The 2011–12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino (Spanish for: 2011-12 Women's Senior National Volleyball League) or 2011-12 LNSVF is the 8th official season of the Peruvian Volleyball League. Deportivo Géminis won the league championship and qualified to the Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship but refused its participation.
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Competition format
Because of preparation of some of the players for the London Olympics, this season will not have an "Apertura and Clausura" format, instead it will only have one tournament with two round-robyn rounds. The 2011-12 season started on November 16, 2011 was expected to conclude in April 2012.
First Round
The first round is a Round-Robyn system where all 12 teams will play once against the other 11, due to preparation of some of the players for the London Olympics, and because the league couldn't get 14 first division teams to sign, this round will serve as the Apertura round.
Pool standing procedure
1. Match points
2. Numbers of matches won
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Ranking.
Second Round
The second round of the tournament, also known as the play-offs, will see the 12 teams from the first round compete in another Round-Robyn system, the top 7 teams plus the best team from Round 1 (Géminis) will move on to the knockout stage. It began February 1, 2012 and is expected to conclud March 23, 2012.
Pool standing procedure
1. Match points
2. Numbers of matches won
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
Ranking.
Final Round
The final round of the tournament is a knockout stage, teams play the quarterfinals seeded according to how they finished ranking-wise in the second round. The Final Round will begin March 24, 2012 and it is expected to crown the champion team April 14, 2012. This round is played best-out-of-three games, for a team to move on to the next stage, they have to win twice against the opposite team.
Quarterfinals
1Alianza Lima won third leg 3-2.
Controversy
Deportivo Géminis qualified to the 2012 South American Club Championship, however the club declined to go.
Universidad San Martín as second best was invited to go, the team accepted; however the club also declined to go just a week before the competition. Cenaida Uribe, team manager quoted that since the club was not the winning team of the season, they were not given information about the Continental Club Championship.
So far, either the FPV or the LNSV has officially spoken about the qualification of Peruvian teams to the Club Championship and/or how to prevent this from happening again.