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VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN - JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel

Head-to-Head

• JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won both of their matches against VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN in the group stage of this Champions League season. The Polish side won 3-1 in Germany and 3-0 at home.
• Stephen Boyer scored 29 points for JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in their 3-1 away win against VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on 29 November 2022.
• JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have won each of their last five Champions League matches against VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, since losing the first meeting in December 2009 (1-3).
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN are the opponents JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have won the most Champions League fixtures against (5).
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN are on a 15-match losing streak in the Champions League against Polish opposition. Their most recent win against a Polish team was the victory in the first meeting with JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in 2009.

VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN

• This is the first season in which two German teams have reached the CEV Champions League quarter-finals, VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN and BERLIN Recycling Volleys.
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN could reach the semi-finals for the third time, after 2004/05 (after Playoffs) and 2006/07 (after Playoffs).
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN were eliminated in all of their three quarter-final appearances (2001/02, 2002/03 and 2008/09).
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN have won four of their last five Champions League matches. They beat TOURS VB 3-0 and 3-2 in this season's Playoff to reach the quarter-finals.
• Michal Superlak is the team's top scorer in this season's Champions League on 124 points. Last season Luciano Vicentin was their highest scorer on 59 points.
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (91) have recorded the most kill blocks in this season's Champions League. André Brown leads the competition on 27 kill blocks. Aleksandar Nedeljkovic is third in this list on 23.
• VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN's coach Mark Lebedew coached JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel from 2015 to 2018. He led the club to a third place in the Polish championship in the 2016/17 season.
• Lebedew won all four matches with JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in the 2017/18 Champions League by a 3-0 scoreline before he left the club in January 2018. He guided them to the group stage thanks to two wins over Omonia NICOSIA and defeated both BERLIN Recycling Volleys and Spacer's TOULOUSE VB in the group phase.

JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel

• JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel won 14 of their 16 Champions League matches since the start of the 2021/22 edition. The only exceptions are two losses against their compatriots Grupa Azoty KĘDZIERZYN-KOŹLE in last season's semi-finals.
• JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel can reach the Champions League semi-finals for the fourth time, after 2010/11, 2013/14 and 2021/22. They have never progressed to the final.
• JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel have won all six group stage matches this season and lost only two sets (one of which against VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN).
• Stephen Boyer (84) is the leading points scorer for JASTRZEBSKI Wegiel in this season's Champions League. Last season Tomasz Fornal (126) was the club's top scorer.
• Eemi Tervaportti (61.43%) has the third-highest efficiency as setter in this season's Champions League.
• Benjamin Toniutti played for VfB FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (2015), winning the German title and German domestic cup in his short spell at the club.