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Head-to-Head

· Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have won all of their three CEV Champions League matches against Maritza PLOVDIV in straight sets.
· Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won 3-0 (25-20, 25-11, 25-19) in Bulgaria in the first encounter against Maritza PLOVDIV in this season's group phase. Samanta Fabris (12) was the top scorer for the visitors and Iva Dudova scored 11 points for the hosts.
· These two teams also met in the second round of qualification for the 2016/17 Champions League group stage. Eczacibasi VitrA ISTANBUL won both games against Maritza PLOVDIV 3-0. The Turkish side would go on to win the bronze medal match that season.
· Maritza PLOVDIV have lost all of their nine women's Champions League matches against Turkish opposition.

Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL

· Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have won all of their three matches in this season's Champions League group stage.
· Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have won each of their last 22 Champions League group stage matches, since a 1-3 loss against city rivals VakifBank ISTANBUL in February 2017. A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO are currently also on a run of 22 wins in group stage fixtures.
· This 22-match winning run in group stage matches is the second-longest in Champions League history, after VakifBank ISTANBUL's run of 27 group stage wins from 2015 to 2019.
· Samanta Fabris (47 points) is her team's top scorer in this season's Champions League. In the team's previous Champions League campaign 2020/21, Tijana Boškovic was their top scorer on 179 points.
· Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL claimed bronze at the 2022 FIVB Women's Club World Championship in Antalya, where Tijana Boškovic (95) was the tournament's second-highest scorer and best server (8 aces). 

Maritza PLOVDIV

· Maritza PLOVDIV have lost their last 15 Champions League matches, since a 3-2 win against Uralochka-NTMK EKATERINBURG in the group stage on 18 February 2020. They won the fifth set 20-18 in that match.
· Dobrina Hristoskova is the only remaining team member in Maritza PLOVDIV's current squad who was also part of the team when they claimed their last Champions League win in 2020.
· Maritza PLOVDIV's squad consists of eight teenagers, including four 16-year-olds and two 17-year-olds. They are accompanied by Ivelina Monova (born 17 January 1986), who will celebrate her 37th birthday one day before the match against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL.
· Sixteen-year-old Iva Dudova (31 points is her team's top scorer in this season's Champions League. Last season, Silvana Chausheva led Maritza PLOVDIV in scoring (68 points).
· Lora Slavcheva is fourth on the setter ranking in this Champions League season with a 34.09% efficiency.