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.

Cucine Lube Civitanova
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Volley Lube
Short nameLube
Founded1990
GroundPalaCivitanova
Civitanova Marche
(Capacity: 4,200)
ChairmanSimona Sileoni
ManagerGiampaolo Medei
CaptainLuciano De Cecco
LeagueItalian Volleyball League
WebsiteClub home page
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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

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Former names

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  • 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

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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

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Team roster – season 2023/2024[2]

No. Name Date of birth Position
1   Barthélémy Chinenyeze (1998-02-28) February 28, 1998 (age 26) Middle blocker
4   Matheus Motzo (1999-09-09) September 9, 1999 (age 25) Opposite
6   Francesco Bisotto (2002-05-20) May 20, 2002 (age 22) Libero
7   Fabio Balaso (1995-10-20) October 20, 1995 (age 29) Libero
9   Ivan Zaytsev (1988-10-02) October 2, 1988 (age 36) Opposite
10   Adis Lagumdžija (1999-03-29) March 29, 1999 (age 25) Opposite
11   Aleksandar Nikolov (2003-11-30) November 30, 2003 (age 20) Outside hitter
12   Enrico Diamantini (1993-04-04) April 4, 1993 (age 31) Middle blocker
15   Luciano De Cecco (1988-06-02) June 2, 1988 (age 36) Setter
17   Simone Anzani (1992-02-24) February 24, 1992 (age 32) Middle blocker
21   Mattia Bottolo (2000-01-03) January 3, 2000 (age 24) Outside hitter
22   Jacopo Larizza (1998-08-22) August 22, 1998 (age 26) Middle blocker
23   Marlon Yant (2001-05-23) May 23, 2001 (age 23) Outside hitter
Head coach:   Gianlorenzo Blengini
Assistant:   Romano Giannini

Notable players

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Kit manufacturer

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The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Lube team.

Period Kit provider
1997–2014 Champion
Nike
Asics
Mizuno
Erreà
2014-2017 Mikasa
2017- Joma

Sponsorship

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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 Macrosoft 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

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  1. ^ Carly Demarque (2017-02-14). "Cucine Lube Civitanova Wins Fifth Italian Cup Over Diatec Trentino". VolleyMob. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  2. ^ "Lente d'ingrandimento sulle rivali della Lube. I roster ufficiali della SuperLega Credem Banca 2023/24 - Lube Volley - Official Web Site". www.lubevolley.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-13.
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