History

Imoco Volley Conegliano was founded in 2012 by an idea of the Maschio, Polo and Garbellotto families, who wanted to give a high-level sports reality to the area, choosing to focus on a sport with crystal-clear values such as women's volleyball. The gamble was won as demonstrated by the boom in attendance that has always characterized the seasons played at the Palaverde in Villorba by the yellow-blue "Panthers", capable of attracting a constant average of over 4000 people to their home games, given that since 2012 it has always been the absolute record of Italian women's volleyball.

In addition to the repeatedly broken audience records and "sold out" at the arena, the territory has also responded in terms of sponsorships, as there are now more than 160 commercial partners linking their brand to Imoco Volleyball, with a large representation of companies linked to the world of wine and Prosecco in particular, the flagship product of Conegliano and the entire Province.

But in Imoco Volley's recent history, the victories on the field stand out, the 3 championships captured in 2016 in the final with Piacenza and in 2018 and 2019 in the final with Novara, the Italian Cup won in Florence in 2017 and the Italian Super Cup won in 2016, 2018, 2019.
At the European level, Imoco Volley is vice champion of Europe with the landing in the final played right at Palaverde in the Final Four of the Champions League in 2017 and organized by the yellow-blue club. In 2018 the Panthers qualified third in the Champions League Final Four played in Bucharest. In 2019, Imoco Volley confirmed its position at the top of European volleyball, becoming vice-champion of Europe for the second time in the Champions League Super finals played in Berlin.

The 2019/20 season, despite being halted in March due to the emergency-Coronavirus, saw an Imoco in an armored version rout the field in the months of play, with victory in the Italian Supercup, the Coppa Italia and the extraordinary exploit of the Club World Cup in China that saw the Panthers triumph after an exciting tournament that hoisted the yellow-blue team to the roof of the World.

The 2020/21 season opened with the victory of the fourth Italian Super Cup, followed by the third Italian Cup won in the final four in Rimini. In April came the fourth championship won in the playoff final against Novara. The season ends with the victory of the first CEV Champions League in the Super Final in Verona. For Imoco Volley, the 2021/21 season will go down in history with the conquest of the quadriplete (Italian Super Cup, Italian Cup, Scudetto and Champions League) with 64 consecutive victories.

The 2021/22 season begins with winning the fifth Italian Super Cup against Novara, the historic rival in recent years. In April comes the fifth championship won in the final playoff against Monza volleyball.

The 2022/23 season brings Imoco Volleyball its sixth Italian Super Cup, fifth consecutive for the panthers, won against Novara at the Pala Wanny in Florence. In December the Panthers returned to the top of the world by winning their second Club World Cup in Turkey against Vakifbank Istanbul. The 22/23 season ends with the victory in the Scudetto final in a heated clash with Vero Volley Milano concluded with the Gialloblù triumph at Palaverde after five very tight challenges, which completes another "en plein" in national competitions by also adding the conquest of the Coppa Italia and the Super Cup.

In 2023/24, the Panthers' big target is the Champions League, and Coach Santarelli's team completes the clear path, winning its second European Championship title by beating Vero Volley Milan in the final in Antalya. The season took on legendary contours with the confirmation of the Scudetto, the seventh in history (sixth consecutive), after an intense and hard-fought final with Scandicci, which followed laurels in the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa for a poker of successes that confirmed the Panthers' lineage. At the end of the season the farewell step for a "monument" of the gialloblù history such as Robin De Kruijf, who leaves volleyball, and with her goodbye also to other pillars of the last seasons such as Kelsey Robinson, Plummer, Gennari and Squarcini, compensated, however, by the arrival of a series of superstars with exotic appeal such as the phenomenal Brazilian Gabi, the Chinese star Zhu Ting and the emerging Japanese Nanami Seki, for an increasingly global Prosecco DOC Imoco!