Prosecco DOC Imoco Conegliano-Numia Vero Volley Milano, the great challenge of Italian volleyball in recent years: here’s everything you need to know about the Scudetto final of the Italian women’s volleyball championship, now in its 80th edition.
PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS: There have been 42 previous meetings between the two teams, 38 matches have been played in national competitions. It is the second most frequent challenge in the history of Prosecco DOC Imoco, ahead of them is the classic against Igor Gorgonzola Novara with 60 games. On 37 occasions the Panthers won, on the other 5 Milan.
In the last 11 matches, moreover, Wolosz and her teammates have always had the upper hand, who have faced Numia Vero Volley 5 times this season, including the Super Cup, the final of the Italian Cup and the semifinal of the Club World Cup.
In the last 11 matches, moreover, Wolosz and her teammates have always had the upper hand, who have faced Numia Vero Volley 5 times this season, including the Super Cup, the final of the Italian Cup and the semifinal of the Club World Cup.
DATES: Game-1 will be played on Wednesday 16 April at 20:30 at Palaverde; Game-2 on Saturday 19 April at 4 pm at the Unipol Forum in Assago (MI); Game-3 on Tuesday 22 April at 20:30 at Palaverde; possible Game-4 on Friday 25 April at 6 pm at the Allianz Cloud, possible Game-5 on Sunday 27 April at 6 pm at Palaverde. All matches will be broadcast live on RAI Sport HD, DAZN and volleyballworld.tv
FIRST AND LAST TIME: The two teams faced each other for the first time on October 30, 2016, on the 3rd day of the first leg of the Regular Season, the Panthers won 3-0 away at the Opiquad Arena in Monza. The most recent precedent is from two months ago, when on February 12 Prosecco DOC Imoco won 3-0 at Palaverde on the 9th day of the return of the Regular Season.
IT WAS WORTH A TROPHY: 7 TIMES THE CONFRONTATION WAS WORTH A TROPHY, FOR THE FOURTH CALENDAR YEAR IN A ROW IT WILL BE LIKE THIS. From the 2022 Scudetto final to the 2024 Super Cup, Prosecco DOC Imoco Conegliano has managed to win on all occasions. In addition to the aforementioned finals, we remember the 2023 Coppa Italia, the 2023 Scudetto, the 2023 Super Cup, the 2024 Italian Cup, the 2024 Champions League and the 2024 Super Cup.
IT WAS WORTH A SCUDETTO FINAL: On the two occasions when Numia Vero Volley Milano went to the Scudetto final, it found Prosecco DOC Imoco, in 2022 and 2023: three years ago the series ended 3-1 for the Panthers, while two editions ago it took Game-5 to award the victory to the Panthers in a fiery Palaverde.
AT PALAVERDE: 18 times the challenge has been played at Palaverde, 3 times the Milanese have tripped, the last time in Game-3 of the Scudetto final on May 11, 2023, when they moved forward in the series, then the Panthers came back by winning away and celebrating the tricolor at home in Game 5.
EX: It will be an even more special challenge for 3 former Panthers. Anna Danesi played in the yellow-blue ranks from 2016 to 2019, winning 2 Scudetti, 1 Coppa Italia and 2 Super Cups. Myriam Sylla played with the Panthers from 2018 to 2022, winning 3 Scudetti, 4 Italian Cups, 3 Super Cups, 1 Club World Cup and 1 Champions League. Paola Egonu contributed to the successes of Prosecco DOC Imoco from 2019 to 2022 with 2 Scudetti, 3 Italian Cups, 3 Super Cups, 1 Champions League and is in 3rd place in the ranking of points scored in the history of Prosecco DOC Imoco.
AUDIENCE: Among the top 10 matches with the most spectators in the history of Italian volleyball, 6 are those between Prosecco DOC Imoco Conegliano and Numia Vero Volley Milano: the first is the one in this season’s Regular Season at the Unipol Forum in Assago at 12625.
THAT’S NOT ALL: After the Scudetto finals, the two teams will meet again in the Champions League semi-finals on May 3 at the Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul, in the Final Four of Europe’s top competition
FOR THE CLUB: For Prosecco DOC Imoco it will be the ninth final in the history of the club, as well as the seventh consecutive (but since 2018 the Panthers have always gone to the final, in 2020 the championship was suspended due to Covid).
DE GENNARO REACHES PICCININI: If in the season Monica De Gennaro has surpassed Francesca Piccinini in the number of appearances in the history of Serie A surpassing 631, the legendary libero of the Panthers reaches the icon of the history of Italian volleyball with 9 Scudetto finals played (7 out of 8 won), all with the Prosecco DOC Imoco jersey.