ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ - Allianz Vero Volley MILANO

• This is the first Champions League meeting between ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ and Allianz Vero Volley MILANO.
• ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ have lost all previous six Champions League encounters with Italian opposition (all group stage matches), including five in straight sets.
• This marks Allianz Vero Volley MILANO's first encounter with Polish opposition in the Champions League.

ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ

• ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ have gone beyond the group stage for the second time, after reaching the Playoff round last season.
• In last season's Playoff round, ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ lost both matches 0-3 to VakifBank ISTANBUL.
• ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ can become the second Polish team to reach the semi-finals on the women's side, following Chemik POLICE in 2014/15 (0-3 defeat to Italian side Unendo Yamamay BUSTO ARSIZIO in the semi-finals when they hosted the Final Four). Chemik POLICE lost the subsequent bronze medal match 0-3 against VakıfBank ISTANBUL. 
• ŁKS Commercecon ŁÓDŹ (19) can become the fourth Polish team to win 20 Champions League matches on the women's side, after Grupa Azoty Chemik POLICE (28), PGE Rysice RZESZÓW (21) and Bank BPS Fakro MUSZYNA (20).
• Valentina Diouf (135) was joint-leading top scorer in this season's group stage, alongside Ekaterina Antropova (Savino Del Bene SCANDICCI).

Allianz Vero Volley MILANO

• This is Allianz Vero Volley MILANO's third Champions League participation. Their previous two participations, in 2021/22 and 2022/23, ended in the quarter-finals.
• Allianz Vero Volley MILANO were eliminated in the quarter-finals by the eventual runners-up (A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO) in 2021/22 and the eventual winners (VakifBank ISTANBUL) in 2022/23 while competing as Vero Volley MONZA.
• Excluding 2019/20, at least one Italian team made it to the semi-finals in the last eight seasons.
• Paola Ogechi Egonu (118) was Allianz Vero Volley MILANO's top scorer in the group stage, leading second on the list Dana Rettke (57) by 61 points.
• Marco Gaspari (Coach Allianz Vero Volley Milano): "It's a very important match. We need to reset these two days of Coppa Italia as soon as possible, both from a physical and mental point of view. Lodz is a dangerous team, with fast attackers and an old knowledge of the Italian Championship like Diouf. We will play in a packed arena, with a very warm atmosphere. We will have to be orderly when changing the ball and distance it as much as possible their setter from the net”.
• Alessia Orro (Captain Allianz Vero Volley Milano): "We must have patience, desire and character to get back up after the defeat in Coppa Italia. We now have another very important match: it will be essential to stay clear-headed and take advantage of all the energy we have remained in the body."