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Imoco Volley

{{Short description|Italian women's volleyball club}}

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|nickname = Pantere (Panthers)

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|fullname = Imoco Volley Conegliano

|short name = Imoco

|founded = 2012

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|ground = PalaVerde, Treviso, Italy

|capacity = 5,344

|chairman = {{flagicon|ITA}} Piero Garbellotto

|manager = {{flagicon|ITA}} Daniele Santarelli

|mgrtitle = Head coach

|captain = {{flagicon|POL}} Joanna Wołosz

|league = 20px Serie A1

|season = 2024–25

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|website = https://imocovolley.it/

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Club World Championship
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CEV Champions League
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Serie A1
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Italian Cup
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Imoco Volley is an Italian professional women's volleyball club based in Conegliano in Northern Italy and currently playing in the Serie A1. On the global stage, the team is a world champion (current) winning the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship three times (2019, 2022, 2024) and secured two continental Women's CEV Champions League (2021, 2024), the European league.

History

File:Imoco Volley 12.jpg

The club was founded on 15 March 2012, two months after the bankruptcy of {{em|Spes Volley}} the other volleyball team in Conegliano.{{cite news |title=Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A |url=http://tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/sport/2012/04/07/news/imoco-volley-e-fatta-scatta-ora-la-caccia-al-titolo-per-la-serie-a-1.3787821 |language= it|newspaper= La Tribuna di Treviso|access-date=2015-06-08}} In April 2012, it acquired a Serie A1 licence from {{em|Parma Volley Girls}}, that meant the club started playing directly at the highest Italian league.{{cite web |url=http://tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/sport/2012/04/26/news/imoco-compra-il-parma-conegliano-puo-rinascere-1.4426680 |title=Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere |language=it |work=La Tribuna di Treviso |date=26 April 2012 |first=Alberto |last=Rosa |access-date=14 February 2017}} It has been playing under the name {{em|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.{{cite web|url=http://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?p=65885 |title=La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell’Imoco Volley Conegliano |language=it |work=Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile |date=8 December 2016 |access-date=20 December 2016}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?p=70237 |title=Coppa Italia: vince l’Imoco Volley |language=it |work=legavolleyfemminile.it |date=5 March 2017 |access-date=6 March 2017}}

In December 2019 the club won the Women's Club World Championship.{{cite news |title=Women's Club World Championship - Results |url=http://clubworldchampionships.2019.women.fivb.com/en/news/womens-club-world-championship---results?id=89196|access-date=2019-12-16}}

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;{{cite web |url=https://www.cev.eu/Competition-Area/CompetitionStandings.aspx?ID=1196&CID=6615&PID=1947 |title="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" |work=CEV |access-date=4 July 2020}} it was declared winner of the regular season of the Serie A1, but no team was declared winner of the 2019-20 Italian championship.{{cite web |url=https://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?p=115514 |title=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 |language=it |work=Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile |date=6 April 2020 |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704062016/https://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?p=115514 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.federvolley.it/pallavolo-comunicato-federale-del-8-aprile-2020 |title="Conclusa l’attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020" |language=it |work=Federazione Italiana Pallavolo |date=8 April 2020 |access-date=4 July 2020}} 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

class="wikitable"
style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Period

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| 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

  • {{further|Imoco Volley Past Squads}}

All Roster player's of last Season ⤴

Season 2024–2025{{cite web |url=https://imocovolley.it/gabi-la-perla-brasiliana-completa-un-roster-di-all-star-per-la-stagione-24-25/ |title=Gabi, la perla brasiliana completa un roster di “all star” per la stagione 24/25! |language=it

|work=Imoco Volley

|access-date=3 July 2024}}

class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"

! style="color:#ffff00; background:#024593;" colspan=6 | 2024–2025 Team

style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Number

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Player

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Position

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Height (m)

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Weight (kg)

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Birth date

align=center|1

|{{flagicon|BRA}} Gabriela Guimarães

|Outside Hitter

|align=center|1.81

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1994|05|19|df=y}}

align=center|4

|{{flagicon|CHN}} Zhu Ting

|Outside Hitter

|align=center|1.98

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1994|11|29|df=y}}

align=center|6

|{{flagicon|JAP}} Nanami Seki

|Setter

|align=center|1.71

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1999|06|12|df=y}}

align=center|7

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Katja Eckl

|Middle Blocker

|align=center|1.88

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|2003|05|06|df=y}}

align=center|9

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Marina Lubian

|Middle Blocker

|align=center|1.92

|align=center|74

|{{Birth date and age|2000|04|11|df=y}}

align=center|10

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Monica De Gennaro

|Libero

|align=center|1.72

|align=center|63

|{{Birth date and age|1987|1|8|df=y}}

align=center|11

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Isabelle Haak

|Opposite

|align=center|1.94

|align=center|83

|{{Birth date and age|1999|07|11|df=y}}

align=center|14

|{{flagicon|POL}} Joanna Wołosz (c)

|Setter

|align=center|1.81

|align=center|65

|{{Birth date and age|1990|4|7|df=y}}

align=center|15

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Merit Adigwe

|Opposite

|align=center|1.83

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|2006|08|24|df=y}}

align=center|16

|{{flagicon|USA}} Khalia Lanier

|Outside Hitter

|align=center|1.86

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1998|09|19|df=y}}

align=center|17

|{{flagicon|POL}} Martyna Łukasik

|Outside Hitter

|align=center|1.90

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1999|11|26|df=y}}

align=center|18

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Cristina Chirichella

|Middle Blocker

|align=center|1.95

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|1994|02|10|df=y}}

align=center|19

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Sarah Fahr

|Middle Blocker

|align=center|1.94

|align=center|84

|{{Birth date and age|2001|9|12|df=y}}

align=center|20

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Anna Bardaro

|Libero

|align=center|1.72

|align=center|

|{{Birth date and age|2005|4|29|df=y}}

Current coaching staff

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{{ITA}}

|Daniele Santarelli

|{{Birth date and age|1981|6|8|df=y}}

|Head coach

{{ITA}}

|Tommaso Barbato

|{{Birth date and age|1980|10|3|df=y}}

|Vice coach

{{ITA}}

|Andrea Zotta

|{{Birth date and age|1994|12|27|df=y}}

|2nd vice coach

{{ITA}}

|Maurizio Mora

|{{Birth date and age|1980|12|10|df=y}}

|Assistant coach

{{ITA}}

|Marco Greco

|

|Scouting

{{ITA}}

|Marco Da Lozzo

|

|Physical trainer

Head Coaches

class="wikitable"
style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Period

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Head Coaches

2012–2014

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Marco Gaspari

2014–2015

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Nicola Negro
{{flagicon|ITA}} Alessandro Chiappini

2015–2017

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Davide Mazzanti

2017–

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Daniele Santarelli

Team Captains

class="wikitable"
style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Period

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Captain

2012–2014

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Raffaella Calloni

2014–2015

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Valentina Fiorin

2015–2016

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Valentina Arrighetti

2016–2017

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Serena Ortolani

2017–

| {{flagicon|POL}} Joanna Wołosz

Kit providers

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

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"|Period

! style="color:#ffffff; background:#024593;"| Kit provider

2012–2013

|Erreà

2013–2019

|Mikasa

2019–

|Joma

Stadium and locations

File:Imoco Volley 2016-2017 003.jpg

class="wikitable sortable"
style="color:#FFFFFF; background:#024593;"| Location

! style="color:#FFFFFF; background:#024593;"| Stadium

! style="color:#FFFFFF; background:#024593;"| Capacity

! style="color:#FFFFFF; background:#024593;"| Period

Treviso

| Palaverde

| 5,344

| 2012–

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Position Main

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! style="background:#024593" |Imoco Volley Line up

File:Volleyball Half Court.png{{Image label|x=0.3|y=0.15|scale=350|text=11. Haak}}

{{Image label|x=0.55|y=0.23|scale=350|text=19. Fahr}}

{{Image label|x=0.75|y=0.15|scale=350|text=4. Zhu}}

{{Image label|x=0.3|y=0.50|scale=350|text=1. Gabi}}

{{Image label|x=0.55|y=0.40|scale=350|text=18. Chirichela}}

{{Image label|x=0.7|y=0.50|scale=350|text=14. Wołosz (C)}}

{{Image label|x=0.5|y=0.80|scale=350|text=10. De Gennaro (L)}}

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Honours

=International competitions=

=Domestic competitions=

Notable players

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Domestic players

;{{ITA}}

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European Players

;{{BUL}}

;{{CRO}}

;{{FRA}}

;{{GER}}

;{{NED}}

;{{GRE}}

;{{POL}}

;{{SRB}}

;{{SWE}}

;{{TUR}}

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Non-European Players

;{{ARG}}

;{{BRA}}

;{{CAN}}

;{{CHN}}

;{{JPN}}

;{{USA}}

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Players written in italic still play for the club.

See also

References

{{reflist}}

External links

{{commons category|Imoco Volley}}

  • [https://imocovolley.it/ Official website] {{in lang|it}}
  • [https://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?page_id=36&id=710757 Serie A website] {{in lang|it}}
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  • [https://women.volleybox.net/imoco-volley-conegliano-t2068 Imoco Volley] on [https://volleybox.net/what-is-volleybox Volleybox.net]
  • [https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/legavolley-femminile-a1-2021/teams/5021/players/ Imoco Volley] on [https://en.volleyballworld.com/ Volleyballworld.com]

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