Challenge Cup 2011/12 (men)

The 2011/12 volleyball season of the Challenge Cup began with the first round on October 22, 2011 and ended with the final on March 31, 2012.

mode

The first two rounds were played in the knockout system with two legs. In the third round, the sixteen winners of the second round were joined by the teams that were eliminated in the first round of the CEV Cup . Until the final, it continued in the knockout system with two legs.

Attendees

Albania Teuta Durrës  Belgium Prefaxis Menen  Bosnia and Herzegovina Jedinstvo Brčko  Bulgaria CHP Gabrovo  Germany evivo Düren  Finland Etta Oulu Sampo Pielavesi  France Rennes Volley 35  Greece Olympiacos Piraeus  Israel Hapoel Kfar Saba  Italy Casa Modena Unibon

Luxembourg VC streets  Netherlands Long handle volleyball Doetinchem Abiant Lycurgus Groningen  Norway Nyborg Bergen  Austria HotVolleys Vienna VCA Hypo Lower Austria Amstetten  Portugal Fonte Bastardo Azores  Poland Politechnika Warszawska  Romania CVM Tomis Constanța Universitatea Cluj  Russia VK Dynamo Krasnodar

Switzerland Volley Amriswil Chenois Geneva  Serbia OK Radnički Kragujevac OK Vojvodina  Slovakia Chemes Humenné  Czech Republic VK Dukla Liberec  Turkey Galatasaray Istanbul  Belarus Kommunalnik Grodno Metallurgist Schlobin Stroitel Minsk  Cyprus Pokka AE Karava Nea Salamis Famagusta

game schedule

First and second round

First round (22/23 and 29/30 October)
Schlobin	Mountains	3: 1	3: 1
Grodno	Cluj	3-0	3: 2
Bye for all other participants

Second round (13-15 and 20-22 December)
Vienna	Karava	0: 3	0: 3
Doetinchem	Pielavesi	2: 3	3: 1
Humenné	Rennes	1: 3	0: 3
Schlobin	Warsaw	1: 3	2: 3
Azores	Düren	3-0	3: 2
Modena	Streets	3-0	0: 3
Liberec	Amriswil	2: 3	3: 2
Kragujevac	Men	3: 1	1: 3
Istanbul	Durrës	3-0	3-0
NS Famagusta	Gabrovo	3-0	3: 2
Krasnodar	Grodno	3: 1	3-0
Piraeus	Kfar Saba	3-0	3: 1
Amstetten	Novi Sad	3: 1	3: 2
Brčko	Constanța	1: 3	0: 3
Geneva	Groningen	1: 3	2: 3
Oulu	Minsk	1: 3	1: 3
Decision set	Strassen - Modena 15: 5 Amriswil - Liberec 15:10 Menen - Kragujevac 15: 9

Third round to final

	Third round January 10th - 12th January 17th - 19th					Round of 16 January 31 - February 2 February 7 - 9					Quarter-finals February 21-23 February 28-1 March					Semi-finals March 14th and 17th					Finals March 27th and March 31st
		Bucharest	0 2
		Krasnodar	3 3
							Krasnodar	3 1
							Warsaw	0 3
		Kaštela	0 0
		Warsaw	3 3
												Warsaw	3 3
												Kharkiv	1 2
		Kharkiv	3 3
		Amriswil	0 0
							Kharkiv	3 3
							Istanbul	1 2
		Kakanj	2 0
		Istanbul	3 3
																	Constanța	2 1
																	Warsaw	3 3
		Baia Mare	1 0
		Constanța	3 3
							NS Famagusta	0
							Constanța	3
		A. Famagusta	1 0
		NS Famagusta	3 3
												Constanța	3 3
												Tel Aviv	0 1
		Piraeus	3 3
		Tampere	0 0
							Piraeus	3 1
							Tel Aviv	1 3
		Tel Aviv	3 3
		Streets	0 1
																						Warsaw	1 3
																						Czestochowa	3 2
		Rennes	3 3
		Zagreb	0 1
							Rennes	3 2
							Minsk	1 3
		Minsk	3 3
		Aich / Dob	2 0
												Czestochowa	3 1
												Rennes	1 3
		Azores	0 1
		Czestochowa	3 3
							Czestochowa	3 2
							Almeria	1 3
		Almeria	3 3
		Groningen	0 2
																	Czestochowa	3 3
																	Men	1 1
		Doetinchem	2 3
		Tallinn	3 0
							Tallinn	2 3
							Lausanne	3 2
		Amstetten	2 2
		Lausanne	3 3
												Lausanne	0 0
												Men	3 3
		Kamnik	1 0
		Men	3 3
							Men	3 3
							Karava	0 0
		Rovaniemi	1 2
		Karava	3 3

Decision set
Third round	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
Tallinn - Doetinchem 15:13	Warsaw - Krasnodar 15: 8 Tel Aviv - Piraeus 15:12 Minsk - Rennes 13:15 Almería - Częstochowa 14:16 Lausanne - Tallinn 3:12 pm	Rennes - Częstochowa 11:15	no	Częstochowa - Warsaw 18:16

Web links

• Challenge Cup 2011/12

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The second game between Famagusta and Constanța was canceled due to bad weather.