The Korea Volleyball Federation (President Cho Won-tae) will hold the 2023 Gumi and Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament at Park Chung-hee Gymnasium in Gumi for a total of 16 days from July 29 to August 13.

The women’s Korea Expressway Corporation and Pepper Savings Bank will open the competition on the 29th, and the men’s competition will begin on August 6th with a match between Korean Air and Woori Card.

Professional volleyball and Gumi City! A welcome reunion in 6 years!

Gumi City, the venue of the tournament, was reunited with professional volleyball for the first time in about six years and four months since March 2017, when LIG Insurance, the predecessor of KB Insurance, was home to the V-League from 2005 to 2017.

As 37,000 spectators visited the Suncheon Dodram Cup professional volleyball tournament in 2022, it is expected that a hot volleyball feast will continue in the upcoming tournament in Gumi City.

Invitation for men’s and women’s overseas club teams! A fierce competition of 16 teams!

As participating teams, 14 teams from the men’s and women’s V-League and 1 team from men’s and women’s overseas club teams will be invited to participate in the competition, with a total of 16 teams.Last season’s Japan V in the men’s team as an overseas invitation team.Panasonic Panthers, ranked third in the league, and Supreme Village Team, which has won the Thai league several times, will participate in the women’s division.

In the men’s division, Group A, which includes Korean Air, Woori Card, KB Insurance, and OK Financial Group, and Group B, which includes KEPCO, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Hyundai Capital, and Panasonic Panthers, will play the group stage, respectively.

The women’s team was assigned through a lottery, and Group A Korea Expressway Corporation, Pepper Savings Bank, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, KGC Ginseng Corporation, Group B Heungkuk Life Insurance, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, GS Caltex, and Supreme Village will compete for the rankings.

Players and coaches to meet as a new team!

In this tournament, players who changed into new uniforms during the off-season stand out.

Major transfer players include Hwang Seung-bin, who moved to KB Insurance through a 1:1 trade, Han Sung-jung, who returned to Woori Card after a year and a half, and OK Financial Group Song Hee-chae and Woori Card Song Myung-geun, who exchanged uniforms.

In the women’s division, Park Jung-ah and Jung Dae-young, who won the Korea Expressway Corporation last season, moved to Pepper Savings Bank and GS Caltex, respectively, and Hwang Min-kyung moved to IBK Industrial Bank of Korea and Kim Soo-ji moved to Heungkuk Life Insurance.Attention is focusing on the performance of the players who will make their first appearance after the transfer.

In addition, Masa Ogino, head coach of the men’s OK Financial Group, and Joe Trinji, head coach of the women’s Pepper Savings Bank, will make their first debut since taking office.

Summer volleyball full of excitement! ‘Rally for Volley’!

The concept of this competition is ‘RALLY FOR VOLLEY’.It is a slogan of “RALLY,” a rally of volleyball, and “VOLLEY,” which means “get together,” and it is the first cup competition in Gyeongsangbuk-do, and at the same time, it means to create an exciting moment where fans can continue to gather to cheer and be happy.

In order to record the exciting summer volleyball moment, a four-cut photo photo booth will be installed in the stadium, and the photo booth can be enjoyed unlimitedly at no additional cost. 스포츠토토

In addition, there are various events to give unforgettable memories to fans who visit the stadium, such as the “Rally for Stamp” event, which allows them to sign a certification stamp and apply for a Serazem prize worth 8 million won when watching a game.

The federation plans to make efforts to ensure smooth operation so that this competition can be a safe and enjoyable competition.