The 2009–10 CEV Challenge Cup was the 30th edition of the European

Challenge Cup The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves am ...

volleyball club tournament, the former CEV Cup. The Italian club RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia beat the Croatian club Mladost Zagreb in the final and achieved its unique CEV Challenge Cup trophy.

Final Four

*Venue: PalaBarton,

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

Semi finals

3rd place

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player :

Damiano Pippi Damiano Pippi (born 23 August 1971 in Castiglione del Lago) is a volleyball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with the Italian men's national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; ...

( RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia) *Best scorer :

Salvador Hidalgo Oliva Salvador Hidalgo Oliva (born 27 December 1985) is a Cuban professional volleyball player, a member of Greek club Olympiacos and plays as outside hitter.He has won the Asian Championship in 2012 and the European trophy CEV Challenge Cup in 2023 an ...

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SCC Berlin SCC Berlin is a German sports club based in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin and founded in 1902 as ''Charlottenburger Sport-Club 1902''. In 1911, they merged with ''Sport-Club Westen 05'' and changed their club colors from yellow and blue ...

) *Best Opposite :

Ivan Mihalj Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

( Mladost Zagreb) *Best blocker :

Stefan Hübner Stefan Hübner (born 13 June 1975 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other ...

( RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia) *Best server :

Cristian Savani Cristian Savani (born 22 February 1982) is an Italian volleyball player, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team in 2001–2013 and Italian club BluVolley Verona, a medalist of the Olympic Games (silver in 2004, bronze in 2012), 2012 Ita ...

( RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia) *Best receiver :

Matej Černič Matej Černič (born 13 September 1978) is an Italian volleyball player who won the silver medal with the Italian men's national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens. He is of Slovene ethnicity and belongs to the Slovene minority in ...

( RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia) *Best libero :

Martin Kryštof Martin Kryštof (born 11 October 1982) is a Czech male volleyball player. He is part of the Czech Republic men's national volleyball team and he participated at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Italy. On club level he currentl ...

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) *Best setter :

Giacomo Sintini Giacomo is an Italian name. It is the Italian version of the Hebrew name Jacob. People * Giacomo (name), including a list of people with the name Other uses * Giacomo (horse), a race horse, winner of the 2005 Kentucky Derby * ''Giácomo'' (film) ...

( RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia)

References

External links

Official site
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