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 (×8) 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2025 (×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 No.NameDate of birthPosition 1 Barthélémy ChinenyezeMiddle blocker 4 Matheus MotzoOpposite 6 Francesco BisottoLibero 7 Fabio BalasoLibero 9 Ivan Zaytsev Opposite 10 Adis LagumdžijaOpposite 11 Aleksandar Nikolov Outside hitter 12 Enrico DiamantiniMiddle blocker 15 Luciano De CeccoSetter 17 Simone AnzaniMiddle blocker 21 Mattia BottoloOutside hitter 22 Jacopo LarizzaMiddle blocker 23 Marlon YantOutside hitter Head coach: Gianlorenzo BlenginiAssistant: Romano Giannini
Team roster - season 2022/2023No.NameDate of birthPosition 1 Gabi García Fernándezopposite 3 Daniele Sottilesetter 6 Francesco D'Amicolibero 7 Fabio Balasolibero 9 Ivan Zaytsev opposite 10 Barthélémy Chinenyezemiddle blocker 11 Aleksandar Nikolov outside hitter 12 Enrico Diamantinimiddle blocker 13 Mattia Gottardooutside hitter 14 Ionut Ambrosemiddle blocker 15 Luciano De Ceccosetter 17 Simone Anzanimiddle blocker 21 Mattia Bottolooutside hitter 23 Marlon Yantoutside hitter Head coach: Gianlorenzo BlenginiAssistant: Romano Giannini
Team roster - season 2021/2022No.NameDate of birthPosition Gabi García Fernándezopposite Jiří Kovářoutside hitter Daniele Sottilesetter Andrea Marchisiolibero Osmany Juantorena ()outside hitter Rok Jerončičmiddle blocker Fabio Balasolibero Ricardo Lucarellioutside hitter Ivan Zaytsev opposite / outside hitter 12 Enrico Diamantinioutside hitter 13 Robertlandy Simónmiddle blocker 15 Luciano De Ceccosetter 17 Simone Anzanimiddle blocker 23 Marlon Yantoutside hitter Head coach: Gianlorenzo BlenginiAssistant: Romano Giannini Team roster - season 2020/2021No.NameDate of birthPosition 2 Jiri Kovar outside hitter 4 Andrea Marchisio libero 5 Osmany Juantorena outside hitter 7 Fabio Balaso libero 9 Yoandy Leal outside hitter 10 Jacopo Larizza middle blocker 11 Kamil Rychlicki opposite 12 Enrico Diamantini middle blocker 13 Robertlandy Simon middle blocker 15 Luciano De Cecco setter 17 Simone Anzani middle blocker 18 Marco Falaschi setter 22 Jan Hadrava opposite 23 Marlon Yant Herrera outside hitter Head coach: Ferdinando de Giorgi (until February 25, 2021), Gianlorenzo Blengini (from February 25, 2021)Assistant: Nicola Giolito (until February 25, 2021), Enrico Massaccesi (from February 25, 2021) Team roster - season 2019/2020No.NameDate of birthPosition 1 Simone Anzani middle blocker 2 Jiri Kovar outside hitter 3 Stijn d'Hulst setter 4 Andrea Marchisio libero 5 Osmany Juantorena outside hitter 6 Jacopo Massari outside hitter 9 Yoandy Leal outside hitter 10 Amir Ghafour opposite 11 Kamil Rychlicki opposite 12 Enrico Diamantini middle blocker 13 Robertlandy Simon middle blocker 14 Bruno Rezende setter 16 Mateusz Bieniek middle blocker 17 Fabio Balaso libero Head coach: Ferdinando de GiorgiAssistant: Nicola Giolito Team roster - season 2018/2019No.NameDate of birthPosition 1 Tsvetan Sokolov opposite 2 Jiri Kovar outside hitter 3 Stijn d'Hulst setter 4 Andrea Marchisio libero 5 Osmany Juantorena outside hitter 6 Jacopo Massari outside hitter 7 Dragan Stanković middle blocker 8 Enrico Diamantini middle blocker 9 Yoandy Leal outside hitter 11 Diego Cantagalli opposite 12 Enrico Cester middle blocker 13 Robertlandy Simon middle blocker / opposite 14 Bruno Rezende setter 17 Fabio Balaso libero Head coach: Ferdinando de GiorgiAssistant: Marco Camperi
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 2024–still Poriya Hossein Khanzadeh
Kit manufacturer The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Lube team.
PeriodKit provider1997–2014ChampionNikeAsicsMizunoErreà2014-2017Mikasa2017-Joma
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 Microsoft 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