The reigning champion of the country will fight for a ticket to the quarter-finals of the CEV Cup with the Turkish team Fenerbahçe.
The first match will take place on January 10 at 20:00 Kyiv time in the Romanian city of Mioveni.
As of January 9, 2024, "Fenerbahçe" was placed on the second step of the tournament table of the Turkish championship: Kerem Yerilmaz's wards won 13 victories in 14 matches, losing only to the leader of the championship "Hulkbank" at the end of December.
Fenerbahçe finished the last season with the bronze awards of the national championship and the "silver" of the Turkish Cup.
The Istanbul club has several well-known players in the world of volleyball. First of all, this is the Bulgarian outside hitter Nikolai Penchev, whom fans of domestic volleyball could see last season on the court of the PVLU arena as part of Epicenter-Podolyany. The main setter of the team is Murat Yenipazar, who until recently was a player of Lviv "Barkom-Kazhany".
The main team of "Fenerbahçe" also includes Serbian opposite Dražen Luburic, Iranian middle blocker Mahdi Jelveh Ghaziani and Dutchman Dick Kooy.
The roster of the "Fenerbahce" team:
setters: Caner Pekşen, Murat Yenipazar;
libero: Hasan Yeşilbudak, Caner Dengin;
opposites: Kaan Gürbüz, Drazen Luburic (Serbia);
middle blockers: Vahit Emre Savaş, Hasan Sıkar, Mahdi Jelveh Ghaziani (Iran);
outside hitters: Ali Deniz Yilmaz, Dick Kooy (Netherlands), Yigit Gulmezoglu, Nikolai Penchev (Bulgaria),
Head coach: Kerem Yerylmaz.
Roster of VC "Prometey":
setters: Vitalii Shchytkov №15, Serhii Yevstratov №12;
liberos: Oleksandr Boiko №19, Horden Brova №7;
opposites: Dmytro Shapoval №4, Dmytro Viietskyi №3;
middle blockers: Dawid Dryja №9 (Poland), Denys Veletskyi №23, Oleksandr Hladenko №14, Dmytro Teromenko №8;
outside hitters: Mihajlo Stankovic №17 (Serbia), Yan Yereshchenko №18, Ivan Kryvobok №10, Dmytro Yanchuk №7;
Head coach: Andrii Levchenko.
We would like to remind you that the winner of the confrontation will be determined by the sum of two matches and will become the quarter-finalist of the second most important European Cup tournament.
CEV Cup 2023-2024. Playoffs. The first match
January 10 (Wednesday)
20:00 VC "Prometey" (Dnipro, Ukraine) - "Fenerbahçe" (Istanbul, Turkey)
Watch the online broadcast of the match on the DIVISPORT YouTube channel or the Megogo and Sweet.TV platforms.
