The year 2009 marks the 88th year since Volleyball first arrived in Bulgaria. It all began in 1922 when, for a short time, Volleyball was hugely popular and became one of most practiced sports in Bulgaria.

The first national Volleyball championship was organized in 1942. Now, Bulgaria has more than 111 registered Volleyball clubs and over 5,500 Volleyball players from all age groups.

The Bulgarian Men's team has been participating successfully in World and European Championships, Olympic Games and other international tournaments for almost for 50 years.

Bulgaria finished third in their first appearance in the FIVB World Championship in Prague in 1949. The team also won the bronze medal in the World Championship in Moscow in 1952 and in Paris in 1986. They went one better in Sofia in 1970, claiming the silver medal, and they claimed another bronze medal in the tournament in Japan in 2006.

In the European Championship, Bulgaria landed second place in 1951 in Paris and claimed bronze medals in 1955 in Bucharest, 1981 in Varna, Bulgaria, and 1983 in Berlin.

The Bulgarian Volleyball players were participants in the first Olympic tournament in Tokyo in 1964, where they finished fifth, in Mexico 1968, when they claimed sixth, Munich 1972, taking fourth place, Moscow 1980, when they won the silver medal, Seoul 1988, finishing sixth, and Atlanta 1996, when they settled for seventh position.

Bulgaria's participation in the FIVB World League began in 1994, when they finished in fourth place. In 2008 they finished seventh.

Meanwhile, in the most recent FIVB World Cup in 2007, the Bulgarians finished in third place, qualifying them for the Beijing Olympics.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bulgaria finished fifth, solidifying their reputation as one of the strongest teams in the world. In the FIVB ranking, Bulgaria continues hold 4th place.

There are currently some excellent Volleyball players in the Bulgarian national team, with the ones to watch including Plamen Konstantinov and Hristo Tsvetanov, alongside good young players such as Matey Kaziyski, Danail Milushev, Andrey Zhekov and Boyan Yordanov. In the last edition of the Indesit European Champions League, Kaziyski and Konstantinov were chosen, respectively, as the most valuable player and the best receiver in the Final Four tournament.