Serie A1 is the highest level club competition in Italian professional male volleyball. It is organized by Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV) and Lega Pallavolo Serie A.
Since 1982, the championship consists of two phases:
- a round-robin tournament (regular season) which picks out the clubs admitted to the second phase and the teams destined to relegation;
- a playoff tournament, which assigned the trophy.
Just in few occasions relegation playouts were disputed.
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