Trento, 29 June 2018

2019 CEV Cup, Trentino Diatec is already qualified to the round of thirty-two

It was drawn this morning in Luxembourg the board of 2019 CEV Cup and the pairings of the first double turn of matches, the round of sixty-four.
As first of the round, Trentino Diatec will start its adventure in the second continental trophy – to which it will participate for the fourth time in its history after the presences of seasons 2004/05, 2014/15 and 2016/17 – in the round of thirty-two (the next round), entering the field only in late November. The same will happen for other eleven clubs, like Kemerovo, Olympiacos and Galatasaray for example, and for the teams eliminated during the preliminary phases of CEV Champions League.
Trento’s opponent will be the winning team after the duel that will take place in the first half of November in the round of thirty-two between the Ukrainians of Lviv and the Swiss of Lausanne. The away trip for the going match on November 28th will be anyway a new experience for the Club of via Trener, which never travelled to Ukraine and went only once in Switzerland, in Lugano; the return match will instead take place at BLM Group Arena in Trento on December 5th. The team which will obtain the greatest amount of points during the two matches will qualify for the round of sixteen (on December 18th 2018 and on January 16th 2019); the points will be given just like happens for the championship: 3 points for a 3-0 or 3-1 victory, 2 points for a tie-break victory, 1 point for a tie-break defeat (golden set to 15 points in case of a draw). The path that will take to the two final matches (scheduled between March 19th and 26th 2019) will also be consist in the quarterfinals (January 30th – February 16th 2019) and the semi-finals (February 26th – March 5th 2019).

Below all the pairing for the round of thirty-two of 2019 CEV Cup:
Barkom-Kazhany Lviv (Ukraine) – Lausanne Uc (Switzerland)
Forde VBK (Norway) - Novator Khmelnytskyi (Ukraine)
Jedinstvo Bemax Bijelo Polje (Montenegro) - Ok Novi Pazar (Serbia)
Montana Volley (Bulgaria) - Kladno Volejbal Cz (Czech Republic)
Kv Peja (Kosovo) - Gfc Ajaccio (France)
Indykpol Azs Olsztyn (Poland) - Hurrikaani Loimaa (Finland)

Already qualified for the round of sixteen: Kuzbass Kemerovo (Russia), Trentino Diatec (Italy), Galatasaray Istanbul (Turkey), Hypo Tirol AlpenVolleys Haching (Germany), Par-ky Menen (Belgium), Tourcoing Lille Metropole (France), Arcada Galati (Romania), Dukla Liberec (Czech Republic), Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece), Lindaren Volley Amriswil (Switzerland), Union Raiffesen Waldviertel (Austria), Orion Doetinchem (Netherlands).

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