Robur Ravenna was an Italian men's volleyball club based in

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

. Robur was in business from 1946 to 2006.

History

Gruppo Sportivo Robur was born in 1905 in Ravenna; It was established in 1946, started by Angelo Costa - who was among the other coach of the Italian national team between 1947 and 1949 - the section of men's volleyball, which took part, in 1946, the first Italian championship, graduating Campione d ' Italy. The club with blue and white colors, sewed the Scudetto on their jerseys for the next three years (1947, 1948 and 1949) and in 1952. In 1954 Robur renounced his participation in the national championship. In the following decades he devoted himself the youth activities, working closely with the team of the Fire Department, the Casadio; in 1964 he won the Junior Under 20 championship's return to Serie A of the first team in the 1964–65 and 1965–66 seasons, was stingy of successes. In the same period the basketball team he served for several years in the Serie B. In the seventies and eighties-nineties the activity was absent or conducted only at amateur level - regional. In the years after 2000, after the downsizing of the

Porto Ravenna Volley Porto Ravenna Volley was a historical volleyball club from the city of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna. Ravenna founded by a group of businessmen and lovers inspired by Giuseppe Brusi, it landed in A1 at the end of the eighties, continuing a tradition ...

, volleyball in Ravenna was in danger of disappearing; in 2006 the company, together with the AS Angelo Costa Ravenna, create a new team called Gruppo Sportivo Robur Angelo Costa: the Robur Ravenna then ceases to exist.

Honours & achievements

Italian League The Italic League or Most Holy League was an international agreement concluded in Venice on 30 August 1454, between the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, and the Kingdom of Naples, following the Tr ...

* Winners (5): 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952 * Runners-up (2): 1950, 1951

References

{{Reflist Volleyball clubs in Italy Volleyball clubs established in 1946 Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 2006 1946 establishments in Italy 2006 disestablishments in Italy Ravenna