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VakifBank ISTANBUL - Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL 

Head-to-Head

• VakifBank ISTANBUL and Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL will face each other for the 18th time in the CEV Champions League, but for the first time in the Super Final.
• This is the first all-Turkish final in the CEV Champions Three times before the final was contested between two teams from the same country, Italy: in 2000/01 (Edison Volley MODENA vs Caposud REGGIO CALABRIA 3-0), in 2004/05 (Volley BERGAMO vs Asystel NOVARA 3-0) and in 2018/2019 (Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA vs Imoco Volley CONEGLIANO 3-1).
• The 18 matches between these sides make it the most played fixture in the CEV Champions League (women & men). The next most played fixture is VakifBank ISTANBUL versus RC CANNES (women) on 14 matches.
• VakifBank ISTANBUL have a W13-L4 record against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL in the Champions League. These 13 wins are the most wins by a women's team against any opponent (next is RC CANNES on 9 wins against Uralochka-NTMK EKATERINBURG).
• VakifBank ISTANBUL have won 12 of their last 13 Champions League matches against Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL. The exception was a 1-3 loss in the one-legged Semi-Final in 2014/15.
• The most recent Champions League matches between VakifBank ISTANBUL and Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL were in the 2016/17 Semi-Finals when VakifBank ISTANBUL won the one-legged tie 3-0. Tijana Boškovic and Maja Ognjenovic played for Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL in that match.
• VakifBank ISTANBUL beat Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL 3-0 in the Semi-Final of the FIVB Women's Club World Championship in Antalya in December 2022. Paola Egonu scored 29 points for VakifBank ISTANBUL in that match. Boškovic had 21 points for Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL.
• In the 2022/23 Turkish volleyball league Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won both fixtures against VakifBank ISTANBUL in straight sets. Boškovic (23) and Egonu (19) scored the most points in the most recent of these two matches on 4 March.

VakifBank ISTANBUL

• VakifBank ISTANBUL have won the women's Champions League a record five times, including last season. They beat A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO 3-1 in the final (played in Ljubljana).
• The Turkish side also claimed the title in 2010/11, 2012/13, 2016/17 and 2017/18.
• VakifBank ISTANBUL themselves are the last club to win successive editions of the CEV Women's Champions League (2016/17-2017/18).
• VakifBank ISTANBUL have reached the Champions League final for a record-extending ninth time, all under Giovanni Guidetti. No other team has played the final more than five times.
• Including 2022/23, VakifBank ISTANBUL have reached the Final in six of the last seven completed Champions League campaigns (2019/20 season was not completed due to COVID-19). The exception was 2018/19 when they were eliminated in the Semi-Finals.
• VakifBank ISTANBUL have a W9-L3 record in this season's Champions League. Their third loss in this campaign was against Fenerbahçe Opet ISTANBUL in the first leg of the Semi-Finals. VakifBank ISTANBUL won the return in straight sets and then won the Golden Set 15-12 to reach the Final.
• Paola Egonu (235) is the top scorer in this season's Champions League. Egonu has already bettered the points tally of last season's top scorer: 214 by Isabelle Haak (also for VakifBank ISTANBUL).
• Egonu could win her third Champions League trophy and with a third different club, after 2018/19 with Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA and 2020/21 with A. Carraro Imoco CONEGLIANO.
• Chiaka Ogbogu (31) has scored the most points from kill blocks in this Champions League campaign.

Eczacibasi ISTANBUL

• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have reached the Final of the Champions League for the second time, after 2014/15 when they beat Unendo Yamamay BUSTO ARSIZIO 3-0 to claim their first and so far only Champions League trophy.
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL have won nine of their 10 matches in this Champions League campaign, only losing the first leg in their Semi-Final tie against Igor Gorgonzola NOVARA on 5 April: 2-3, final set 14-16.
• Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL won all of their 26 matches in the 2022/23 regular stage of the Turkish Sultan League, finishing top of the table ahead of VakifBank ISTANBUL in second place (Note: these two teams could meet again in the play-offs of the Turkish league which are scheduled prior to the Champions League Super Final).
• Tijana Boškovic is the team's top scorer in this Champions League season on 153 points. Her average of 6.37 points per set is the highest of all players this season.
• Boškovic scored 179 points in her previous Champions League campaign in 2020/21.
• Boškovic could win the Champions League for the first time. With her current team she won the CEV Cup twice (2017/18 and 2021/22 and claimed the Club World Championship in 2016.
• Maja Ognjenovic has already won the CEV Challenge Cup (2008/09 with Monte Schiavo Banca Marche JESI) and CEV Cup (2017/18 and 2021/22 with Eczacibasi Dynavit ISTANBUL), but she has yet to win the Champions League. She lost the final of the Champions League with VakifBank ISTANBUL in 2020/21.