Copra Volley
- CEV Top Teams Cup 2006
- Challenge Cup 2013
- Italian Champion 2009
- Italian Super Cup Winner 2009
Pallavolo Piacenza (also Copra Piacenza ) is an Italian men's volleyball club based in Piacenza, of the Italian Volleyball Championship (Series A1) participates. Main sponsor of the first team under whose name she plays well, the kitchen manufacturer Copra.
History
The club was founded in 1982 as Pallavolo Piacenza and at first played exclusively at the regional level. Early 1990s, the team played in Serie C1. In 1996, the rise in the fourth-rate series B2, two years later, the promotion to Serie B1. As of 1998, the kitchen manufacturer Copra supported the first team as title sponsor.
2000 earned the club the Series A2 license Mezzo Lombardo volley. In 2002, the team reached the championship series A2 as well as winning the A2 Cup competition. With the rise of the name was changed to Copra Ventaglio. In the first season of the series A1, the team reached the 14th place. After the season, the club merged with Asystel Volley Milano, where the venue in Piacenza remained. The merger strengthened the club with players like Nikola Grbić Hristo Zlatanov, Simone Rosalba, Osvaldo Hernandez, Andrea Gardini and the Cuban Leonel Marshall and Vigor Bovolenta.
In the 2003 /04 season, the team of Copra Asystel Ventaglio took fourth place in the championship and reached the finals of the CEV Cup. In the following season Copra won the main round of the Serie A1, but bowed out of the playoffs against Perugia volley. The team also played in the Champions League, where it does not make it past the group stage.
In 2006, the team of Copra Berni the Top Teams Cup won. In the following season they reached the fourth place he ind main round of the Serie A and came up in the playoff finals. There Copra Sisley Treviso subject clearly in three games. In addition, Copra reached the final of the CEV Cup, which it lost to Fakel Novy Urengoy. In order for the team for the Champions League the following season, in which it reached the final came in 2008, but there Dynamo Kazan defeated qualified.
The 2008 /09 was the most successful in their history: after the main round of the Serie A1 team was in fifth place, but came in the playoffs until the finals and defeated there Trentino Volley in five games 3-2. This Copra Piacenza was the first time in the club's history of Italian masters. In the Champions League Copra was indeed group winners, but lost in the first playoff round AZS Częstochowa. At the start of the following season Copra won the Italian Super Cup and reached after leaving the Champions League fourth place in the CEV Cup. 2013 you won the European Challenge Cup.
Achievements
- Vice Champion 2008
- Second place: 2004, 2007
- 2006 winner
- Winner 2013
- Champion: 2009
- Runner-up: 2004, 2007, 2008
- Winner: 2009
- Second place: 2006
- Winner: 2002
- Second place: 2006
Club name
Due to changing sponsors the professional team plays in changing team name. Main sponsor since 1998, the kitchen manufacturer Copra.
- 2005-2007 Copra Berni
- 2007-2009 Copra Nordmeccanica
- 2009-2010 Copra Atlantide
- 2010-2011 Copra Morpho
- Since 2011 Copra Elior
Well-known former players
- Italy Marco Meoni
- Italy Vigor Bovolenta
- Italy Mauro Gavotto
- Italy Wenzeslaw Simeonow
- Italy Paolo Cozzi
- Italy Massimo Botti
- Italy Michele De Giorgi
- Italy Cosimo Gallotta
- Italy Andrea Gardini
- Italy Daniele Vergnaghi
- Italy Simone Rosalba
- Italy Maurizio Castellano
- Italy Loris Mania
- Italy Gianluca Durante
- Italy Cuba Maikel Cristobal Cardona
- Germany Christian Thin
- Germany Christian Pampel
- Cuba Osvaldo Hernandez
- Cuba Ihosvany Hernandez
- Cuba Leonel Marshall
- Brazil Anderson (volleyball player)
- Brazil Sergio Dutra Dos Santos
- Spain Enrique De La Fuente
- Spain Israel Rodriguez
- Serbia Dula Mester
- Serbia Nikola Grbic
- Serbia Novica Bjelica
- France Frantz Granvorka
- United States Mike Lambert
- Bulgaria Evgeni Ivanov
- Finland Tuomas Sammelvuo
- Czech Republic Michal Rak