Black Angels Perugia Volley, formerly Wealth Planet Perugia Volley, is an Italian professional 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
Perugia
Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ...
. The team currently plays in the
Serie A1, Italy's highest professional league.
Previous names
Due to sponsorship, the club has competed under the following names:
* Gecom Security Corciano (2009–2012)
* Gecom Security Perugia (2012–2015)
* TUUM Perugia Volley (2015–2017)
* Bartoccini Gioiellerie Perugia (2017–2019)
* Bartoccini Fortinfissi Perugia (2019–2024)
* Bartoccini-MC Restauri Perugia (2024–present)
History
Wealth Planet was founded in 2005, but in its early days volleyball was not a part of the business. Instead Wealth Planet was focused on fitness, body building, healthy eating and well-being in general. However, in the late 2000s, Wealth Planet started supporting the local volleyball teams Colli del Tezio and Grifo Volley. In 2010, the company decided to join Serie C with its own volleyball team, Wealth Planet Village.
In August 2011, Wealth Planet Village was merged with the club Pallavolo Etruria Corciano to form Wealth Planet Etruria Village. After the merger, the club has one team in Serie B1, with the sponsored name Gecom Security Corciano, and one team in Serie C, with the sponsored name Multicopia Perugia. In 2012, the club changed its name from Wealth Planet Etruria Village to Wealth Planet Perugia and the sponsored name of the Serie B1 team was changed to Gecom Security Perugia.
In 2017, after playing in Serie B1 for seven years, Wealth Planet Perugia got the chance to play its first season in
Serie A2 due to
repechage
Repechage ( , ; , ) is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well-known example is the wild card system.
Types
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. In its second season (2018–2019) in Serie A2, Wealth Planet Perugia finished the regular season in pool B in first place. The club also won the subsequent promotion pool and was promoted to
Serie A1 for the
2019–2020 season.
In the
2022–2023 season of Serie A1, Wealth Planet Perugia finished the regular season in 13th place and was relegated back to Serie A2. The club was able to return to Serie A1 again by winning the promotion pool in Serie A2 the following season (2023–2024). In June 2024, the club changed its name from Wealth Planet Perugia Volley to Black Angels Perugia Volley.
Team
References
External links
Official website
{{Italian women volleyball league
Italian women's volleyball clubs
Serie A1 (women's volleyball) clubs
Sport in Umbria