The 2009–10 CEV Champions League was the 51st edition of the highest level European volleyball club competition organised by the

European Volleyball Confederation The European Volleyball Confederation ( or ''CEV'') is the continental sports governing body, governing body for the sports of volleyball, indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and snow volleyball in Europe. Its headquarters is in Luxembourg City, ...

Participating teams

League round

24 teams will be drawn to 6 pools of 4 teams each.
The 1st – 2nd ranked will qualify for the Playoffs 12.
The organizer of the Final Four will be determined after the end of the League Round and qualifies directly for the Final Four.
The team of the organizer of the Final Four will be replaced by the 3rd ranked team with the best score.
The four next 3rd ranked teams move to

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 to CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 to CEV Cup. T ...

. The remaining teams are eliminated.

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Playoffs

Playoffs 12

First leg

Second leg

Playoffs 6

First leg

Second leg

Final Four

*Organizer:

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* Place:

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

*All times are

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( UTC+02:00). *The tournament was originally scheduled to be held on 10–11 April 2010, but was postponed because of the national mourning for President

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying ...

and other Polish dignitaries who perished in the

Smolensk air disaster On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria ...

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standings

Awards

*Most valuable player *: Osmany Juantorena ( Trentino BetClic) *Best scorer *:

Mariusz Wlazły Mariusz Łukasz Wlazły (born 4 August 1983) is a Polish former professional volleyball player. He was a member of the Poland men's national volleyball team, Poland national team from 2005 to 2014, a participant in the Olympic Games 2008 Summer O ...

(

) *Best spiker *:

Dante Amaral Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980) is a Brazilian former professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring he played in the position of outside hitter. He was born in Itumbiara. Biography Early ye ...

(

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...

) *Best server *: Osmany Juantorena ( Trentino BetClic) *Best blocker *:

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( ACH Volley Bled) *Best receiver *: Daniel Lewis ( ACH Volley Bled) *Best libero *: Andrea Bari ( Trentino BetClic) *Best setter *:

Łukasz Żygadło Łukasz Tomasz Żygadło (born 2 August 1979) is a Polish former professional volleyball player who is the sporting director of the Polish PlusLiga team, Norwid Częstochowa. Żygadło was a member of the Poland national team from 1998 to 2014 ...

( Trentino BetClic)

External links

2009/10 European Champions League
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