Volley Piacenza was an Italian professional men's

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club based in

Piacenza Piacenza (; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Piacenza, eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with more ...

, 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 (, ) – is a Russian professional men's volleyball club, based in Ufa, playing in Russian Volleyball Super League since 1996. Achievements * CEV Challenge Cup ::Runners-up (1): 2013 * Russian Championship ::Runners-up (1): 2013 Tea ...

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 tota ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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 ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

* 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

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Notable players

* 2002–2003

Đula Mešter Đula Mešter ( sr-Cyrl, Ђула Мештер; , born 3 April 1972) is a retired Serbian professional volleyball player who won the gold medal with the Yugoslav Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Standing at 2.03 m, he played as a ...

* 2003–2004

Simone Rosalba Simone Rosalba (born January 31, 1976) is an Italian retired volleyball player. He 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 (bronze) for the ''Azzurri ...

* 2003–2004

Osvaldo Hernández Osvaldo Hernández Chambert (born 11 July 1970, in Camagüey), more commonly known as Osvaldo Hernández, is a retired Italian volleyball player originally from Cuba. In Italy, Hernández won the ''scudetto The ''scudetto'' (; Italian for ...

* 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. Grbić is a gold medalist of the 2000 Sum ...

* 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 gold medal at the 1995 European Championship in Greece and the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympic ...

* 2004–2005 Anderson Rodrigues * 2005–2008 Vencislav Simeonov * 2006–2008 Paolo Cozzi * 2007–2008 Frantz Granvorka * 2007–2008 Sérgio Santos * 2007–2008 Israel Rodríguez * 2006–2010 João Paulo Bravo * 2007–2010

Novica Bjelica Novica Bjelica (; 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 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympic Games, medalist of Men's Eu ...

* 2007–2010 Dante Boninfante * 2007–2010, 2014–2015

Marco Meoni Marco Meoni (born 25 May 1973) 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 that claimed the European title ...

* 2008–2009

Guillermo Falasca Guillermo Falasca Fernández (born October 24, 1977) is a Spanish volleyball player and coach born in Argentina. Falasca became topscorer and best server at the 2005 Men's European Volleyball League, 2005 European League, in which Spain ended up ...

* 2009–2010 Valdir Sequeira * 2010–2013 Maxwell Holt * 2011–2012 Vladimir Nikolov * 2011–2012

Andrey Zhekov Andrey Zhekov (; 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 Zhekov is the former setter of ...

* 2012–2014

Robertlandy Simón Robertlandy Simón Aties (born 11 June 1987) is a Cuban volleyball player who is a member of the Cuba men's national volleyball team, Cuban national volleyball team. He played with the Cuban national team from 2005 to 2010, and rejoined the team ...

* 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 Germany, German club Berlin Recycling Volleys, 2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship, 2015 European Champion, two–ti ...

* 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 Vermiglio played with Sisley Treviso and w ...

* 2014–2015

Aleksey Ostapenko Aleksey Aleksandrovich Ostapenko (, born 26 May 1986) is a volleyball player from Russia. He was born in Saratov. Ostapenko competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () a ...

* 2003–2017 Hristo Zlatanov * 2010–2017

Luca Tencati Luca or LUCA may refer to: People * Luca (masculine given name), including a list of people * Luca (feminine given name), including a list of people * Luca (surname), including a list of people Places * The ancient name of Lucca, an Etruscan c ...

* 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 Champ ...

References

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