Volley Lube

Volley Lube
Associazione Sportiva Volley Lube is a professional volleyball team based in Treia, Italy. Since 1995 the club has been playing in the Serie A of the Italian Volleyball League. It won the Italian Championship seven times, the Italian Cup five times, and the Italian SuperCup three-times.
At European level, Lube won two CEV Champions League in 2002 and 2019, the CEV Cup in 2001, 2005, 2006 and a CEV Challenge Cup 2011. In 2019, it won the FIVB Men's Club World Volleyball Championship.
Achievements
CEV Champions League
(×2) 2002, 2019
(×1) 2018
(×2) 2016, 2017
CEV Challenge Cup
(×4) 2001, 2005, 2006, 2011
(×1) 2003
(×1) 1998
FIVB Club World Championship
(×1) 2019
(×3) 2017, 2018, 2021
Italian Championship
(×7) 2006, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
(×2) 2018, 2023
(×5) 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2013
Italian Cup
(×7) 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2021
(×4) 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019
Italian SuperCup
(×4) 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014
(×7) 2001, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2020, 2022
Former names
1990–1994: Lube Carima Treia
1994–1995: Lube Carima Macerata
1995–2012: Lube Banca Marche Macerata
2012–2014: Cucine Lube Banca Marche Macerata
2014–2015: Cucine Lube Banca Marche Treia
2015–2016: Cucine Lube Banca Marche Civitanova
2016–present: Cucine Lube Civitanova
Grounds
Although until the landing in Serie A2 the team kept the name of the town Treia (a village near Macerata), given the lack of a building or a simple gym it was immediately associated with the PalaFontescodella, which was the historic building of the Lube until 2015. The small capacity of the building (2,100 seats) condemned it to play all the Champions League matches and the important Serie A1 matches in larger arenas around the Marche (Pesaro, Ancona etc ...). After an infinite number of disputes with the Municipality of Macerata (owner of the building) for the expansion of the sports hall, the team decided to accept the offer of the Municipality of Civitanova Marche to move to a new sports hall built by them exclusively for Lube. The new 4,200-seat sports hall was inaugurated in 2015 and was called Eurosuole Forum for sponsorship reasons.
Team
Team roster – season 2023/2024
Notable players
1994–1999 Slobodan Kovač
1996–1998 Andrea Zorzi
1996–2003 Marco Meoni
1997–2001 Simone Rosalba
1997–2002, 2003–2008,2009–2011, 2013–2015 Alessandro Paparoni
1999–2010 Mirko Corsano
2000–2001 Dejan Brđović
2001–2003 Pasquale Gravina
2001–2002, 2003–2008 Andrija Gerić
2001–2005 Marco Bracci
2001–2003 Wout Wijsmans
2002–2003 Edin Škorić
2002–2004 Nalbert Bitencourt
2002–2005 Luigi Mastrangelo
2003–2004 Fabio Vullo
2003–2008 Andrija Gerić
2004–2005 Lorenzo Bernardi
2005–2009 Rodrigão
2007–2010 Sebastian Świderski
2007–2011 Valerio Vermiglio
2009–2010 Alberto Cisolla
2010–2011 Facundo Conte
2010–2011 Romain Vadeleux
2010–2013 Cristian Savani
2012–2014, 2021–present Ivan Zaytsev
2012–2014 Saša Starović
2012–2015 Hubert Henno
2003–2004 Leondino Giombini
2013–2015 Bartosz Kurek
2015 Ricardo Garcia
2008–2016 Marko Podraščanin
2011–2016 Simone Parodi
2014–2016 Alessandro Fei
2000–2007, 2015–2016 Ivan Miljković
2009–2019 Dragan Stanković
2015–2022 Osmany Juantorena
2015–2018 Jenia Grebennikov
2015–2018 Micah Christenson
2016–2019 Tsvetan Sokolov
2017–2018 Taylor Sander
2018–2020 Bruno Rezende
2019–2020 Amir Ghafour
2018–2022 Robertlandy Simón
2021–2022 Ricardo Lucarelli
2021–still Mohammad Taher Vadi
Kit manufacturer
The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Lube team.
Sponsorship
The main sponsor has always been the furniture company Cucine Lube, owner of the team, from 1995 (with the arrival in Serie A1) to 2005 and from 2008 to 2016 another main sponsor was added: the Banca Marche bank. In the 2010/11 season, other shirt sponsors were seen: the agricultural company Oro della Terra, the computer company Macrosoft and the University of Macerata. Banca Marche's successor "UBI Banca" was a main sponsor in the 2017/18 season. From 2018 the subsection of Cucine Lube "Creo Kitchens" appeared in the jersey and from 2019 the company Var Group is also seen.
References
External links
Official website
Team profile at Volleybox.net
Volleyball clubs in Italy
Macerata
Volleyball clubs established in 1990
1990 establishments in Italy