VakıfBank, the Turkish team with the most international trophies, is set to begin its 2025–2026 CEV Champions League campaign. VakıfBank holds a record six titles in this competition, four of them unbeaten. The yellow-blacks will compete in Group A against Volero LE CANNET (France), CS Volei Alba BLAJ (Romania), and Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI (Italy). VakıfBank will host Volero in its opening group match on Thursday, November 27, at 19:00.
VakıfBank begins its 2025–2026 Zeren Group CEV Champions League campaign in Istanbul.
VakıfBank, Türkiye’s most decorated club on the international stage, will face France’s Volero LE CANNET, Romania’s CS Volei Alba BLAJ and Italy’s Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI in Group A.
The yellow-blacks will play their first European match on Thursday, November 27, at 19:00, hosting Volero at the VakıfBank Spor Sarayı.
Guidetti: “I was thinking CEV had forgotten about us”
VakıfBank head coach Giovanni Guidetti spoke ahead of the new Champions League season.
Guidetti said: “Finally, we start the CEV Champions League. I was thinking CEV had forgotten about us because we’re already almost in December and we haven’t played a single match. We keep saying the Champions League should be the best tournament in Europe, but we’re playing way too few matches. But finally, we’ve started.
Last meeting with Volero: 2018 FIVB Club World Championship
VakıfBank last faced Volero Le CANNET at the 2018 FIVB Club World Championship. VakıfBank won the group-stage match 3–0 and went on to finish the tournament as world champions. Before Volero’s name change in 2018, the two sides had met eight times in the CEV Champions League, with VakıfBank winning all eight and conceding only seven sets in total.
The team with most titles in CEV Champions League
With six titles, four of them unbeaten, VakıfBank is the most successful club in the history of the CEV Champions League. This achievement has earned the club a place in the Guinness World Records for the third time. VakıfBank won its first title in 2011, followed by victories in 2013, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023, and now aims to claim a seventh crown in the 2025–2026 season. Last season, they reached the Final Four.
172 wins in the CEV Champions League
VakıfBank enters the 2025–2026 CEV Champions League as the most dominant team in the competition. The club has recorded 172 victories in the tournament prior to this season.
VakıfBank’s CEV Champions League Fixtures
27 November – VakıfBank ISTANBUL vs Volero LE CANNET
2 December – CS Volei Alba BLAJ vs VakıfBank ISTANBUL
8 January – Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI vs VakıfBank ISTANBUL
14 January – VakıfBank ISTANBUL vs CS Volei Alba BLAJ
28 January – Volero LE CANNET vs VakıfBank ISTANBUL
4 February – VakıfBank ISTANBUL vs Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI
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