The 2007–08 CEV Challenge Cup was the 28th 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 a ...
volleyball club tournament, the former CEV Cup.
The Italian club
Cimone Modena beat the Russian club
Lokomotiv Ekaterinburg in the final and achieved its fifth CEV Challenge Cup trophy.
Final Four
*Venue:
Hala Podpromie,
Rzeszów
Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Vo ...
Semi finals
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most Valuable Player
:
André Nascimento (
Cimone Modena)
*Best Scorer
:
André Nascimento (
Cimone Modena)
*Best Opposite
:
Paweł Papke
Paweł Papke (born 13 February 1977) is a Polish politician and former volleyball player, current member of the Polish parliament. In the past, he was part of the Polish national team and a president of the Polish Volleyball Federation.
Person ...
(
Asseco Resovia)
*Best Blocker
:
André Heller
Franz André Heller (; born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart) is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter and actor.
Biography
Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufac ...
(
Cimone Modena)
*Best Receiver
:
José Luis Lobato (
Stade Poitevin Poitiers
Stade Poitevin Poitiers is a French volleyball club from Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical ce ...
)
*Best Setter
:
Denis Ignatyev
Denis may refer to:
People
* Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris
* Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure
* Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), baron in the Kingdom of Hungary
* Denis the Carthusian (1402–1 ...
(
Lokomotiv Ekaterinburg)
*Best Server
:
Ángel Dennis (
Cimone Modena)
References
External links
Official site
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CEV Challenge Cup
2007 in volleyball
2008 in volleyball