All titles in dispute this season in Spanish volleyball have had as a winner a Canarian team. After more than ten years of drought since the fall of the Marichal, a new dynasty for the volleyball begins on the islands flagging by the Hidramar Gran Canaria and the CV Guaguas.
The two clubs in Gran Canaria have won the League, the Cup, the Super Cup and the new Iberian Cup, something unprecedented for a city in Spain, which has the best volleyball teams both in the female and male category.
In addition, both Jav Olympic (called Hidramar in the last two seasons) as the guaguas revalidate the title harvested in the 2022-23 season and add to their showcases the third league trophy of their history in the case of the girls and the eighth, in the case of the boys. The reign of Hydramar Gran Canaria y Tenerife Libby’s.
Los last four titles of the Iberdrola League have stayed on the islands And only Tenerife Libby's La Laguna (CV Haris) has been able to interrupt the current Hidrara Gran Canaria streak in the 2021/22 season.
In addition, the Canarian derby is a classic in the great finals. The lagoons stayed out on this occasion, but during the last two seasons The public of the Vibr archipelagoor contemplating how their two teams fight for the champion trophy.
Beyond the last two leagues, Jav Olympic and CV Haris played the 2023 Queen's Cup final, which fell to the Tenerife, and the last Super Cup held in the Santiago Martín Pavilion last September, which had yellow color.
Likewise, as happened in the Tournament of Lo disputed in Dos Hermanas (Seville) last January, also It is very common for both teams to see the faces in the semifinalsso that overcoming a Canarian derby becomes an indispensable requirement for the two clubs on the road to any title.
But the Canarian representation does not only remain on top and it is that this course is island participants have composed almost half of the Iberdrola League with five teams of which three were from Gran Canaria (Olympic, Sayre and Heidelberg) and two from Tenerife (Haris and the descended slope stone).
The triumphal return of the guaguas. When in 2020 the return of a volleyball giant was announced after its disappearance in 2008, the guaguas, it was expected that a firm commitment to the new project would be made. And so it was. The yellow team won the first league title he played and although the 21/22 season dominated the Unicaja, The Guaguas has returned to the load and has achieved the last two leagues in a row.
This year, the superiority of the team led by Sergio Camarero has gone a step further and has conquered The trophies that resisted the previous course, the Copa del Rey and the Super Cup.
In turn, the island team worked a great season in the Champions League by staying a gold set to sneak into the four best teams in the continent. Despite the momentary disappointment that this defeat was against the Ziraat Bank of Ankara, El Guaguas managed to go further in the maximum European competition than any other Spanish club so far from the century.
Therefore, beyond repeating a historical season in Spain, the following challenge of the Grancanario Club is projected in Europe, to try to match the most laureate club in the history of Spanish volleyball, the CV Marichal, also of Canarian origin.
Next to the CV Guaguas, Alter and CV San Roque Cisneros have accompanied the champions in a more than remarkable island representation in the Super League Since the two have achieved permanence in the highest category and in the case of the Tenerife team, the playoffs has even played as sixth classified.
All these successes are reflected in the quarry and that is that the Canary Islands is the Second autonomous community where more federative licenses are distributedbehind Andalusia, although it is true that in the statistics published by the Royal Spanish Volleyball Federation, population density is not taken into account.
Thus, in the 2022/23 season, 4,838 federative sheets were counted both in male and female, being Tenerife where the most volleyball is practiced with 2,702 licenses. Some figures that grew and much compared to the previous year when the total of chips was 3,346 between the two provinces.
With all this, there is no doubt that as happened in the best times in which Marichal reigned in Europe, volleyball is fashionable in the Canary Islands.
