The 2026–27 Serie A1 is the 82nd season of the highest professional Italian Women's Volleyball League. The season takes place from October to April and is contested by fourteen teams.
Format The regular season consists of 26 rounds, where the fourteen participating teams play each other twice (once home and once away). At the completion of the regular season, the eight best teams advance to the championship playoffs, the 9-12th ranked teams advance to the challenge playoffs and the teams finishing 13th and 14th are relegated to Serie A2.
The standings criteria: highest number of result points (points awarded for results: 3 points for 3–0 or 3–1 wins, 2 points for 3–2 win, 1 point for 2–3 loss); highest number of matches won; highest set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost); highest points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points conceded).
Teams Club VenueCapacityCity/AreaCBF Balducci HR MacerataPalaFontescodella2,100MacerataCDA Volley Talmassons FVGPalasport Latisana1,500LatisanaChorusLife Volley BergamoPalaFacchetti2,880TreviglioGranda Volley CuneoPalaCastagnaretta4,700CuneoIgor Gorgonzola NovaraPala Igor Gorgonzola4,000NovaraIl Bisonte FirenzePalaWanny3,500FlorenceLaica Cioccolato UYBAE-Work Arena4,490Busto ArsizioMegabox Ondulati Del Savio VallefogliaPalaMegabox2,001PesaroNumia Vero Volley MilanoAllianz Cloud Arena5,309MilanOmag Consolini Volley 1907PalaCervia2,000CerviaProsecco Doc A.Carraro Imoco ConeglianoPalaVerde5,344VillorbaReale Mutua Fenera Chieri '76PalaFenera1,506ChieriSavino Del Bene ScandicciPalaWanny3,500FlorenceValsabbina Millenium BresciaPalaGeorge4,000Montichiari
Regular season
League table
Results table
Fixtures and results All times are local, CEST (UTC+02:00) between 3 October and 24 October 2026 and CET (UTC+01:00) from 25 October 2026.
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Round 24
Round 25
Round 26
Championship playoffs All times are local, CET (UTC+01:00) until 27 March 2026 and CEST (UTC+02:00) from 28 March 2027. The losers of the quarterfinals are moved to the Challenge playoffs.
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) vs. (8)
(2) vs. (7)
(3) vs. (6)
(4) vs. (5)
Semifinals
Finals
Challenge playoffs All times are local, CET (UTC+01:00) until 27 March 2026 and CEST (UTC+02:00) from 28 March 2027.
First round
(9) vs. (12)
(10) vs. (11)
Second round
Best ranked QF loser vs. (10/11)
2nd best ranked QF loser vs. (9/12)
3rd best ranked QF loser vs. 4th best ranked QF loser
Challenge semifinal
Challenge final
Final standings
References
External links Official website