What's On: Your guide to this week's best LIVE matches

The next few days could very well be when we’ll know the teams that will lift the national trophies in Italy, with both the Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile and the SuperLega Credem Banca featuring critical matches this week.

The Italian Women’s League Finals will have matches on Tuesday and Thursday and if defending champions Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano beat Vero Volley Milano on both occasions, they’ll take the title. With the SuperLega, Itas Trentino are the ones in control as they enter match four, on Friday, holding a 2-1 lead over Cucine Lube Civitanova.

The week will also feature a lot of competition at the regional level, with South American women and Asian men battling for the gold medals in their Continental Championships. Asia will also stage national team competition with eight women’s teams playing in the 32^nd edition of the Southeast Asian Games.

It’s going to be a busy week in beach volleyball too, with a Beach Pro Tour Futures event in Madrid, the start of the CEV Nations Cup in Switzerland and a NORCECA Continental Tour tournament going on in Cuba.

Here’s all the info you need to get ready for the next few days of action around the world:

Tuesday

Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile Finals: Vero Volley Monza vs. Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano – 20:45 local time (18:45 UTC)

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Vero Volley Monza and Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano meet for the second time in the Finals of the Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile. Defending champions Imoco started their best-of-five series better, winning 3-2 at home on Saturday, but Vero Volley will be the ones playing in front of their fans now and will try to level the score with a victory.

Women’s Southeast Asian Games - Cambodia

With eight national teams from the Southeastern region of the continent, the 32^nd edition of the SEA Games starts in Cambodia. Besides defending champions Thailand and hosts Cambodia, the national teams of Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam will also be fighting for the title.

Wednesday

Women’s South American Club Championship – Uberlândia, Brazil

Seven teams from five countries will compete in the South American Club Championship, which will be held in Uberlândia, Brazil, from Wednesday to Sunday and the winners will qualify for the 2023 FIVB Women’s Club World Championship. Hosts Brazil are represented by Dentil Praia Clube, Gerdau Minas and SESI Bauru, who will face competition from Bolivia’s Olympic, Chile’s Boston College, Peru’s Regatas Lima and Uruguay’s Juan Ferreira.

Thursday

Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile Finals: Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano vs. Vero Volley Monza – 20:30 local time (18:30 UTC) – start time TBC

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The third of potential five matches of the Lega Pallavolo Serie A1 Femminile Finals will take place, now with Imoco back in front of their home fans. If the defending champions manage to triumph in the second match, on Tuesday, they will enter this duel in a position to end the series at home. If Vero Volley comes through at home, however, this encounter would be the one to give one of the two finalists a 2-1 lead in the series.

Beach Pro Tour Madrid Futures – Spain

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The first of several Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour events that are going to be held in Europe over the next few months, the Madrid Futures will be going from Thursday to Sunday in the Spanish capital. The men-only tournament will feature 28 teams coming from 17 different countries. Among the duos set to compete in the event are the Spanish brothers Javier and Alejandro Huerta and Germans Paul Henning and Sven Winter.

Friday

SuperLega Credem Banca Finals: Cucine Lube Civitanova vs. Itas Trentino – 20:30 local time (18:30 UTC)

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The fourth encounter between Cucine Lube Civitanova and Itas Trentino could determine the winners of the SuperLega Credem Banca. Trentino hold a 2-1 lead after their three-set victory on Sunday and need only another win to secure the title, but defending champions Lube will be back in Civitanova Marché in front of their home fans and will do all they can to push the series to a fifth and decisive match.

CEV Men’s Nations Cup Pool F – Gstaad, Switzerland

The European qualification pathway for the Paris 2024 Olympics will officially begin, with men’s teams from five countries competing in the CEV Nations Cup Pool F in Gstaad, Switzerland, on Friday and Saturday. The winners of the event, which will have duos from the host country, Germany, Luxembourg, Moldavia and Türkiye, will advance for 2023 Nations Cup Finals and the countries that take the top three spots in that event will be guaranteed in the 2024 CEV Nations Cup Final – Olympic Qualification Tournament, which will award a berth in Paris 2024 for the champions.

NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour – Varadero, Cuba

The NORCECA (North, Central American and the Caribbean) Confederation will host the second event of its Continental Tour this weekend in Varadero, Cuba. With 16 teams per gender and 16 countries represented, the event will have some Beach Pro Tour regulars in action, such as the men’s home team of Jorge Alayo and Noslen Díaz and the women’s Mexican tandem of Atenas Gutierrez and Susana Torres.

Saturday

French Men’s Ligue A Finals: Tours vs. Chaumont – 20:00 local time (18:00 UTC)

The title of the French Men’s Ligue A will be awarded on Saturday, when Tours and Chaumont will meet in the second leg of the tournament’s Finals. Chaumont, who have Brazilian Olympian Thales Hoss and Dutch middle Fabian Plak on their roster, won the first leg at home 3-0. Because of that, Tours, who feature French national team libero Benjamin Diez and Argentinean international Luciano Palonsky, need to win the match at home in order to push the decision to a golden set.

Sunday

Asian Men’s Club Championship – Manama, Bahrain

Another continental tournament is set to begin, with 16 teams from Asia competing over a week in Riffa, Bahrain, for the Asian Men’s Club Championship title and a berth in the 2023 FIVB Men’s Club World Championship. The teams entered in the event are Al Kuwait (Kuwait), Al-Ahli (Bahrain), Aspiring (Hong Kong), Atyrau (Kazakhstan), Bayankhongor (Mongolia), Canberra Heat (Australia), Diamond Food (Thailand), Jakarta Bhayangkara (Indonesia), KAL Jumbos (Korea), Kam Air (Afghanistan), Khaypil (Yemen), Police Club (Qatar), Shahdab Yazd (Iran), South Gas (Iraq), Suntory Sunbirds (Japan) and Taichung Bank Club (Chinese Taipei).