January 17, 2026 will remain on the calendar as a historic date for women’s professional sports in Mexico, since that day begins the Mexican Professional Volleyball League (LVP MX).
“Women are pushing hard in all sports. There are professional leagues that have opened in different disciplines and volleyball was already late, it has been 108 years since volleyball arrived in Mexico, but our country does not have a professional league so in this way we created this civil association,” she commented. Jesus Peralespresident of the Mexican Volleyball Federation and who will lead LVP MX.
After several attempts to consolidate a professional circuit, today the LPV Mx is born as an independent entity, whose priority is not only the show, but also the development of the country’s players.
“The goal is to reach 16 teams and be able to divide the tournament into regions, but that will be in one or two more seasons. For us it is very important that the Mexican player is on the court, we cannot add six foreign main draw players and the Mexican player is left without growth; if we bring four or six foreign players, not all of them will be on the court simultaneously,” added Perales.
In this first edition of the league, in addition to the Mexican players, Volleyball players from 11 countries have already been recruited: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, United States, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Germany, Spain, Australia or Japan.
Among the priorities of this league are three requirements for each franchise:
- Have Mexican youth players.
- Have local players.
- Call for foreign players with a salary cap of 3,000 USD per month.
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