Trento, 3rd January 2017
Thursday the 5th of January officially starts the road of Diatec Trentino in the 2017 CEV Cup with the first game of the round of thirthy-two in Loimaa (Finland).
Last year Trentino Volley takes part for the seventh time to the CEV Champions League (and won the silver medal), while this year will play in the European second most important club competition. The tournament, in which are taking part all the best teams who are not entered the Champions League, has different rules; there is not a group stage but only single matches based on an home and away game that will allow the winning team to advance to the next round.
In the edition of 2017, the preliminary turn (round of 32) has already taken place in December. This year a high number of countries will take part in the competition: 32 teams, which represents 20 different countries. Finland, Serbia and France have three teams each; Greece, Israel, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria two each. There are also teams from countries in which Trentino Volley has never played before, even if it has already taken part in ten seasons of European cups, such us Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Montenegro and Denmark. Eight competing sport clubs have already won at least one European cup, for a total of twelve conquered trophies. Besides Trentino Volley, winner of three Champions League between 2009 and 2011, other teams have written their name in the Hall of Fame of the CEV cup: Fenerbahce Instanbul (that has won the Challenge Cup in 2014 beating Latina which was trained by Dario Simoni at that time), Novi Sad (Challenge Cup in 2015), Piacenza (Challenge cup in 2013 and Top Teams Cup in 2006), Tours (Champions League in 2005), Olympiacos Piraeus (Top Teams Cup in 2005 and Cup Winners’ Cup in 1996) and then, going back in time, CSKA Sofia (Cup Winners’ Cup in 1976) and Brno (Champions Cup in 1968). We should not forget that the Russian team, Surgut, will take part in the competition as vice-champions because they lost against Berlin, trained by Roberto Serniotti, only in the final of 2016 CEV Cup. In the history of Trentino Volley, the participation in 2017 CEV Cup will be its 11th experience in a European Cup, the third in this specific competition. Before Diatec Trentino had played in this tournament in season 2004/05 (eliminated in the first knock-off round) and in season 2014/15 (second place, beaten by Dinamo Mosca).
TOURNAMENT PLANNING
Teams play six double turns (home and away game) of matches (round of 32, already played; round of sixteen, first knock-off round, quarter-finals, semi-finals, final). All of them are knock-out phases: the team that conquers the highest number of points after the two matches qualifies for the following round; points are given in the same way as a normal championship: 3 if the team wins the game 3-0 or 3-1; 2 if the team conquers the match at the tie break; 1 if it loses at the tie break (a 15-point golden set will be played if there is a tie – the same system as the Playoffs 12 of CEV Champions League).
The complete table of round of sixteen (first games on January 3rd, 4th, 5th 2017 – second games on January 17th, 18th, 19th 2017)
Olympiacos Piraeus (Gre) – Gazprom-Urga Surgut (Rus)
Cež Karlovarsko (Cze) – Tiikerit Kokkola (Fin)
Ok Novi Pazar (Srb) – Paok Thessaloniki (Gre)
Tours VB (Fra) – Volejbal Brno (Cze)
Hapoel Yoav Kfar Saba (Isr) – Lindemans Aalst (Bel)
Sk Aich/Dob (Aut) – Arago de Sete (Fra)
Topvolley Callant Antwerp (Bel) – Crvena Zvezda Beograd (Srb)
Ok Mladost Brcko (Bih) – United Volleys Rheinmain (Ger)
Hapoel Mate-Asher Akko (Isr) – Fenerbahce Sk Istanbul (Tur)
Levski Ball Sofia (Bul) – Abiant Lycurgus Groningen (Ned)
Cska Sofia (Bul) – Volley Amriswil (Sui)
Budvanska Rivijera Budva (Mne) – Gfc Ajaccio (Fra)
Vojvodina Ns Seme Novi Sad (Srb) – C.s. Arcada Galati (Rou)
Lpr Volley Piacenza (Ita) – Hypo Tirol Innsbruck (Aut)
VaLePa Sastamala (Fin) – Gentofte Volley (Den)
Hurrikaani Loimaa (Fin) – Diatec Trentino (Ita)
If Diatec Trentino qualifies for the next turn, it will face the winner of the match between ValePa Sastamala (Fin) and Gentofte Volley (Den) in the first knock-off round.
The other matches of the competition:
First knock-off round: first game on January 31st – second game on February 16th
Quarter-finals: first game on February 28th – second game on March 16th
Semifinals: first game on March 28th – second game on April 1st
Final: first game on April 11th –second game on April 15th
MEDIA
Tv
There will be live broadcast of the matches only from the semi-finals on.
Radio
All games (home and away) of Diatec Trentino will be broadcasted via live and exclusive coverage by Radio Dolomiti, network partner of Trentino Volley. Supporters can listen to it, both with a normal radio receiver and with the streaming service offered by the site http://www.radiodolomiti.com/, in the section “On Air”.
Internet
On the internet, the website of CEV (http://www.cev.lu/) will provide live coverage of every match on the webpage “Live Score” in the section devoted to the 2017 CEV Cup. News, comments and pictures will be available at any time by clicking on the official website of Trentino Volley, www.trentinovolley.it. For some matches streaming audio-video service will be granted on the partner website of CEV http://www.laola1.tv/ (availability of the service must be checked at every turn). In order to have access to this resource, supporters must enter the special section http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/channel/volleyball-cev-cup-men-livestream-for-free-video and click on the red button “Live” that appears near the specific game a few minutes before the kick-off. The first match of Trentino Volley in Loimaa will be broadcasted at the direct link http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestream/hurrikaani-loimaa-trentino-diatec-len.
ROUND OF SIXTEEN’S RETURN MATCH INCLUDED IN THE SEASON TICKET
Round of sixteen’s return match Diatec Trentino – Hurrikaani Loimaa is scheduled for January Wednesday 18th at PalaTrento from 8.30 p.m. and it’s included in the season ticket 2016/17. Those supporters who don’t have one can buy the tickets at Trentino volley Point in via Trener 2 in Trento (opening time: 9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. – 7 p.m.; phone number 0461 421377), at PromoEvent in via Suffragio 10 in Trento (opening time: 9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. – 7 p.m.) and at the direct link http://www.vivaticket.it/ita/event/2017-cev-cup-trentino-diatec-loimaa/93540.
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