Volleyball World · website programme · 2 September 2026
Nineteen journeys
J1Find a matchJ2Get to the streamJ3Follow the match liveJ4Find out what happenedJ5Check the tableJ6Look up a factJ7Who won the awardsJ8Discover a playerJ9Keep up with a playerJ10Keep up with my teamJ11Follow a tournament to the endJ12Catch up, or kill five minutesJ13Look backJ14Share itJ15My VolleyballJ16Play it, then follow itJ17Track the raceJ18Pick someone to care aboutJ19Between the Games
J1

Find a match

The week resolved to the fan’s own market and time zone, with one row worth their time and a reminder on every row that is not.
Phase oneCan begin off site
The screen has worked when

A match opened, a watch route taken, or a reminder armed, inside thirty seconds.

What has to be on it
  • Now strip rendered in the first payload, not fetched after paint
  • Time zone stated and changeable, never inferred silently
  • My matches and All matches split, with the hidden count printed
  • Owned, coverage and beach rows visually distinct
  • Reminder and calendar on every future row
  • Filter state written into the URL so the view is shareable
Why we are building it

Own platforms reach 6% to 41% of latter-stage fans, Thailand highest at 41 and Japan lowest at 6. The schedule competes with search and broadcaster apps rather than owning the fixture question.

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Schedule
My matchesAll matches · 12 hiddenAdd a filter
Times in Asia/Tokyo (JST). Change
LIVE · SET 4
Poland2
Brazil1
LIVE · SET 2
Ehlers/Wickler1
Mol/Sørum0
18:00 JST
Japan–
Italy–
On now, then today2 live, 4 to come
VNL
Italy v JapanWomen · Pool 3 · Osaka
18:00 Where to watch
COVERAGE
SuperLega, round 4Sir Susa Perugia v Trentino
20:30 Remind me
VNL
USA v FranceMen · Pool C · Chicago
22:00 Remind me
VNL
Netherlands v SerbiaWomen · Pool 3 · Osaka
23:30 Remind me
Tomorrow2 you follow
VNL
Poland v JapanMen · Pool B · Rio de Janeiro
19:30 Remind me
BEACH
Doha Elite16, semi-finalsMol/Sørum if they win tonight
17:00 Remind me
WHY THIS ROW AND NOT ANOTHER
You follow Poland. They are on now, and their result decides Pool B. Everything else today is filtered behind All matches.
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Schedule, today. The time zone chip and the hidden count are the two things the current site does not say out loud.
J2

Get to the stream

The route list, market resolved, every free option printed above the paid one, and one tap out of the site.
Phase oneSuccess is an exit
The screen has worked when

The fan leaves quickly, into a legal stream. Time on site is the wrong measure here.

What has to be on it
  • Detected market named and changeable
  • Free and free-with-your-TV-package ordered above paid
  • Five badge states, including a not-confirmed state with the date it was last checked
  • VBTV described by what it adds in that market, not by a generic pitch
  • Anything already entitled marked as yours
  • Reminder produces an ICS signed out and a push signed in
Why we are building it

The top subscription barrier is 33% who are not sure it is worth paying for against what is free, and 24% would subscribe only for specific competitions. The route list is the answer to both.

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Where to watch
POLAND V BRAZIL · VNL POOL B
Starts in 4 minutes · 22:00 CEST
Poland · changeWhy we ask
Free first4 routes
PS
Polsat Sport
Live, Polish commentary
FREE WITH TV PACKAGE
TVP
TVP Sport
Live, free, sign-up required
FREE WITH SIGN-UP
YT
Volleyball World YouTube
Not available in Poland for this match
NOT IN YOUR MARKET
VB
VBTV
Adds every Beach Pro Tour Elite16 and no blackouts
LAST CHECKED
Rights in Poland confirmed 12 June 2026. If a route is wrong, tell us and it is corrected for everyone in that market.
Also carried here2 competitions
Beach Pro Tour Elite16
VBTV only
SuperLegacoverage, not ours
Polsat Sport
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Where to watch. The paid route is fourth. The line about what VBTV actually adds in Poland sits on it rather than in a pitch.
J3

Follow the match live

The second screen while the television is on: rally feed, rotation, and the one card that turns a number seven into a name you can keep.
Phase oneMechanism untested
The screen has worked when

Dwell, and one athlete follow taken mid-match.

What has to be on it
  • Sticky score header naming the server
  • Rotation wheel with the server highlighted
  • Rally feed with score, action, player and rally length
  • Key moments marked: set point, timeout, challenge upheld
  • Delay offset, because the broadcast is behind
  • Live top performer card with the follow control inside it
Why we are building it

No register row measures second-screen use. The nearest supported figure is third party: 35% use sports apps for real-time updates when they cannot watch. Treat this journey as a hypothesis to instrument.

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VNL POOL B · MATCH CENTRE
Poland
2
Italy
1
SET 4 · 18-16Serving: Bartosz Kurek
WHERE YOU ARE
Your television is about 40 seconds behind. Hold the feed to match it.
−40sLiveOff
Rally feedSet 4
18-16
Kurek kill from position 4. Nine touches, 21 seconds. Italy call their second timeout.
17-16
Romano ace down the line.
17-15
Challenge, Italy. Touch on the block. Upheld, point Poland.
16-15
Leon block on Michieletto.
Set 4, point by point3 lead changes
Poland aheadLongest rally 21s at 18-16Italy ahead
TOP OF THE MATCH SO FAR
Wilfredo Leon
18 points, 61% attack efficiency, 3 aces
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Live match centre. The follow sits inside the performance card, at the moment the fan is asking who that is.
J4

Find out what happened

The result read in one glance, with the sentence that says what it changed sitting under the set scores.
Phase oneCan begin off site
The screen has worked when

The score and its consequence acquired, then a branch to highlights, the table or a player.

What has to be on it
  • Set scores in full, not just sets won
  • One-line consequence naming both teams
  • Highlight package as the hero rather than a rail item
  • Standout performers carrying the evidence for the claim
  • A link that says how this changes the table
  • Spoiler-safe state for an arrival from a replay context
Why we are building it

Falls inside the statistics, rankings and standings class named by 25% to 49% of latter-stage fans: Poland 49, Thailand 48, Turkey 43, China 42, USA 30, Brazil 29, Italy 25. Japan is not published.

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VOLLEYBALLWORLD
FULL TIME · VNL POOL B · RIO DE JANEIRO
Poland
3
Brazil
1
25-21   23-25   25-19   25-18
What it changed. Poland top Pool B with one match left. Brazil now need to beat Japan to reach the quarter-finals.
HIGHLIGHTS · 6 MIN
Poland 3–1 Brazil
Who did itwith the evidence
PLAYER
Wilfredo Leon
21 points, the most in the match.
PLAYER
Bartosz Kurek
Came off the bench and took set three.
HOW THIS CHANGES THE TABLE
Pool B, after 4 rounds
Poland move to first, Brazil to fourth
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Result. The consequence line is the part that does not exist today. Without it the score is a number with no meaning attached.
J5

Check the table

A ten-second read of your own row against the qualification line, after which the session ends satisfied and that is the correct outcome.
Phase oneDepth here is confusion
The screen has worked when

Position and gap understood without a tap.

What has to be on it
  • Qualification line drawn between rows 4 and 5, as an edge, not a letter
  • Legend in words: qualifies for the quarter-finals, eliminated
  • Followed team’s pool rendered first and its row emphasised
  • Form of the last five, with set scores on tap
  • Position change since the previous match day
  • A scenario line saying what this team actually needs
Why we are building it

Statistics, rankings and standings runs 25% to 49% across the seven published markets and leads in most of them, but not in the United States, where behind the scenes leads at 33%.

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Standings
VNL Men
Pool BPool APool COverall
POLAND
1st in Pool B ↑ 2
WWWW
TeamMPWLPtsSetsRatio
1Poland4401112-32.41
2Italy431911-51.83
3France431810-61.51
4Japan42268-81.02
5Brazil42257-80.94
6Serbia41335-100.62
7Cuba41334-100.58
8Argentina40402-120.34
Qualifies for the quarter-finalsDimmed rows cannot reach it
WHAT POLAND NEED
Any win in their remaining two matches. A defeat in both, and France pass them on set ratio.
Live table. Positions may change while matches are on.Last updated 22:41 CEST
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Standings, mobile. Own row first, qualification line as a rule between rows 4 and 5, and the scenario written as a sentence.
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VNL 2026, men
Round 4 of 6 · live, positions may change
Pool BPool APool COverall
TeamMPWLPtsSetsRatio
1Poland4401112-32.41
2Italy431911-51.83
3France431810-61.51
4Japan42268-81.02
5Brazil42257-80.94
6Serbia41335-100.62
7Cuba41334-100.58
8Argentina40402-120.34
Qualifies for the quarter-finalsDimmed rows cannot reach it
POLAND, THE TEAM YOU FOLLOW
1st, 11 points, up two places since round 3.
WWLWW
WHAT THEY NEED
Any win in the remaining two matches. Lose both and France pass them on set ratio.
NEXT
Poland v Japan, Sunday 19:30 CEST. Polsat Sport, free with your TV package.
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A link carries the pool and the round. The image carries the qualification line.
Standings, desktop. The same object with the pools side by side and the scenario panel held in view.
J6

Look up a fact

The leaderboard sorted, with the counts printed behind the rate and the qualifier stated, ready to be copied into an argument.
Phase oneCan begin off site
The screen has worked when

The claim settled, and a name clicked on the way out.

What has to be on it
  • Skill tabs named in fan language, each with a permanent subtitle
  • The rate and the counts behind it on the same row
  • Minimum-appearance qualifier printed on the table, not in a footnote
  • Glossary with a definition, the formula and a clip
  • The storyline written as a sentence, not left for the reader to derive
  • Every name a link, and copy link and copy image as separate actions
Why we are building it

Same 25% to 49% content class. Who those fans are is the largest open question: the practitioner hypothesis behind this page has no register row and is testable before the template is built.

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Statistics
VNL 2026
Attackers
Scorers
Blockers
Servers
Setters
Kills, minus errors and blocked attempts, over every attempt. Players with fewer than 120 attempts are not listed.
PlayerEffKillsAttMP
1Wilfredo Leon (POL)44.2%1482429
2Yuji Nishida (JPN)42.8%1312229
3A. Michieletto (ITA)41.0%1222178
4Ahmed Ikhbayri (FRA)40.1%1182129
5Marlon Yant (CUB)39.9%1091988
6Bruno Lima (ARG)38.4%1392429
THE STORY IN THIS TABLE
Leon is hitting 44.2% on 242 attempts. Nobody has finished a VNL pool phase above 44% since 2019.
Take it with you
COPY LINK
Attackers, pool phase
Opens exactly this view
COPY IMAGE
Top six, with the qualifier
For the group chat
Pool phaseFinalsPer setTotals
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Statistics, mobile. 44.2% means nothing without 148 kills from 242 attempts. Both are on the row.
volleyballworld.com/vnl/2026/statistics?skill=attack&phase=pool
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Attackers
VNL 2026, pool phase · minimum 120 attempts
AttackersScorersBlockersServersSettersDiggersReceiversLiberos
PlayerEfficiencyKillsErrorsBlockedAttemptsMatches
1Wilfredo Leon (POL)44.2%14819222429
2Yuji Nishida (JPN)42.8%13117192229
3A. Michieletto (ITA)41.0%12215182178
4Ahmed Ikhbayri (FRA)40.1%11816172129
5Marlon Yant (CUB)39.9%10914161988
6Bruno Lima (ARG)38.4%13922242429
WHAT THIS MEASURES
Kills, minus errors and blocked attempts, over total attempts. A player who hits hard and out scores worse than one who does not hit at all.
THE STORY IN THIS TABLE
Leon is hitting 44.2% on 242 attempts. Nobody has finished a VNL pool phase above 44% since 2019.
WHY THE QUALIFIER
Without a minimum, a player with four attempts and four kills tops the table at 100%. The qualifier is printed, not hidden.
TAKE IT WITH YOU
Copy link keeps the skill and the phase. Copy image keeps the qualifier on the graphic.
Statistics, desktop. The glossary sits beside the table rather than under it, because the argument being settled is usually about the definition.
J7

Who won the awards

The awards module read once, with every name on it a route into an athlete page and a follow.
Phase oneTrigger inferred, not measured
The screen has worked when

An athlete page opened from an award.

What has to be on it
  • MVP named and treated as the headline object
  • Dream team by position, not as an undifferentiated list
  • Finals rank set against season rank, so the award is argued
  • Follow on every named athlete, in place
  • Statistics link carrying phase=finals rather than a separate page
  • The honour written back onto the athlete record
Why we are building it

Weaker than the journey map implies. A specific moment such as winning a title is the joint lowest of five merchandise levers at 30% weighted, and unweighted pricing leads at 43% in six of eight markets. Awards as an attachment trigger is inferred.

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VNL 2026 awards
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Wilfredo Leon

1st in the finals for points. 3rd across the season. The award is for the four days, not the six weeks.
Dream teamall seven named
SETTER
Simone Giannelli
ITA · 1st, assists per set
OUTSIDE
Wilfredo Leon
POL · 1st, points in the finals
OPPOSITE
Yuji Nishida
JPN · 2nd, attack efficiency
OUTSIDE
A. Michieletto
ITA · 4th, reception
MIDDLE
Roberto Russo
ITA · 1st, blocks per set
LIBERO
Fabio Balaso
ITA · 1st, dig efficiency
MIDDLE
J. Kochanowski
POL · 2nd, blocks per set
Follow all sevenOne tap, no account
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Finals statisticsThe same table, filtered to the four days in Rio
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Awards. Finals rank against season rank is what turns a trophy graphic into an argument.
J8

Discover a player

The cold arrival from a clip somebody else shared: signature clip, three numbers, and the follow as the largest control on the page.
Phase oneThe conversion event
The screen has worked when

A follow, in page, with no navigation. A cold arrival who follows and leaves is a won session.

What has to be on it
  • Signature clip as the first block for a known social referrer
  • Identity in one line: country, position, number, club
  • Three numbers, no more, with the season attached
  • One paragraph of who this is and why they matter
  • Follow as the largest control on the page
  • Live status or next fixture with the market route
  • No follower counts and no ratings
Why we are building it

Attachment is the top variable in the segmentation model at 0.287, moving 24% of respondents, against a base where 38% indoor and 17% beach hold any favourite at all. The register withdrew the athlete-first reading on 1 September: the measure never separates team, club and player.

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SIGNATURE · 0:48
The line shot nobody digs
Wilfredo
Leon
POLOutside hitter#9Sir Susa Perugia
No account needed. Saved on this device, and claimable later.
412
Points
VNL 2026
4.9
Points
per set
54%
Attack
efficiency
Cuban by birth, Polish since 2015, and the reason Poland are favourites for anything they enter.
Also on this court3 more
POL
B. Kurek
Opposite · 31
ITA
A. Michieletto
Outside · 24
POL
M. Janusz
Setter · 30
PLAYING NOW
Poland 2–1 Italy
Set 4, 18-16 · VNL Pool B
Watch
Athlete, cold arrival. The clip runs before the record, because this fan has not asked for a statistics page.
J9

Keep up with a player

The since-you-were-away block replacing the generic first scroll, so a returning follower is told what changed rather than being asked to look for it.
Phase oneCannot begin off site
The screen has worked when

The returning follower sees what changed without searching, and the follow keeps earning its notification.

What has to be on it
  • Since you were away, with the gap counted in days
  • Unwatched marked, so the block is a difference and not a feed
  • Milestone card, because a career is a record and not a stream
  • Next fixture with the market-resolved route already applied
  • A single secondary follow offered, their club
  • Notification granularity as it was set at follow time
Why we are building it

Own-platform reach peaks at Thailand 41% and China 38%. The journey map’s claim that China is the highest at 35% is wrong on both the figure and the ranking.

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Wilfredo Leon
Following
SINCE YOU WERE AWAY · 6 DAYS
Three clips you have not seen, one milestone, and a match on Sunday.
New3 unwatched
NEW
21 aces in five matches
1:12
NEW
Every point v Italy
3:40
NEW
Off court, in Perugia
5:02
MILESTONE · 8 JUNE
Passed 4,000 career VNL points. Fourth player to do it, and the youngest of the four.
NEXT MATCH
Poland v Japan
Sunday 19:30 CEST · Polsat Sport, free
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CLUB
Sir Susa Perugia
Where he plays from October. Coverage, not ours.
AllHighlightsOff courtInterviews
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Since you were away. Six days is the unit. A follow that does not produce this block is a notification the fan will turn off.
J10

Keep up with my team

The squad grid, where the follow that matters is taken from a player card rather than from the team badge above it.
Phase oneCan begin off site
The screen has worked when

An athlete follow lifted out of the squad grid.

What has to be on it
  • Squad by position with a follow on every card
  • Team follow present but visually subordinate to the players
  • Form of the last five with set scores
  • Next fixture with the route and a reminder
  • World ranking with the movement and the points
  • Competition switcher including coverage competitions
  • The national team as an object that survives the competition it is in
Why we are building it

The journey map’s United States channel series has no register row. What is traceable is that the US invested fan ranks domestic properties first at 37% and ours third at 23%.

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Poland, men

WWWW
World no. 1, no change · 402 pts
VNL 2026European ChampionshipCoverage: PlusLiga
Follow PolandFixtures and results only
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Squadfollow the people, not the badge
OPPOSITE
Bartosz Kurek
OUTSIDE
Wilfredo Leon
OUTSIDE
Kamil Semeniuk
MIDDLE
Norbert Huber
SETTER
Marcin Janusz
LIBERO
Paweł Zatorski
NEXT
Poland v Japan
Sunday 19:30 CEST · Polsat Sport, free
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SINCE THE LAST GAMES
Four of this squad played in Paris. Two have retired since, and two are new.
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Team, mobile. The team follow is one line. The six player follows are the page.
volleyballworld.com/teams/poland-men
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Poland, men
World no. 1 · 402 points · no change
VNL 2026European ChampionshipWorld ChampionshipCoverage: PlusLiga
Squadfollow the people, not the badge
OPPOSITE
Bartosz Kurek
OUTSIDE
Wilfredo Leon
OUTSIDE
Kamil Semeniuk
MIDDLE
Norbert Huber
SETTER
Marcin Janusz
LIBERO
Paweł Zatorski
OUTSIDE
Tomasz Fornal
OPPOSITE
Kewin Sasak
Pool Bafter round 4
TeamMPWLPtsSetsRatio
1Poland4401112-32.41
2Italy431911-51.83
3France431810-61.51
4Japan42268-81.02
5Brazil42257-80.94
FORM
WWWW
Four from four. One of them went to five sets, against Italy.
NEXT
Poland v Japan, Sunday 19:30 CEST. Polsat Sport, free with your TV package.
SINCE THE LAST GAMES
Four of this squad played in Paris. Two retired since, and two are new.
FOLLOW POLAND
Fixtures and results only. The players carry the content.
Team, desktop. Twelve cards rather than six, and the standings row that the mobile screen has to link to.
J11

Follow a tournament to the end

The bracket read in one screen, with your team’s completed path traced through it and the next opponent named underneath.
Phase oneTicketing is phase two
The screen has worked when

The shape understood, a match opened, or the image shared.

What has to be on it
  • Path to the final highlighted for the followed team
  • Seed number on every cell, in brackets
  • Set point scores as columns on desktop, sets won on mobile
  • Byes drawn as byes, never as empty cells
  • Bronze branch hanging off the semi-finals rather than hidden
  • Next opponent with date, venue and route
  • Share as image producing the bracket, not a screenshot
Why we are building it

Volleyball World properties rise from 12% to 27% as favourite competition across the funnel, but the Olympics still outranks us among invested fans in four of eight markets: China 31 to 28, Brazil 40 to 25, Italy 53 to 3, Japan 49 to 0.

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VNL finals
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinalBronze
YOUR PATH
Poland beat Slovenia in three. They meet France in the semi-final on Saturday.
Quarter-finals · complete
(1)Poland3
(8)Slovenia0
(4)France3
(5)United States2
(2)Italy3
(7)Netherlands1
(3)Japan2
(6)Germany3
Semi-finals · Saturday
(1)Poland—
(4)France—
(2)Italy—
(6)Germany—
NEXT FOR POLAND
Poland v France
Saturday 20:30 · Maracanãzinho, Rio
Where to watch
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Bracket, mobile. One column at a time, with the traced path persisting as you move across.
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VNL 2026 finals
Rio de Janeiro · 8 teams · quarter-finals complete
Highlight: PolandShow set scoresCopy image
Quarter-finals · complete
(1)Poland3
(8)Slovenia0
25-18 25-21 25-19
(4)France3
(5)United States2
25-22 22-25 25-20 19-25 15-11
(2)Italy3
(7)Netherlands1
25-19 23-25 25-18 25-21
(3)Japan2
(6)Germany3
22-25 25-23 20-25 25-19 13-15
Semi-finals · Saturday
(1)Poland—
(4)France—
(2)Italy—
(6)Germany—
Final · Sunday
Winner SF1—
Winner SF2—
Bronze: loser SF1—
Bronze: loser SF2—
POLAND’S PATH
Quarter-final: beat Slovenia 3–0, 25-18, 25-21, 25-19. Semi-final: France, Saturday 20:30.
THE CLOSEST MATCH
France needed five sets and an 11-15 fifth against the United States. Every cell here carries its set scores.
IF POLAND WIN
They meet Italy or Germany on Sunday, 21:00, in the same arena.
SHARE THE BRACKET
As an image with the path drawn, or as a link that reopens it highlighted the same way.
Bracket, desktop. Set scores as columns, the bronze branch drawn rather than buried, and every cell a link into its match centre.
J12

Catch up, or kill five minutes

The exit block that takes the screen when a clip ends, carrying the follow on the person who was in it.
Phase oneMechanism unmeasured
The screen has worked when

A completed watch plus a follow. A watch alone is reach, not conversion.

What has to be on it
  • Autoplay chain capped and the position in it printed
  • Exit block with three fixed elements, always the same three
  • Athletes in this clip, with a follow on each
  • The source match with its score and a route into the match centre
  • The next fixture with the market answer already applied
  • Lanes named in fan language, not in content-management language
  • No pre-roll and no login wall
Why we are building it

A5 is 224m and content is the only product available to them at their stage. What converts a watch into a follow is measured nowhere, which is why this page reports follows per thousand views rather than views.

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CLIP 2 OF 3
BEFORE THE NEXT ONE
Keep one thing from this.
PLAYER
Wilfredo Leon
The player in this clip. 21 points that night.
COUNTRY
Poland
Top of Pool B. Playing again on Sunday.
WHERE THIS CAME FROM
Poland 3–1 Brazil, VNL Pool B, 12 June. 25-21, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18.
NEXT FOR POLAND
Poland v Japan
Sunday 19:30 CEST · Polsat Sport, free
Remind me
Keep goingfour lanes, no decisions
Right nowStoriesOff courtHow they do it
Autoplay stops after the next oneYou can turn it back on any time
Keep playing
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Clip, at the end. The exit block is mandatory and identical every time, so the behaviour is learnable. This page is reported in follows per thousand views, never in views.
J13

Look back

The completed season read as an object in its own right, at a URL stable enough to be cited instead of a PDF.
Phase oneAlive all year
The screen has worked when

A fact found and cited, and the page linked rather than screenshotted.

What has to be on it
  • Season selector across every edition, not only the last three
  • Champion and awards block for the completed season
  • On this day, carrying an actual result from a named year
  • Record categories with the scope written into the label
  • Head to head with the coverage window stated
  • Every record row linking to the match that set it
  • No countdown and no recency furniture
Why we are building it

Length of fandom is the second variable in the model at 0.212. The cohort tenure splits the journey map quotes are carried forward from the 26 August pack and have no register row.

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VNL, all editions
Men
2018–2026RecordsHead to headOn this day
ON THIS DAY · 12 JUNE 2019
Brazil beat Poland 3–2 in Katowice, from two sets down. It is still the longest match in VNL history at 2h 41m.
Championslast four editions
2025
Polandbeat Italy 3–1 · Rio de Janeiro · MVP W. Leon
Season
2024
Francebeat Japan 3–2 · Łódź · MVP E. Ngapeth
Season
2023
Polandbeat USA 3–0 · Gdańsk · MVP B. Kurek
Season
2022
Francebeat USA 3–1 · Bologna · MVP E. Ngapeth
Season
Recordseach with its scope
MOST POINTS, ONE VNL MATCH
39
Y. Nishida v Italy, 2023
MOST ACES, ONE VNL SEASON
54
W. Leon, 2026, in progress
LONGEST WINNING RUN
17
Poland, 2023 to 2024
YOUNGEST MVP
21
Y. Nishida, 2021
Every record opens the match that set itNishida’s 39, Japan v Italy, 2023
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Archive, mobile. The site is live for nine weeks of fifty two. This is the screen for the other forty three.
volleyballworld.com/vnl/2023/season
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VNL 2023, men
Completed 23 July 2023 · Gdańsk
20182019202120222023202420252026
ChampionPoland, first title
CHAMPION

Poland

Beat USA 3–0 in the final. First VNL title, second final.
Season in numbers
MATCHES
128
across 7 weeks
LONGEST RALLY
52 touches
Japan v Cuba, week 3
Awards4 of 7
MVP
Bartosz Kurek
POL
BEST SETTER
M. Janusz
POL
BEST OPPOSITE
Y. Nishida
JPN
BEST LIBERO
P. Zatorski
POL
Final standingstop 4 of 16
TeamWLPts
1Poland14241
2USA12435
3Japan11533
4Italy10630
NEXT AND PREVIOUS
VNL 2022, won by France. VNL 2024, won by France. Both complete, both here.
COMPLETE
Finished 23 July 2023. Nothing on this page changes again, and every number opens the match it came from.
HEAD TO HEAD
Poland v USA, 24 meetings since 2018. Records here cover VNL only, from 2018.
Archive, desktop. The completed season as one page: champion, awards, the season in numbers and the full result set. The right-hand rail is product copy, not annotation.
J14

Share it

The share control on a data page producing a link and an image of the exact view that was on screen, filters included.
Phase oneNo research at all
The screen has worked when

The artefact leaves, and the link it carries lands on a page that stands alone.

What has to be on it
  • Share present on standings, bracket, leaderboard and result
  • URL carrying the full filter state
  • Generated image of the table with the qualification line intact
  • A stat-line card as a second, separate artefact
  • Copy link and copy image as separate actions, not one menu
  • The inbound landing view rendering with no prior context
  • No login wall on the inbound view
Why we are building it

None. The register carries no measure of sharing, advocacy or word of mouth anywhere. The nearest thing is Paul Pettas’s framing that a fan should get something worth sharing, recorded as reported, not as a finding. Add it to the next survey wave.

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Standings
Pool B
TeamMPWPts
1Poland4411
2Italy439
3France438
4Japan426

Send the table, not a screenshot.

Both artefacts carry the qualification line and the round. The link reopens this exact view for whoever taps it.

IMAGE, READY TO SENDVNL 2026 · Pool B · after round 4
TeamMPWPts
1Poland4411
2Italy439
3France438
4Japan426
Qualifies for the quarter-finals
COPY LINK
?pool=B&round=4
Reopens this view
COPY IMAGE
Table, with the line
For the group chat
Share. The image carries the qualification line, because a table without it is not the thing the fan was looking at.
J15

My Volleyball

The signed-in home rendering the follow graph with whatever is live pinned to the top, and never rendering as an empty feed.
Phase oneCannot begin off site
The screen has worked when

The fan sees what they follow without searching, and the page is narrow on purpose.

What has to be on it
  • Live or imminent fixture pinned above everything
  • The follow graph shown as objects, mixed across the four types
  • What changed, per followed thing, since the last visit
  • One calendar subscription tied to the graph, not per match
  • A first-run state when there are fewer than three follows
  • A habit line: how many followed matches there are this week
  • A watch action as the primary exit
Why we are building it

Strategic rather than behavioural. Without a first-party identity field no cohort is addressable and every cohort scores at the floor on ease of access by construction. The journey demand grids behind this are our judgement, not a research output.

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VOLLEYBALLWORLD
Friday evening
ON NOW · SET 4
Poland 2 — 1 Brazil set 4, 18-16
You follow4 things
COUNTRY
Poland
Playing now. Top of Pool B.
PLAYER
Wilfredo Leon
3 new clips since you were away.
CLUB
Chemik Police
Season starts 4 October.
PAIR
Mol / Sørum
Doha quarter-final, 19:30.
This weektonight
BEACH
Mol / Sørum, quarter-finalTonight 19:30 · VBTV
Watch
ONE SUBSCRIPTION
Everything you follow, in your calendar, updating itself. Not one download per match.
Home
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Schedule
Following
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My Volleyball. Four followed objects of three different types. The page is deliberately short.
J16

Play it, then follow it

A recreational setter watching a technique clip reaching the elite setter who does the same thing. Today there is no position field on the record and no skill tag on the clip, so the route does not exist.
Route does not exist today327m people
The screen has worked when

A follow arrived at through the skill rather than through the result.

What has to be on it
  • Clip tagged by skill and duration, not by which match it came from
  • Position lens as a first-class filter
  • Elite players who do this, hanging directly off the clip
  • The athlete framed as a practitioner: position, specialism, signature skill
  • One onboarding question capturing participation level
  • Rules and formats, including the beach variants
  • The follow taken from the position-matched card
Why we are building it

Participation weighs 0.118 in the seven-variable model, and participation predicts spend: over 90% of fans active in all three commercial areas play. The population is 327m across A2 191m, A4 106m and B1 30m.

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How they do it
JUMP FLOAT SERVE · 4 MIN
Contact point, and why yours drifts
Your positionone question at sign-up
SetterOppositeOutsideMiddleLibero
Elite setters who do this2 of 61
SETTER · ITA
Simone Giannelli
The float serve in this clip, at 92 km/h.
SETTER · POL
Marcin Janusz
Same contact, lower toss. Easier to copy.
WHY THESE TWO
Both use the same contact point as the clip you just watched. Janusz tosses lower, which is the easier one to copy.
Rules and formatsBeach variantsWhere to play
Home
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Following
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Skill hub. Two fields make this page possible, and neither exists today: a position on the athlete record, and a skill tag on the clip. Without both, a setter who plays on Tuesdays has no route into the sport we publish.
J17

Track the race

The entry list at minus twenty-eight days, where entry points and seed points disagree and the fan finds out where their pair is actually seeded.
Phase oneBeach has no table
The screen has worked when

Ranking position and the seeding cut understood in ten seconds, and a return next week.

What has to be on it
  • Two snapshots on the same table: entry at minus 28 days, seed at minus 1
  • Entry-type codes on every row: main draw, host, wild card, reserve
  • The divergence written as a sentence, not left to be inferred
  • Four rankings kept apart, never collapsed into one
  • Every team row printing both players with their own points
  • Used over total, because a ranking counts a limited number of results
  • Final standings carrying team points, player points and prize money
Why we are building it

Format focus weighs 0.150 in the model. Beach attachment is 17% against 38% indoor, and beach loses 400m between engage and become a fan against 321m indoor. Without a race object beach has nothing persistent to follow.

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Doha Elite16
Men
Entry listPoolsBracketStandings
WHY TWO NUMBERS
Hölting Nilsson / Anders enter on 6,840 points but seed first on 3,060. Entry counts the season. Seeding counts a shorter window.
Entry list−28 days · 5 of 32
TeamEntrySeed ptsSeed
1Hölting N. / AndersSWE · MD6,8403,0601
2Ehlers / WicklerGER · MD2,8402,8402
3Mol / SørumNOR · MD2,7202,7203
4Nicolai / CottafavaITA · MD2,1802,1804
5Perusic / SchweinerQAT · HT1,9601,9605
MOL / SØRUM · THE PAIR YOU FOLLOW
Seeded 3rd. Anders Mol 1,420 (4 of 10 results used). Christian Sørum 1,300 (4 of 10). A pair holds no points of its own.
Four rankingskept apart
Entry, teamEntry, individualFIVB World RankingWorld Tour
Refreshes every 2 minutes while matches are in progress.
Home
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The race, mobile. One sentence does the work: entered first, seeded first, on two different numbers.
volleyballworld.com/beach/2026/doha-elite16/entry?ranking=entry-team
VOLLEYBALLWORLD
NorwaySign in
Doha Elite16, men
Entry list, −28 days · seeding confirmed −1 day
Entry, teamEntry, individualFIVB World RankingWorld Tour
TeamEntry pointsSeed pointsSeedResults used
1Hölting N. / AndersSWE · MD6,8403,06014 / 10
2Ehlers / WicklerGER · MD2,8402,84023 / 10
3Mol / SørumNOR · MD2,7202,72034 / 10
4Nicolai / CottafavaITA · MD2,1802,18045 / 10
5Perusic / SchweinerQAT · HT1,9601,96056 / 10
6Alison / ÁlvaroBRA · WC—1,420122 / 10
7Boermans / de GrootNED · R1,1801,180—3 / 10
MD main drawHT host countryWC wild cardR reserve, dimmed
THE DIVERGENCE
Hölting Nilsson / Anders enter on 6,840 and seed first on 3,060. Two windows, two numbers, both correct.
MOL / SØRUM
Seeded third. Anders Mol 1,420 and Christian Sørum 1,300, four of ten results counting for each.
WHAT WINNING IS WORTH
1,200 team points, 600 to each player, and $22,000 shared.
FIRST RESERVE
Boermans / de Groot play if a seeded pair withdraws before Thursday.
The race, desktop. Entry and seed as adjacent columns, the four rankings as tabs that never merge, and both players printed on the team row.
J18

Pick someone to care about

The prompt fired at the end of the thing they just watched, offering three candidates with a reason attached to each and one control per card.
The whole pointPhase one
The screen has worked when

A follow. There is no acceptable secondary outcome.

What has to be on it
  • Fires at completion, never on arrival
  • Three candidates, mixed across country, club, pair and player
  • One line of why, drawn from what this fan just watched
  • One follow control per card, one tap, no navigation
  • A provenance line continuing the story that brought them here
  • A dismiss that is respected, so it appears rarely and converts hard
  • A follow-up strip that gets one follow to three in the same session
Why we are building it

The direct product answer to attachment at 0.287, moving 24% of respondents, against a base where only 38% indoor and 17% beach hold any favourite. It has to ship with the relevance engine, not after it.

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VOLLEYBALLWORLD
FULL TIME · VNL POOL B
Poland
3
Brazil
1
25-21   23-25   25-19   25-18

Take somebody with you.

You watched the whole match. Three things in it are worth keeping. One tap, no account, and we tell you when they next play.

You have now watched Poland three times without following anything.
PLAYER
Wilfredo Leon
21 points, the most in the match.
CLUB
Chemik Police
Where the setter you just watched plays.
PAIR
Mol / Sørum
Beach, and playing tonight. A different sport, same evening.
The prompt. Not a directory. Three arguments, each one traceable to the ninety minutes this person just spent.
J19

Between the Games

The national team as an object that persists across quadrennia, so a fan who arrived at an Olympics finds something still standing three years later.
Out of phase one scope74m long-tenure fans
The screen has worked when

A national team followed as a continuing object, and a return inside the quadrennium rather than at the next Games.

What has to be on it
  • A stable national team URL that survives the competition
  • Squad turnover since the last Games, in and out
  • A stakes line on every fixture saying what it means for the next Games
  • A re-entry state for a visitor who has been away three years
  • Olympic and qualification results rendered as coverage, in neutral styling
  • A one-tap step from the team to a player inside it
  • The last Games squad, archived rather than overwritten
Why we are building it

The Olympics is named first by 64% at build interest, falling to 31% at invested fan, while our properties rise from 12% to 27%. Among invested fans the Olympics still outranks us in four of eight markets, including Japan at 49 to 0. Excluding this journey is a decision about 74m long-tenure fans, not an oversight.

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Poland, men
Since Paris
WELCOME BACK
You last opened this page in August 2024. Here is what changed.
Squad, since Paris2 in, 2 out
IN
Kamil Semeniuk
Outside · 31 caps since Paris
IN
Jakub Nowak
Middle · debut in 2025
OUT
Michał Kubiak
Retired, October 2024
OUT
Mateusz Bieniek
Not selected since 2025
WHAT THIS SUMMER IS FOR
VNL finals and the World Championship both carry LA28 qualification points.
Results since Parisours and theirs
VNL
VNL 2025, championsbeat Italy 3–1 in the final
2025
COVERAGE
Olympic Games, Parissilver, lost 3–1 to France
2024
One tap gets you the team. A second gets you a player inside it.
Home
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Between the Games. Built as a proposal, not as scope. Nothing on the screen says it is excluded, because a fan would never see that. The exclusion is recorded beside the frame instead.