuguà de Voleibol, women 's, men's and youth leagues. The winners of the respective first league ( Portuguese: Primeira Divisão ) of men and women will qualify for the Champions League Volleyball.

The regular international coach seminars, occasional international tournaments, and the Portugal Open in Espinho aligns the FPV from.

In beach volleyball, the FPV operates nationwide league competitions for clubs and single and double tournaments. There are also several international beach volleyball tournaments that it organizes in Portugal. In 1994 she organized the Beach Volleyball European Women in Espinho.

With the three -monthly magazine O Voleibol (German: Volleyball ) FPV launches its own magazine. This is archived online and is widely available.

During the annual FPV Gala Casino da Póvoa in ( in Póvoa de Varzim ), sometimes at the Casino de Espinho, the Association will award its Osório prices for athletes, active, officials and local authorities, which to the Volleyball in the past year Portugal have rendered.