Energia Trefl Gdansk will welcome the only foreign team in the PlusLiga, Barkom Kazhany Lviv, to the Ergo Arena on Monday at 17:30 local time (15:30 UTC). Led by star middle blocker Piotr Nowakowski, this season Trefl are certainly aiming much higher than the 11th place they took in last season’s final standings. This surely applies for Barkom as well. They barely avoided relegation at the end of the 2024-2025 season, but with several Ukrainian and foreign internationals on the squad, conducted by prominent German playmaker Lukas Kampa, they will try to play a more major role in the new championship.
PlusLiga action will continue on Tuesday with a game between Slepsk Malow Suwalki and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow at the Suwalki Arena, also serving off at 17:30 (15:30). Slepsk Malow finished in 10th place last season. Now they have been reinforced with Bulgarian striker Asparuh Asparuhov and American middle David Smith and are expected to show the team’s new face as they take on their visitors from Rzeszow. Asseco Resovia made the playoffs in 2024-2025 and finished sixth. They could easily shoot much higher this year, as their squad is loaded with international talent, like Czechia’s Lukas Vasina, France’s Yacine Louati, Slovenia’s Klemen Cebulj, USA’s Erik Shoji, Poland’s Pawel Zatorski and Artur Szalpuk, among others.
Later on Tuesday, at 20:30 (18:30), 2025 bronze medalists PGE Projekt Warsaw will take the role of hosts and heavy favorites against PlusLiga newcomers InPost ChKS Chelm. The home team at the COS Torwar will be able to rely on a constellation of top-caliber players like Jakub Kochanowski, Karol Klos, Bartosz Bednorz and France’s Kevin Tillie, among others, while the squad from Chelm is built around Iranian international Amirhossein Esfandiar.
