Volleyball European Cup 1984/85 (men)

The 1984/85 European Cup was the 26th edition of the competition, in which 28 volleyball club teams from 27 countries took part. Santal Parma from Italy successfully defended his title from the previous year and again relegated Mladost Zagreb from Yugoslavia to second place. For the first time since 1979 a team from the GDR took part in the competition.

Attendees

Albania Dinamo Tirana  Belgium Ibis Kortrijk  Bulgaria CSKA Sofia  BR Germany USC casting  Denmark VKV Gladsaxe  German Democratic Republic TSC Berlin  Finland Raision Loimu  France Asnières Sports  Greece Panathinaikos Athens

Israel Hapoel HaMapil  Italy CUS Turin Santal Parma (defending champion)  Yugoslavia Mladost Zagreb  Luxembourg VC Bonnevoie  Netherlands Brother Martinus  Austria Club A. Tyrolia Vienna  Poland CWKS Legia Warsaw  Portugal Esmoriz Ginásio Clube  Romania Dinamo Bucharest

Sweden Sollentuna VK  Switzerland Chenois Geneva  Soviet Union Radiotehnika Riga  Spain Sanitas CV Madrid  Czechoslovakia Red Star Prague  Turkey Eczacıbaşı Istanbul  Hungary Tungsram Budapest  United Kingdom Capital City Spikers  Cyprus APOEL Nicosia

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
Red Star Prague	5 : 3	Eczacıbaşı Istanbul	3-0	2: 3
CUS Turin	6 : 2	Sanitas CV Madrid	3-0	3: 2
Dinamo Bucharest	6 : 1	Panathinaikos Athens	3-0	3: 1
Chenois Geneva	0: 6	Club A. Tyrolia Vienna	0: 3	0: 3
Sollentuna VK	2: 6	Brother Martinus	2: 3	0: 3
CSKA Sofia	3 : 3	Dinamo Tirana	3-0	0: 3
VC Bonnevoie	0: 6	Capital City Spikers	0: 3	0: 3
Ibis Kortrijk	4: 5	Tungsram Budapest	3: 2	1: 3
Asnières Sports	4: 6	Raision Loimu	2: 3	2: 3
Hapoel HaMapil	6 : 0	APOEL Nicosia	3-0	3-0
USC casting		VKV Gladsaxe	:	:
TSC Berlin	6 : 0	Esmoriz Ginásio Clube	3-0	3-0

1. ↑ VKV Gladsaxe continued without a fight

By a bye Legia Warsaw, Radiotehnika Riga, Mladost Zagreb and defending Santal Parma moved directly into the knockout stages.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Red Star Prague	5 : 4	Legia Warsaw	3: 1	2: 3
Club A. Tyrolia Vienna	0: 6	Radiotehnika Riga	0: 3	0: 3
Brother Martinus	2: 6	Santal Parma	1: 3	1: 3
TSC Berlin	3: 5	Mladost Zagreb	3: 2	0: 3
Tungsram Budapest	3: 3	Raision Loimu	3-0	0: 3
Hapoel HaMapil	2: 6	VKV Gladsaxe	1: 3	1: 3
CSKA Sofia	6 : 0	Capital City Spikers	3-0	3-0
CUS Turin	3: 4	Dinamo Bucharest	3: 1	0: 3

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Red Star Prague	4 : 3	Dinamo Bucharest	3-0	1: 3
Radiotehnika Riga	3: 6	Santal Parma	1: 3	2: 3
CSKA Sofia	6 : 0	Raision Loimu	3-0	3-0
VKV Gladsaxe	2: 6	Mladost Zagreb	2: 3	0: 3

Final round

The final round took place from February 15 to 17 in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

Games

date		Result
Friday .February 15th	Santal Parma	3 : 1	Mladost Zagreb
Friday .February 15th	CSKA Sofia	3 : 0	Red Star Prague
Saturday February 16	Mladost Zagreb	3 : 1	CSKA Sofia
Saturday February 16	Santal Parma	3 : 1	Red Star Prague
So February 17th	Mladost Zagreb	3 : 1	Red Star Prague
So February 17th	Santal Parma	3 : 2	CSKA Sofia

Closing table

Pl.	society	S.	N	sentences	Points
1	Santal Parma	3	-	9: 4	6th
2	Mladost Zagreb	2	1	7: 5	5
3	CSKA Sofia	1	2	6: 6	4th
4th	Red Star Prague	-	3	2: 9	3

 European Cup winner

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport85. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1985, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 303-304 .
• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (1984-1985).