Imoco Volley

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Imoco Volley
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Full nameImoco Volley Conegliano
Short nameImoco
NicknamePantere (Panthers)
Founded 2012
Ground PalaVerde, Treviso, Italy
(Capacity: 5,344)
Chairman Flag of Italy.svg Piero Garbellotto
Head coach Flag of Italy.svg Daniele Santarelli
Captain Flag of Poland.svg Joanna Wołosz
League Scudetto.svg Serie A1
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Website Club home page
Uniforms
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Home
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Championships
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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Italian Super 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. is one of the most successful volleyball clubs in the world, with a remarkable track record in both international and domestic competitions. 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 Women's CEV Champions League (2021, 2024), the European league.

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History

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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

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

Team

All Roster player's of last Season ⤴

Season 2024–2025 [9]

2024–2025 Team
NumberPlayerPositionHeight (m)Weight (kg)Birth date
1 Flag of Brazil.svg Gabriela Guimarães Outside Hitter1.8119 May 1994 (age 30)
4 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhu Ting Outside Hitter1.9829 November 1994 (age 30)
6 Flag of Japan.svg Nanami Seki Setter1.7112 June 1999 (age 25)
7 Flag of Italy.svg Katja Eckl Middle Blocker1.886 May 2003 (age 21)
9 Flag of Italy.svg Marina Lubian Middle Blocker1.927411 April 2000 (age 24)
10 Flag of Italy.svg Monica De Gennaro Libero1.72638 January 1987 (age 38)
11 Flag of Sweden.svg Isabelle Haak Opposite1.948311 July 1999 (age 25)
14 Flag of Poland.svg Joanna Wołosz (c)Setter1.81657 April 1990 (age 34)
15 Flag of Italy.svg Merit Adigwe Opposite1.8324 August 2006 (age 18)
16 Flag of the United States.svg Khalia Lanier Outside Hitter1.8619 September 1998 (age 26)
17 Flag of Poland.svg Martyna Łukasik Outside Hitter1.9026 November 1999 (age 25)
18 Flag of Italy.svg Cristina Chirichella Middle Blocker1.9510 February 1994 (age 30)
19 Flag of Italy.svg Sarah Fahr Middle Blocker1.948412 September 2001 (age 23)
20 Flag of Italy.svg Anna Bardaro Libero1.7229 April 2005 (age 19)

Current coaching staff

Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Daniele Santarelli 8 June 1981 (age 43)Head coach
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Tommaso Barbato3 October 1980 (age 44)Vice coach
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Andrea Zotta27 December 1994 (age 30)2nd vice coach
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Maurizio Mora10 December 1980 (age 44)Assistant coach
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Marco GrecoScouting
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Marco Da LozzoPhysical trainer

Head Coaches

PeriodHead Coaches
2012–2014 Flag of Italy.svg Marco Gaspari
2014–2015 Flag of Italy.svg Nicola Negro
Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Chiappini
2015–2017 Flag of Italy.svg Davide Mazzanti
2017– Flag of Italy.svg Daniele Santarelli

Team Captains

PeriodCaptain
2012–2014 Flag of Italy.svg Raffaella Calloni
2014–2015 Flag of Italy.svg Valentina Fiorin
2015–2016 Flag of Italy.svg Valentina Arrighetti
2016–2017 Flag of Italy.svg Serena Ortolani
2017– Flag of Poland.svg Joanna Wołosz

Kit providers

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

PeriodKit provider
2012–2013 Erreà
2013–2019 Mikasa
2019– Joma

Stadium and locations

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Palaverde
LocationStadiumCapacityPeriod
Treviso Palaverde 5,3442012–

Position Main

Imoco Volley Line up
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11. Haak
19. Fahr
4. Zhu
1. Gabi
9. Lubian
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.