2016–17 CEV Champions League

The 2016–17 CEV Champions League was the highest level of European club volleyball in the season and the 58th edition. The semi-finals and finals were held on April 29 and 30, 2017 at the palaLottomatica in Rome, Italy.[1]

2016–17 CEV Champions League
League	CEV Champions League
Sport	Volleyball
Total attendance	262,064 (3,058 per match)
Finals
Champions	Zenit Kazan
Runners-up	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia
Finals MVP	Maxim Mikhaylov (KZN)

Qualification

The 12 teams of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions and 8 teams qualify from the qualification rounds.[2][3]

Rank	Country	Vacancies	Qualified teams
1	Russia	2	Zenit Kazan
			Dinamo Moscow
2	Italy	2	Azimut Modena
			Cucine Lube Civitanova
3	Turkey	2	Halkbank Ankara
			Istanbul BBSK
4	Poland	2	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
			Asseco Resovia
5	Germany	1	Berlin Recycling Volleys
6	Belgium	1	Knack Roeselare
7	France	1	Paris Volley
8	Romania	1	SCM U Craiova
Qualification round		8	Belogorie Belgorod
			Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia
			Arkas Izmir
			PGE Skra Bełchatów
			VfB Friedrichshafen
			Noliko Maaseik
			ACH Volley Ljubjana
			Dukla Liberec

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	Berlin Recycling Volleys	Zenit Kazan
Dinamo Moscow	Cucine Lube Civitanova	Paris Volley
Istanbul BBSK	Asseco Resovia	Arkas Izmir
Noliko Maaseik	Dukla Liberec	VfB Friedrichshafen

Pool D	Pool E
Azimut Modena	Halkbank Ankara
SCM U Craiova	Knack Roeselare
PGE Skra Bełchatów	Belogorie Belgorod
ACH Volley Ljubjana	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia

League round

	Qualified for the Playoff round
	Qualified as hosts for the Final round

• All times are local.

Pool A

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	5	1	15	16	5	3.200	531	469	1.132
2	Dinamo Moscow	4	2	11	14	10	1.400	563	552	1.020
3	Istanbul BBSK	2	4	7	9	14	0.643	506	534	0.948
4	Noliko Maaseik	1	5	3	7	17	0.412	513	557	0.921

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Dec	18:00	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	3–0	Istanbul BBSK	25–12	28–26	29–27			82–65	Report
7 Dec	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–1	Noliko Maaseik	25–22	23–25	25–22	25–20		98–89	Report
21 Dec	18:00	Istanbul BBSK	1–3	Dinamo Moscow	25–19	18–25	18–25	22–25		83–94	Report
21 Dec	20:30	Noliko Maaseik	0–3	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	23–25	22–25	21–25			66–75	Report
18 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	1–3	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	23–25	21–25	30–28	20–25		94–103	Report
18 Jan	20:30	Noliko Maaseik	3–2	Istanbul BBSK	25–22	25–21	17–25	21–25	15–11	103–104	Report
31 Jan	18:00	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	3–1	Dinamo Moscow	25–17	25–22	27–29	25–21		102–89	Report
1 Feb	18:00	Istanbul BBSK	3–1	Noliko Maaseik	25–19	19–25	25–22	25–18		94–84	Report
14 Feb	18:00	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	3–0	Noliko Maaseik	25–23	25–19	25–21			75–63	Report
15 Feb	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Istanbul BBSK	25–21	25–22	27–25			77–68	Report
1 Mar	18:00	Istanbul BBSK	3–1	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	25–23	16–25	25–22	26–24		92–94	Report
1 Mar	20:30	Noliko Maaseik	2–3	Dinamo Moscow	22–25	25–18	30–28	18–25	12–15	107–111	Report

Pool B

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Cucine Lube Civitanova	5	1	15	16	4	4.000	485	397	1.222
2	Berlin Recycling Volleys	4	2	12	14	9	1.556	504	487	1.035
3	Asseco Resovia	3	3	8	11	14	0.786	522	530	0.985
4	Dukla Liberec	0	6	1	4	18	0.222	436	533	0.818

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Dec	19:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–1	Cucine Lube Civitanova	21–25	25–16	25–18	26–24		97–83	Report
8 Dec	18:00	Dukla Liberec	2–3	Asseco Resovia	14–25	16–25	25–21	25–23	15–17	95–111	Report
20 Dec	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	Dukla Liberec	25–21	25–15	25–20			75–56	Report
22 Dec	18:00	Asseco Resovia	3–2	Berlin Recycling Volleys	21–25	25–15	23–25	25–22	15–12	109–99	Report
18 Jan	18:00	Dukla Liberec	0–3	Berlin Recycling Volleys	18–25	23–25	16–25			57–75	Report
19 Jan	20:30	Asseco Resovia	0–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	22–25	13–25	14–25			49–75	Report
1 Feb	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	Asseco Resovia	25–21	25–16	25–16			75–53	Report
2 Feb	19:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–0	Dukla Liberec	25–17	25–22	25–19			75–58	Report
14 Feb	19:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–2	Asseco Resovia	25–20	25–22	21–25	20–25	15–13	106–105	Report
15 Feb	18:00	Dukla Liberec	1–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	25–22	28–30	23–25	14–25		90–102	Report
1 Mar	18:00	Asseco Resovia	3–1	Dukla Liberec	20–25	25–18	25–19	25–18		95–80	Report
1 Mar	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	Berlin Recycling Volleys	25–14	25–23	25–15			75–52	Report

Pool C

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Zenit Kazan	6	0	18	18	1	18.000	489	355	1.377
2	Arkas Izmir	4	2	9	12	13	0.923	517	560	0.923
3	VfB Friedrichshafen	1	5	5	10	17	0.588	572	601	0.952
4	Paris Volley	1	5	4	8	17	0.471	503	565	0.890

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Dec	20:30	Paris Volley	2–3	VfB Friedrichshafen	25–22	26–24	18–25	18–25	13–15	100–111	Report
7 Dec	19:30	Arkas Izmir	0–3	Zenit Kazan	14–25	11–25	17–25			42–75	Report
21 Dec	19:00	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Paris Volley	25–17	25–15	25–21			75–53	Report
22 Dec	20:00	VfB Friedrichshafen	2–3	Arkas Izmir	21–25	23–25	25–22	25–19	12–15	106–106	Report
18 Jan	20:00	VfB Friedrichshafen	1–3	Zenit Kazan	13–25	25–23	13–25	21–25		72–98	Report
18 Jan	20:30	Paris Volley	1–3	Arkas Izmir	20–25	17–25	25–15	22–25		84–90	Report
31 Jan	19:00	Zenit Kazan	3–0	VfB Friedrichshafen	25–18	40–38	25–17			90–73	Report
1 Feb	19:30	Arkas Izmir	3–2	Paris Volley	25–21	23–25	16–25	25–19	23–21	112–111	Report
15 Feb	19:00	Paris Volley	0–3	Zenit Kazan	19–25	21–25	20–25			60–75	Report
15 Feb	19:30	Arkas Izmir	3–2	VfB Friedrichshafen	25–22	25–27	26–24	21–25	15–10	112–108	Report
1 Mar	19:00	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Arkas Izmir	25–15	26–24	25–16			76–55	Report
1 Mar	20:00	VfB Friedrichshafen	2–3	Paris Volley	20–25	25–9	23–25	25–21	9–15	102–95	Report

Pool D

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Azimut Modena	5	1	15	17	8	2.125	583	526	1.108
2	PGE Skra Bełchatów	3	3	9	12	11	1.091	533	509	1.047
3	SCM U Craiova	2	4	7	9	14	0.643	498	544	0.915
4	ACH Volley Ljubjana	2	4	5	11	16	0.688	569	604	0.942

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
6 Dec	18:00	SCM U Craiova	3–1	PGE Skra Bełchatów	30–28	25–23	19–25	25–22		99–98	Report
6 Dec	20:30	Azimut Modena	3–2	ACH Volley Ljubjana	25–22	21–25	25–19	23–25	15–11	109–102	Report
20 Dec	17:30	PGE Skra Bełchatów	1–3	Azimut Modena	22–25	25–21	17–25	22–25		86–96	Report
20 Dec	18:00	ACH Volley Ljubjana	3–2	SCM U Craiova	25–17	18–25	17–25	25–21	15–13	100–101	Report
17 Jan	20:30	Azimut Modena	3–1	SCM U Craiova	24–26	29–27	25–18	25–16		103–87	Report
19 Jan	18:00	ACH Volley Ljubjana	1–3	PGE Skra Bełchatów	19–25	21–25	25–18	15–25		80–93	Report
31 Jan	19:00	SCM U Craiova	0–3	Azimut Modena	16–25	19–25	18–25			53–75	Report
1 Feb	18:00	PGE Skra Bełchatów	3–1	ACH Volley Ljubjana	25–17	25–23	20–25	25–17		95–82	Report
14 Feb	20:30	Azimut Modena	3–1	PGE Skra Bełchatów	25–16	21–25	25–22	25–22		96–85	Report
15 Feb	19:00	SCM U Craiova	3–1	ACH Volley Ljubjana	25–19	27–29	25–21	25–23		102–92	Report
1 Mar	17:00	ACH Volley Ljubjana	3–2	Azimut Modena	25–21	23–25	25–27	25–20	15–11	113–104	Report
1 Mar	20:00	PGE Skra Bełchatów	3–0	SCM U Craiova	26–24	25–18	25–14			76–56	Report

Pool E

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	5	1	14	17	8	2.125	556	519	1.071
2	Belogorie Belgorod	3	3	11	15	12	1.250	570	567	1.005
3	Knack Roeselare	3	3	9	12	12	1.000	542	524	1.034
4	Halkbank Ankara	1	5	2	5	17	0.294	467	525	0.890

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Dec	17:30	Halkbank Ankara	0–3	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	19–25	23–25	23–25			65–75	Report
8 Dec	20:30	Knack Roeselare	2–3	Belogorie Belgorod	25–27	20–25	25–19	25–19	13–15	108–105	Report
22 Dec	19:00	Belogorie Belgorod	3–0	Halkbank Ankara	25–14	30–28	25–21			80–63	Report
22 Dec	20:30	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	3–0	Knack Roeselare	25–22	25–21	25–23			75–66	Report
18 Jan	17:30	Halkbank Ankara	1–3	Knack Roeselare	24–26	19–25	26–24	23–25		92–100	Report
18 Jan	20:30	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	3–2	Belogorie Belgorod	11–25	25–14	31–29	18–25	15–13	100–106	Report
1 Feb	19:00	Belogorie Belgorod	2–3	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	19–25	25–16	26–24	17–25	11–15	98–105	Report
1 Feb	20:30	Knack Roeselare	3–0	Halkbank Ankara	25–12	31–29	25–18			81–59	Report
15 Feb	17:30	Halkbank Ankara	3–2	Belogorie Belgorod	25–19	22–25	25–14	22–25	15–8	109–91	Report
15 Feb	20:30	Knack Roeselare	3–2	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	25–18	20–25	20–25	25–22	15–13	105–103	Report
1 Mar	18:00	Belogorie Belgorod	3–1	Knack Roeselare	25–20	25–20	15–25	25–17		90–82	Report
1 Mar	19:00	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	3–1	Halkbank Ankara	23–25	25–18	25–20	25–16		98–79	Report

Ranking of the third-placed teams

Rank	Team	Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
		W	L		W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Knack Roeselare	3	3	9	12	12	1.000	542	524	1.034
2	Asseco Resovia	3	3	8	11	14	0.786	522	530	0.985
3	Istanbul BBSK	2	4	7	9	14	0.643	506	534	0.948
4	SCM U Craiova	2	4	7	9	14	0.643	498	544	0.915
5	VfB Friedrichshafen	1	5	5	10	17	0.588	572	601	0.952

Playoffs

• All times are local.

Playoff 12

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Golden Set
Arkas Izmir	0–6	Dinamo Moscow	0–3	0–3
Istanbul BBSK	3–3	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–2	2–3	11–15
Asseco Resovia	1–5	Azimut Modena	2–3	1–3
PGE Skra Bełchatów	2–4	Cucine Lube Civitanova	1–3	3–2
Belogorie Belgorod	6–0	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	3–1	3–1
Knack Roeselare	0–6	Zenit Kazan	0–3	0–3

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
14 Mar	20:30	Knack Roeselare	0–3	Zenit Kazan	23–25	19–25	18–25			60–75	Report
15 Mar	18:00	Istanbul BBSK	3–2	Berlin Recycling Volleys	25–20	30–32	25–22	20–25	15–13	115–112	Report
15 Mar	18:00	PGE Skra Bełchatów	1–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	21–25	25–21	23–25	21–25		90–96	Report
15 Mar	20:30	Asseco Resovia	2–3	Azimut Modena	25–23	19–25	27–25	19–25	12–15	102–113	Report
15 Mar	19:00	Belogorie Belgorod	3–1	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	13–25	25–21	25–23	25–20		88–89	Report
16 Mar	19:00	Arkas Izmir	0–3	Dinamo Moscow	20–25	17–25	16–25			53–75	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Mar	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Arkas Izmir	25–23	25–22	33–31			83–76	Report
21 Mar	19:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–2	Istanbul BBSK	21–25	18–25	25–13	25–14	16–14	105–91	Report
Golden set		Berlin Recycling Volleys	15–11	Istanbul BBSK
22 Mar	18:00	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	1–3	Belogorie Belgorod	22–25	25–20	24–26	21–25		92–96	Report
22 Mar	19:00	Zenit Kazan	3–0	Knack Roeselare	25–19	25–16	25–20			75–55	Report
22 Mar	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	2–3	PGE Skra Bełchatów	26–24	25–16	26–28	15–25	13–15	105–108	Report
23 Mar	20:30	Azimut Modena	3–1	Asseco Resovia	25–23	20–25	25–23	25–23		95–94	Report

Playoff 6

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Berlin Recycling Volleys	4–2	Dinamo Moscow	3–2	3–2
Azimut Modena	0–6	Cucine Lube Civitanova	0–3	0–3
Zenit Kazan	6–0	Belogorie Belgorod	3–1	3–0

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
4 Apr	19:30	Zenit Kazan	3–1	Belogorie Belgorod	25–14	25–17	23–25	26–24		99–80	Report
5 Apr	19:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	3–2	Dinamo Moscow	23–25	22–25	25–19	25–18	15–10	110–97	Report
5 Apr	20:30	Azimut Modena	0–3	Cucine Lube Civitanova	23–25	18–25	27–29			68–79	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Apr	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	2–3	Berlin Recycling Volleys	35–37	25–22	25–21	15–25	8–15	108–120	Report
13 Apr	19:00	Belogorie Belgorod	0–3	Zenit Kazan	22–25	28–30	21–25			71–80	Report
13 Apr	20:30	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–0	Azimut Modena	25–21	25–21	25–18			75–60	Report

Final four

• Organizer: Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia
• Venue: Rome, Italy
• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
• In case that two teams from the same country qualify to the semifinals, they will have to play each other.

	Semifinals				Final
	29 April
	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	3
					30 April
	Cucine Lube Civitanova	2
					Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	0
	29 April
					Zenit Kazan	3
	Berlin Recycling Volleys	0
	Zenit Kazan	3
					3rd place match
					30 April
					Cucine Lube Civitanova	3
					Berlin Recycling Volleys	1

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Apr	16:30	Berlin Recycling Volleys	0–3	Zenit Kazan	21–25	22–25	13–25			56–75	Report
29 Apr	19:30	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	3–2	Cucine Lube Civitanova	25–19	22–25	25–19	21-25	15-9	108–65	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Apr	16:00	Cucine Lube Civitanova	3–1	Berlin Recycling Volleys	29–27	22–25	25–21	25–21		101–94	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Apr	19:00	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	0–3	Zenit Kazan	15–25	23–25	14–25			52–75	Report

Final standing

Rank Team Zenit Kazan Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia Cucine Lube Civitanova 4 Berlin Recycling Volleys Qualified for the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship

2016–17 CEV Champions League winner Zenit Kazan 5th title 14–man Roster for Final Four Matthew Anderson, Valentin Krotkov, Ivan Demakov, Evgeny Sivozhelez, Teodor Salparov, Wilfredo León, Artem Volvich, Andrey Ashchev, Alexander Butko, Igor Kobzar, Alexander Gutsalyuk, Denis Zemchenok, Aleksey Verbov, Maxim Mikhaylov Head Coach Vladimir Alekno

Awards

Most Valuable Player Maxim Mikhaylov (Zenit Kazan) Best Setter Luciano De Cecco (Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia) Best Outside Spikers Wilfredo León (Zenit Kazan) Ivan Zaytsev (Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia)

Best Middle Blockers Marko Podrascanin (Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia) Artem Volvich (Zenit Kazan) Best Opposite Spiker Aleksandar Atanasijević (Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia) Best Libero Jenia Grebennikov (Cucine Lube Civitanova)

Attendance

• Attendance includes playoff games

Pos	Team	Total	Highest	Lowest	Average
1	Final Four games	40,500	11,500	8,000	9,875
2	PGE Skra Bełchatów	24,100	10,900	2,550	6,025
3	Belogorie Belgorod	21,950	5,150	3,400	4,390
4	Berlin Recycling Volleys	21,773	5,400	3,462	4,355
5	Asseco Resovia	16,220	4,258	3,752	4,055
6	Azimut Modena	18,336	4,407	3,208	3,667
7	Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia	9,923	3,932	2,813	3,308
8	Zenit Kazan	15,750	4,450	1,950	3,150
9	Cucine Lube Civitanova	15,276	3,821	2,320	3,055
10	Dinamo Moscow	12,900	3.100	2,000	2,580
11	VfB Friedrichshafen	7,004	2,709	1,940	2,335
12	ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle	8,950	3,000	1,400	2,238
13	Dukla Liberec	6,365	2,180	2,035	2,122
14	Halkbank Ankara	6,182	4,320	750	2,061
15	Knack Roeselare	7,810	2,200	1,750	1,953
16	Arkas Izmir	7,700	2,100	1,700	1,925
17	Noliko Maaseik	5,220	1,950	1,520	1,740
18	SCM U Craiova	5,000	2,585	1,200	1,667
19	Paris Volley	4,931	2,680	751	1,644
20	ACH Volley Ljubjana	3,580	1,530	800	1,193
21	Istanbul BBSK	3,594	1,370	200	899
	League total	262,064	11,500	200	3,058

References

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