The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) is the governing body for Volleyball in Europe. It organises three club competitions for men: the CEV Champions League (formerly European Cup), the CEV Cup (formerly Cup Winners Cup) and the CEV Challenge Cup. There was also the CEV Super Cup (it) but this competition no longer exist.
Russian side CSKA Moscow have won a record total of 16 titles in CEV competitions, two more than Modena Volley. Only three teams have won every CEV club competition: Modena Volley, Volley Treviso and Parma Volley, the three from Italy.
Italian clubs have won the most titles (77), ahead of clubs from the Soviet Union (26) and Russia (18). Italy is the only country in European volleyball history whose clubs won the three main competitions in the same season in ten occasions : 1983—84, 1991—92, 1992—93, 1993—94, 1994—95, 1996—97, 1997—98, 2005—06, 2009—10, 2010—11.
CSKA Moscow is the most crowned one in CEV Champions League with 13 titles, in CEV Cup Dynamo Moscow and Modena Volley both have won 4 titles. In the CEV Challenge Cup Modena Volley stand alone with a record of 5 titles. The following table lists all the men's clubs that have won at least one CEV club competition.
CCL | CEV Champions League [1] [2] |
CC | CEV Cup [3] |
CCC | CEV Challenge Cup [4] |
CSC | CEV Super Cup (defunct) |
Most in category |
The following table lists all the countries whose clubs have won at least one CEV competition, and is updated as of 22 May 2022 (in chronological order).
CCL | CEV Champions League |
CC | CEV Cup |
CCC | CEV Challenge Cup |
CSC | CEV Super Cup (defunct) |
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Rk. | Nationality | CCL | CC | CCC | CSC | Total |
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1 | Italy | 20 | 21 | 28 | 9 | 78 |
2 | Soviet Union | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 26 |
3 | Russia | 10 | 5 | 3 | 18 | |
4 | France | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
5 | Romania | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||
= | Poland | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
7 | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
8 | Greece | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
9 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
= | Turkey | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
11 | Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
= | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
13 | East Germany | 1 | 1 | |||
= | Belgium | 1 | 1 | |||
= | Portugal | 1 | 1 | |||
= | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | |||
= | Slovenia | 1 | 1 | |||
= | Serbia | 1 | 1 | |||
= | CIS | 1 | 1 | |||
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