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. On the global stage, the team was crowned champion of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship three times (2019, 2022, 2024) and secured three continental Women's CEV Champions League (2021, 2024, 2025), the European league.
History
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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
[edit | edit source]Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names:[9][10]
| Period | Previous names in Serie A1 | Previous names in CEV competitions |
|---|---|---|
| 2012–2013 | Imoco Volley Conegliano | – |
| 2013–2015 | Prosecco Doc-Imoco Conegliano | Prosecco Doc-Imoco Conegliano |
| 2015–2016 | Imoco Volley Conegliano | – |
| 2016–2019 | Imoco Volley Conegliano | Imoco Volley Conegliano |
| 2019–2021 | Imoco Volley Conegliano | A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano |
| 2021–2025 | Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano | A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano |
| 2025– | Prosecco Doc A.Carraro Imoco Conegliano | A. Carraro Prosecco Doc Conegliano |
Team
[edit | edit source]All Roster player's of last Season ⤴
Season 2025–2026[11]
| 2025–2026 Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Birth date | |
| 1 | Brazil Gabriela Guimarães | Outside Hitter | 1.81 | 19 May 1994 | |
| 4 | China Zhu Ting | Outside Hitter | 1.98 | 29 November 1994 | |
| 5 | Italy Serena Scognamillo | Libero | 1.70 | 24 February 2001 | |
| 6 | United States Jenna Ewert | Setter | 1.78 | 8 February 2000 | |
| 9 | Italy Marina Lubian | Middle Blocker | 1.92 | 11 April 2000 | |
| 10 | Italy Monica De Gennaro | Libero | 1.72 | 8 January 1987 | |
| 11 | Sweden Isabelle Haak | Opposite | 1.94 | 11 July 1999 | |
| 13 | Italy Matilde Munarini | Middle Blocker | 1.86 | 3 June 2004 | |
| 14 | Poland Joanna Wołosz (c) | Setter | 1.81 | 7 April 1990 | |
| 15 | Italy Merit Adigwe | Opposite | 1.83 | 24 August 2006 | |
| 16 | Netherlands Nika Daalderop | Outside Hitter | 1.90 | 29 November 1998 | |
| 18 | Italy Cristina Chirichella | Middle Blocker | 1.95 | 10 February 1994 | |
| 19 | Italy Sarah Fahr | Middle Blocker | 1.94 | 12 September 2001 | |
| 23 | Slovenia Fatoumatta Sillah | Outside Hitter | 1.86 | 15 November 2002 | |
Current coaching staff
[edit | edit source]| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Daniele Santarelli | 8 June 1981 | Head coach |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Tommaso Barbato | 3 October 1980 | Assistant coach |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Andrea Zotta | 27 December 1994 | Assistant |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Maurizio Mora | 10 December 1980 | Assistant |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Alessandro Mamprin | Scouting | |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Marco Da Lozzo | Athletic trainer | |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Pierpaolo Zanasi | Team manager |
Head Coaches
[edit | edit source]| Period | Head Coaches |
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| 2012–2014 | Italy Marco Gaspari |
| 2014–2015 | Italy Nicola Negro Italy Alessandro Chiappini |
| 2015–2017 | Italy Davide Mazzanti |
| 2017– | Italy Daniele Santarelli |
Team Captains
[edit | edit source]| Period | Captain |
|---|---|
| 2012–2014 | Italy Raffaella Calloni |
| 2014–2015 | Italy Valentina Fiorin |
| 2015–2016 | Italy Valentina Arrighetti |
| 2016–2017 | Italy Serena Ortolani |
| 2017– | Poland Joanna Wołosz |
Kit providers
[edit | edit source]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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| Location | Stadium | Capacity | Period |
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| Treviso | Palaverde | 5,344 | 2012– |
Position Main
[edit | edit source]| Imoco Volley Line up |
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11. Haak
19. Fahr
4. Zhu
1. Gabi
18. Chirichella
14. Wołosz (C)
10. De Gennaro (L) |
Titles and honours
[edit | edit source]International competitions
[edit | edit source]- File:Gold medal world centered-2.svg FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
- File:Shield of the European Union.svg Women's CEV Champions League
Domestic competitions
[edit | edit source]- File:Scudetto.svg Serie A1
- File:Coccarda Coppa Italia.svg Italian Cup
- Champions (7x): 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25
- File:Supercoppa italiana di pallavolo maschile.svg Italian Super Cup
- Champions (8x): 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Notable players
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Domestic players
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European Players
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Non-European Players
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Players written in italic still play for the club.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Roster Imoco Volley Past Squads
- Italian Women's Volleyball League
- Italy women's national volleyball team
- CEV Women's Champions League
- Prosecco
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External links
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- Official website (in Italian)
- Serie A website (in Italian)
- Imoco Volley on Volleybox.net
- Imoco Volley on Volleyballworld.com