Sofia, Varna To Co-Host Volleyball European Championship 2015 With 2 Italian Cities

The meeting was chaired by CEV Senior Vice-President and Jury President Aleksandar Boricic and attended by the presidents of the volleyball federations of Bulgaria and Italy. Photo: http://www.cev.lu/

Bulgaria's Sofia and Varna will co-host the 2015 CEV Volleyball European Championship with Italy's Milan and Turin, transpired at a meeting in Milan on Wednesday, reports the Gong.bg website.

The two sports halls in Bulgaria, which will host the tournament are Sofa's Arena Armeec and Varna's Palace Of Culture and Sports, which is closed for renovations.

Pools A and C will play in Sofia and Varna, respectively. The finals of the tournament will take place on October 17 and 18, 2015 in Arena Armeec in Sofia.

Tickets will go on sale in February 2015.

So far thirteen teams have claimed the right to participate in the Final Round of the 2015 CEV Volleyball European Championship – Men: Italy and Bulgaria (hosts), Russia, Serbia, France, Germany and Belgium (as per the final standing of the 2013 edition), as well as Poland, Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia and Belarus, i.e. the winners of the second-round qualification tournaments from last May. Another three tickets will be at stake in late May 2015 once Slovenia play Portugal, Estonia take on Sweden and Spain test the skills of the Netherlands to determine the last three teams that will get the right to compete for European glory. 

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