With the last match of the regular season played on Monday evening, the Polish PlusLiga playoff bracket was finalized. The 30th leg did not offer any changes in the order of the top eight in the standings, so the best-of-three quarterfinal match-ups will set Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj against Steam Hemarpol Norwid Czestochowa, PGE Projekt Warsaw against PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow, Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie against Asseco Resovia Rzeszow, and BOGDANKA LUK Lublin against ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle.
PlusLiga 2024-2025
PlusLiga playoff bracket finalized
Recap of PlusLiga’s 30th-leg matches
Published 08:00, 25 Mar 2025
Aluron’s players celebrate in Jastrzebie-Zdroj (photo: Arkadiusz Kogut / plusliga.pl)
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In the top clash of the last leg of the regular season, Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie mastered an away 3-0 (25-22, 34-32, 25-20) shutout of defending champions and regular season winners Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj. The winners’ outside hitter Bartosz Kwolek was the best scorer of the match with 17 points, including three aces and a kill block, while the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award went to libero Szymon Gregorowicz. Jastrzebski Wegiel finished on top of the table on 75 points and a 24-6 win-loss record, while Aluron took third place on 72 and 24-6.
Also on 72 points, but a 26-4 win-loss record, the team with the highest number of wins during the regular season, PGE Projekt Warsaw, finished runners-up. On Saturday, they hammered out a 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-23) sweep of their home match against Slepsk Malow Suwalki, with MVP Artur Szalpuk leading the way with 13 points. Slepsk Malow took 10th place on 39 points.
BOGDANKA LUK Lublin closed the regular season on Monday with a 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 23-25, 25-19) home win over Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski to finish in fourth place on 63 and 21-9. Outside hitters Mikolaj Sawicki and Jakub Wachnik led the team to victory with 14 points apiece. The latter took the MVP award. Cuprum Stilon’s Brazilian opposite Chizoba Neves produced a match-high 22 points. His team finished the regular season in 12th place on 28 points.
ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle took home an emphatic 3-0 (25-19, 25-8, 25-16) victory over their hosts GKS Katowice on Friday with Belgian opposite Igor Grobelny firing five aces and scoring a match-high 11 points within the first two sets of the match to emerge as MVP. ZAKSA took fifth place on 62 and 21-9, while GKS face relegation after finishing 15th on 15 points.
Sixth-placed Asseco Resovia Rzeszow extended their winning streak to 17 matches in a row between the PlusLiga and the CEV Cup with Sunday’s 3-0 (25-16, 25-21, 25-19) shutout of relegated Nowak-Mosty MKS Bedzin. Resovia finished the season on 59 and 19-11, while second-division-bound Nowak-Mosty ended up at the bottom of the table, in 16th place on 13 points. Resovia’s Czech outside Lukas Vasina topped the match charts with 13 points, while middle blocker Dawid Woch scored 10 points and claimed the MVP honors.
In a head-to-head duel for the seventh place, PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow achieved a 3-0 (25-20, 25-12, 25-12) shutout of hosts Steam Hemarpol Norwid Czestochowa to finish on 51 and 17-13 and leave the opponents in eighth place on 46 and 16-14 as the last team above the cut-off for the playoffs. SKRA’s Iranian opposite Amin Esmaeilnezhad was the best scorer of the match with 12 points, while libero Kajetan Marek was named MVP.
Distinguished opposite and former Poland international Jakub Jarosz put an end to his professional career and his farewell highlighted the season’s last match for Trefl Gdansk and Indykpol AZS Olsztyn. The visitors from Olsztyn claimed a 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-16) victory, but that did not spoil the emotional moment for the fans. Indykpol’s Czech opposite Jan Hadrava put away a match-high 15 points as his team rose to ninth place in the final regular season standings on 40 points, leaving Trefl in 11th on 34.
In Thursday’s leg opener, Barkom Kazhany Lviv achieved the home win over PSG Stal Nysa they needed to survive in the PlusLiga, while sentencing the opponent to relegation.
The playoffs are set to start later this week, with two of the first-leg quarterfinal matches played on Friday and the other two – on Saturday.
PlusLiga 2024-2025 quarterfinal playoffs, 1st leg:
Mar 28, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj v Steam Hemarpol Norwid Czestochowa
Mar 28, 20:30 local (19:30 UTC): PGE Projekt Warsaw v PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow
Mar 29, 14:45 local (13:45 UTC): Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie v Asseco Resovia Rzeszow
Mar 29, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): BOGDANKA LUK Lublin v ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle
