The final of the 2024 CEV Champions League will be played on Sunday 5 May at the Sports Hall in Antalya (Turkey). In the match that awards the annual title of European Club Champion, Trentino Itas will face the Polish side Jastrzebski Wegiel. Kick-off scheduled for 4pm Italian time (5pm local time) live on DAZN.
After just under two years of waiting, it is once again time for the yellow-blue team to return to the assault on the title of European Champion, playing the last and most important match of the 2023/24 season. Podrascanin and his teammates arrived in Turkey on Friday afternoon, at the end of an entire week of training, without official matches, in which the technical staff was able to complete Lavia’s recovery and propose a notable volume of activities to reach the goal in the best possible way. appointment, both from a technical and physical point of view.
There are seven players on the roster who have already played in a Champions League Final with the yellow-blue shirt: Michieletto (2021 and 2022 editions), Podrascanin (2021, 2022), Nelli (2016), D’Heer (2022), Cavuto (2022 ), Sbertoli (2022), Lavia (2022). None of them have ever won the trophy. Eight debutants: Acquarone, Berger, Garcia, Kozamernik, Laurenzano, Magalini, Pace and Rychlicki.
For Trentino Volley, the one scheduled for Sunday will be the tenth European final in its history, the sixteenth international in the last fifteen years. It will be the forty-third overall; the calculation also includes the last twenty-six matches played on a national level: 9 Scudetto finals (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2023), 9 Italian Cup finals (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2023), 8 Super Cups (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2021). The result in the matches that award a title sees the yellow-blue team victorious in twenty out of forty-two circumstances.
Jastrzebski Wegiel arrives at the match in Antalya fresh from winning their second consecutive Polish title (the fourth in their history), obtained just a week earlier against Zawiercie and as the only finalist who was able to confirm their performance compared to the previous season. The Club is still chasing its first international victory, having come close to doing so several times in the recent past; in fact, there are two participations in the Champions League Final Four in the archive, when that type of game formula was still adopted.
