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    General

    • Three teams from Türkiye and all from Istanbul have qualified for the semi-finals of the 2022/23 women's CEV Champions League: Fenerbahçe Opet ISTANBUL, VakifBank ISTANBUL and Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL.
    • It is the first time in Champions League history that three teams from one city have reached the semi-finals of a Champions League campaign (women's or men's).
    • The only other country to have had three clubs in the semi-finals of a Champions League campaign was Italy in the 2020/21 women's Champions League: A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO (winners), Unet e-work BUSTO ARSIZIO and Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA. The other team in that season's semi-finals was VakifBank ISTANBUL (runners up).


    Head-to-Head

    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL and Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA will meet for the first time in the Champions League.
    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA will become the 11th different Italian opponents for Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL in the Champions League.
    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL faced Italian opposition twice before in the semi-finals: they lost 0-3 to Caposud Reggio Calabria in their first semi-final appearance in 2000/01 and 0-3 to Foppapedretti BERGAMO in 2001/02.
    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have lost their last three Champions League matches (and a golden set) against Italian teams, directly following a run of seven wins in eight matches against them.
    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA have faced four other Turkish teams in the Champions League, including VakifBank ISTANBUL in this season's group stage (0-3 loss, 3-1 win; both matches played in Novara due to the earthquake in Türkiye).
    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA faced Turkish opposition (VakifBank ISTANBUL) when they reached the semi finals for the first time in 2018/19. The Italians reached the final that season after winning the golden set against VakifBank ISTANBUL (16-14).


    Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA

    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA won the Champions League in 2018/19. They defeated Turkish side VakifBank ISTANBUL in the semi-finals (3-0, 1-3, 16-14 win in the golden set), before beating A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO in the final (3-1).
    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA's only other semi-final appearance was in 2020/21, when they lost against A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO without winning a set (0-6 on aggregate).
    • Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA have won seven of their eight Champions League matches this season. The exception was a loss against Turkish side VakifBank ISTANBUL (0-3 in Novara on 10 January).
    • Ebrar Karakut (169) is the team's top scorer in this season's Champions League, third-most of all players. She scored 20+ points in six of her eight matches this campaign.
    • Karakurt was part of the VakifBank ISTANBUL team that won the Champions League in 2017/18.
    • Anna Danesi has scored 24 kill blocks in this season's Champions League, only Elizaveta Kochurina (25 for Volero LE CANNET) and Chiaka Ogbogu (25 for VakifBank ISTANBUL) have more.


    Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL

    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL are the only team to have won all their eight matches in this season's Champions League. They beat Developres RZESZÓW 3-1 and 3-2 in the quarter-finals.
    • The only other Champions League season in which Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won all of their matches was 2019/20, when the competition was cancelled before Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL would play their quarter-finals matches.
    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have reached the Champions League semi-finals/Final Four for the first time since 2016/17 when they lost their semi-final against VakifBank ISTANBUL (0-3). They have reached the last four for the seventh time in total (2000/01, 2001/02, 2008/09, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2016/17). They reached the final once, in 2014/15 when they won the trophy.
    • Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won 20 of their previous 22 Champions League matches. Their only losses came in the quarter-finals of the 2020/21 season: 1-3 losses against Unet e-work BUSTO ARSIZIO.
    • Tijana Boškovic is the team's top scorer in this Champions League season on 104 points. She made four appearances in this season and scored 19-28-27-30 points respectively in those matches.
    • Boškovic scored 179 points in her previous Champions League campaign in 2020/21.

    "I am proud of my team for our path so far, but now we have to do our best in a very tough game. Eczacibasi is an amazing team but so we are: we will need to push from the beginning and in the end I think that the hunger and more focused team will achieve the victory".

    Ebrar Karakurt
    Opposite Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA
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