Guaguas LAS PALMAS - VK Lvi PRAHA

• These teams meet for the first time in the Champions League.
• Guaguas LAS PALMAS met Czech team Jihostroj ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE in the group stage of this Champions League season. They won 3-1 at home on 13 December but lost 2-3 away on 17 January.
• Teams from Czech Republic won three of their four Champions League matches against Spanish opponents. The exception was Jihostroj ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE's game against Guaguas LAS PALMAS in this season's group stage on 13 December.

Guaguas LAS PALMAS

• Guaguas LAS PALMAS are the second Spanish team to reach beyond the group stage of a Champions League season. Portol Palma MALLORCA achieved this three times, most recently in 2008/09. Portol Palma MALLORCA lost both games 0-3 against TRENTINO Volley in the eighth final that season.
• Guaguas LAS PALMAS are the only team who entered this season's Champions League in the first round who are still in competition.
• Two teams reached the quarter-finals (or Playoff 6) in a Champions League season they started off in the first round since 2018/19: CHAUMONT VB 52 HM in 2018/19 (quarter-finals) and TRENTINO Itas in 2020/21 (Final).
• Francisco Wallyson Bezerra Souza (161) and Paolo Zonca (154) are the leading scorers in this season's Champions League. They netted 86 and 83 points in the group stage respectively.

VK Lvi PRAHA

• VK Lvi PRAHA are the second team from Czech Republic to reach beyond the group stage of a Champions League season, after DHL OSTRAVA in 2006/07 (lost to TOURS VB).
• This is VK Lvi PRAHA's maiden Champions League campaign. The last team to reach the quarter-finals in their maiden Champions League campaign were Kuzbass KEMEROVO and Fakel NOVY URENGOY in 2019/20.
• Four of VK Lvi PRAHA's six group stage matches this Champions League campaign ended in straight sets (two wins, two losses).
• Casey Adam Schouten (85) is VK Lvi PRAHA's leading scorer this Champions League campaign.
• In this season's Champions League group stage, only Seppe Rotty (20 for Knack ROESELARE) and Nimir Abdel-Aziz (14 for Halkbank ANKARA) hit more aces than Fynnian McCarthy (14).
• Juan Manuel Barrial (coach of VK Lvi Praha): "The opponent will be very strong, if you are among the last eleven teams in Europe, you can't expect anything else. Their team attacks very well, they have excellent players, but we know our strength and we believe in ourselves. The chances of qualification are fifty-fifty, and we are going to Las Palmas to win. We go everywhere to win, which has been confirmed so far."
• Jakub Janouch (captain of VK Lvi Praha): "It is an honour for us to play games like this. Being one of the older members of the team makes me maybe a little more aware of it and I know it's not going to happen every day. We have already achieved a lot of success. We are facing an opponent who played very well at the group stage. They even beat Jastrzebski at home, which is a sign of top quality. It's going to be such a battle of the two black horses of the playoffs. I see a 50-50 chance. We don't care who is on the other side of the net anymore, we want to win in Las Palmas."