CEV Women's Challenge Cup

The CEV Women's Challenge Cup, formerly (from 1980 to 2007) known as CEV Women's Cup is the third official competition for women's volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized by the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV) and was created as CEV Women's Cup in 1980 to allow more clubs to participate in European competitions.^[1] In 2007, it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup following a CEV decision to rename its second official competition (known as Top Teams Cup) to CEV Cup.^[2]

Results summary

CEV Cup

CEV Challenge Cup

Note: The third place match was abolished in 2010. The table's column "Third place" display the losing semifinalists from the 2010–11 season onwards.

Titles by club

Titles by country

Notes:

1. For the purpose of keeping historical event accuracy, historical countries names are used in this table.

MVP by edition

• 2000–01 – Małgorzata Glinka (Poland)
• 2001–02 –
• 2002–03 – Cristina Pîrv (Romania)
• 2003–04 – Lyubov Sokolova (Russia)
• 2004–05 – Dorota Świeniewicz (Poland)
• 2005–06 – Simona Rinieri (Italy)
• 2006–07 – Simona Gioli (Italy)
• 2007–08 – Aysun Özbek (Turkey)
• 2008–09 – Simona Rinieri (Italy)
• 2009–10 – Saskia Hippe (Germany)
• 2010–11 – Polina Rahimova (Azerbaijan)
• 2011–12 – Nancy Metcalf (United States)
• 2012–13 – Marina Maryukhnich (Ukraine)
• 2013–14 – Natalia Malykh (Russia)
• 2014–15 – Meryem Boz (Turkey)
• 2015–16 – Jelena Blagojević (Serbia)
• 2016–17 – Özge Kirdar (Turkey)
• 2017–18 – Stella Christodoulou (Greece)
• 2018–19 – Anne Buijs (Netherlands)
• 2019–20 – event cancelled due to pandemic
• 2020–21 – Alexia Căruțașu (Romania)
• 2021–22 – Ekaterina Antropova (Italy)^[7]
• 2022–23 –
• 2023–24 – Vita Akimova (Russia)^[8]
• 2024–25 – Anna Adelusi (Italy)^[9]
• 2025–26 – Erblira Bici (Albania)^[10]

All-time team records

Winners and finalists by city since 1980/1981

Various statistics since 2006/2007

(Based on W=2 pts and D=1 pts)

References

• European Cups^[11]
• CEV 40th Anniversary Book - European Cups^[12]

Citations

1. ^ "Acknowledgements". CEV. p. 6. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
2. ^ "New names for European cups competitions". CEV. 5 April 2007. Archived from the original on 27 May 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
3. ^ CEV. "Sirio Perugia wins CEV Cup after Champions League". Archived from the original on 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
4. ^ CEV. "ISTANBUL wins the 2007/08 Women's Challenge Cup". Retrieved 2010-04-09.^{[dead link]}
5. ^ CEV. "First European trophy ever for Italian club Vini Monteschiavo Jesi". Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
6. ^ CEV. "DRESDNER SC celebrates home triumph". Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
7. ^ "Year in Review: CEV Club Competitions". cev.eu. 24 December 2022. Archived 8 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
8. ^ "Projekt Warsaw and Igor Gorgonzola Novara triumph as CEV Challenge Cup winners". fivb.com. 29 February 2024. Archived 20 January 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
9. ^ "Coppe europee – Roma, Roma, Roma… La CEV Challenge Cup è tua!" (in Italian). legavolleyfemminile.it. 11 March 2025. Archived 12 March 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
10. ^ "Vallefoglia crown historic campaign with #CEVChallengeCupW triumph in Athens". cev.eu. 18 March 2026. Archived 18 March 2026 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
11. ^ "European Cups". CEV. 5 April 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
12. ^ "CEV 40th Anniversary Book — Back to the future 1973–2013". inside.cev.eu. pp. 49–65. Archived 27 February 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 March 2025.

External links

• CEV Website