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CEV Champions League
Created in 1959 under the name CEV European Champions Cup this tournament ran until the end of the 1999-00 season under that name before taking up the new and current name of the CEV Champions League. You may also be interested in our CEV Women's Champions League blog too.
CEV Champions League Content
- CEV Champions League Preview
- CEV Champions League Past Winners
- CEV Champions League Betting Tips
- CEV Champions League Most Wins
The 2023-24 tournament will be the 65th edition of the tournament, a tournament that is the top competition in Europe where the best European teams compete, it's volleyball's equivalent of the UEFA Champions League.
If you are new to volleyball and are planning on betting on this season's CEV Champions League then before you get started head over to our Best Bookies for Volleyball Betting article.
CEV Champions League Preview
The reigning champions, ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle will have their work cut out defending their title in the 65th edition of the tournament, they will be looking for a fourth consecutive title after wins in 2021, 2022 & 2023.
The Italian clubs will be mounting an attack, especially Trentino who lost back-to-back finals in 2021 & 2022, they will be looking to make up for those defeats in this year's competition.
Most Successful CEV Champions League Nations
- Italy (19 Wins / 17 Runners-Up)
- Soviet Union (15 Wins / 3 Runners-Up)
- Russia (10 Wins / 4 Runners-Up)
Since Trentino won three on the bounce between 2009-11, there has only been one Italian winner which was Civitanova (2019), six others have made it to the finals and all six have been beaten, four of those by a Russian club, there have also been four third-place finishes for Italian clubs since too so they are usually thereabouts.
CEV Champions League Past Winners
The success of ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle in 2021 was only the second time a Polish team has won the tournament, the last coming back in 1978 when Płomień Milowice were successful and they also backed that up with success in both 2022 & 2023. The 2023 final was the first since 2015 not to feature an Italian team.
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022–23 | ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle | 3–2 | Jastrzębski Węgiel |
| 2021–22 | ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle | 3–0 | Itas Trentino |
| 2020–21 | ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle | 3–1 | Itas Trentino |
| 2019–20 | No Tournament | ||
| 2018–19 | Cucine Lube Civitanova | 3–1 | Zenit Kazan |
| 2017–18 | Zenit Kazan | 3–2 | Cucine Lube Civitanova |
| 2016–17 | Zenit Kazan | 3–0 | Sir Sicoma Colussi Perugia |
| 2015–16 | Zenit Kazan | 3–2 | Diatec Trentino |
| 2014–15 | Zenit Kazan | 3–0 | Asseco Resovia |
| 2013–14 | Belogorie Belgorod | 3–1 | Halkbank Ankara |
CEV Champions League Betting Tips
The league round of the tournament will feature five groups, each consisting of four teams who will play each other home and away, this means each team will play six games during the group stages, each group consisting of a total of twelve games meaning the group stage of the tournament will have a total of sixty games giving the OLBG volleyball tipsters more than enough chances to share their CEV Champions League predictions. You will find these tips on the main Volleyball Predictions page, alternatively, if you only want to see tips from those who have shown a profit over the past year on volleyball then head over to the Best Volleyball Tipsters page.
Five-Year Favourite Statistics
One thing that is plain to see is the consistency of the favourites over the last five years, rounded to the nearest whole number, the favourites had a success rate of at least 77% in four of the last five seasons with last season a bumper year with 81% of favourites winning.
- 2018-19: 57-73 (78.08%)
- 2019-20: 50-64 (78.13%)
- 2020-21: 45-58 (77.59%)
- 2021-22: 47-65 (72.31%)
- 2022-23: 63-78 (80.77%)
Five-Year Set Score Statistics
Just under one in four games over the past five seasons have finished with a 3-0 victory for the assigned home team which proves one thing, that is that home-court advantage really does seem to be a big favour, however, a 3-0 win for the away team is the second most featured outcome meaning 44% of the games have finished in either a 3-0 or 0-3 whitewash scoreline.
- 3-0: 84 Games (24.28%)
- 0-3: 69 Games (19.94%)
- 1-3: 56 Games (16.18%)
- 3-1: 48 Games (13.87%)
- 2-3: 43 Games (12.43%)
- 3-2: 38 Games (10.98%)
CEV Champions League Most Wins
The Soviet Union in the early years of the tournament recorded a lot of success, between 1959 and 1991, a total of fifteen winners come from there, thirteen of those championships going the way of CSKA Moscow who is the most successful team with more than double the number of titles than their nearest rival Zenit Kazan (6).
| Rank | Club | Champions | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | CSKA Moscow | 13 | 3 |
| 2nd | Zenit Kazan | 6 | 2 |
| 3rd | Modena Volley | 4 | 4 |
| 4th | Volley Treviso | 4 | 1 |
| 5th | Rapid București | 3 | 4 |
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