Bulgaria Defeats Italy for the Top World Ranking

Bulgaria Win Against Italy

The Ljubljana pool of the second competition week in the men’s Volleyball Nations League 2026 started off with a bang! In a remake of last year’s FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship, Bulgaria not only got back at Italy with a tie-breaker win, not only stripped them of their world’s number one team status, but also registered a historic success by defeating this opponent for the first time in the VNL and actually for the first time in official competition since 2015.

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