Team sport
Volleyball
Three touches, no catching, and the ball must never land.
- Origin
- Holyoke, USA, 1895
- Players
- 6 per side
- Governing body
- FIVB
- Format
- Best of 5 sets to 25
- Court
- 18 × 9 m
- Olympic
- Yes, since 1964
Three ways in
Option one
Rules & how to play
Everything you need to follow a game of volleyball: the objective, the field, the fouls and the officials.
6 sections
Option two
History & origins
Where volleyball came from and how it grew, told as a timeline of the moments that changed it.
10 milestones
Option three
Players
Search the greats by name, country or honour — or scroll the list to find someone you've never heard of.
10 profiles