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A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO - Allianz Vero Volley MILANO

• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO and Allianz Vero Volley MILANO will face each other in the Champions League for the second time. A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO beat Allianz Vero Volley MILANO (then known as Vero Volley MONZA) in both legs of the 2021/22 quarter-finals: 3-0 in Monza and 3-1 in Treviso.
• This will be the fourth all-Italian Champions League final on the women's side, after Edison Volley MODENA versus Caposud REGGIO CALABRIA in 2000/01 (3-0 in Nizhny Tagil), Volley BERGAMO versus Asystel NOVARA in 2004/05 (3-0 in Tenerife) and Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA versus  A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO in 2018/19 (3-1 in Berlin). Note: the 2018/19 runners-up were then known as Imoco Volley CONEGLIANO.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO and Allianz Vero Volley MILANO were the winners and runners-up of the 2022/23 Italian league. A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO claimed the Serie A title thanks to a 3-2 victory in the best-of-five series, including a 3-1 win in the deciding match.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO have won all four competitive encounters with Allianz Vero Volley MILANO in the 2023/24 season.
• On 28 October 2023, these two clubs contested the final of the 2023 Supercoppa Italiana. A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO came out on top in that game: 3-1 in Livorno.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO won both Serie A fixtures against Allianz Vero Volley MILANO this season: 3-1 away (5 November 2023) and 3-0 at home (4 February 2024).
• Isabelle Haak (40, 20 points in both matches) and Paola Egonu (39, 17+22) recorded the most points 
  in the Serie A fixtures between these two sides this season.
• On 18 February 2024, A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO beat Allianz Vero Volley MILANO 3-2 in the final of the 2023/24 Coppa Italia in Trieste (15-11 in the fifth set). Egonu (35) and Haak (23) led their teams in points again.

A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO

• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO lost three of their previous four Champions League finals. They lifted the trophy in 2020/21 (3-2 versus  VakifBank ISTANBUL in Verona), but finished runners-up in 2016/17 (as Imoco Volley CONEGLIANO), 2018/19 (as Imoco Volley CONEGLIANO) and 2021/22.
• VakifBank ISTANBUL (6), Volley BERGAMO (4), RC CANNES (2) and Colussi Sirio PERUGIA (2) have won the women's Champions League more than once.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO and VakifBank ISTANBUL (both 3) are the clubs to have lost the most Champions League finals.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO lost the opening set in all of their previous four Champions League finals.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO suffered a 1-3 loss to VakifBank ISTANBUL in the 2021/22 Champions League final. The Italians have lost only one of their 18 CL fixtures since: 0-3 away at Fenerbahçe Opet ISTANBUL in the first leg of the 2022/23 quarter-finals.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO have won all 10 of their Champions League matches this season. This includes one five-set match: against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL in the semi-finals first leg in Treviso (18-16 in set 5).
• The last team to win the Champions League title without losing a single match all season were A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO themselves in 2020/21.
• A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO have a W11-L4 record against Italian opposition in the Champions League.Only Tijana Bošković (259, set average 6.17) has recorded as many points this Champions League season as Isabelle Haak (221, set average 6.14). Paola Egonu is in third place (199, set average 5.53).
• Haak (66, set average 7.33) and Egonu (57, set average 7.12) recorded the most points in this season's Champions League semi-finals.
• Robin de Kruijf, Monica De Gennaro, Joanna Wolosz and Sarah Fahr were part of theA. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO team that won the 2020/21 Champions League. Haak was one of the opposition players.

Allianz Vero Volley MILANO

• Allianz Vero Volley MILANO are in the Champions League final for the first time. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals in their first two participations: as Vero Volley MONZA in 2021/22 (versus A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO) and as Vero Volley MILANO in 2022/23.
• The last first-time finalists in the women's Champions League were Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA in 2018/19: 3-1 win against A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO (then known as as Imoco Volley CONEGLIANO).
• Allianz Vero Volley MILANO won the 2018/19 CEV Challenge Cup (as Saugella MONZA) and 2020/21 CEV Cup (as Saugella MONZA, under current head coach Marco Gaspari).
• Allianz Vero Volley MILANO won eight of their 10 matches in this season's Champions League. They lost 2-3 at home to VakifBank ISTANBUL in the group stage and 1-3 at Fenerbahce Opet ISTANBUL in the semi-finals second leg (they did win the golden set, 15-11).
• Allianz Vero Volley MILANO's only Champions League matches against Italian opposition were against A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO as Vero Volley MONZA in the 2021/22 quarter-finals (they lost both legs).
• Paolo Egonu won three of her previous four Champions League finals: with Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA (2018/19), A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO (2020/21) and VakifBank ISTANBUL (2022/23). She also lost a final with A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO (2021/22).
• Egonu was the best scorer in all of her previous four Champions League finals: in 2018/19 (27), 2020/21 (41), 2021/22 (39) and 2022/23 (40).
• Egonu scored the final point for A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO in the deciding fifth set (15-12) against VakifBank ISTANBUL in the 2020/21 CL final.
• Only Jovana Kocić (45) and Ana Carolina da Silva (28) have made as many kill blocks in this season's Champions League (all phases) as Dana Rettke (27, set average 0.93).