The 22nd leg of the Polish PlusLiga regular season delivered two upsets and another change in the second place of the current standings. On Monday, Ukraine’s Barkom Kazhany Lviv beat Steam Hemarpol Norwid Czestochowa for the second time this season, while PGE Projekt Warsaw lost at Asseco Resovia Rzeszow in straight sets and handed the second place back to Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie.
PlusLiga 2024-2025
Barkom stun Norwid again; Projekt upset by Resovia; Aluron retake second place
Recap of PlusLiga’s 22nd-leg matches
Published 06:47, 28 Jan 2025

Barkom Kazhany’s Vasyl Tupchii on the serve (photo: Tomasz Serwiak / plusliga.pl)
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After a shocking shutout of Steam Hemarpol Norwid in Czestochowa back in October, Barkom Kazhany Lviv took another three points from their opponent, this time at home, with a 3-1 (23-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-21) victory, powered by opposite Vasyl Tupchii with 23 points, including one ace and one kill block. Ilia Kovalov impressed with four aces and three kill blocks. He and Barkom’s other outside hitter, Mart Tammearu from Estonia, finished with 17 points apiece. Their Iranian counterpart and Norwid captain Milad Ebadipour delivered a match-high 27 points (three aces), while his Czech teammate in the opposite position, Patrik Indra, put away 16 points. The Ukrainian team improved to 16 points and a 6-16 win-loss record, but they are still in 14th place, just below the red line for relegation. Norwid, who reconfirmed their Robin Hood nature of “stealing from the rich and giving to the poor”, also kept their sixth place in the table, on 37 and 13-9.
However, the team from Czestochowa has now been caught up in points by seventh-placed Asseco Resovia Rzeszow, who are still behind on number of wins, 11-11, after a solid 3-0 (25-23, 26-24, 25-21) home victory over PGE Projekt Warsaw. While outside Bartosz Bednorz and French opposite Stephen Boyer led the winners’ scorers with 16 points apiece, the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award went to Resovia’s libero Michal Potera. The loss pushed the squad from the capital down to third place on 49 and 18-4.
Halo, dzień dobry! ✨
— PlusLiga (@PlusLiga_) January 26, 2025
Tak cieszyli się wczoraj siatkarze @AssecoResovia, gdy po klasyku w #PlusLiga nagroda MVP powędrowała do Michała Potery! 🔥👏 pic.twitter.com/eDXdieE66d
Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie took the opportunity to reclaim the second place on 52 and 17-5 after a 3-1 (25-19, 25-18, 20-25, 25-21) away win over Indykpol AZS Olsztyn, with a 20-point match high from American outside Aaron Russell. On 28 and 8-13, Indykpol dropped to 11th place, overtaken by Trefl Gdansk, on 28 and 9-13. In the leg’s only five-setter, Trefl mounted a comeback from two sets down to celebrate a 3-2 (21-25, 17-25, 25-22, 28-26, 15-8) victory at PSG Stal Nysa, with a match-high 25 points from opposite Aliaksei Nasevich. Stal stayed above the relegation zone, in 13th place on 19 and 5-17.
Defending champions Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj mastered a 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-18) shutout of their visitors Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski and improved to 57 and 18-4, five points clear on top of the table. Cuprum are in 12th place, still “comfortably” far from the relegation zone, on 27 and 11-11. Jastrzebski Wegiel’s French opposite Timothee Carle was the best scorer of the match with 17 points.
Both fourth-placed BOGDANKA LUK Lublin and fifth-placed ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle scored four-set home victories over the weekend and kept the one-point distance between them, with 46 and 45 points, respectively. ZAKSA are with a game in hand on 15-6, while BOGDANKA are on 16-6. The team from Lublin achieved a 3-1 (27-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-22) win over bottom-placed GKS Katowice (9, 3-19) with 26 points from outside Mikolaj Sawicki, while star opposite Bartosz Kurek put away 23 towards ZAKSA’s 3-1 (22-25, 25-15, 25-23, 25-16) comeback win over Slepsk Malow Suwalki, who stand ninth on 29 and 11-11, just below the cut-off for the playoffs.
Dzień dobry w poniedziałek! 🫡 Scrollujcie dalej, to tylko Bartosz Kurek z czwartą nagrodą MVP z rzędu w #PlusLiga! 😎🔥 pic.twitter.com/kNQZCOzMLr
— PlusLiga (@PlusLiga_) January 27, 2025
Meanwhile, eighth-placed PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow managed to widen the distance from Slepsk Malow to five points with a 3-0 (25-17, 25-20, 25-21) sweep of their away game at Nowak-Mosty MKS Bedzin. Their Iranian opposite Amin Esmaeilnezhad led the way to victory with 19 points. SKRA stand on 34 and 11-11, while Nowak-Mosty are second from the bottom, in 15th place on 12 and 3-19.
The 23rd leg will start on Friday, January 31, and end on Monday, February 3.
PlusLiga 2024-2025 23rd leg:
Jan 31, 20:30 local (19:30 UTC): PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow v PSG Stal Nysa
Feb 01, 14:45 local (13:45 UTC): ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle v BOGDANKA LUK Lublin
Feb 01, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): GKS Katowice v PGE Projekt Warsaw
Feb 01, 20:30 local (19:30 UTC): Indykpol AZS Olsztyn v Barkom Kazhany Lviv
Feb 02, 14:45 local (13:45 UTC): Steam Hemarpol Norwid Czestochowa v Asseco Resovia Rzeszow
Feb 02, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): Trefl Gdansk v Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj
Feb 02, 20:30 local (19:30 UTC): Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski v Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie
Feb 03, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): Slepsk Malow Suwalki v Nowak-Mosty MKS Bedzin