A season to remember for Sir Susa Scai Perugia, who, by winning the 2026 CEV Champions League (under the name Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia), concluded the 2025/26 season with a quadruple of trophies, having also won the Italian Championship, Club World Cup, and Super Cup, in addition to the Champions League. An impressive run by Lorenzetti’s men, revisited here through the numbers and figures of their successes, both international and otherwise.
Sunday night’s victory marked Perugia’s second consecutive Champions League victory, following the one last May 18th against Zawiercie, with the Block Devils prevailing in a tie-break.
Italy’s treble of European successes follows Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza’s victories in the CEV Cup and Allianz Milano’s victory in the CEV Challenge Cup. This is a slew of trophies in the same season, a feat not seen since 2010/11, despite numerous continental successes by Serie A teams in Europe. That season, Trentino Volley won the Champions League, Sisley Treviso won the CEV Cup, and Lube Banca Marche Macerata lifted the Challenge Cup.
Perugia’s victory marks the third consecutive season in which Italian clubs have won the CEV Champions League: Trento in 2023/24, and Perugia in the last two editions.
The victory achieved at the Inalpi Arena in Turin is also the 82nd victory for an Italian club in Europe (8 Challenge Cups, 28 CEV Cups, 22 European Cups – Champions League, 14 Cup Winners’ Cups, 9 European Super Cups and 1 Top Teams Club), as well as the 95th in international competition (including the 13 Club World Cups won by A1 and SuperLega teams).
In the 2025/26 edition of the CEV Champions League, Sir embarked on a clean run with six wins in the group stage and two in the quarterfinals, in addition to two wins without conceding a set at the Inalpi Arena: 10 victories.
The final awards ceremony was all black and white: Massimo Colaci was named MVP of the event, as well as the best libero of the continental competition. The award for best coach also went to Angelo Lorenzetti.
Sir also becomes one of the 5 teams capable of winning at least two consecutive CEV Champions Leagues, thus reaching Trentino Volley – which won three Champions Leagues from 2008/09 to 2010/11 –, as well as Zenit Kazan, capable of winning four consecutive titles between 2014/15 and 2017/18, Grupa Azoty Kędzierzyn-Koźle, winner of three editions in a row from 2020/21 to 2022/23, and Belogorie Belgorod
- Kamil Semeniuk won his fourth Champions League title, having played in exactly four finals: twice with Perugia and twice with Polish club Kedzierzyn Kozle (in 2020/21 and 2021/22).
Massimo Colaci secured his third victory, appearing in his fourth final: once with Trentino BetClic in 2010/11 and twice with Perugia.
Angelo Lorenzetti reached the Champions League final for the sixth time, with four different clubs (Modena, Piacenza, Trento, and Perugia). Only Vladimir Alekno (seven) has reached more finals in his career among coaches.
Lorenzetti (62) confirmed his status as the oldest coach to reach a Champions League final, a record he held since last season. Furthermore, alongside Roberto Masciarelli, he is also the youngest coach to reach the final of Europe’s premier club competition (at 38, in 2002/03, leading Modena).
Perugia also won 27 of 28 international matches under Lorenzetti. Their only defeat came in the Champions League group stage against Halkbank Ankara in the 2024/25 edition.
This was Sir’s fourth trophy of the season, following the Scudetto of the SuperLega Credem Banca in May, the Del Monte®Supercoppa in Trieste in early March, and the Club World Championship in Brazil in December.
If the Club World Cup is included, the 2010/11 season remains the “golden” one for Italian clubs: BetClic Trentino, in fact, became World Champions in Doha, confirming their victory the previous year. A season that brought home all four international trophies for Italian teams.
This is the 19th trophy for President Gino Sirci’s club in the Super League and internationally: the second in Europe (after last year’s Champions League) and the fifth in international competition, including the three editions of the Club World Cup (2022, 2023, 2025).
In the last three sporting seasons (2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26) the Block Devils have won ten trophies: 2 Italian Championships (2023/24 and 2025/26), 3 Super Cups (2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26), 1 Italian Cup (2024/25), 2 Champions Leagues (2024/25 and 2025/26) and 2 Club World Cups (2023/24 and 2025/26).
