Projekt’s Jan Firlej on the serve (photo: Adam Starszynski / plusliga.pl)

Projekt’s Jan Firlej on the serve (photo: Adam Starszynski / plusliga.pl)

The men’s volleyball PlusLiga weekend in Poland will offer six 13th-leg fixtures, starting on Friday, December 19, with the most exciting one, between PGE Projekt Warsaw and PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow, which will produce a new leader in the current standings. Another three matches will be played on Saturday and two on Sunday.

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PGE Projekt Warsaw will host PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow at the Torwar on Friday at 20:00 local time (19:00 UTC). Projekt are the team with the fewest losses since the start of the season. They stand fifth on 25 points and a 9-2 win-loss record, with a game in hand, and if they earn the three points against SKRA at home, they will emerge as the new table leaders. Otherwise, the squad from Belchatow, currently in third place on 27 and 9-3, and behind first-placed BOGDANKA LUK Lublin and second-placed Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie only on set ratios, will top the chart at the end of the day.

Another exciting clash, more relevant to the struggle for avoiding relegation, will open the competition day on Saturday. Slepsk Malow Suwalki will welcome Barkom Kazhany Lviv at 12:30 (11:30). Slepsk Malow are just above the relegation zone, in 13th place on 8 and 2-10. The Ukrainian side are much closer to the playoff zone, in 10th place on 10 and 3-9, but if the home team takes the three points, it will surpass Barkom Kazhany in the table.

Next on the program is a high-profile game between Indykpol AZS Olsztyn and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow, set to serve off at 14:45 (13:45) on Saturday at the Urania hall in Olsztyn. The visitors from Rzeszow are running in fourth place on 26 and 9-3, while Indykpol are two spots lower, in sixth place on 22 and 7-4, with a game in hand.

ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle and InPost ChKS Chelm will close the competition day on Saturday. The game at the Azoty hall in Kedzierzyn-Kozle will start at 17:30 (16:30). While ZAKSA, currently ninth on 16 and 5-7, will aim to make their way back up to the playoff zone, the PlusLiga rookies from Chelm will be desperate to get out of the danger zone, as they trail bottom, in 14th place on 6 and 2-9, with a game in hand.

Sunday’s program will begin with Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski entertaining JSW Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj at 14:45 (13:45). The home team is third from the bottom, in 12th place on 8 and 2-10, while their visitors, who won the 2024-2025 regular season, are now running seventh on 21 and 8-4.

Steam Hemarpol Politechnika Czestochowa and Energa Trefl Gdansk will close the weekend with a game at 17:30 (16:30) on Sunday. The hosts will try to use the momentum of their stunning home win over ZAKSA on Wednesday, which lifted them away from the last place they were occupying, and add another one against Trefl to get further away from the danger zone. Now they are in 11th place on 8 and 2-10. Trefl, on the other hand, stand eighth on 18 and 7-5.

The 13th-leg game between Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and BOGDANKA LUK Lublin was advanced to November 12 and resolved after five sets the way of the home team from Zawiercie.

PlusLiga 2025-2026 upcoming matches:
Dec 19, 20:00 local (19:00 UTC): PGE Projekt Warsaw v PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow
Dec 20, 12:30 local (11:30 UTC): Slepsk Malow Suwalki v Barkom Kazhany Lviv
Dec 20, 14:45 local (13:45 UTC): Indykpol AZS Olsztyn v Asseco Resovia Rzeszow
Dec 20, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle v InPost ChKS Chelm
Dec 21, 14:45 local (13:45 UTC): Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski v JSW Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj
Dec 21, 17:30 local (16:30 UTC): Steam Hemarpol Politechnika Czestochowa v Energa Trefl Gdansk