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Communications
Official Communications No. 1
1. Introduction 3 2. Participants and Competition Format 3 3. Competition Calendar 4 4. Officials to be appointed by CEV 5 5. Financial Conditions 5 6. Technical Requirements and Match Technology 6 7. Participating Teams and Pools Composition 6 8. Official Forms 6 9. Match Schedule 7 10. CEV Challenge System 7 11. Official Balls 7 12. Administrative Deadlines 7 13. Team Composition 8 14. Competition Bulletin / Handbook Layout 9 15. Marketing & Commercial Rights, Branding & Graphics 9 16. TV 10 17. Social Media and Official #Hashtags 11 18. Accreditation Cards 11 19. Official Court Layout 12 CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 2
1. Introduction
The 2019 edition of the CEV Volleyball European Silver League continues the success story from the
inaugural 2018 event, with participation of 16 national teams representing as many as 13 National
Federations.
The CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 features 8 teams per gender, all sharing the ambition
to improve their skills and international status while competing for the much coveted ticket to move to
the European Golden League in 2020 – which will go to the eventual winners.
For some of these rapidly growing and developing teams, the European Silver League matches will be
a truly valuable opportunity to test themselves as they prepare for the major highlight of the year – the
CEV EuroVolley 2019.
The regulations in force are the ‘CEV Volleyball Competitions Regulations’, and these are available as
an e-book here:
https://ebook.cev.eu/competitions/regulations/CEV_Volleyball_Competitions_Regulations.pdf
All participants are required to be aware of the relevant contents of this document, in particular the
specific provisions in Chapter 25.
This and subsequent ‘Official Communications’ are available as a pdf on the CEV website here:
https://www.cev.eu/CEV-Area/Ebooks.aspx – Official Communications section
Some instructions for the CEV Database can be found here:
For National Federations: https://ebook.cev.eu/documents/volleyball/guidelines
For this competition, those working on it have the support of the ‘Competitions Hotline’ during the
competition evenings and weekends on: +352 621 25 34 44. If you have any question, please contact
the CEV Volleyball Department.
2. Participants and Competition Format
Participants: 8 teams according to European Ranking (not participating in the 2018 FIVB Nations
League and 2019 CEV Volleyball European Golden League)
Competition Format:
League Phase
2 Pools of 4 teams each.
Pool composition according to serpentine system based on the CEV National Team
ranking list.
Home & Away matches.
6 matches per team in League phase.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 3Final Phase
The Pool A & B winners will play Home and Away matches according to the CEV Official
Regulation point 14.2.1 §2 and 14.2.2. The order of the matches will be determined by
Drawing of Lots.
The winner of above mentioned Home & Away matches will qualify to the 2020 CEV
Volleyball European Golden League
3. Competition Calendar
The reserved periods in which the competition will take place are:
League Phase (Men & Women)
1st Leg 25 – 26 May (weekend)
2nd Leg 29 May (Wednesday)
3rd Leg 01 – 02 June* (weekend)
4th Leg 08 – 09 June* (weekend)
5th Leg 12 June (Wednesday)
6th Leg 15 – 16 June (weekend)
Due to the participation the CYP Women NT in the 2019 The Games of the Small States of Europe they
will play 2nd & 3rd leg matches 04th and 18th of June respectively.
Final Phase
In the absence of any application for hosting the Final Four Tournament the CEV has decided that the
final classification of the 2019 CEV Volleyball European Silver League will be determined by playing only
final between winners of each pool.
According to the Drawing of Lots organized internally at the CEV Office the order of the matches will be
as follow:
European Silver League Men’s:
Home Match 26 June (Wednesday) 1st ranked Pool A – 1st ranked Pool B
Away Match 30 June (Sunday) 1st ranked Pool B – 1st ranked Pool A
European Silver League Women’s:
Home Match 25 June (Tuesday) 1st ranked Pool B – 1st ranked Pool A
Away Match 29 June (Saturday) 1st ranked Pool A – 1st ranked Pool B
National teams will not be able to call up any of their players prior to the Finals of the 2019
CEV Volleyball Champions League scheduled for the 18th of May 2019, provided the fact that their
players are involved with their respective club teams.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 44. Officials to be appointed by CEV
CEV Supervisors
According to the previously announced principals, the organizing NF’s is responsible to appoint the
CEV Supervisor. The NF’s can appoint the local person from the confirmed by CEV 2019 CEV European
Cups Supervisors list. The proposed names should be present at the respective 07 form.
The organizers will bear all related costs as travel, accommodation and per diem.
1st Referee
The ERC has appointed the neutral 1st Referee for each match. The nomination is visible on the CEV
database and CEV website as well.
The CEV will book the travel ticket to the nominated persons and bear all cost related to it as travel
costs, per diem and visa cost (visa if necessary).
The organizers will bear the cost of the local transportations and accommodation.
2nd Referee
The ERC has appointed the local 2nd Referee for each match. The nomination is visible on the CEV
database and CEV website as well.
The organizers will bear all related costs as travel, accommodation and per diem.
Reserve Referee
The organizing NF’s is responsible to appoint the local Reserve Referee for each match. These
proposed names should be insert into respective 08 Form and approved by the ERC.
The organizers will bear all related costs as travel, accommodation and per diem.
5. Financial Conditions
Participation fee for single gender is 15,000€, double gender: 25,000€ (same deduction of 5,000€
in case of one team in 2019 CEV Volleyball European Silver League and one team in 2019 CEV
Volleyball European Golden League
The CEV bears the costs for the international transportation and per diem of the 1st referee.
Prize money for the matches in the League phase: 1,000 EUR for the winning team and EUR 500
EUR for the defeated team.
Prize money for the Final Phase standing:
50,000 EUR for winner
35,000 EUR for runner-up
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 56. Technical Requirements and Match
Technology
Minimum competition hall for League phase category 5
Challenge system optional for League and Final Phase
Referees head set mandatory for all phases
Tablets are mandatory for all phases
The LED system optional for all phases
7. Participating Teams and Pools
Composition
MEN (Ranking) WOMEN (Ranking)
GRE (21) ROU (18)
DEN (25) SLO (20)
ROU (27) POR* (22)
AUT (28) GEO (25)
HUN (31) ISR (27)
AZE (33) GRE (28)
GEO (36) EST (29)
BIH (39) CYP (37)
* Team POR has been relegated as loser of the 2018 CEV European Volleyball Golden League Women
2019 CEV Volleyball European 2019 CEV Volleyball European
Silver League - Men Silver League - Wome
Pool A Pool B Pool A Pool B
GRE DEN ROU SLO
AUT ROU GEO POR
HUN AZE ISR GRE
BIH GEO CYP EST
8. Official Forms
All the CEV forms (04, 07, 08, 09, 09bis & 10) related to the competitions and respective
phase/matches are/will be created inside the CEV Database and have to be filled in, close and send
to the CEV in a due time indicated in the forms itself.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 69. Match Schedule
Please notice that the official match schedule was agreed by participants during the meeting in
Luxembourg 13th of December 2018. The definitive dates and starting time of the matches has been
announced by closing respective 07 form and confirmed by CEV. They are available at the CEV
database and on the CEV Website.
10. CEV Challenge System
Organisers may apply for the use of a Challenge System according to article 96.6 of the CEV Volleyball
Competitions Regulations and Challenge System Regulations, and these are available as an e-book
here:
http://ebook.cev.lu/general/CEV_Challenge_System_Regulations/files/assets/basic-html/page-
1.html
The deadline for submitting applications for the League Round is Monday, 29th of April 2019 to
nationalteams@cev.lu
11. Official Balls
All matches during the 2019 CEV Volleyball Golden European League will be played with the
MIKASA Ball MVA-200
12. Administrative Deadlines
Item: Deadline: Action: Other information:
To return the signed CEV
Women / Men League TV-01 Form with the
information on production TV-01 form can be
phase: found in the CEV
CEV TV-01 FORM company and/or host
broadcaster (if different) database Downloads
February 28th 2019 area
All home matches must be
produced.
CEV Form 07 Women / Men League To announce the
DATE, TIME & phase: Competition venue and the
VENUE Competition hall for
CONFIRMATION February 28th 2019 approval.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 7CEV FORM 04 Participants shall register a
Women / Men: number of players according
1ST PERIOD
to article 20.5.3 of the CEV Minimum 14 players
PLAYER
April 15th 2019 Volleyball Competitions
LICENSES Regulations
CEV FORM 04 All participants have the
Women / Men: possibility to apply for two
2ND PERIOD Team can have up to
PLAYER Until 23:59 two days before (2) supplementary player
26 players licenses it
LICENSES the each leg at the League licenses using the CEV 04
total
phase only form within the set
deadlines.
The CEV is providing the 1st
Referee with the travel
Women / Men: tickets and Organisers shall
TRAVEL TICKETS provide travel tickets to a Official Regulations:
Two weeks before
CEV Supervisors and 2nd CLICK HERE
respective leg
Referee according to article
75.2 of the CEV Volleyball
Competitions Regulations
Women / Men: All participants are required
See the CEV
to duly complete and close
CEV 09 FORM Official Regulation
2 weeks before each the CEV 09 Form (Team
art. 21.4.B §1.
respective leg Registration)
Competition Handbook shall
be issued by Organisers Official Regulations:
according to art. 93.1 §3 of CLICK HERE
COMPETITION On the arrival of the Teams
the CEV Volleyball
and CEV officials at the
HANDBOOK Competitions Regulations. Bulletin Contents:
Competition venue
This Handbook must be
CLICK HERE
approved by the appointed
CEV Supervisor.
Each team must complete The maximum 14
and close the CEV 09bis players listed on the
CEV 09bis FORM Before Preliminary Inquiry form inside the CEV CEV 09bis form must
Database. (Final Team have a valid CEV
Registration) license.
13. Team Composition
Participating teams are permitted to have a team delegation composed according to article. 21.2 §1
of the CEV Volleyball Competitions Regulations.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 814. Competition Bulletin / Handbook
Layout
The official Competition Bulletin / Handbook shall be prepared by the organiser. The latter must
mandatorily use the official layout template available for downloading on the CEV ftp server. The
Bulletin and Handbook must be approved by the appointed CEV Supervisor only.
15. Marketing & Commercial Rights,
Branding & Graphics
1. MARKETING & COMMERCIAL RIGHTS
The CEV cedes 80% on- and off-court advertising spaces for all League round matches to the
Organisers, except for the net band advertising where a 50/50 split will be provided. All commercial
rights’ split has been taken into consideration in the official layouts made available on the ftp server.
No protected product categories are reserved by CEV except for “Betting & Gambling” and “Sports
equipment – Volleyballs”.
For further information on commercial rights please contact marketing@cev.eu.
2. GRAPHICS & BRANDING
Due the re- branding of all CEV competitions, we have put at disposal of all the participating
federations the new brand guidelines, templates and layouts to be used in the frame of the
competition.
All graphics and files are to be downloaded from the CEV ftp server:
ftp://nftp.cev.lu
User name: CEV_marketing
Password: 4marketing2010
Folder: …/DOWNLOADS/VOLLEYBALL /2019/Golden & Silver European League/*.*
We strongly recommend to use free ftp client like Filezilla, Cyberduck, Transmit etc.!
When using a web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) for an FTP connection, FTP uploads are sometimes very
slow and downloads are not protected (not recommended for uploading or downloading large files). In this case we cannot
guarantee trouble-free connection to our server.
The following files will be available for all Organisers on the CEV ftp server:
CEV Silver League Brand Guidelines
Logos
Colours
Fonts
Graphic devices
Templates (Brochure, Poster and Billboards, Backdrops, Flags, Banners, Social media and digital
banners)
Banner layouts
Backdrop layouts
Court layouts
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 9 Net layout
LED system play list form
Approved LED system application form
1. Approval process:
CEV will create for each federation a folder in the “UPLOAD” section of the CEV ftp server.
National federations or their graphic designers are requested to upload all their layouts into the NF
folder NO LATER THAN 15th April 2019 for approval by CEV. Layout files will not be accepted via email.
For all cases which are not described or mentioned, the Organisers shall consult the respective design
solution with CEV before producing. All promotional material (print, digital) shall be approved by CEV
before producing.
For further information on graphics production and branding please contact graphics@cev.eu.
16. TV
1. Media rights allocation
National Federations are granted the national and domestic TV rights to all home matches (also
called 1st party rights) in the territory of the country of the National Federation.
Such domestic rights are granted for 48 hours after completion of each relevant match.
For the avoidance of doubt, all other media rights not explicitly granted to the National
Federations are reserved to the CEV and its appointed Media agency.
2. International signal production obligations
League round: the international signal production of the home match of the National Team is
optional. Should a National Federation decide to produce the international signal during this
phase, the broadcast standards and delivery obligation indicated below apply.
Final Phase (Home & Away matches format) the production of the home match of the National
Teams is mandatory and in accordance with the CEV Broadcasting Standard B.
This means the delivery of a continuous, live clean world feed signal of first class international
broadcast standards in high definition, 16:9 (4:3) safe HD 1080i/625 lines, 50Hz Digital ITU-R BT.
601 colour system as a reference.
Please see further details below:
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 10 As a reminder, please send the duly completed and signed TV-01 Form to tv@cev.eu &
nationalteams@cev.eu
3. Delivery of the international signal
According to the Official CEV Volleyball Competition Regulations and the CEV TV-01 form, it is
mandatory that the host broadcaster appointed by the participating National federation book
the necessary uplink and satellite space at its own cost.
It is also mandatory that the appointed host broadcaster shall provide the CEV media agency
with the following technical details at the latest 1 week prior to the respective match:
-Satellite parameters for the TV signal (prefered satellite are Eutelsat 7B or Eutelsat 10A)
-A “Biss-1” encryption code
-Technical information such as format, audio configuration, SNG operator’s contact details in
case of transmission issues.
Such international signal shall be made available free of charge to the CEV media agency.
17. Social Media and Official #Hashtags
As you will be aware, CEV now operates on four social media platforms, namely:
Facebook (www.facebook.com/CEVolleyball)
Twitter (www.twitter.com/CEVolleyball)
YouTube (www.youtube.com/CEVolleyball)
Instagram (www.instagram.com/CEVolleyball)
National Federations are requested to link to these whenever posting or tweeting about the
competition.
We are also able to confirm that the official #hashtags for use are:
#Volleyball – when referring to the sport of Volleyball
#EuroLeagueM – for the Men’s competition
#EuroLeagueW – for the Women’s competition
18. Accreditation Cards
According to the CEV Volleyball Competitions Regulations and CEV Organisation Guidelines for
National Teams, each person accredited must receive an accreditation card/badge. Each organizer
is responsible to produce its own accreditation cards via a new software for all team delegation
members and present them during the Preliminary Inquiry.
The instructions to produce the accreditation cards/badges will be provided in a due time.
CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 1119. Official Court Layout The official Court Layout for the League Round is available for downloading on the CEV nftp server. CEV Volleyball European Silver League 2019 - Official Communications No. 1 - 20 March 2019 12
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