2015–16 CEV Women's Champions League

2015–16 CEV Women's Champions League
League	CEV Women's Champions League
Sport	Volleyball
Duration	October 27, 2015 – April 10, 2016
Finals
Champions	Pomì Casalmaggiore
Finals MVP	Francesca Piccinini

The CEV Champions League is the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2015–16 season and the 57th edition.

Teams

The number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions:

Rank	Country	Number of teams	Teams (rankings in 2014–15 national championships)
1	Turkey	3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul (1) VakıfBank Istanbul (2) Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul (3)
2	Russia	3	Dinamo Kazan (1) Dinamo Moscow (2) Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg (3)
3	France	2	RC Cannes (1) Rocheville Le Cannet (2)
4	Azerbaijan	2+1	Telekom Baku (1) Lokomotiv Baku (2) Azerrail Baku (3) W/C
5	Poland	2+1	Chemik Police (1) PGE Atom Trefl Sopot (2) Impel Wrocław (3) W/C
6	Germany	2	Dresdner SC (1) Allianz MTV Stuttgart (2)
7	Italy	2+1	Pomì Casalmaggiore (1) Igor Gorgonzola Novara (2) Nordmeccanica Piacenza (3) W/C
8	Romania	1	CS Volei Alba Blaj (1)
9	Switzerland	1	Voléro Zürich (1)
10	Czech Republic	1	Agel Prostějov (1)
11	Serbia	1	Vizura Beograd (1)
12	Slovenia	1	Calcit Ljubljana (1)

Format

League round

24 teams were drawn to 6 pools of 4 teams each.
The 1st and 2nd qualified for the Playoff 12
The organizer of the Final Four were determined after the end of the League Round and qualified directly for the Final Four.
The team of the organizer of the Final Four was replaced by the best 3rd ranked team with the best score.

The next 4 third-placed teams will move to the Challenge Round of the CEV Cup.

The remaining teams will be eliminated.

In the League Round, the placing of the teams is determined by the number of matches won. In case of a tie in the number of matches won by two or more teams, they will be ranked on the basis of the following criteria:

• match points;
• set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost);
• points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points lost);
• results of head-to-head matches between the teams in question.

Playoff round

The playoffs will consist of two rounds: Playoff 12 and Playoff 6. Each round is played in two legs.

If the teams are tied after two legs, a "Golden Set" is played. The winner is the team that first obtains 15 points, provided that the points difference between the two teams is at least 2 points (thus, the Golden Set is similar to a tiebreak set in a normal match).

At each leg, points are awarded to the teams in the same manner as in the Group Round (3 for 3:0 or 3:1, 2 for 3:2 etc.). So, if team A defeat team B in the first leg 3:0 and lose in the second leg 1:3, team A does not advance to the next round (as it would have been expected on the basis of analogy with football competitions), but the two teams are tied with 3 points each, and a Golden Set is played.

The three teams that win in Playoff 6 round advance to the Final Four along with the organizer of the Final Four.

Pools composition

The drawing of lots was held in Vienna, Austria on 2 July 2015. The 24 participated teams of the competition were divided by 4 pots based on the latest European Cups Ranking List and their National Rankings. Exception, the teams which received wild cards had to be in the 4th pot.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
Dinamo Kazan	Vakıfbank Istanbul	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul
Lokomotiv Baku	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	Chemik Police
Allianz MTV Stuttgart	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	Pomì Casalmaggiore
Azerrail Baku	Calcit Ljubljana	Agel Prostějov

Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	Dinamo Moscow
RC Cannes	Telekom Baku	Rocheville Le Cannet
Voléro Zürich	Dresdner SC	CS Volei Alba Blaj
Vizura Beograd	Impel Wrocław	Nordmeccanica Piacenza

Squads

Main article: 2015–16 CEV Women's Champions League squads

League round

	Qualified for the Playoff round
	Qualified for the 2015–16 Women's CEV Cup

• All times are local.

Pool A

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Oct	18:00	Azerrail Baku	3–0	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	25–18	25–23	25–18			75–59	Report
28 Oct	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–1	Lokomotiv Baku	25–21	23–25	25–22	25–22		98–90	Report
11 Nov	18:00	Lokomotiv Baku	3–1	Azerrail Baku	25–14	22–25	25–21	25–21		97–81	Report
11 Nov	19:00	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	0–3	Dinamo Kazan	17–25	20–25	22–25			59–75	Report
25 Nov	18:00	Lokomotiv Baku	3–0	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	25–18	25–17	25–18			75–53	Report
26 Nov	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–0	Azerrail Baku	25–9	25–21	25–20			75–50	Report
9 Dec	18:00	Azerrail Baku	1–3	Dinamo Kazan	20–25	25–21	21–25	17–25		83–96	Report
9 Dec	19:00	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	3–1	Lokomotiv Baku	25–23	26–24	16–25	25–16		92–88	Report
19 Jan	18:00	Azerrail Baku	1–3	Lokomotiv Baku	25–21	22–25	15–25	14–25		76–96	Report
20 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–0	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	25–17	25–11	27–25			77–53	Report
27 Jan	18:00	Lokomotiv Baku	3–0	Dinamo Kazan	25–16	25–21	25–23			75–60	Report
27 Jan	19:00	Allianz MTV Stuttgart	3–0	Azerrail Baku	25–21	25–23	25–22			75–66	Report

Pool B

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Oct	19:00	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3–1	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	25–20	21–25	25–20	25–18		96–83	Report
29 Oct	20:00	Calcit Ljubljana	0–3	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	14–25	19–25	17–25			50–75	Report
10 Nov	18:00	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	0–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	17–25	20–25	18–25			55–75	Report
11 Nov	20:30	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	3–0	Calcit Ljubljana	25–21	25–12	25–19			75–52	Report
24 Nov	18:00	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	3–0	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	25–21	25–21	25–21			75–63	Report
26 Nov	20:00	Calcit Ljubljana	0–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	12–25	14–25	15–25			41–75	Report
9 Dec	19:00	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3–0	Calcit Ljubljana	25–19	25–8	25–17			75–44	Report
9 Dec	20:30	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	1–3	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	25–22	21–25	22–25	21–25		89–97	Report
19 Jan	20:00	Calcit Ljubljana	0–3	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	22–25	14–25	17–25			53–75	Report
20 Jan	19:00	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3–0	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	25–20	25–21	25–18			75–59	Report
27 Jan	18:00	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	3–0	Calcit Ljubljana	25–21	25–22	25–11			75–54	Report
27 Jan	20:30	Igor Gorgonzola Novara	2–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	20–25	25–21	21–25	25–21	12–15	103–107	Report

Pool C

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Oct	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	2–3	Pomì Casalmaggiore	22–25	18–25	25–13	27–25	11–15	103–103	Report
28 Oct	18:00	Chemik Police	3–0	Agel Prostějov	25–18	25–16	25–21			75–55	Report
10 Nov	17:00	Agel Prostějov	0–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	21–25	23–25	22–25			66–75	Report
11 Nov	20:30	Pomì Casalmaggiore	2–3	Chemik Police	16–25	23–25	25–23	25–19	12–15	101–107	Report
25 Nov	20:30	Pomì Casalmaggiore	3–0	Agel Prostějov	25–20	25–16	25–21			75–57	Report
26 Nov	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3–0	Chemik Police	25–22	25–18	26–24			76–64	Report
9 Dec	17:00	Agel Prostějov	1–3	Pomì Casalmaggiore	15–25	23–25	25–23	15–25		78–98	Report
10 Dec	18:00	Chemik Police	3–1	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–22	25–19	25–27	25–21		100–89	Report
19 Jan	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3–2	Agel Prostějov	25–21	18–25	22–25	28–26	15–12	108–109	Report
20 Jan	18:00	Chemik Police	1–3	Pomì Casalmaggiore	23–25	25–12	23–25	17–25		88–87	Report
27 Jan	16:30	Agel Prostějov	0–3	Chemik Police	19–25	14–25	18–25			51–75	Report
27 Jan	20:30	Pomì Casalmaggiore	2–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–23	25–20	18–25	22–25	8–15	98–108	Report

Pool D

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Oct	19:00	Vizura Beograd	3–0	RC Cannes	25–23	25–23	25–15			75–61	Report
29 Oct	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–0	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	25–11	25–18	25–14			75–43	Report
10 Nov	20:00	RC Cannes	0–3	Voléro Zürich	25–27	17–25	14–25			56–77	Report
11 Nov	19:00	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	3–0	Vizura Beograd	25–14	25–21	25–19			75–54	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Vizura Beograd	0–3	Voléro Zürich	17–25	17–25	12–25			46–75	Report
25 Nov	20:30	RC Cannes	2–3	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	21–25	16–25	25–18	25–22	13–15	100–105	Report
8 Dec	19:00	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	3–0	RC Cannes	25–19	25–14	25–10			75–43	Report
10 Dec	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–0	Vizura Beograd	25–11	25–23	25–16			75–50	Report
21 Jan	19:00	Vizura Beograd	2–3	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	16–25	20–25	25–21	25–23	10–15	96–109	Report
21 Jan	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–0	RC Cannes	25–20	25–19	25–13			75–52	Report
26 Jan	19:00	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	1–3	Voléro Zürich	25–19	18–25	11–25	12–25		66–94	Report
27 Jan	20:30	RC Cannes	3–1	Vizura Beograd	26–24	25–17	24–26	25–21		100–88	Report

Pool E

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Oct	19:00	Dresdner SC	1–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	17–25	24–26	25–19	12–25		78–95	Report
29 Oct	17:00	Telekom Baku	0–3	Impel Wrocław	17–25	12–25	24–26			53–76	Report
11 Nov	18:00	Impel Wrocław	2–3	Dresdner SC	17–25	25–23	26–24	21–25	13–15	102–112	Report
11 Nov	19:00	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–2	Telekom Baku	21–25	22–25	25–22	25–11	15–6	108–89	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–0	Impel Wrocław	25–13	25–10	26–24			76–47	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Dresdner SC	3–0	Telekom Baku	25–16	25–21	26–24			76–61	Report
9 Dec	18:00	Impel Wrocław	0–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	23–25	22–25	18–25			63–75	Report
10 Dec	17:00	Telekom Baku	2–3	Dresdner SC	21–25	25–20	21–25	25–17	7–15	99–102	Report
20 Jan	19:00	Dresdner SC	1–3	Impel Wrocław	23–25	27–29	25–15	19–25		94–94	Report
21 Jan	17:00	Telekom Baku	0–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	18–25	19–25	16–25			53–75	Report
27 Jan	19:00	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–0	Dresdner SC	25–22	25–15	25–23			75–60	Report
27 Jan	20:30	Impel Wrocław	2–3	Telekom Baku	18–25	25–23	16–25	25–23	11–15	95–111	Report

Pool F

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Oct	20:00	Rocheville Le Cannet	1–3	CS Volei Alba Blaj	20–25	20–25	25–16	17–25		82–91	Report
29 Oct	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–1	Dinamo Moscow	25–15	21–25	25–20	25–20		96–80	Report
11 Nov	18:00	CS Volei Alba Blaj	0–3	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	24–26	18–25	23–25			65–76	Report
12 Nov	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Rocheville Le Cannet	25–20	25–13	25–17			75–50	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	CS Volei Alba Blaj	25–22	25–23	25–18			75–63	Report
26 Nov	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–0	Rocheville Le Cannet	25–21	25–15	25–16			75–52	Report
9 Dec	18:00	CS Volei Alba Blaj	0–3	Dinamo Moscow	18–25	13–25	17–25			48–75	Report
9 Dec	20:00	Rocheville Le Cannet	0–3	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	21–25	19–25	15–25			55–75	Report
19 Jan	20:00	Rocheville Le Cannet	0–3	Dinamo Moscow	16–25	20–25	14–25			50–75	Report
20 Jan	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–2	CS Volei Alba Blaj	25–20	16–25	25–22	24–26	16–14	106–107	Report
27 Jan	18:00	CS Volei Alba Blaj	3–1	Rocheville Le Cannet	22–25	25–23	25–16	25–12		97–76	Report
27 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	25–18	25–17	25–22			75–57	Report

Ranking of third-placed teams

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Playoffs

Pool	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
A	Dinamo Kazan	Lokomotiv Baku
B	Vakıfbank Istanbul	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot
C	Pomì Casalmaggiore (F4 Hosts)	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	Chemik Police (Lucky Loser)
D	Voléro Zürich	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg
E	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	Dresdner SC
F	Dinamo Moscow	Nordmeccanica Piacenza

• All times are local.

Playoff 12

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	1–5	Vakıfbank Istanbul	2–3	0–3
Lokomotiv Baku	2–4	Voléro Zürich	3–2	1–3
Chemik Police	0–6	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	0–3	0–3
Dresdner SC	0–6	Dinamo Moscow	1–3	0–3
Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	0–6	Dinamo Kazan	1–3	1–3
PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	2–4	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–2	1–3

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Feb	20:30	Chemik Police	0–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	20–25	18–25	23–25			61–75	Report
10 Feb	18:00	Lokomotiv Baku	3–2	Voléro Zürich	25–21	22–25	25–23	20–25	16–14	108–108	Report
10 Feb	19:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	2–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	25–27	25–18	25–10	14–25	10–15	99–95	Report
10 Feb	19:00	Dresdner SC	1–3	Dinamo Moscow	31–33	25–21	22–25	11–25		89–104	Report
10 Feb	20:30	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	3–2	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	25–18	20–25	25–19	24–26	15–13	109–101	Report
11 Feb	18:30	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	1–3	Dinamo Kazan	21–25	18–25	25–20	10–25		74–95	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
23 Feb	19:00	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–0	Chemik Police	25–21	25–16	25–14			75–51	Report
24 Feb	18:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–1	Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg	23–25	25–16	25–21	25–22		98–84	Report
24 Feb	19:30	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Dresdner SC	25–17	25–13	25–21			75–51	Report
24 Feb	19:00	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3–0	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–21	25–18	25–21			75–60	Report
24 Feb	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–1	PGE Atom Trefl Sopot	25–23	16–25	25–21	25–20		91–89	Report
25 Feb	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–1	Lokomotiv Baku	21–25	25–18	25–14	25–19		96–76	Report

Playoff 6

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vakıfbank Istanbul	5–1	Voléro Zürich	3–2	3–1
Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	5–1	Dinamo Moscow	3–1	3–2
Dinamo Kazan	6–0	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–0	3–0

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Mar	19:00	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–1	Dinamo Moscow	25–21	25–14	21–25	25–19		96–79	Report
10 Mar	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–0	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	25–14	25–23	25–21			75–58	Report
10 Mar	19:00	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3–2	Voléro Zürich	25–23	25–23	22–25	23–25	15–13	110–109	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Mar	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	2–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	19–25	26–24	25–19	18–25	9–15	97–108	Report
23 Mar	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	0–3	Dinamo Kazan	21–25	22–25	21–25			64–75	Report
24 Mar	20:00	Voléro Zürich	1–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	22–25	34–32	21–25	22–25		99–107	Report

Final four

• Organizer: Pomì Casalmaggiore
• Venue: PalaGeorge, Montichiari, Italy
• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
• In case that two teams from the same country qualify for the semifinals, they will have to play each other.

	Semifinals				Final
	9 April
	Dinamo Kazan	0
					10 April
	Pomì Casalmaggiore	3
					Pomì Casalmaggiore	3
	9 April
					Vakıfbank Istanbul	0
	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	0
	Vakıfbank Istanbul	3
					3rd place match
					10 April
					Dinamo Kazan	1
					Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Apr	15:30	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	0–3	Vakıfbank Istanbul	23–25	22–25	22–25			67–75	Report
9 Apr	18:30	Dinamo Kazan	0–3	Pomì Casalmaggiore	19–25	18–25	19–25			56–75	Report

3rd place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
10 Apr	14:30	Dinamo Kazan	1–3	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	25–20	10–25	18–25	17–25		70–95	Report

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
10 Apr	17:30	Pomì Casalmaggiore	3–0	Vakıfbank Istanbul	25–23	25–23	25–22			75–68	Report

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Pomì Casalmaggiore
	VakıfBank Istanbul
	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul
4	Dinamo Kazan

Qualified for the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship

2015–16 Women's Club European Champions
Pomì Casalmaggiore 1st title

Roster for Final Four

Head Coach

Awards

• Most Valuable Player

Francesca Piccinini (Pomì Casalmaggiore)

• Best Setter

Carli Lloyd (Pomì Casalmaggiore)

• Best Outside Spikers

Kim Yeon-Koung (Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul)

Kimberly Hill (VakıfBank Istanbul)

• Best Middle Blockers

Eda Erdem Dündar (Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul)

Jovana Stevanović (Pomì Casalmaggiore)

• Best Opposite Spiker

Margareta Kozuch (Pomì Casalmaggiore)

• Best Libero

Gizem Örge (VakıfBank Istanbul)

External links

• Official website