Trento, 05 November 2018

CEV Cup 2019 is about to start, Trentino Volley is waiting to know who its next opponent

CEV Cup 2019 is now about to start. It is the second main continental tournament for clubs and Trentino Volley will be again among the participants. Between Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th will be played the going matches of the round of round of thirty-two, first act of the tournament which will only provides for knock-out matches until the Final; the return matches will be played between November 13th and 15th. Trentino Itas will participate to the competition for the fourth time in its history thanks to the fourth place obtained during last season of SuperLega and will enter the tournament only during next turn (round of thirty-two), despite being looking for the other results with great curiosity.
The yellow-blue team will carefully follow the match between the Ukrainians of Barkom-Kazhany Lviv and the Swiss of Lausanne UC; the winning team will play versus Giannelli and his teammates on November 21st (going away match) and on December 5th 2018 at BLM Group Arena (return match). The rules will be the same; the team which will obtain the greatest number of points during both matches will qualify for the next turn. The points will be awarded like in SuperLega Italiana: 3 for a 3-0 or 3-1 victory, 2 for a tie-break victory and 1 for a tie-break defeat (golden set until 15 in case of a draw).
Trentino Volley will have to experience a new away trip in a new country, whoever its opponent will be: in its great experience in the European cups the Club of via Trener in fact have never played in Ukraine or in Switzerland, which are two of the few country that aren’t part pf the continental yellow-blue map.
Below the pairings of 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)

Teams which are already qualified for the round of sixteen: Kuzbass Kemerovo (Russia), Trentino Itas (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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