The five groups for the 2026 CEV Champions League Main Phase were announced this morning following the draw held at the European Broadcasting Centre in Luxembourg. Trentino Itas will begin its fourteenth participation in the top continental club tournament, having already won it four times, in Pool A, which includes Turkish side Ziraat Bankkart Ankara (who faced them in the CEV Cup semifinals in March), French side Tours, and a team that qualified from the preliminary rounds (scheduled between October 21 and November 27).
The group stage consists of a total of six matches, divided into two groups, and will begin on December 10, 2025, and conclude on February 18, 2026. The top two teams from each group and the best third-place finisher will advance to the playoffs; The five second-place teams and the best third-place finisher will play the round of 16 with home-and-away matches (March 4 and 11), which will qualify three teams for the quarterfinals, where the top-placed teams from each pool automatically advance.
This, in detail, is Trentino Itas’s path in Pool A of the 2026 CEV Champions League Main Phase. The dates listed are indicative; for television reasons, matches may be played a day earlier or later (the official dates and times will be announced in a few days).
1ª giornata – 10 dicembre 2025
Trentino Itas-vincitrice turno preliminare
2ª giornata – 7 gennaio 2026
Tours Vb-Trentino Itas
3ª giornata – 21 gennaio 2026
Ziraat Bankkart Ankara-Trentino Itas
4ª giornata – 28 gennaio 2026
Trentino Itas-Tours VB
5ª giornata – 11 febbraio 2026
vincitrice turno preliminare-Trentino Itas
6ª giornata – 18 febbraio 2026
Trentino Itas-Ziraat Bankkart Ankara
I gironi della Main Phase:
POOL A: Trentino Itas (Italia), Ziraat Bankkart Ankara (Turchia), Tours VB (Francia), vincitrice di un turno preliminare.
POOL B: Bogdanka LUK Lublin (Polonia), Galatasaray Istanbul (Turchia), Knack Roeselare (Belgio), Halkbank Ankara (Turchia).
POOL C: Berlin Recycling Volleys (Germania), Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia (Italia), VK Lvi Praha (Repubblica Ceca), vincitrice di un turno preliminare.
POOL D: Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie (Polonia), SVG Lüneburg (Germania), Sporting CP Lisboa (Portogallo), Asseco Resovia Rzeszow (Polonia)
POOL E: Cucine Lube Civitanova (Italia), PGE Projekt Warszawa (Polonia), Volley Haasrode Leuven (Belgio), Montpellier HSC VB (Francia).
Squadre impegnate nei turni preliminari: TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg (Austria), Azzerrail Baku (Azerbaijan), OK Napredak Odzak (Bosnia ed Erzegovina), Mol Mursa Osijek (Croazia), Guaguas Las Palmas (Spagna), Akaa Volley (Finlandia), Olympiacos Piraeus (Grecia), MAV Foxconn Szekesfehervar (Ungheria), VC Strumica Strumica (Macedonia del Nord), Orion Stars Doetinchem (Olanda), Dinamo Bucuresti (Romania), ACH Volley Ljubljana (Slovenia), Radnicki Kragujevac (Serbia).
