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In 2022, the Paykan volleyball team will participate in the World Men’s Club Volleyball Championship as the Asian champion for the fifth time, so the representatives of our country have participated in this competition 10 times

The 17th volleyball Club World Men’s Championship tournament will begin on Wednesday, December 7, with the participation of six teams, hosted by the city of Betim, Brazil

Paykan Tehran, the most proud volleyball team of Iran, which became the runner-up of the Iranian Premier League in 1400 and has twelve championships in this league, celebrated the eighth championship in the ancient Asian continent in 2022 and is one of the six teams participating in these competitions

** History of World Club Championship

The World Club Volleyball Championship started in 1989 and was held for four consecutive years. After a 16-year break (1993 to 2008), these competitions started again in 2009 and have been followed up every year until now, and only in 2020, due to the outbreak of Corona, these competitions were not held

From a regional point of view, the representatives of the European continent with 12 championships, 11 vice-championships and 11 third titles are the most proud of these competitions, and after Europe, the representatives of South America are in the second place of honorees with 12 medals, including four gold, four silver and four bronze

The representatives of the Asian continent have been on the podium only twice in the World Club Volleyball Championship, in 2010 Paykan team won the bronze medal, and in 2014 Al Rayyan Qatar won the runner-up title of this tournament

** The first world experience of three clubs 

In addition to Paykan team, five other teams include Perugia of Italy (the third team of Europe), Vôlei Renata of Brazil (the third team of South America), Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei of Brazil (the host and champion of South America), Itambé Minas of Brazil (the runner-up of South America) and Trentino Itas of Italy. (European runner-up) are present in this year’s competition

The teams of Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei with a history of nine appearances, Trentino Itas with eight appearances who have always been on the podium, and Paykan Tehran with four appearances are the experienced teams of this tournament

This year’s competition is considered to be a battle between the world’s most experienced teams and three teams that are participating for the first time, because Perugia, Vôlei Renata and Itambé Minas teams are participating in the World Club Championship for the first time

** The sixth hosting of the city of Betim

In the last 16 editions of the World Club Volleyball Championship, four countries have hosted it, with Brazil hosting eight more editions, six of which have been held in Betim

Qatar has hosted these competitions for four times (2012-2009) and Italy has hosted three times. Poland is also the fourth country to have hosted the World Men’s Club Volleyball Championship with two hosts

** Al-Ryan is the most worthy representative of Asia

In the last 16 rounds of the World Club Volleyball Championship, 14 representatives from the ancient continent of Asia participated in these competitions, and Al-Ryan won the best title by winning the runner-up position in 2014

Also, in 2010, Tehran’s Paykan team won the bronze medal of this competition, and in other periods, Asian representatives have not been on the podium

Japan, South Korea, Qatar and Iran are the four Asian countries whose representatives have participated in the volleyball world championship

Paykan Tehran with four periods of attendance in 2009 (fourth place), 2010 (bronze medal), 2011 (joint fifth place) and 2015 (fourth place), Kale Mazandaran 2013 (eighth place), Matin Varamin 2014 (sixth place), Sarmayeh Bank 2017 (joint 7th), Khatam Ardakan 2018 (joint 7th) and Fulad Sirjan Iranian 2021 (sixth) were the other representatives of Iran in the world men’s club volleyball championships who participated in these competitions as the champions of the Asian continent

This year (2022), Paykan team of Tehran will participate in this competition for the fifth time

** Preliminary stage grouping

 the preliminary stage of the 2022 World Club Volleyball Championship is as follows, after the end of the group stage, the first and second teams of each group will advance to the semi-final stage:

First group: Italy’s Perugia (third team in Europe), Vôlei Renata of Brazil (third team of South America) and Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei of Brazil (host and champion of South America)

Second group: Paykan Tehran (Asian champion), Itambé Minas of Brazil (South American runner-up) and Italy’s Trentino Itas (European runner-up)

After the preliminary round, the first and second teams of the two groups will face each other crosswise so that the winning teams advance to the final match and the losing teams advance to the classification match

** Tournament schedule

The schedule of the group stage matches of the 2022 World Men’s Club Championship volleyball competitions is as follows:

Thursday, December 8

Paykan Iran – Itambé Minas Brazil, 03:30

Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei Brazil – Vôlei Renata Brazil, 03:30

Friday, December 9

Paykan Iran – Trentino Itas, 00:30

Vôlei Renata Brazil – SIR Safety SUSA Perugia Italy, 00:30

Saturday, December 10

Itambé Minas Brazil – Trentino ItasItaly, 00:30

Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei Brazil – SIR Safety SUSA Perugia Italy, 03:30

At the end of the group stage matches, the first and second teams of each qualifying group will advance to the semi-final stage to compete with each other for the first to fourth places on Sunday, December 11

** Braga Hall hosts the 17th Cup

10 matches of the 2022 World Men’s Club Volleyball Championship will be held in Braga Hall in Betim, Brazil. The preliminary round of these competitions will be followed with 6 matches and the semi-final and final stages will be followed with four matches

Braga Hall in Betim has a capacity of 6,000 spectators, and considering the interest of the Brazilian people in volleyball, it is expected that these matches will be well received

** Paykan team composition

Paykan Tehran team will be travel to this competition with 14 players, and only Amin Esmailnejad will be an auxiliary player of this team from Pas Gorgan

Hamzeh Zarini, Mohammad Taher vadi, Mohammad Fallah, Pouria Fayazi, Amin Esmailnejad, Armin Tashakori, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Reza Rezaei, Ali Shafiei, Amirza Sarlak, Mohammad Reza Mashhadi, Reza Aslani, Armin Afshinfar, Amir Hossein Saberi are the 14 players travel by Paykan to these competitions

Peyman Akbari as the head coach, Gholamreza Momeni Moghadam, Morteza Ahadi and Ali Fatahi (coaches), Erfan Madah (physiotherapist), Amin Shakri (analyzer) and Saeed Ali Asghar as the head members of the technical staff representing Asia accompany Paykan team in these competitions

** Golden clubs of the world

Italy’s “Trentino” club is the most important opponent of Paykan in the preliminary stage with five gold medals and three bronze medals, the most proud club in men’s volleyball competitions in the world

“Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei” club is also in the second place of this statistical data with four gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze, and this year it will be the defending champion of this competition

Clubs “Milano” (two gold and one bronze), “Lobe” (one gold and three silver), “Zenith Kazan” (one gold, two silver and three bronze), “Parma” (one gold and one bronze) and ” Ravina” from Italy and “Blogori Belgrade” from Russia with a gold medal are the other golden clubs in men’s club volleyball in the world

** History at a glance

The table of the host country and the first to third ranks of the past 16 editions of the world men’s club championship volleyball tournament is as follows:

the period	Year	the host	Hero			runner-up	third place		The rank of representative of Iran
1	1989	Parma – Italy	Parma (Italy)			CSKA Moscow (Russia)	Pirelli Santo Andre (Brazil)		He did not have a representative
2	1990	Milan – Italy	Vero Monza Milano (Italy)			Banspa Sao Paulo (Brazil)	Parma (Italy)		He did not have a representative
3	1991	Sao Paulo – Brazil	Massagero Ravenna Porto (Italy)			Sao Paulo (Brazil)	Vero Monza Milano (Italy)		He did not have a representative
4	1992	Treviso – Italy	Vero Monza Milano (Italy)			Cicely Treviso (Italy)	Olympiakos (Greece)		He did not have a representative
	1993 to 2008	The competition was not held
5	2009	Doha – Qatar	Trentino (Italy)			Eskra Belkhatov (Poland)	Zenit Kazan (Russia)		Fourth Paykan
6	2010	Doha – Qatar	Trentino (Italy)			Eskra Belkhatov (Poland)	Paykan (Iran)		The third Paykan
7	2011	Doha – Qatar	Trentino (Italy)			Yzczemski Wengel (Poland)	Zenit Kazan (Russia)		Common fifth Paykan
8	2012	Doha – Qatar	Trentino (Italy)			Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)	Eskra Belkhatov (Poland)		He did not have a representative
9	2013	Betim – Brazil	Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)			Novosibirsk locomotive(Russia)	Trentino (Italy)		Kale Mazandaran
10	2014	Belo Horizonte – Brazil	Beloguri, Belgorod (Russia)			Al Rayyan (Qatar)	UPCN San Juan (Argentina)		Matin Varamin
11	2015	Betim – Brazil	Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)			Zenit Kazan (Russia)	UPCN San Juan(Argentina)		Fourth Paykan
12	2016	Betim – Brazil	Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)			Zenit Kazan (Russia)	Trentino (Italy)		He did not have a representative
13	2017	Krakow – Poland	Zenit Kazan (Russia)			Lobe Kitchen Citanova (Italy)	Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)		Seventh Sarmayeh Bank
14	2018	Krakow – Poland	Trentino (Italy)			Lobe Kitchen Citanova (Italy)	Fakal Nobi (Russia)		Khatam Ardakan
15	2019	Betim – Brazil	Lobe Kitchen Citanova (Italy)			Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)	Zenit Kazan (Russia)		He did not have a representative
	2020	It was not held due to the outbreak of Corona
16	2021	Betim – Brazil		Sada Cruzeiro(Brazil)	Lobe Kitchen Citanova (Italy)			Trentino (Italy)		Fulad Sirjan Iranian
17	2022	Betim – Brazil		??	??			??		Paykan

** Classification of clubs based on position

rank	Club name	a championship	runner-up	third place	Total
1	Trentino (Italy)	5	0	3	8
2	Sada Cruzeiro (Brazil)	4	2	1	7
3	Vero Monza Milano (Italy)	2	0	1	3
4	Lobe Kitchen Citanova (Italy)	1	3	0	4
5	Zenit Kazan (Russia)	1	2	3	6
6	Parma (Italy)	1	0	1	2
7	Beloguri, Belgorod (Russia)	1	0	0	1
	Massage parlors in Ravenna, Porto, Italy	1	0	0	1
9	Eskra Belkhatov	0	2	1	3
10	Banspa Sao Paulo (Brazil)	0	2	0	2
1112 13 14 15	Al Rayyan (Qatar)	0	1	0	1
	CSKA Moscow (Russia)	0	1	0	1
	Yzczemski Wengel (Poland)	0	1	0	1
	Novosibirsk locomotive(Russia)	0	1	0	1
	Cicely Treviso (Italy)	0	1	0	1
16	UPCN San Juan (Argentina)	0	0	2	2
1718 19 20	Fakal Nobi (Russia)	0	0	1	1
	Olympiakos (Greece)	0	0	1	1
	Paykan (Iran)	0	0	1	1
	Pirelli Santo Andre (Brazil)	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48