Volleyball Roster Template

Numbers, the libero, and squad size all sit in a rulebook, and the high school book and the club book answer differently. Read the row that applies to your team before anyone orders a jersey. One caveat holds for the whole NFHS column: state associations adopt the national rules and may modify them, so your association is the last word on anything here.

Sources: the 2025 NCAA, USA Volleyball, and NFHS rules comparison for every row, since it is the one document that states both columns side by side. NFHS 2026-27 volleyball uniform rules (Rule 4-2) corroborates the high school number and libero-uniform rows and carries the dated changes noted below. One caveat on the substitution row: USA Volleyball's summary rules page says 12 per set while the comparison document says 15, and the comparison is what this table follows, because its own notification rule has the scorer flag the 12th through 15th substitution. Read your event's regulations if the difference decides something for you.

The number rows catch people out. Your setter who owned 0 all fall gets a different number at club in the spring, and if you coach both seasons you are keeping two lists straight. Settle it before the order goes in. Beginning July 1, 2028, NFHS rules(opens in new tab) also drop leading zeros, so 01 and 05 stop being options. High school rules already require every player, libero included, to wear a number no teammate duplicates. Your sheet is where that check happens.

Libero: a Roster Decision Before It Is a Lineup One

The formal designation happens per set, on the lineup sheet. The roster decision happens months earlier. That player needs a contrasting jersey ordered in the right size, the back-row reps to justify it, and a spot in your planning that no other position occupies. Club rules allow two liberos per set, so a program that wants both needs two contrasting jerseys and two players developed for the role.

Working out which player that is belongs to preseason. Striveon's evaluation form for volleyball tryouts scores passing and reception alongside defense and game intelligence, which is where the designation earns its evidence.

Type straight into the sheet. The 14 seeded lines carry a starting shape rather than a squad limit, weighted by how many rotations each role has to cover, and the table further down gives the reasoning line by line. Overwrite a code when your gym uses different vocabulary. Rows go up to 24 for a deeper program, and any line your team has no player for can be removed.

Hits takes an L or an R. Age Group holds the club label, so 14U, 16U, or 18U, while Grade stays for school programs. Most coaches need one of those two. Rename the one you do not use and the empty column earns its space back as height, club team, or a parent phone number.

Both documents list your players. Only one of them goes to the referee. They still end up filed under the same name in the athletic office and in half the shared drives in the league, which costs somebody ten minutes on a Tuesday, because the two sheets answer questions that sit months apart.

Build the roster first and every lineup sheet afterwards turns into transcription. Numbers are settled. Roles are settled. Match day leaves you the six names, the libero, and whatever the third set demands.

Court zones I through VI, the three-set and five-set formats, and the NFHS version live on the other page. Our volleyball lineup sheet carries all of them, plus a rotation tracking sheet for planning six rotations ahead. The rest of this page stays with the season list, beginning with how long that list is allowed to be.

Two questions hide inside "how many players should I carry". The NFHS rulebook sets no roster cap, though your state association can add one of its own, so the number your paperwork wants may not be in the national book. Club play does place a cap, because USA Volleyball limits a team to 15 players plus 5 coaches or staff unless the specific competition regulations say otherwise.

Substitutions decide the practical size. A high school team gets 18 per set under the national rules, and a club team gets 15. Libero replacements sit outside that count entirely, which is part of why the role exists. Everything else spends the allowance. A serving specialist in and back out is two. A setter change in the back row is two more. Four such pairs in a tight third set and a club team has spent eight of its fifteen.

So carrying twenty players does not buy twenty players' worth of court time. The substitution count decides how many of them reach the floor, which makes depth a practice-quality argument first and a match-day argument second. Club play adds an edge the school season does not. Whether a tournament wants a roster at all is its own decision, written into its competition regulations, but where one is required a player left off it cannot play. That turns an out-of-date sheet into an eligibility problem rather than a paperwork one.

When one sheet turns into four teams' sheets, a spreadsheet stops being the right home for it. Your 14U, 16U, and 18U each keep a separate list in Striveon's training management instead of three tabs somebody has to remember to open, and every athlete carries a jersey number and a free-text position. What it will not do is check a number against teammates. That comparison is still yours, and this sheet is where you run it.

Your setter system decides the top of the roster before the players do. That is why the sheet opens with two setter lines, and why a committed 5-1 program should still fill in the second one. One rolled ankle in October and the season needs somebody who has already run the position in practice. If you are still choosing between systems, our guide to the six volleyball positions works through what each role does once the ball is up.

Hitting hand belongs in the same conversation. Set a lefty from the right side and the ball comes to their hitting side, so they never swing across their body. That is why lefties so often settle at opposite. Write the letter in the Hits column. Then a graduating lefty becomes a recruiting question in August, while your season still has room to answer it.

Those counts are a starting point, and your gym will argue with them. Come back to them at the midpoint, once you know which middle grew three inches over the winter and which outside stopped passing. December's roster should be able to answer to August's, and a Striveon athlete evaluation stays attached to the player it describes long enough to make that comparison possible.

Two buttons sit above the sheet and a third rides in its own footer. Each answers a different person.

• Download as Image, above the sheet, writes a PNG. That is what a team chat and a gym wall both accept.
• Print Form, also above the sheet, sends it to the printer without the article around it. Pick Save as PDF in that dialog and you have the file a tournament desk asks for.
• Copy as Table sits in the sheet's footer next to Add row and Reset. It hands you every row tab separated, so a single paste lands in Google Sheets, Excel, or Word as a real grid.

Trim the copy before it leaves your hands. Birth years and grades belong on the version your athletic office keeps. The sheet taped inside the gym door on a tournament Saturday, where every visiting parent walks past it, can stop at number, name, and role.