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Welcome to the B.V.A.

Welcome to the Official Webpage of the Balkan Volleyball Association (BVA). The BVA is the Association of Volleyball Federations of the Balkan region (Albania, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Bulgaria, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC of Macedonia, Greece, Moldavia, MONTENEGRO, Romania, Serbia, Turkey) and organizes every year Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Competitions for the athletes and National teams of these countries.
The BVA is affiliated to the FIVB and the CEV.


BVA Cup/Women: Besiktas completes Turkish sweep
One day after Buyuksehir secured the Men's Balkan Cup, Besiktas completed the Turkish sweep by winning the Women's edition in Tuzla. Led by Turskish international Natalya Hanikolgu (the MVP of the tournament), the team from Istanbul beat Serbia's TENT Obrenovac 3:1 in Tuzla's
University Sports Hall. Levski Siconco from Bulgaria defeated hosts OK Tuzla to take the bronze medal. In the semi finals Besiktas had beaten Tuzla 3:0 and Obrenovac downed Levski 3:1.
You can find more about the tournament, including results, match reports and photos at...
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BVA Cup/Men: Buyuksehir wins first Balkan Cup
It was a Turkish team that won the 1st Men's Balkan Cup, as the Final Four concluded in Baia Mare with all matches going down to the tie break! Buyuksehir Belediyesi from Istanbul led twice and finally beat  Greece's AO Kifissia 3:2 to win the trophy, while American Olympic champions Ryan Millar won his second gold medal in a month. Earlier, the home team Stiinta Explorari beat Serbian outfit Ribnica Kraljevo, also in the tie break, to win the bronze medal. In the semi finals, Kifissia had beaten Ribnica and Buyuksehir eliminated Explorari.
You can find more about the tournament, including results, match reports and photos at...
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Beach Volley/Belgrade: Kolev/Neshev dominate, Sevarika writes history
The 2008 Men & Women Beach Volley Championships finished today at  Lake Ada Ciganlija in Belgrade, with Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania sharing the medals. Bulgarian stars Nikolay Kolev and Neven Neshev won the all Bulgarian men's final against last year's champions Boris Yankov and Milen Stoyanov, while Dzuric and Mladenovic beat compatriots Stanojcic and Brcic for the bronze medal.
The women's final was a Serbian affair, with the "Natashas" (Borki and Sevarika) beating the Bulgarian "Dianas" (Malinova and Filipova) in a thrilling three sets final. With her win Natasha Sevarika also won a place in the history of the BVA as she became one of the few players who won gold medals both in indoor and beach volleyball! The ex captain of the Serbian Junior team led her country to the 2007 Junior Women's title and was the MVP of the Balkan Championships in Obrenovac. There was an all Romanian bronze medal match, where ex champion Sorina Buz (playing with Diana Balintoni) beat her former partner Loredana Calinciuc (now with Ana Maria Hambele).
The tournament, which closed the 2008 competitions for national teams, was part of the local 2008 VIP Masters Series and was attended, among others, by Mr. Aleksandar Boricic, FIVB Vice President and Chairman of the Serbian Volleyball Federation and the Vice Presidents of the Serbian Federation, Nenad Golijanin and Aleksandar Vlahovic.
You can find more about the tournament, including teams, results and photos at...
Belgrade 2008

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Junior W/Tuzla: Serbia wins fourth Junior Women title
Serbia successfully defended its Junior Women title, after winning the 2008 Balkan Championships in Tuzla with a convincing 3:0 win over Bulgaria on Saturday. The girls of head coach Zoran Kovacic wonc relatively easy, except from the second set, when they had to overturn a 10:16 deficit and avoid a Bulgarian set ball at 23:24. But Tijana Malesevic (the MVP of the tournament) led her team's comeback and the Serbians never looked back, despite the magnificent performance of Bulgarian star Elitsa Vasileva. Serbia also swept the individual awards with Malesevic, Marija Pucarevic and Nina Rosic, while the other honors went to Bosnia's Brankica Mihajlovic and Bulgaria's Nora Bogdanova.
Earlier, Bosnia & Herzegovina played without injured first choice setter Jelena Markovic but had no major difficulties against Moldavia and won the bronze medal with a 3:0 win. Kristina Eric, who filled Markovic's place and Asmira Hecic's good performance helped the Bosnians to overcome Diaconita's heroics. The match was interrupted for 10 minutes in the third set, due to a power failure and restarted with emergency lights, but there was no way back for Moldavia and the home side celebrated its second consecutive medal, after the 2007 silver in Obrenovac.
Romania, with Ioana Baciu and Daian Muresan in great shape, overcame Greece's resistance to win the 5th place play off and Turkey, playing with its second string team for almost the whole game, easily beat Montenegro to claim 7th place. The tournament's closing ceremony was attended by Tuzla's Mayor, Mr. Jasmin Imamovic.
You can find more about the tournament, including team rosters, results and photos at...
Tuzla 2008
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Junior M/Ankara: Serbia back on top
Serbia won the Junior Men Balkan Championships in Ankara and returned to the top after three years (their last victory was in 2005), as the five-days tournament reaches its climax on Sunday. The Serbian team, led by MVP Aleksandar Atanasijevic (17 pts) and attacker Nicola Mijahlovic (21 pts) beat a rejuvenated Greek team, who was forced to play the last set without its best attacker Mitar Djuric. Captain Andreas Frangos was the top scorer of the final with 24 points.
Turkey delighted the home crowd by beating Montenegro 3:1 and winning the bronze medal, while Bulgaria beat Romania 3:0 for 5th place and Moldavia defeated FYROM 3:0 for the 7th place.
You can find the complete match reports, team rosters and photos at...
Ankara 2008
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Youth M/Kazanlak: Serbia wins it again
Serbia won the the Youth Men Balkan Championships for the second consecutive year in Kazanlak, where the Bulgarian Volleyball staged an excellent tournament. Led by the championships' top attecker Aleksandar Atanasijevic (who scorer 20 points), Dusan Petkovic (15 pts) and setter Nikola Jovovic, the defending champions beat Turkey 3:0 in just over one hour and celebrated their sixth title in eight competitions so far. For Turkey Ufuk Minici and captain Berkan Bozan each scored 8 points, while Burak Hazirol was named best libero of the tournament.
Hosts Bulgaria consoled themselves for the semi final defeat against Serbia with the bronze, the first medal since their wining performance in 2005. Nikolay Penchev swept the MVP and Best Server titles and Montenegro's Marko Djuranovic was the tournament's best libero. Earlier, Greece beat Bosnia/ Herzegovina in straight sets and finished 5th, while Romania claimed 7th place, beating FYROM 3:1.
BVA's next tournament is the Junior Men Balkan Championships in Ankara, on August 13 to 17.
Kazanlak 2008
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Youth W/Portaria: Majestic Cansu leads Turkey
Captain Cansu Aydinogullari offered an amazing majestic performance in Portaria and led Turkey back to the top of the Youth Girls Balkan Championships, which ended on Saturday in Greece. The 16 years old setter from Istanbul was the top performer of the exciting Turkish team, which beat Serbia 3:1 in the final, with Gulsah Olcay scoring 20 points and Selin Uygur adding another 17. But it was Cansu who stole the show and was rightly named MVP of the tournament by the coaches of the participating teams. For the Serbians, Bjelica, Klisura and Lukovic scored 12 points each.
Earlier, Greece ended a seven years jinx to win its first women Balkan medal since 2001. The hosts beat Bulgaria 3:1 for the bronze medal in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, despite playing without injured receiver Sophia Kosma. Captain Maria Nomikou, who missed Friday's semi final against Serbia, returned to the team and led her team with 14 points. Blockers Kalogridaki and Ikonomidou added 12 and 11 points respectively. Kalina Maneva's 18 points were not enough for Bulgaria, who conceded 14 aces.
The final day also saw Bosnia/Herzegovina defeating Montenegro 3:1 for the 5th place and Romania beating FYROM 3:1 for 7th.
The tournament was played in a unique party atmosphere throughout its duration. Fittingly, it concluded with an unforgettable party in nearby Katichori, where players, referees, officials and staff all danced late into the night.
Portaria 2008
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The complete Database of the BVA
The Balkan Volleyball Association is happy to announce that the Database of the Volleyball Balkan Championships (indoor) is now completed. In the Databank page of this website you can find all results, standings and MVP's of the previous championships organized by the BVA and we hope that soon we will also be able to offer the same Database for the Beach Volley competitions.
The BVA wishes to thank Mr. Novica Saric, Press Officer of the Volleyball Federation of Serbia, for his valuable help in collecting the results of the competitions.
Databank

The 2008 Champions
The results of the BVA countries in international Volley & Beach Volley competitions and the 2007-08 Club Champions of the Balkan countries with their photos.
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Champions 2008 

The BVA Yearbook on the Web
The 2007 BVA Yearbook is ready and, for the first time, is published (in PDF format) on the BVA website. You can download it by clicking the picture on the left, or the following link and enjoy an action packed year of Balkan volleyball.
Yearbook 2007

Downloads
In order to facilitate their registration, the member Federations can now download the respective BVA forms from the BVA website. All forms are in MS Word format (doc). At the same page, you can find also the BVA Official Regulations and the BVA Logo.
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