Italian League 2011/2012

Italian League will start 9 october, just after European Championship.

Its scheduled in the calendar a break time for the World Cup, between 31 october and 19 november. (or for the European Olympic qualification - 1 to 6 may, or yet the World Olympic quali from 19 to 27 may - depending if Italy will have to play or not)

Supercoppa -
23/11/2011 - Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo x MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese

Coppa Italia -
Final Four will happen 28 and 29/01/2012

(Its not known yet if it will participate the best 6 teams in the Italian league qualification or the best 8, it will depend if some club will want to host the Final Four or not. If so, it will be the best 6, if not, and the Final Four be played in a neutral gym, then the best 8 will be qualified - the games no matter what will be played in just one match in the home of those teams that are better quali in Italian league)

Formula - Italian League 11/12:

They will change a little bit the playoffs formula. They will come back making the best 8 team qualifying directly to quarter finals (last seasons the best 6 teams quali to quarters and the teams between 7 to 10º position used to play between them to decide witch two teams qualified to quarters as well)

Another change is the number of games in semifinal. This season The semifinal will be decided in best of 3 games, like the quarters. Just the final will be decided in best of 5 games.

I'll put the teams for next season so far:

subtitles: ? - rumor; black - confirmed, blue - arriving, red - leaving

Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo:

S: Serena, Signorile
Opp: Quaranta, Diouf
OH: Piccinini, Vasileva, Di Iulio
MB: Arrighetti, Nucu, Ruseva
L: Merlo, Gabbiadini

Leaving: Bosetti (Villa Cortese), Ortolani (Pesaro), Lo Bianco (Galatasaray - TUR), Zambelli (Santa Croce - A2), Carrara (Icos Crema (A2), Fanzini (Crema)

MC- Carnaghi Villa Cortese:

S: Berg, Pincerato
Opp: Pavan, C. Bosetti
OH: Cruz, L. Bosetti, Barborkova
MB: Guiggi, Wilson, Stufi
L: Carocci, Puerari

Leaving: Aguero (Modena), Hodge (Sopot - POL), Cardullo (RC Cannes - FRA), Anzanello (Azerrail - AZE), Calloni (VC Baku - AZE), Rondon (Crema - A2), Negrini ?

Asystel Novara:

S: Bechis, Camera
Opp: Barun, Nomikou
MB: Veljkovic, Folie, Frigo
OH: Barcellini, Horvath, Malagurski, Viganò
L: Sansonna, Zardo

Leaving: Nesovic (A2), Lombardo (A2), Paolini (A2)

Yamamay Busto Arsizio:

S: Carli Lloyd, Caracuda
Opp: Havlickova, Meijners
OH: Havelkova, Marcon, Lotti
MB: Bauer, Dall’Ora, Pisani
L: Leonardi, Bisconti

Leaving: Carocci (Villa), Serena (Bergamo), Crisanti (Urbino), Campanari (Parma), Valeriano (Modena), Kim (Busnago - A2)

Scavolini Pesaro:

S: Ferretti, Agostinetto
Opp: Ortolani, Ampudia
OH: Brinker, Klineman, Saccomani
MB: Okuniewska, Manzano, Musti De Gennaro
L: Monica De Gennaro, ?

Leaving: Flier (Toray Arrows - JPN), Guiggi (Villa), S. Usic (Eczacibasi - TUR), Olivotto (Pomì Casalmaggiore), Gasimova (VC-Baki - AZE),Pascucci ?

Robur Tiboni Urbino Volley:

S: Skorupa, McNamee
Opp: Djerisilo, Lise Van Hecke
OH: Blagojevic, Faucette, Tirozzi
MB: Crisanti, Garzaro, Gentili
L: Siressi

Leaving: Di Iulio (Bergamo), Petrauskaite (D. Krasnodar - RUS), Makare Wilson (Villa), Leonardi (Busto), Dalia (Parma), Renatinha (VC Baku - AZE), Jaline ?

LIU•JO Volley Modena:

S: Fernandinha, Francesca Mari
Opp: Aguero
OH: Partenio, Valeriano, Barboza, Rinieri
MB: Harmotto, Barazza, Paggi, Marinkovic (also Opp?)
L: Croce

Leaving: Secolo (Crema - A2), Devetag (Crema - A2), Bacchi (Parma), Matuszkova?, Paris ?

Spes Conegliano:

S: Weiss, Ainsworth
Opp: Nikolova
OH: Richards, Angeloni, Nemtanu
MB: Crozzolin, Malvestito, Martinuzzo
L: Rossetto, Daminato

Leaving: Rabadzieva (Rabita), Marinkovic (Modena), Dirickx (Dabrowa Gornicza), Gioli (Fakel - RUS), Turlea (Piacenza), Sangiulliano (Le Cannet - FRA), Seragin (Fakel - RUS as physical trainer), Fiorin (JPN)

Famila Generali Chieri:

S: Giogoli, Vietti
Opp: Hippe, Zetova
OH: Sorokaite, Arimattei, Grazietti
MB: Borgogno, Corvese, Pavlovic
L: Borri, Zauri

Cariparma SiGrade Parma:

S: Dalia, Galeotti
Opp: Kenny Moreno, Conti
OH: Grotheus, Bacchi, Okaka, Roani
MB: Campanari, Kovalenko, Brusegan
L: Poma, Gibertini

Leaving: Pincerato (Villa), Musti De Gennaro (Pesaro)

Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza:

S: DallÌgna, Callegaro
Opp: Turlea, Kajalina
OH: Scarabelli, Cella, Pachale, Lehtonen
MB: Leggeri, Nicolini, ?
L: Davis, Mazzocchi

Riso Scotti Pavia:

S: Balboni
Opp: Maricic, Vokshi (also OH)
OH: Gennari, Bramborova
MB: Koeva, Lamb, Antignano
L: Barbieri, Fiori

Well, from Foppa site nothing is official yet, but all newspapers in Bergamo confirmed Di Iulio and Quaranta there also.

The teams that made the inscrition in A1 for next season are:

• GSO Pallavolo Femminile Villa Cortese
• Volley Bergamo
• Robursport Pesaro
• Robur Tiboni Volley Urbino
• Futura Volley Busto Arsizio
• Asystel Volley Novara
• Spes Conegliano
• Universal Volley Modena
• Parma Volley Girls
• Chieri Volley Club

Perugia and Castellana wont participate indeed.

3 teams from A2 asked to be the reserve teams to play in A1 (and in that case get Perugia and Castellana vacancies):
River Volley Piacenza;
Pallavolo Villanterio Pavia;
Volley 2002 Forlì.

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