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The study was conducted on a stratified sample of two subsamples of subjects to determine the level and differences in heart rate, blood lactate, anaerobic threshold, VO2max. in volleyball players in the pre-competition period. The sample of respondents was taken from the population of volleyball players, a total of 43, members of the representative teams of the volleyball league of the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Kosovo. The study used a total of 6 variables to assess the functional abilities of female volleyball players. Using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), statistically significant differences between groups were found at the level of p = 0.00. Testing differences between arithmetic means for each variable with univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA), where no statistically significant differences were found between the two teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]