River Volley was an Italian women's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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 ...

. The club's activities ceased in 2018 when it sold its rights to play in Serie A1 to Cuneo Granda Volley.

Previous names

Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names: * River Volley (1983–1994) * Libertas-River Volley (1994–1998) * Rebecchi River Volley (1998–2003) * Rebecchi River Volley Rivergaro (2003–2005) * Rebecchi Rivergaro Piacenza (2005–2006) * Rebecchi Cariparma Piacenza Volley (2006–2007) * RebecchiLupa Piacenza (2007–2010) * Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza (2010–2014) * Nordmeccanica Rebecchi Piacenza (2014–2015) * Nordmeccanica Piacenza (2015–2016) * Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena (2016–2018)

History

The club was founded in 1983 as and was based in

Rivergaro Rivergaro (Emilian language#Dialects, Piacentino: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italy, Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about southwest of Piacenza. As of 31 December 2011 ...

. It had only youth team activities until 1988 when a senior team was created and the club started competing in the lower divisions in Italy. By the early 2000s the club was playing in the third and second divisions of the Italian league, and decided to move its professional senior activities to

keeping the youth activities in Rivergaro. It reached the Serie A1 for the first time in 2006, after winning promotion at the end of the 2005–06 season. It was relegated in its first season at Serie A1 but returned to the highest league for the 2009–10 season. The club started to become competitive in the Serie A1, winning the league, cup and supercup in both 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. In May 2016, an agreement between River Volley and Liu Jo Modena ( LJ Volley) was announced, following LJ Volley decision to stop its volleyball activities. In the agreement River Volley acquired LJ Volley assets (players and rights to play at the

PalaPanini The PalaPanini (officially ) is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located in Modena, Italy. It was open in 1985 and has mainly served as the home venue for volleyball clubs based in and around Modena, with other sporting events (basketball, ...

) with Liu Jo becoming River's main sponsor and the club being renamed . The club remain based in Piacenza but its home matches moved from PalaBanca to be played at the PalaPanini in

Modena Modena (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It has 184,739 inhabitants as of 2025. A town, and seat of an archbis ...

. After the 2017–2018 season Cuneo Granda Volley acquired the rights to play in Serie A1 from River Volley and the club was dissolved.

Team

Honours

National competitions

National League National League often refers to: *National League (baseball), one of the two baseball leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada *National League (division), the fifth division of the English football (soccer) system ...

: 2 :2012–13, 2013–14 * Coccarda Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia Coppa Italia () is the annual domestic cup of Italian football. The knockout competition was organized by the DDS and the Lega Calcio until the 2009–10 season and by Lega Serie A ever since. Juventus is the competition's most successf ...

: 2 :2012–13, 2013–14 * Supercoppa italiana di pallavolo maschile

Italian Super Cup: 2 :2013, 2014

References

External links

Official website
{{Italian women volleyball league Italian women's volleyball clubs Volleyball clubs established in 1983 1983 establishments in Italy Piacenza Sport in Emilia-Romagna Serie A1 (women's volleyball) clubs