The SuperLega Credem Banca 2022–23 was the 78th season of the highest tier domestic division in the Italian Men's Volleyball League system since establishment in 1946. The league organized under the supervision of Federazione Italiana Pallavolo. The season started on 1 October 2022.[2][3]
The Lega Pallavolo SuperLega Credem Banca is Italy's top men's league. Twelve clubs participated in the 2022–23 league, which is split into two phases.[8]
Regular season
The first phase, also known as the Regular Season, runs from October 2022 to March 2023 and features two legs, with each club playing in a double round robin system with home-and-away fixtures. The bottom ranked team relegated to Serie A2 next season.[9]
Playoffs
5th place
At the end of the regular season, the ranked 9th–11th teams play in a double round robin system. The quarterfinals loser teams and the winner of 5th place preliminaries play in a round robin system with top 4 teams qualified to semifinals. Semifinals and finals play in a single elimination system.[10]
Championship
At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams directly advance to the quarterfinals in the Championship play–offs with the classic pairing system (1st vs 8th, 2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 6th and 4th vs 5th). Quarterfinals, semifinals, 3rd place match and final will play in a best-of-five series. The top three teams in the final standing as per the Teams Ranking System (including result of the regular season) qualified for the 2023–24 CEV Champions League while 4th place team qualified for the 2023–24 CEV Cup and 5th place team qualified for the 2023–24 CEV Challenge Cup.[9][10]
In the current season rules, Each teams involved in the tournament were required to register 14-player roster must be selected in each match. There's no limit of foreign players in the each team’s roster but it must have at least 2 Italian players on the court at all times.
Highest number of result points, the teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
If teams are still tied after examining the most point gained and the number of victories, then will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.
Italian Cup is the middle-season tournament, featuring the top eight teams from Leg 1 to champion the traditional title. Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza won the title for the first time beating Itas Trentino 3-0 in straight sets.[13]