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Imoco Volley

Imoco Volley is an Italian professional women's volleyball club based in Conegliano in Northern Italy and currently playing in the Serie A1.

Imoco Volley
Full nameImoco Volley Conegliano
Short nameImoco
NicknamePantere (Panthers)
Founded2012
GroundPalaVerde, Treviso, Italy
(Capacity: 5,344)
ChairmanItaly Piero Garbellotto
Head coachItaly Daniele Santarelli
CaptainPoland Joanna Wołosz
League Serie A1
2023–241st place, gold medalist(s) 1st
WebsiteClub home page
Uniforms
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Championships
Club World Championship

CEV Champions League

Serie A1

Italian Cup

Italian Super Cup

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

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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

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  • Further information: Imoco Volley Past Squads

All Roster player's of last Season ⤴

Season 2024–2025[9]

2024–2025 Team
Number Player Position Height (m) Weight (kg) Birth date
1   Gabriela Guimarães Outside Hitter 1.81 (1994-05-19) 19 May 1994 (age 30)
4   Zhu Ting Outside Hitter 1.98 (1994-11-29) 29 November 1994 (age 30)
6   Nanami Seki Setter 1.71 (1999-06-12) 12 June 1999 (age 25)
7   Katja Eckl Middle Blocker 1.88 (2003-05-06) 6 May 2003 (age 21)
9   Marina Lubian Middle Blocker 1.92 74 (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000 (age 24)
10   Monica De Gennaro Libero 1.72 63 (1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 37)
11   Isabelle Haak Opposite 1.94 83 (1999-07-11) 11 July 1999 (age 25)
14   Joanna Wołosz (c) Setter 1.81 65 (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 34)
15   Merit Adigwe Opposite 1.83 (2006-08-24) 24 August 2006 (age 18)
16   Khalia Lanier Outside Hitter 1.86 (1998-09-19) 19 September 1998 (age 26)
17   Martyna Łukasik Outside Hitter 1.90 (1999-11-26) 26 November 1999 (age 25)
18   Cristina Chirichella Middle Blocker 1.95 (1994-02-10) 10 February 1994 (age 30)
19   Sarah Fahr Middle Blocker 1.94 84 (2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 23)
20   Anna Bardaro Libero 1.72 (2005-04-29) 29 April 2005 (age 19)

Current coaching staff

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  Italy Daniele Santarelli (1981-06-08) 8 June 1981 (age 43) Head coach
  Italy Tommaso Barbato (1980-10-03) 3 October 1980 (age 44) Vice coach
  Italy Andrea Zotta (1994-12-27) 27 December 1994 (age 29) 2nd vice coach
  Italy Maurizio Mora (1980-12-10) 10 December 1980 (age 44) Assistant coach
  Italy Marco Greco Scouting
  Italy Marco Da Lozzo Physical trainer

Head Coaches

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Period Head Coaches
2012–2014   Marco Gaspari
2014–2015   Nicola Negro
  Alessandro Chiappini
2015–2017   Davide Mazzanti
2017–   Daniele Santarelli

Team Captains

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Period Captain
2012–2014   Raffaella Calloni
2014–2015   Valentina Fiorin
2015–2016   Valentina Arrighetti
2016–2017   Serena Ortolani
2017–   Joanna Wołosz

Kit providers

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The 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

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Palaverde
Location Stadium Capacity Period
Treviso Palaverde 5,344 2012–

Position Main

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Imoco Volley Line up
 
11. Haak
19. Fahr
4. Zhu
1. Gabi
14. Wołosz (C)
10. De Gennaro (L)

Honours

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International competitions

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Domestic competitions

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Notable players

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Players written in italic still play for the club.

See also

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References

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  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.
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