Trento, 15 July 2025

Champions League: Trentino Itas in Pool A with Ziraat Ankara and Tours

The five pools of the Main Phase of the 2026 CEV Champions League were officially set this morning following the draw held at the European Broadcasting Centre in Luxembourg. Trentino Itas, who have already claimed the top European club trophy four times, will begin their fourteenth campaign in the continent’s most prestigious club competition in Pool A. Also in the pool are Turkey’s Ziraat Bankkart Ankara (faced in the CEV Cup semifinals last March), France’s Tours VB, and a team advancing from the qualification rounds (scheduled between October 21 and November 27).
The group stage consists of a total of six matches, split between the first and second leg, starting on December 10, 2025, and concluding on February 18, 2026. The top two teams from each pool and the best third-placed team will advance to the Play Offs; the five second-placed teams and the best third will compete in the Round of 16 with home and away matches (March 4 and 11), which will qualify three teams to the quarterfinals, where the pool winners advance directly.

Here, in detail, is the schedule awaiting Trentino Itas in Pool A of the Main Phase of the 2026 CEV Champions League. The dates listed are provisional; matches may be played a day earlier or later for TV broadcast needs (official confirmation of dates and times is expected in the coming days).
Matchday 1 – December 10, 2025
Trentino Itas vs Winner of Qualification Round
Matchday 2 – January 7, 2026
Tours VB vs Trentino Itas
Matchday 3 – January 21, 2026
Ziraat Bankkart Ankara vs Trentino Itas
Matchday 4 – January 28, 2026
Trentino Itas vs Tours VB
Matchday 5 – February 11, 2026
Winner of Qualification Round vs Trentino Itas
Matchday 6 – February 18, 2026
Trentino Itas vs Ziraat Bankkart Ankara

The five pools of the Main Phase:
POOL A: Trentino Itas (Italy), Ziraat Bankkart Ankara (Turkey), Tours VB (France), winner of a qualification round.
POOL B: Bogdanka LUK Lublin (Poland), Galatasaray Istanbul (Turkey), Knack Roeselare (Belgium), Halkbank Ankara (Turkey).
POOL C: Berlin Recycling Volleys (Germany), Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia (Italy), VK Lvi Praha (Czech Republic), winner of a qualification round.
POOL D: Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie (Poland), SVG Lüneburg (Germany), Sporting CP Lisboa (Portugal), Asseco Resovia Rzeszow (Poland)
POOL E: Cucine Lube Civitanova (Italy), PGE Projekt Warszawa (Poland), Volley Haasrode Leuven (Belgium), Montpellier HSC VB (France).

Teams entered in the qualification rounds: TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg (Austria), Azzerrail Baku (Azerbaijan), OK Napredak Odzak (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mol Mursa Osijek (Croatia), Guaguas Las Palmas (Spain), Akaa Volley (Finland), Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece), MAV Foxconn Szekesfehervar (Hungary), VC Strumica Strumica (North Macedonia), Orion Stars Doetinchem (Netherlands), Dinamo Bucuresti (Romania), ACH Volley Ljubljana (Slovenia), Radnicki Kragujevac (Serbia).

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