Trento, 07 July 2025

Champions League – Group Stage Draw on July 15 in Luxembourg

The Drawing of Lots for the 2026 CEV Champions League will take place starting at 12:00 CEST on Tuesday, July 15, at the European Broadcasting Centre in Luxembourg.
During the event, the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) will determine the composition of the five Pools of the Main Phase of the 2026 edition.
A total of 20 teams will be entered into the draw: 18 directly qualified for the group stage (including Trentino Volley, which will compete under the name “Trentino Itas”) and 2 teams from the qualifying rounds, whose matchups will also be drawn during the event.
The Pools will be formed by dividing the 20 teams into four seeding pots, based on the CEV Ranking, which takes into account the results from the 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions of the competition. Each Pool will consist of one team from each pot.
Pot 1 will include the five top-seeded teams. As the highest-ranked Italian club, Trentino Volley will be placed in Pot 1 alongside Civitanova, Lublin, Zawiercie, and Berlin — meaning these clubs cannot be drawn in the same Pool as Trentino.
According to competition regulations, no Pool can contain two teams from the same country, unless one of them enters via wild card. As such, Trentino Itas cannot be drawn into the same group as Perugia, which is seeded in Pot 2.

Seeding Pots
Pot 1 (Top seeds): Trentino Itas and Cucine Lube Civitanova (Italy), Bogdanka LUK Lublin and Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie (Poland), Berlin Recycling Volleys (Germany).
Pot 2: Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia (Italy), PGE Projekt Warszawa (Poland), SVG Lüneburg (Germany), Ziraat Bankkart Ankara and Galatasaray Istanbul (Turkey).
Pot 3: Knack Roeselare and Volley Haasrode Leuven (Belgium), Tours VB (France), VK Lvi Praha (Czech Republic), Sporting CP Lisboa (Portugal).
Pot 4: Halkbank Ankara (Turkey), Asseco Resovia Rzeszów (Poland), Montpellier HSC VB (France), plus two winners from the qualifying rounds.

The venue for the Final Four, scheduled for May 16–17, 2026, has yet to be announced. The draw on July 15 will be broadcast live on the official CEV digital platforms.

Trentino Volley Srl
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