The Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF) and Vodafone Türkiye have extended their women’s volleyball partnership for another three years, keeping Vodafone as title sponsor of the Sultanlar Ligi and main sponsor of Türkiye’s women’s national-team program.
TVF announced the renewal on October 27, 2026. The agreement continues the Vodafone Sultanlar Ligi name and the company’s front-of-jersey sponsorship of the senior and youth women’s national teams. It also adds a new technology plan for the domestic league playoffs.
Vodafone keeps the league naming rights and national-team sponsorship
In its official announcement, TVF said Vodafone will continue in both sponsorship roles for the full three-year extension. The top women’s domestic competition keeps its current sponsored name, while the federation’s women’s national teams continue to carry Vodafone on their jerseys.
The renewal follows another successful international season for Türkiye Women’s National Volleyball Team. The senior team won both the 2026 Volleyball Nations League and CEV EuroVolley, results that CEV highlighted in its account of the agreement. The sponsorship therefore continues through a period in which TVF is marketing the domestic league and the national-team program together.
TVF president Mehmet Akif Üstündağ and Vodafone Türkiye CEO Engin Aksoy spoke at the Istanbul announcement event. Their statements focused on the length of the partnership and the role of technology, but the practical sponsorship terms are straightforward: another three years of league naming rights and national-team support.
Bolt6 and 5G are planned for the playoffs
The new operational element is the proposed use of Bolt6 technology in the Vodafone Sultanlar Ligi. TVF says Video Challenge System operations are planned to be managed remotely from Bolt6’s center in Gliwice, Poland during the playoff phase, with 5G integrated into the setup.
TVF also says the Sultanlar Ligi would become the first domestic volleyball league to use Bolt6 technology. The separate European-first claim concerns remote match operations, so the two claims should not be collapsed into one broader statement.
The federation describes the project as a first for a European domestic volleyball league if the remote model is implemented as planned. TVF is outlining how the challenge system is intended to operate during the playoffs; it is not reporting that remote match operations are already running throughout the league.
The technology work has been developing across several seasons. Volleyball World reported that Vodafone’s broader partnership with TVF began in 2023 and that a 5G project was used at the Women’s VNL in Antalya in 2024. At the 2026 VNL stop in Ankara, the partnership included real-time statistics support, Bolt6 challenge technology and a 5G fan-engagement activation.
TVF also pointed to technology introduced during the previous sponsorship period, including Hawk-Eye integration in the Sultanlar Ligi. The new Bolt6 plan goes a step further by shifting part of the challenge operation away from the venue and into a remote center. That makes the playoff rollout the clearest new operational piece in the extension.
The earlier Vodafone projects were tied largely to international events staged in Türkiye. The playoff plan would put the remote system inside the operating structure of the domestic league itself, where it would be tested across a defined phase of the Sultanlar Ligi season.
The first live test is the playoff rollout
For the current season, the immediate effect is continuity. Vodafone remains in the league name and on the women’s national-team jerseys under the renewed agreement. TVF did not announce a new competition format, playoff structure or schedule as part of the extension.
The first specific implementation point for the technology plan is the playoffs. TVF says the Video Challenge operation is planned to run remotely from Gliwice with 5G as part of the setup, so the next substantive update will be whether that system is deployed on the announced timetable.
Until then, the sponsorship side of the agreement is already clear: the Vodafone Sultanlar Ligi name and sponsorship of the senior and youth women’s national teams continue for another three years. The technology component remains a planned playoff project rather than a league-wide system already in operation.
