Volleyball European Cup 1984/85 (women)

The European Women's Cup 1984/85 was the 25th edition of the competition, in which 27 volleyball club teams from 26 countries took part. ADK Alma-Ata secured the European Cup, which was also the eighteenth for teams from the Soviet Union .

Attendees

Albania Dinamo Tirana  Belgium Dilbeek-Itterbeek SC  Bulgaria Levski-Spartak Sofia CSKA Sofia (defending champion)  BR Germany SV Lohhof  Denmark Elsinore KFUM  German Democratic Republic SC Tractor Schwerin  Finland Euran Raiku  France CSM Clamart  Greece Filathlitikos Thessaloniki

Israel Hapoel Na'aman  Italy Teodora Ravenna  Yugoslavia Mladost Zagreb  Luxembourg VC Olympic Luxembourg  Netherlands Ubbink / Orion Doetinchem  Norway Sortland IL  Austria Post SV Vienna  Portugal Leixões SC  Sweden Sollentuna VK

Switzerland Lausanne UC  Soviet Union ADK Alma-Ata  Spain CD Arquitectura  Czechoslovakia Red Star Prague  Turkey Eczacıbaşı Istanbul  Hungary Tungsram Budapest  United Kingdom Hillingdon VC  Cyprus AEL Limassol

mode

From the elimination round to the quarter-finals, the teams played in a knockout system . There were return games in every round. After the quarter-finals, the last four teams determined the European Cup winner in a final round tournament.

Elimination round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Elsinore KFUM	1: 6	Ubbink / Orion Doetinchem	1: 3	0: 3
Red Star Prague	6 : 1	Mladost Zagreb	3-0	3: 1
AEL Limassol		Dinamo Tirana	:	:
Dilbeek-Itterbeek SC	5 : 4	Sollentuna VK	2: 3	3: 1
Euran Raiku	0: 6	SC Tractor Schwerin	0: 3	0: 3
CSM Clamart	6 : 0	Leixões SC	3-0	3-0
VC Olympic Luxembourg	0: 6	Lausanne UC	0: 3	0: 3
Tungsram Budapest	6 : 0	CD Arquitectura	3-0	3-0
Sortland IL	1: 6	Hillingdon VC	1: 3	0: 3
Levski-Spartak Sofia	6 : 0	Filathlitikos Thessaloniki	3-0	3-0
Post SV Vienna	6 : 0	Hapoel Na'aman	3-0	3-0

1. ↑ Dinamo Tirana continued without a fight

With a bye , Teodora Ravenna, ADK Alma-Ata, Eczacıbaşı Istanbul, SV Lohhof and defending champion CSKA Sofia made it directly to the round of 16.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Teodora Ravenna	4 : 3	Dinamo Tirana	3-0	1: 3
Dilbeek-Itterbeek SC	1: 6	CSKA Sofia	0: 3	1: 3
ADK Alma-Ata	6 : 1	SC Tractor Schwerin	3-0	3: 1
Eczacıbaşı Istanbul	2: 6	Tungsram Budapest	2: 3	0: 3
SV Lohhof	6 : 1	Post SV Vienna	3-0	3: 1
CSM Clamart	1: 6	Lausanne UC	1: 3	0: 3
Ubbink / Orion Doetinchem	3: 6	Red Star Prague	2: 3	1: 3
Levski-Spartak Sofia	6 : 0	Hillingdon VC	3-0	3-0

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Red Star Prague	1: 6	Teodora Ravenna	0: 3	1: 3
CSKA Sofia	1: 6	ADK Alma-Ata	0: 3	1: 3
Lausanne UC	3: 6	Tungsram Budapest	2: 3	1: 3
Levski-Spartak Sofia	4: 6	SV Lohhof	2: 3	2: 3

Final round

The final round took place from February 8th to 10th in the Italian city ​​of Ravenna .

Games

date		Result
Fri 0.February 8th	ADK Alma-Ata	3 : 0	Tungsram Budapest
Fri 0.February 8th	Teodora Ravenna	3 : 0	SV Lohhof
Sat 0February 9th	Tungsram Budapest	3 : 2	SV Lohhof
Sat 0February 9th	ADK Alma-Ata	3 : 1	Teodora Ravenna
So February 10th	ADK Alma-Ata	3 : 0	SV Lohhof
So February 10th	Teodora Ravenna	3 : 1	Tungsram Budapest

Closing table

Pl.	society	S.	N	sentences	Points
1	ADK Alma-Ata	3	-	9: 1	6th
2	Teodora Ravenna	2	1	7: 4	5
3	Tungsram Budapest	1	2	4: 8	4th
4th	SV Lohhof	-	3	2: 9	3

 European Cup winner

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport85. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1985, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 304 .
• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (1984-1985).