For three successive years, the Super Cup featured Al Arabi Club against Al Rayyan Club. However this year, there is a change in the line-up as Policed forced their way into the one-off match that pits the League champions against the winners of the Emir Cup of the past season. The match is scheduled at...
QOC Secretary General lauds Beach Volleyball Team achievements
The Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary General HE Jassim Rashid Al Boenin has applauded the glorious achievements made by the Qatar’ Beach Volleyball team who won both titles of 2017 Asia Pacific Beach Volleyball Championship in South Sumatra, Indonesia and AVC Volleyball Tour Grand Front Osaka Open in Japan. At a productive meeting held on Monday...
Qataris take men's honor at Palembang Open
Promising Mariafe Artacho Del Solar/Taliqua Clancy captured the limelight on Sunday when the Australian duo captured the 6th South Sumatra Governor Cup AVC Beach Volleyball Tour Palembang Open at Jakabaring to win three consecutive major tournaments, as Qataris Cherif Younousse/Ahmed Tijan Janko took the men’s title. Artacho Del Solar/Clancy have already captured the women’s crown...
Qatar emerge as champions at Grand Front Osaka Open
Qatar’s Julio De Nascimento and Ahmed Tijan emerged champions at the AVC Beach Volleyball Tour Grand Front Osaka Open on Monday. In the final they defeated Gilang Ramadan and Danangsyah Pribadi 21-15, 21-19. The Indonesians had beaten Qatar’s Jefferson Pereira/Cherif Younousse in the semifinals, but they were thoroughly outplayed by Julio and Tijan. Another Indonesian...
Police draw top billing in QVA League
Reigning champions Police got the top billing for the upcoming Qatar Volleyball Association Senior League, while Al Shamal secured the second spot and Al Wakrah were third. Powerhouses Al Arabi Club and Al Rayyan Club got the seventh and ninth rankings, respectively. In a new experiment, the QVA held the draws for rankings for the...
World Championship qualifiers: Qatar down Kazakhstan, avenge Asian championship loss
Qatar avenged their recent loss to Kazakhstan with a straight-set crushing during the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship on Saturday. At the Rezazadeh Stadium in Ardabil, Iran, Qatar pulled off a 25–21 25–17 25–18 victory over Kazakhstan and kept their hopes for getting one of the two top berths in...
Qatar to participate in World Championship qualifiers
The Qatari volleyball team will participate in the qualifications for the 2018 World Volleyball Championship to be staged in Tehran, Iran on August 10-14, 2017. Qatar will play in a group including South Korea, China, Kazakhstan and Hosts Iran. The qualifications will be held in one-round league format with winners and the runners-up will qualify...
Pereira, Younousse shock second seeds in Worlds
Qatari Olympians Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse took 34 minutes to engineer a major flutter in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Vienna, Austria, beating second seeds Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins in straight sets on Tuesday. The Qatari team had lost a close match to the rivals in the 2015 Xiamen Open...
Vienna 2017: Pereira, Younousse win second match in pool, book a slot in last 32
Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse posted their second successive victory and were assured of a place in the round of 32 in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, presented by A1, in Vienna, Austria on Sunday. The Qataris, who finished an amazing fifth in the 2015 Worlds in the Netherlands, were up against Venezuelans...
Qatar on track to claim ninth spot in Asian Championship
Qatar kept hopes of a ninth place finish alive in the Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship when they overpowered Pakistan in five sets in the semi-finals of the ninth to 12th place classification in Surabaya, Indonesia on Sunday. Qatar, who secured their best finish in the Asians in 2015 by reaching the semi-finals, first led...