On April 5 at 18:00 in Chernivtsi, the first final match of the men's Super League-Dmart of the 2023-2024 season will be held at the "PVLU" arena.
Like last 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
VC "Prometey" became the winner of the first stage of the championship of Ukraine. "Red and whites" won 16 out of 16 matches, giving away only 5 games to opponents. This result allowed Dnipro to get a direct ticket to the semi-finals.
"Epicenter-Podolyanyi" finished the "regular" championship in third place in the tournament table and they became participants in the playoffs, where in the quarter-finals they left no chance to "The team of Poltava region-VC "Reshetylivka" (3:0 and 3:0).
In the semi-finals, VC "Prometey" overcame VSC "Law Academy" without problems (3:0 and 3:0), and representatives of Khmelnytskyi Region successfully coped with VC "Zhytychi-Polissia" (3:0 and 3:1).
Previous meetings
Season 2022-2023
The "regular" part of last year's championship ended in favor of the team from Horodok (3:0, 3:1 and 3:2). In the final of the League Cup 2022, Podolyany also became the best (3:2). But in the final part of the Super League of Ukraine, "Epicenter" was successful only in the first match (3:1), then fortune turned to the Dnipro team and they celebrated victory in three consecutive matches (3:2, 3:2, 3:2) and thus became the country's champions for the first time.
Season 2023-2024
This season, the finalists of the Super League-Dmart met five times.
During the pre-season tournament "Prometey Open 2023", the Dnipro team won an "easy" victory (3:0).
In the regular season, the Dnipro team was also stronger twice (3:0 and 3:0). However, in the matches for the Super Cup and Cup of Ukraine trophies, "Epicenter-Podolyany" made every effort to take them away (3:1 and 3:2).
The roster of the team of VC "Prometey":
setters: Serhii Yevstratov №12, Vitalii Shchytkov №15;
libero: Horden Brova №13, Oleksandr Boiko №19;
opposites: Dmytro Shapoval №4, Dmytro Viietskyi №3;
middle blockers: Dawid Dryja №9 (Poland), Oleksandr Hladenko №14, Denys Veletskyi №23, Dmytro Teromenko №8;
outside hitters: Dmytro Yanchuk №7, Ivan Kryvobok №10, Yan Yereshchenko №18, Mihajlo Stanković №17 (Serbia).
Head coach: Flavio Gulinelli.
The roster of the Epicenter-Podolyany team:
setters: Vladyslav Didenko №11, Eemi Tervaporti №14 (Finland);
libero: Denys Fomin №1, Andriy Zhukov №13;
opposites: Michal Finger №6 (Czech Republic), Danylo Uryvkin №42;
middle blockers: Maksym Drozd №2, Volodymyr Ostapenko №3, Oleksandr Koval №8, Artem Smoliar №25;
outside hitters: Yevhenii Kisiliuk №5, Volodymyr Sydorenko №18, Oleksandr Nalozhnyi №20, Gijs Jorna №4 (Netherlands), Kavogo №9 (Cameroon).
Head coach: Mauricio Paes (Brazil).
Super League-Dmart 2023-2024. Men. Finals:
April 5 (Friday)
18:00 VC “Prometey” – “Epicenter-Podolyany”
April 7 (Sunday)
14:00 “Epicenter-Podolyany” – VC “Prometey”
April 12 (Friday)
VC “Prometey” – “Epicenter-Podolyany”
Watch online broadcasts of Super League-Dmart matches on the DIVISPORT channel on YouTube or Megogo and Sweet.TV platforms.
