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Imoco Volley

Imoco Volley
Full nameImoco Volley Conegliano
Short nameImoco
NicknamePantere (Panthers)
Founded2012
GroundPalaVerde, Treviso, Italy
(Capacity: 5,344)
ChairmanItaly Piero Garbellotto
Head coachItaly Daniele Santarelli
CaptainPoland Joanna Wołosz
League Serie A1
2023–241st place, gold medalist(s) 1st
WebsiteClub home page
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Championships
Club World Championship

CEV Champions League

Serie A1

Italian Cup

Italian Super Cup

Imoco Volley is an Italian professional women's volleyball club based in Conegliano in Northern Italy and currently playing in the Serie A1.

History

2014-2015 Imoco Volley Conegliano

The club was founded on 15 March 2012, two months after the bankruptcy of Spes Volley the other volleyball team in Conegliano.[1] In April 2012, it acquired a Serie A1 licence from Parma Volley Girls, that meant the club started playing directly at the highest Italian league.[2] It has been playing under the name Imoco Volley Conegliano since its foundation in 2012.

The club won the Serie A1 for the first time in 2015–16, winning the Italian Super Cup a few months later on 8 December 2016.[3]

On 5 March 2017, the club won the Coppa Italia for the first time after beating Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena 3–0 in the final.[4]

In December 2019 the club won the Women's Club World Championship.[5]

In 2020, the Imoco Volley won its second Coppa Italia. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, both the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League were untimely cancelled. The Imoco Volley, with its new name A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano, reached, along with the VakıfBank, the semi-finals of the CEV Champions League after winning all its matches, but it could not play them;[6] it was declared winner of the regular season of the Serie A1, but no team was declared winner of the 2019-20 Italian championship.[7][8] It ended the 2019–20 season by winning three of its five goals: the Italian Supercup, the Women's Club World Championship in Shaoxing and the Coppa Italia.

All the starting seven of the club decided to renew their contracts for the 2020–21 season, after their wins in the previous season and the cancellation of the finals of the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League (the only major title never won by the club). More than half of the current players of the Imoco Volley are part of the starting seven of the Italian national team, runner-up at the 2018 World Championship. The others are champions such as the Dutch Robin de Kruijf, the Polish setter Joanna Wołosz and the American Kimberly Hill. The club renewed all the other players excepting Giulia Gennari, according to its policy to have many young new talents along with top players of the volleyball. The new team has three players who are under the age of 20 years, one has less than 18 years, the Italian Loveth Omoruyi. Sarah Fahr, who is not part of the starting roster, has already won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2019 European Championship with the Italian national team.

Previous names

Period Previous names
2012–2013 Imoco Volley Conegliano
2013–2015 Prosecco Doc-Imoco Conegliano
2015–2019 Imoco Volley Conegliano
2019–2022 A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano
2021– Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano

Team

All Roster player's of last Season ⤴

Season 2024–2025[9]

2024–2025 Team
Number Player Position Height (m) Weight (kg) Birth date
1 Brazil Gabriela Guimarães Outside Hitter 1.81 (1994-05-19) 19 May 1994 (age 30)
4 China Zhu Ting Outside Hitter 1.98 (1994-11-29) 29 November 1994 (age 30)
6 Japan Nanami Seki Setter 1.71 (1999-06-12) 12 June 1999 (age 25)
7 Italy Katja Eckl Middle Blocker 1.88 (2003-05-06) 6 May 2003 (age 21)
9 Italy Marina Lubian Middle Blocker 1.92 74 (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000 (age 24)
10 Italy Monica De Gennaro Libero 1.72 63 (1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 37)
11 Sweden Isabelle Haak Opposite 1.94 83 (1999-07-11) 11 July 1999 (age 25)
14 Poland Joanna Wołosz (c) Setter 1.81 65 (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 34)
15 Italy Merit Adigwe Opposite 1.83 (2006-08-24) 24 August 2006 (age 18)
16 United States Khalia Lanier Outside Hitter 1.86 (1998-09-19) 19 September 1998 (age 26)
17 Poland Martyna Łukasik Outside Hitter 1.90 (1999-11-26) 26 November 1999 (age 25)
18 Italy Cristina Chirichella Middle Blocker 1.95 (1994-02-10) 10 February 1994 (age 30)
19 Italy Sarah Fahr Middle Blocker 1.94 84 (2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 23)
20 Italy Anna Bardaro Libero 1.72 (2005-04-29) 29 April 2005 (age 19)

Current coaching staff

 Italy Daniele Santarelli (1981-06-08) 8 June 1981 (age 43) Head coach
 Italy Tommaso Barbato (1980-10-03) 3 October 1980 (age 44) Vice coach
 Italy Andrea Zotta (1994-12-27) 27 December 1994 (age 29) 2nd vice coach
 Italy Maurizio Mora (1980-12-10) 10 December 1980 (age 44) Assistant coach
 Italy Marco Greco Scouting
 Italy Marco Da Lozzo Physical trainer

Head Coaches

Period Head Coaches
2012–2014 Italy Marco Gaspari
2014–2015 Italy Nicola Negro
Italy Alessandro Chiappini
2015–2017 Italy Davide Mazzanti
2017– Italy Daniele Santarelli

Team Captains

Period Captain
2012–2014 Italy Raffaella Calloni
2014–2015 Italy Valentina Fiorin
2015–2016 Italy Valentina Arrighetti
2016–2017 Italy Serena Ortolani
2017– Poland Joanna Wołosz

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Imoco Volley.

Period Kit provider
2012–2013 Erreà
2013–2019 Mikasa
2019– Joma

Stadium and locations

Palaverde
Location Stadium Capacity Period
Treviso Palaverde 5,344 2012–

Position Main

Imoco Volley Line up
11. Haak
19. Fahr
4. Zhu
1. Gabi
14. Wołosz (C)
10. De Gennaro (L)

Honours

International competitions

Domestic competitions

Notable players

Players written in italic still play for the club.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  2. ^ Rosa, Alberto (26 April 2012). "Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  3. ^ "La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell'Imoco Volley Conegliano". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Coppa Italia: vince l'Imoco Volley". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Women's Club World Championship - Results". Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  6. ^ ""The CEV Champions League Volley 2020 - Women has ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to the CEV Board of Administration decision taken on 23.04.2020"". CEV. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  7. ^ "L'Assemblea dei Club di Serie A Femminile vota per la conclusione anticipata della stagione: Imoco proclamata vincitrice della Regular Season, stop alle retrocessioni. Su Facebook l'intervista al presidente Fabris". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 6 April 2020. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. ^ ""Conclusa l'attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020"". Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (in Italian). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Gabi, la perla brasiliana completa un roster di "all star" per la stagione 24/25!". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2024.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imoco_Volley