Volley Lube

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Cucine Lube Civitanova
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Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Volley Lube
Short nameLube
Founded1990
Ground PalaCivitanova
Civitanova Marche
(Capacity: 4,200)
ChairmanSimona Sileoni
Manager Giampaolo Medei
Captain Luciano De Cecco
League Italian Volleyball League
Website Club home page
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Associazione Sportiva Volley Lube is a professional volleyball team based in Treia, Italy. Since 1995 the club has been playing in the Serie A of the Italian Volleyball League. It won the Italian Championship seven times, the Italian Cup five times, and the Italian SuperCup three-times.

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At European level, Lube won two CEV Champions League in 2002 and 2019, the CEV Cup in 2001, 2005, 2006 and a CEV Challenge Cup 2011. In 2019, it won the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship.

Achievements

Former names

Grounds

Although until the landing in Serie A2 the team kept the name of the town Treia (a village near Macerata), given the lack of a building or a simple gym it was immediately associated with the PalaFontescodella, which was the historic building of the Lube until 2015. The small capacity of the building (2,100 seats) condemned it to play all the Champions League matches and the important Serie A1 matches in larger arenas around the Marche (Pesaro, Ancona etc ...). After an infinite number of disputes with the Municipality of Macerata (owner of the building) for the expansion of the sports hall, the team decided to accept the offer of the Municipality of Civitanova Marche to move to a new sports hall built by them exclusively for Lube. The new 4,200-seat sports hall was inaugurated in 2015 and was called Eurosuole Forum for sponsorship reasons.

Team

Team roster – season 2023/2024 [2]

No.NameDate of birthPosition
1 Flag of France.svg Barthélémy Chinenyeze February 28, 1998 (age 27)Middle blocker
4 Flag of Italy.svg Matheus Motzo September 9, 1999 (age 25)Opposite
6 Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Bisotto May 20, 2002 (age 22)Libero
7 Flag of Italy.svg Fabio Balaso October 20, 1995 (age 29)Libero
9 Flag of Italy.svg Ivan Zaytsev October 2, 1988 (age 36)Opposite
10 Flag of Turkey.svg Adis Lagumdžija March 29, 1999 (age 26)Opposite
11 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Aleksandar Nikolov November 30, 2003 (age 21)Outside hitter
12 Flag of Italy.svg Enrico Diamantini April 4, 1993 (age 32)Middle blocker
15 Flag of Argentina.svg Luciano De Cecco June 2, 1988 (age 36)Setter
17 Flag of Italy.svg Simone Anzani February 24, 1992 (age 33)Middle blocker
21 Flag of Italy.svg Mattia Bottolo January 3, 2000 (age 25)Outside hitter
22 Flag of Italy.svg Jacopo Larizza August 22, 1998 (age 26)Middle blocker
23 Flag of Cuba.svg Marlon Yant May 23, 2001 (age 23)Outside hitter
Head coach: Flag of Italy.svg Gianlorenzo Blengini
Assistant: Flag of Italy.svg Romano Giannini

Notable players

Kit manufacturer

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Lube team.

PeriodKit provider
1997–2014 Champion
Nike
Asics
Mizuno
Erreà
2014-2017 Mikasa
2017- Joma

Sponsorship

The main sponsor has always been the furniture company Cucine Lube, owner of the team, from 1995 (with the arrival in Serie A1) to 2005 and from 2008 to 2016 another main sponsor was added: the Banca Marche bank. In the 2010/11 season, other shirt sponsors were seen: the agricultural company Oro della Terra, the computer company Macrosoft and the University of Macerata. Banca Marche's successor "UBI Banca" was a main sponsor in the 2017/18 season. From 2018 the subsection of Cucine Lube "Creo Kitchens" appeared in the jersey and from 2019 the company Var Group is also seen.

References

  1. Volleyball World (2025-01-26). "Lube win another five-setter to grab eighth Coppa Italia trophy". Volleyball World. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
  2. "Lente d'ingrandimento sulle rivali della Lube. I roster ufficiali della SuperLega Credem Banca 2023/24 - Lube Volley - Official Web Site". www.lubevolley.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-13.