Italy: 3rd title for Perugia! Civitanova defeated in four sets in Game 3
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After a straight sets home win of Sir Susa Scai Perugia in Game 1 last Thursday, and an exciting Game 2 in Civitanova that saw Perugia ahead 2-0 in the best-of-five series, 2025/26 Superlega CredemBanca Final continued today with another thrilling battle at a very hot full-packed PalaBarton
The visiting side, just like Game 2, started strong showing great composure and winning first set closed by a decisive Mattia Bottolo from the serve’s line, author of the ace of 23-24, and a counterattack from Aleksandar Nikolov, 25-27.
Civitanova continued to push the hosts’ to the limit, putting down the ball of 14-18 with an ace from Eric Loeppky and also the one of 14-20. Error at serve from Agustin Loser, who replaced injured Sebastian Solé, forced to leave the court at the very beginning of this second set, and 21-24 for Civitanova. The set is over? Absolutely not, as the great reaction of Perugia reopen the set, then closed overtime again, 26-24, by a great point from Kamil Semeniuk.
And the Perugia never looked back, claiming the third National title after 2017/18 and 2023/24, under the command of a great head coach, Angelo Lorenzetti. For him this was the sixth title after Modena 2001/02, Piacenza 2008/09, Modena 2015/16, Trento 2022/23 Perugia 2023/24 and Perugia 2025/26.
Another great protagonist of the success was libero Massimo Colaci in what was his last game in Superlega, and he will officially close his glorious career with 2025/26 CEV Champions League Final Four. With Perugia’s jersey, he won everything: 2 titles, Champions
League, Club World Championship, Italian Cups and Italian Supercups.
On Game 3, Wassim Ben Tara led the charge once again with 18 points to his name through 65% in attack and 3 of the winners’ 7 aces, while Oleh Plotnytskyi and Kamil Semeniuk added 14 and 13 points, respectively.
On the other side of the net Aleksandar Nikolov topped all scorers winning a set by himself, tallying 25 points, all in attack, through 56%.
But for Perugia the season is not over yet as they’ll face Champions of Türkiye Ziraat Bankkart in second semifinal of Champions League in Turin.
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🇮🇹| 2025/26 Superlega CredemBanca | FINAL
Game 1 | Thursday April 30, 2026
• 8.30pm (Local Time) | Sir Susa Scai Perugia – Cucine Lube Civitanova 3-0 (25:21, 25:17, 25:22) Series: 1-0
📸| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
👉🏼Game 2 | Sunday May 3, 2026
• 6.00pm (Local Time) | Cucine Lube Civitanova – Sir Susa Scai Perugia 1-3 (25:21, 22:25, 22:25, 23:25) Series: 0-2
📸| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
👉🏼Game 3 | Wednesday May 6, 2026
• 8.30pm (Local Time) | Sir Susa Scai Perugia – Cucine Lube Civitanova 3-1 (25:27, 26:24, 25:22, 25:20) Series: 3-0
📸| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
Sir Susa Scai Perugia: Giannelli 5, Plotnytskyi 14, Solé 4, Ben Tara 18, Semeniuk 13, Russo 4, Gaggini (L), Argilagos 0, Dzavoronok 0, Loser 4, Colaci (L), Ishikawa 0. N.E. Cvanciger, Crosato. Coach. Lorenzetti.
Cucine Lube Civitanova: Boninfante 1, Bottolo 16, Gargiulo 4, Loeppky 15, Nikolov 25, Podrascanin 7, Kukartsev (L), D’Heer 1, Orduna 1, Bisotto 0, Balaso (L), Duflos-Rossi 1, Tenorio 0. N.E. Hfaiedh. Coach. Medei.
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