VBC Voléro Zurich
| Volero Zurich | |||
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| Surname | Volero Zurich AG | ||
| founding | 1973 | ||
| Colours | Purple and white | ||
| president |
 Stav Jacobi
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| Website | [1] | ||
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| Head coach |
 Avital Selinger
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| Venue | Indoor sports hall, sports hall in Birch | ||
| Places | 3000 | ||
| league | NLA | ||
| 2016/17 | 1st rank | ||
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Volero Zurich is a volleyball club from the city of Zurich . It was founded in 1973. The home games are played in the sports hall Im Birch in Oerlikon . Special encounters, such as the CEV Champions League, are held in the Saalsporthalle Zurich. The VBC Voléro Zurich currently has around 180 active members, 120 of whom are junior, and 15 teams take part in the current championships.
Sporting successes
The men's department was extremely successful in the 1970s. The team became Swiss champions in 1977 and cup winners in 1975 and 1978. In addition, the quarter-finals were reached in the European Championship. In the new millennium, the women's sector was decisively professionalized and a public limited company was founded. This resulted in thirteen double wins from 2005 to 2018 . There were also ten participations in the Champions League. The Final Four tournament of the Champions League 2006/07 was held in the Zurich Hallenstadion and received a lot of attention thanks to international live broadcasts. In 2006 the VBC Voléro Zurich received the Sports Prize of the City of Zurich. In 2015 and 2017 they won the bronze medal at the FIVB Club World Championship . In 2018 it was announced that Volero Zurich is withdrawing from the highest Swiss league and will participate in the French league under a new name from the 2018/2019 season.
Successes of the Volero women:
- 2004: Promotion to NLA
- 2005: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2005: Sports Prize of the City of Zurich
- 2006: Swiss champion and cup winner
- 2007: 4th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2007: Swiss Champion, Cup Winner, Supercup
- 2007: 1st place at the Women's Top Volley Basel
- 2008: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2008: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2009: 2nd place U21 Inter A SM
- 2009: 3rd place in the Swiss championship
- 2010: 3rd place U21 Inter A SM
- 2010: Swiss Champion, Cup Winner, Supercup
- 2010: 1st place at the Women's Top Volley Basel
- 2011: 2nd place U22 Inter A SM
- 2011: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2011: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2012: 9th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2012: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2013: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2013: Group stage in the CEV Champions League
- 2013: 4th place in the FIVB Club World Championship
- 2014: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2014: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2014: 4th place in the FIVB Club World Championship
- 2015: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2015: 3rd place in the FIVB Club World Championship
- 2016: Swiss champion, cup winner
- 2016: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2017: Swiss champions, cup winners
- 2017: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
- 2017: 3rd place in the FIVB Club World Championship
- 2018: Swiss champions, cup winners
- 2018: 5th place in the CEV Champions League
2013-2014 season
With the eighth double win, Voléro Zürich secured direct entry into the CEV Volleyball Champions League for the first time. The goal is to reach the playoff phase. The new direction decided by the double winner to position Voléro Zurich as a top European club already took shape in spring 2013. For the intense 2013–2014 season with the Club World Championship, Champions League, Women's Top Volley, NLA and Swiss Cup, the Zurich club has strengthened itself with experienced players: On the one hand, the returnee Mira Golubvic, on the other hand, the Brazilian setter Karine Guerra de Souza and the top Cuban player Kenya Carcaces Opon and the Libera Yuko Sano. Together with the existing Volero players Nneka Onyejekwe, Nadia Ninkovic, Inès Granvorka, Laura Unternährer and Karla Klaric as well as the young talents Jovana Gogić and Yevgeniya Nyukhalova, the Zurich club forms a well-mixed collective.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Takeover of Le Cannet - Volero will play in France next season. March 2, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .