2021–22 Italian Women's Volleyball League Explained

The 2021–22 Serie A1 was the 77th season of the highest professional Italian Women's Volleyball League. The season took place from October to May and was contested by fourteen teams.

Format

The regular season consists of 26 rounds, where the fourteen participating teams play each other twice (once home and once away). At the completion of the regular season, the eight best teams advance to the championship playoffs and the teams finishing 13th and 14th are relegated to Serie A2.^[1]

The standings criteria:^[2]

• highest number of result points (points awarded for results: 3 points for 3–0 or 3–1 wins, 2 points for 3–2 win, 1 point for 2–3 loss);
• highest number of matches won;
• highest set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost);
• highest points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points conceded).

Teams

Club	Venue	Capacity	City/Area	width=40% rowspan=15
Acqua & Sapone Roma Volley Club	PalaLottomatica	11,200	Rome
Bartoccini Fortinfissi Perugia	PalaBarton	4,000	Perugia
Bosca S.Bernardo Cuneo	PalaCastagnaretta	4,700	Cuneo
Delta Despar Trentino	Il T Quotidiano Arena	4,000	Trento
Igor Gorgonzola Novara	Pala Igor Gorgonzola	5,000	Novara
Il Bisonte Firenze	PalaWanny	5,000	Florence
Megabox Ondulati Del Savio Vallefoglia	PalaCarneroli	1,612	Urbino
Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano	PalaVerde	5,344	Villorba
Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri	PalaFenera	1,506	Chieri
Savino Del Bene Scandicci	Palazzetto dello Sport	2,000	Scandicci
Unet E-Work Busto Arsizio	E-Work Arena	4,490	Busto Arsizio
Vbc Trasporti Pesanti Casalmaggiore	PalaRadi	3,519	Cremona
Vero Volley Monza	Opiquad Arena	4,500	Monza
Volley Bergamo 1991	PalaIntred	2,250	Bergamo

Regular season

Fixtures and results

• All times are local, CEST between 9 October and 30 October 2021, CET between 31 October 2021 and 26 March 2022 and CEST from 27 March 2022.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Round 23

Round 24

Round 25

Round 26

Championship playoffs

• All times are local, CEST .

Quarterfinals

(1) Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano vs. (8) Il Bisonte Firenze

Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano wins series, 2–0.

(2) Igor Gorgonzola Novara vs. (7) Bosca S.Bernardo Cuneo

Igor Gorgonzola Novara wins series, 2–1.

(3) Vero Volley Monza vs. (6) Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri

Vero Volley Monza wins series, 2–0.

(4) Savino Del Bene Scandicci vs. (5) Unet E-Work Busto Arsizio

Savino Del Bene Scandicci wins series, 2–0.

Semifinals

(1) Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano vs. (4) Savino Del Bene Scandicci

Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano wins series, 2–0.

(2) Igor Gorgonzola Novara vs. (3) Vero Volley Monza

Vero Volley Monza wins series, 2–1.

Finals

(1) Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano vs. (3) Vero Volley Monza

Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano wins series, 3–1.

Final standings

width=30		width=310 align=left	Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano
	Vero Volley Monza
	Igor Gorgonzola Novara
	Savino Del Bene Scandicci
	Unet E-Work Busto Arsizio
	Reale Mutua Fenera Chieri

Lara Caravello, Kathryn Plummer, Megan Courtney, Božana Butigan, Robin de Kruijf, Raphaela Folie, Loveth Omoruyi, Monica De Gennaro, Hristina Vuchkova, Giorgia Frosini, Giulia Gennari, Joanna Wołosz (C), Miriam Sylla, Paola Egonu, Sarah Fahr
Head coach
Daniele Santarelli

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: 77th Women's Serie A1 Volleyball Championship . legavolleyfemminile.it . 7 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220307113203/http://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/?eventi=campionato-a1/stagione-2021-2022 . 7 March 2022 . Italian . dead.
2. Web site: Regular Season A1 2021 . legavolleyfemminile.it . 1 Nov 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221101194452/https://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/classifica/?stagione=2021 . 1 Nov 2022 . Italian . live.