Imoco Volley is an Italian professional women's volleyball club based in Conegliano in Northern Italy and currently playing in the Serie A1.
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| Full name | Imoco Volley Conegliano | ||
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| Short name | Imoco | ||
| Nickname | Pantere (Panthers) | ||
| Founded | 2012 | ||
| Ground | PalaVerde, Treviso, Italy (Capacity: 5,344) | ||
| Chairman |  Piero Garbellotto | ||
| Head coach | Daniele Santarelli | ||
| Captain |  Joanna Wołosz | ||
| League |  Serie A1 | ||
| 2023–24 |  1st | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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| Championships | |||
Club World Championship  CEV Champions League | |||
History
editThe 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
edit| Period | 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
editAll Roster player's of last Season ⤴
Season 2024–2025[9]
| 2024–2025 Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
| 1 | Outside Hitter | 1.81 | 19 May 1994 | ||
| 4 | Outside Hitter | 1.98 | 29 November 1994 | ||
| 6 | Setter | 1.71 | 12 June 1999 | ||
| 7 | Middle Blocker | 1.88 | 6 May 2003 | ||
| 9 | Middle Blocker | 1.92 | 74 | 11 April 2000 | |
| 10 | Libero | 1.72 | 63 | 8 January 1987 | |
| 11 | Opposite | 1.94 | 83 | 11 July 1999 | |
| 14 | Setter | 1.81 | 65 | 7 April 1990 | |
| 15 | Opposite | 1.83 | 24 August 2006 | ||
| 16 | Outside Hitter | 1.86 | 19 September 1998 | ||
| 17 | Outside Hitter | 1.90 | 26 November 1999 | ||
| 18 | Middle Blocker | 1.95 | 10 February 1994 | ||
| 19 | Middle Blocker | 1.94 | 84 | 12 September 2001 | |
| 20 | Libero | 1.72 | 29 April 2005 | ||
Current coaching staff
edit| Daniele Santarelli | 8 June 1981 | Head coach | |
| Tommaso Barbato | 3 October 1980 | Vice coach | |
| Andrea Zotta | 27 December 1994 | 2nd vice coach | |
| Maurizio Mora | 10 December 1980 | Assistant coach | |
| Marco Greco | Scouting | ||
| Marco Da Lozzo | Physical trainer |
Head Coaches
edit| Period | Head Coaches |
|---|---|
| 2012–2014 | |
| 2014–2015 | |
| 2015–2017 | |
| 2017– |
Team Captains
edit| Period | Captain |
|---|---|
| 2012–2014 | |
| 2014–2015 | |
| 2015–2016 | |
| 2016–2017 | |
| 2017– |
Kit providers
editThe table below shows the history of kit providers for the Imoco Volley.
| Period | Kit provider |
|---|---|
| 2012–2013 | Erreà |
| 2013–2019 | Mikasa |
| 2019– | Joma |
Stadium and locations
edit| Location | Stadium | Capacity | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treviso | Palaverde | 5,344 | 2012– |
Position Main
edit| Imoco Volley Line up |
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Honours
editInternational competitions
editDomestic competitions
editSerie A1
Italian Cup
- Winners (6): 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
Italian Super Cup
- Winners (7): 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Notable players
editPlayers written in italic still play for the club.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
- ^ Rosa, Alberto (26 April 2012). "Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ "La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell'Imoco Volley Conegliano". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ "Coppa Italia: vince l'Imoco Volley". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Women's Club World Championship - Results". Retrieved 2019-12-16.
- ^ ""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.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ ""Conclusa l'attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020"". Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (in Italian). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ "Gabi, la perla brasiliana completa un roster di "all star" per la stagione 24/25!". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2024.
External links
edit- Official website (in Italian)
- Serie A website (in Italian)
- Imoco Volley on Facebook
- Imoco Volley on Instagram
- Imoco Volley on X
- Imoco Volley on TikTok
- Imoco Volley on LinkedIn
- Imoco Volley's channel on YouTube
- Imoco Volley on Volleybox.net
- Imoco Volley on Volleyballworld.com