On April 11 at 19:00 in Chernivtsi, the first final match of the Men's Super League-Budinvest season 2022-2023 will take place at the "PVLU" arena.
This season, "Epicenter-Podolyany" from the town of Horodok and VC "Prometey" from Dnipro will compete for the title of the country's champion.
The final series consists of five matches until one of the teams wins three.
The way to the finals
"Epicenter-Podolyany" became the winner of the first stage of the championship of Ukraine. And VC "Prometey" took the second place in the tournament table.
In the 1/4 finals, the Podolyany knocked out the Lviv team "Barkom- National Team of Ukraine U-18" (3:0 and 3:0).
VC "Prometey" met with the Ternopil team "Security Police-ZUNU-Dynamo" in the quarter-finals (3:0 and 3:1), and in the 1/2 finals twice defeated VC "Zhytichi-Polissia" (3:0 and 3:0).
History of meetings (season 2022-2023)
All previous matches of these teams in the regular championship of the Super League-Budinvest ended in favor of the team from Horodok (3:0, 3:1 and 3:2). Another match took place in the finals of the League Cup 2022: there, as you know, the Podolyany also became the best (3:2).
The composition of the "Epicenter-Podolyany" team:
setters: Vladyslav Didenko №11, Serhii Yevstratov №12;
liberos: Denys Fomin №1, Horden Brova №7;
the opposites: Ivan Raich №6 (Croatia), Yurii Tomyn №17;
middle blockers: Maksym Drozd №2, Volodymyr Ostapenko №3, Oleksandr Koval №8, Andrii Rohozhyn №19;
outside hitters: Yevhenii Kisiliuk №5, Volodymyr Sydorenko №18, Oleksandr Nalozhnyi №20, Nikolai Penchev №22 (Bulgaria);
Head Coach: Mariush Sordyl (Poland).
The composition of the team of VC "Prometey":
setters: Serhii Riabov №3, Vitalii Shchytkov №15;
liberos: Vadym Patratii №1, Oleksandr Boiko №19;
the opposites: Dmytro Shapoval №4, Taras Oleksiuk №5;
middle blockers: Eduard Shteryk №11, Oleksandr Hladenko №14, Denys Veletskyi №23, Heorhii Klepko №13;
outside hitters: Dmytro Yanchuk №7, Oleksandr Tomilin №9, Ivan Kryvobok №10, Yan Yereshchenko №18.
Head coach: Andrii Levchenko.
Super League-Budinvest 2022-2023 Final. The first game
April 11 (Tuesday)
19:00 "Epicenter-Podolyany" - VC "Prometey"
All matches are held without spectators in the city of Chernivtsi (PVLU arena). Watch online game broadcasts on the Divisport Volleyball Youtube channel.