Volley Piacenza was an Italian professional men's

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club based in

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

, northern Italy. They played in the

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. The club ceased to exist in 2018 due to financial problems. Although the club reached the Italian 1st division for the first time only in 2002, after have dominated the Italian 2nd division and winning also the Italian Cup, it has already played 9 finals in Italy, including 5 for the Italian Title(winning only in 2009 versus the strong Trento), 2 for the Italian Cup(won in 2013 and lost in 2006) and 2 for the Italian Supercup (beating Macerata 3–2 in 2009 and losing versus the same team in 2014 again after a tie-break). Piacenza played also a Champion's League final, lost 3–2 in Poland versus Russia's Zenit Kazan, 2 Cev Cup finals (again losing twice) and won 2 other European cups: in 2006 the Top Teams Cup, and in 2013 the Challenge Cup, defeating

Ural Ufa Ural Ufa (russian: «Урал» Уфа, ba, «Урал» Өфө) – is a Russian professional men's volleyball club, based in Ufa, playing in Russian Volleyball Super League since 1996. Achievements * CEV Challenge Cup The CEV Challenge ...

from Russia with a 3–0 win in both first and second legs of final,CEV Challenge Cup 2012/2013 Final Phase
ScoresPro.com achieving also an impressive 12–0 record, without losing a single set. It's among the strongest teams in Italy and also in Europe since 2003.

Achievements

CEV Champions League The CEV Champions League is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition is organised every year by the European Volleyball Confederation. Formula (2018–19 to present) Qualification A tot ...

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CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...

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CEV Challenge Cup The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup. History * CEV Cup (1980– ...

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* Italian Championship (SuperLega) *: Gold medal with cup

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* Italian Cup *: Simple gold cup

2014 * Italian SuperCup *: Simple gold cup

2009 * Italian Championship Serie A2 *: Gold medal with cup

2002 * Italian Cup Serie A2 *: Simple gold cup

2002

Team

Notable players

* 2002–2003

Đula Mešter Đula Mešter ( sr-cyr, Ђула Мештер; hu, Mester Gyula, born 3 April 1972) is a Serbian volleyball player of Hungarian ethnicity who won the gold medal with the Yugoslav Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Standing at 2.03 ...

* 2003–2004

Simone Rosalba Simone Rosalba (born January 31, 1976 in Paola, Calabria) is a volleyball player from Italy, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Playing as an outside-hitter, he claimed his first medal ...

* 2003–2004

Osvaldo Hernández Osvaldo Hernández Chambell (born 11 July 1970 in Camagüey) is an Italian volleyball player (game), player originally from Cuba. Son:Osvaldo Lázaro Hernández Suárez In Italy, he won the ''scudetto'' (top division title) in 2000 with Piag ...

* 2003–2007

Nikola Grbić Nikola Grbić ( sr-cyrl, Никола Грбић; born 6 September 1973) is a Serbian professional volleyball coach and former player, who is currently serving as head coach for the Poland national team. The Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, a bro ...

* 2003–2007, 2008–2010 Leonel Marshall * 2003–2008

Vigor Bovolenta Vigor Bovolenta (30 May 1974 – 24 March 2012) was a volleyball player from Italy. Bovolenta was part of the men's national team that won the European Championship in 1995 and the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He died at the age of ...

* 2004–2005 Anderson Rodrigues * 2005–2008 Vencislav Simeonov * 2006–2008

Paolo Cozzi Paolo Cozzi (born 26 May 1980 in Milan) is a volleyball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with the Italy national volleyball team, Italian men's national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. State awards * 2 ...

* 2007–2008

Frantz Granvorka Frantz Granvorka (born 10 March 1976) is a former France, French volleyball player, a member of France men's national volleyball team in 1996–2007, a participant of the Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2004 Olympic G ...

* 2007–2008 Sérgio Santos * 2007–2008 Israel Rodríguez * 2006–2010 João Paulo Bravo * 2007–2010

Novica Bjelica Novica Bjelica ( sr, Новица Бјелица; born 9 February 1983) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team and French club Stade Poitevin Poitiers, a participant of the 2008 Olympic Games, medalist ...

* 2007–2010

Dante Boninfante Dante Boninfante (born 7 March 1977) is an Italian retired volleyball player and current coach, former member of Italy men's national volleyball team, a bronze medalist of the Olympic Games London 2012, silver medalist of the European Champions ...

* 2007–2010, 2014–2015

Marco Meoni Marco Meoni (born 25 May 1973 in Padua) is a volleyball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with the Men's National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, wearing the number two jersey. A year earlier he was on the side ...

* 2008–2009

Guillermo Falasca Guillermo Falasca Fernández (born October 24, 1977) is a Spanish volleyball player born in Argentina. Falasca became topscorer and best server at the 2005 European League, in which Spain ended up in third place in the overall-rankings. And he ...

* 2009–2010

Valdir Sequeira Valdir Sousa Sequeira (born 22 November 1981) is a Portuguese male volleyball player of Angolan descent. He is part of the Portugal men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Sporting CP since october 2017. Firstly he joined S.L. B ...

* 2010–2013 Maxwell Holt * 2011–2012 Vladimir Nikolov * 2011–2012

Andrey Zhekov Andrey Zhekov ( bg, Андрей Жеков; born March 12, 1980) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and current head coach of Levski Volley. He entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhe ...

* 2012–2014

Robertlandy Simón Robertlandy Simón Aties (born 11 June 1987) is a Cuban volleyball player, a member of Cuba men's national volleyball team from 2005–2010 and from 2019 to present day and also Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova, 2009 NORCECA Champion, silv ...

* 2013–2014

Kévin Le Roux Kévin Le Roux (born 11 May 1989) is a French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team and German club Berlin Recycling Volleys, 2015 European Champion, two–time gold medallist of the World League ( 2015, 2017), ...

* 2014–2014

Valerio Vermiglio Valerio Vermiglio (born 1 March 1976) is an Italian volleyball player, who was a member of the Italian men's national team, that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Career He played with Sisley Treviso and won ...

* 2014–2015 Aleksey Ostapenko * 2003–2017

Hristo Zlatanov Hristo Zlatanov (Bulgarian: Христо Златанов - born 21 April 1976) is a Bulgarian-Italian former volleyball player who played on the Italian national volleyball team. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. P ...

* 2010–2017

Luca Tencati The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent population from which all organisms now living on Earth share common descent—the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. This includes all cellular organisms; t ...

* 2011–2017

Samuele Papi Samuele Papi (born 20 May 1973) is an Italian former volleyball player, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team in 1993-2012, silver and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, multiple winner of the European Championship and World Champi ...

References

{{Reflist Italian volleyball clubs Sport in Piacenza Volleyball clubs established in 1982 Volleyball clubs disestablished in 2018 1982 establishments in Italy 2018 disestablishments in Italy