CEV Top Teams Cup

The CEV Cup (official name: CEV Cup) is the second highest European Cup competition for club teams in volleyball. Up to and including the 2006/07 season the competition was held under the name Top Teams Cup, and CEV Cup was the name for the current Challenge Cup. Then the organizing European Association CEV structured the European Cup again. The Top Teams Cup had been held since replaced the 1972/73 European Cup Winners' Cup in the 2000 /01 season. In the early 1970s, the great volleyball nations did not participate in the competition, so that teams could present from other countries.

  • 3.1 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • 3.2 Top Teams Cup
  • 3.3 CEV Cup

Mode

Eligible are the teams that are placed in their national league behind the Champions League participants. The exact number of starting places in the individual competitions results from a ranking of the CEV.

In the first round 32 teams in the knockout system with return game compete against each other. If there are different winners in the two games will be played directly, an additional sentence to 15 points after the return match ( " golden set" ), which decides on a place in the next round. The exact results of the two games are meaningless. The losers go into the third round of the Challenge Cup. The 16 winners of the first round play continued in the eighth - and quarter-finals. In men's competition, it comes after the quarter-finals to a "Challenge Round". There, the winners of the quarter finals take on four teams that were eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League. The winners of the "Challenge Round" (men) and the quarter-finals ( women) will qualify for the Final Four. The tournament of the top four teams will be held over one weekend at a central location. One day the semi-finals take place the next day the game for third place and the final.

European Cup Winners' Cup

Top Teams Cup

CEV Cup

Women

European Cup Winners' Cup

Top Teams Cup

CEV Cup

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