Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL - Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI

• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL and Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI were opponents in this season's CEV Champions League group stage. That was the first time they met in the Champions League.
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL (12 points) finished second in the group behind Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI (18 points).
• Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI won both group stage matches against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL by a 3-1 scoreline. Ekaterina Antropova scored 57 points for Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI across those two matches.
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won one of their last seven Champions League matches against Italian opposition, a 3-0 win against Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA in last season's semi-finals. That win sent Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL to the final (which they lost to VakifBank ISTANBUL).
• Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI face Turkish opposition for the second time in the Champions League quarter-finals, following elimination against Fenerbahce Opet ISTANBUL in 2018/19.

Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL

• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL were runners-up in the 2022/23 CEV Champions League. Two of the last three editions of the CEV Champions League were won by the team that lost the previous final: A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO in 2020/21 and VakifBank ISTANBUL in 2021/22. Note: A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO lost the finale in 2018/19. Due to COVID-19, no final took place in 2019/20.
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have a W46-L13 record in their 59 Champions League matches since January 2016, with all of those losses coming against either fellow Turkish (7) or Italian teams (6).
• The last time they lost a Champions League match against a team from another country was against Polish side Chemik POLICE in the 2015/16 group phase on 10 December 2015 (1-3).
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have won at least one set in each of their last 42 Champions League matches, since their 0-3 defeat against VakifBank ISTANBUL in the 2016/17 semi-finals.
• Tijana Bošković (143) leads Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL in scoring in this season's CEV Champions League. She was their leading scorer as well in last season's Champions League on 169 points.
• Jovana Stevanovic, Serbian middle blocker born in 1992, played for two seasons in Savino Del Bene Volley (2018-2020). Alexa Gray, Canadian spiker born in 1994, played with Savino Del Bene Volley in the second half of the 2019-2020 season.

Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI

• Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI have reached beyond the group phase of the Champions League for the third time, following quarter-final elimiantions by Fenerbahce Opet ISTANBUL in 2018/19 and by A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO in 2020/21.
• Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI won all six group stage matches this season. It marked the first time they achieved this feat.
• Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI lost only two sets in this season's group stage, both against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL (3-1 wins both in Scandicci and Istanbul).
• Ekaterina Antropova (135) was joint-leading top scorer in this season's group stage, alongside Valentina Diouf (ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ).
• Savino Del Bene Volley's record against the Turkish teams reads: eight victories and four defeats.
• Savino Del Bene Volley has played 32 champions league matches in its history.
• Maja Ognjenovic, Serbian setter born in 1984, played with the Eczacibasi shirt in three distinct moments of her career. After her first season in 2009-2010, Maja played with Eczacıbaşı for another four years: from 2016 to 2018 and then subsequently from 2021 to 2023. The Serbian setter achieved great success with the Turkish club, winning among other things one World Club Championship and two CEV Cups.
• It should be remembered that coach Barbolini himself coached Eczacıbaşı in the 2016-2017 season.
• Beatrice Parrocchiale (Libero Savino Del Bene Volley): "First of all we are very happy to have created this opportunity to play in the quarter finals and it will definitely be a battle because Eczacibasi is a really strong team. I think we can compete with them if we are determined and spirited and show all our desire to get further."