Polish club opens media accreditation for final four matches – Volleyball news
The final round of the 2012 CEV Men’s Champions League is supposed to be hosted by Polish volleyball club PGE Skra Belchatow from March 17-18.
Since the most influential phase of the competition is just about to start in two week’s time, the host club has opened the media accreditation for the final four matches. The local and international media are required to earn approval for the coverage of
‘final four’ round at the Atlas Arena in the city of Lodz.
The accreditation process will be conducted online and requests can be submitted on the official website of PGE Skra Belchatow. The requests will be duly accredited by the local organizers and the CEV. The last date for submission of accreditation request
is March 12. The host club will publish the list of all accredited media on its website before the start of final round.
The 2012 CEV Champions League started off with a total of 24 teams from all around the European continent. Initially, the teams were divided into six pools of four teams in each pool. The preliminary robin round of the tournament was hosted by several countries
and it covered its length from October 2011 to January 2012. At the end of prelims, top 12 teams of the tournament qualified for the next round. The Playoffs 12 of the 2012 CEV Champions League were also hosted by different cities.
Successful teams of Playoffs 12 moved ahead and entered the Playoffs 6. The top six teams competed at the quarterfinal stage and two more teams were eliminated at the end of Playoffs 6.
Eventually, the CEV Champions League reached the most important final phase. The final round of the tournament will be opened with the two semi finals. Top two teams will meet in the final match, while the losers of semi-finals will vie for third position
in the classification match.
Poland’s PGE Skra will take on Turkish Arkas Izmir in the first semi-final, while second semi-final will be played between Russian Zenit Kazan and Trentino PlanetWin365 on March 17. The final and classification match will be played on March 18 and the final
ranking of the teams will be revealed.
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