List of CEV Cup and Challenge Cup participants released!

The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) published the list of clubs that will participate in the next editions of the CEV Cup and Challenge Cup.

The CEV Cup will consist of 32 teams per gender, and this is the list of participants.
In the men’s competition, 16 teams that don’t pass to the pool stage of the Champions League will join the following 16 teams:

• Zenit Saint-Petersburg (RUS)
• Spor Toto Ankara (TUR)
• Galatasaray HDI İstanbul (TUR)
• Montpellier Castelnau UC (FRA)
• Chaumont VB 52 (FRA)
• CV Guaguas Las Palmas (ESP)
• VK Dukla Liberec (CZE)
• Volejbal Brno (CZE)
• Jihostroj České Budějovice (CZE)
• Hebar Pazardzhik (BUL)
• Montana Volley (BUL)
• Mladi radnik Požarevac (SRB)
• OK Niš (SRB)
• Chênois Genève VB (SUI)
• Volley Schönenwerd (SUI)
• Amysoft Lycurgus Groningen (BEL).

As for the Challenge Cup (33 teams signed up), the better side from the clash between Austria’s UVC Holding Graz and winners of the BVA Cup (Balkan Volleyball Association Cup) will join 31 clubs:

• Allianz Powervolley Milano (ITA)
• Ziraat Bankası SK Ankara (TUR)
• AS Cannes VB (FRA)
• Nantes Rezé Métropole (FRA)
• Calcit Volley Kamnik (SLO)
• Sport Lisboa e Benfica (POR)
• SC Portugal Lisboa (POR)
• Fonte Bastardo Azores (POR)
• VC Barkom-Kazhany Lviv (UKR)
• Epicentr-Podolyany Horodok (UKR)
• Dinamo București (ROU)
• Saarema VK (EST)
• Pärnu VK (EST)
• Helios Grizzlys Giesen (GER)
• Lausanne UC (SUI)
• Lindaren Volley Luzern (SUI)
• VK Lvi Praha (CZE)
• Marek Union Ivkoni Dupnitsa (BUL)
• Tiikerit Kokkola (FIN)
• OK Partizan Belgrade (SRB)
• Omonia Nicosia (CYP)
• VRCK Kazincbarcika (HUN)
• Hapoel Kfar Saba (ISR)
• Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT)
• UVC Weberzeile Ried (AUT)
• OK Vardar Skopje (MKD)
• Gio Strumica (MKD)
• Sollentuna VK (SWE)
• TIF Viking Bergen (NOR)
• RTU-R Jūrmala (LAT)
• SK Jēkabpils Lūši (LAT).