Timeline

An official timeline of Haikyū!! was released in the 6-7th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump’s 2020 series. This timeline provides a general outline of the events that took place from Volume 1 Chapter 1 to Volume 43 Chapter 379. It confirms that majority of the series took place during 2012 - 2013 and Hinata being born in 1996.

Additional details of the exact date certain events took place are gathered from the manga.

Official timeline

Timeline

2008

• January: Hinata (11 years old) sees the Little Giant play in the Spring Interhigh on TV.

2011

• May ~ : Hinata (14 years old) plays Kageyama for the first time during his last official volleyball match in middle school.

2012

• April: Hinata enrolls in Karasuno and finds Kageyama there.
  • Practice match with Aoba Johsai High
• May: Practice match with Nekoma High
• June: Karasuno loses to Aoba Johsai in the third round of the Interhigh Preliminaries.
  • Hinata turns 16 years old
• July: Tokyo training camp
• August: Spring Interhigh National Tournament Miyagi Prefecture Qualifying Rounds.
  • Karasuno vs. Ohgiminami High and Kakugawa High.
• October 25-27: Miyagi Prefecture Spring Interhigh Qualifier
  • Karasuno vs. Johzenji High, Wakutani Minami High, Aoba Johsai High, and Shiratorizawa Academy
• December: All-Japan Youth Training Camp and Miyagi Prefecture First Years Training Camp
  • Practice match with Date Tech High School
  • Kageyama turns 16 years old.

2013

• January:
  • 4th: Karasuno leaves for Tokyo
  • 5th: Karasuno vs. Tsubakihara Academy
  • 6th: Karasuno vs. Inarizaki High
  • 7th: Karasuno vs. Nekoma High and loses to Kamomedai High in the Spring Interhigh quarter-finals
  • 8th: Fukurōdani Academy vs. Inubushi Higashi High School and Ichibayashi High vs Kamomedai in the Spring Interhigh semi-finals
  • 9th: Ichibayashi beats Fukurōdani in the Final of Spring Interhigh
• June: Karasuno loses to Date Tech High in the final rounds of the Miyagi Prefecture Interhigh Qualifer.
  • Hinata turns 17
• October: Karasuno earns a ticket to the Spring Interhigh

2014

• January: Karasuno loses to Inarizaki High in the third round of the Spring Interhigh
• October: Karasuno qualifies for the next Spring Interhigh

2015

• January: Karasuno loses to Itachiyama Institute in the semi-finals and places third nationally.
• March: Hinata and the others in the same year graduate
• April: Kageyama enters the V.League
• October: Kageyama's first V.League season

2016

• April: Hinata goes to Brazil
• June: Hinata encounters Oikawa in Brazil
  • Hinata turns 20 years old
• July: Kageyama makes his debut at the Olympics

2017

• October ~: Hinata teams up with Heitor as a beach volleyball duo
• December ~: Hinata and Heitor play their last match together.

2018

• March: Hinata returns to Japan
• November 17th: Hinata faces off against Kageyama in the V.League
  • MSBY Black Jackals vs Schweiden Adlers

2019

• Spring ~: Hinata, Kageyama, Kunimi, and Kindaichi meet up in Sendai to play beach volleyball.

2021

• July: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball Day 4
  • Japan vs Serbia

• August: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Men's Volleyball Day 12
  • Japan vs Argentina

2022

• Autumn ~: FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championships: Finals
  • Ali Roma vs Asas São Paulo

Notes

• In the Japanese version, the date on Hirugami's phone indicates that the Black Jackals and Schweiden Adlers game took place on Saturday, November 17th, 2018. The English version mistakenly changes the date to November 11th. This is presumably an error since November 11th, 2018 was a Sunday.
• The Spring 2019 beach volleyball game was revealed in a special chapter created for the Haikyū!! Exhibition, entitled Promises 2.