Trefl and SKRA to give PlusLiga weekend early start on Thursday

Energa Trefl Gdansk and PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow will go head to head on Thursday to give the men’s volleyball PlusLiga weekend in Poland an early start. Another five matches will be played on Saturday and Sunday to complete the 11^th-leg program, which started back in November with an advanced game between Indykpol AZS Olsztyn and the participants in next week’s FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie, who took a five-set away win.

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Energa Trefl Gdansk will host PGE GiEK SKRA Belchatow at the Ergo Arena on Thursday, December 11, at 17:30 local time (16:30 UTC). Both teams are placed within the playoff zone of the current standings. Trefl are in eighth place on 15 points and a 6-4 win-loss record, while SKRA are running in third on 24 and 8-2. Last season, the two clubs traded home victories. SKRA achieved a five-set win in Belchatow. Then, Trefl got back at them with a straight-set sweep in Gdansk. The all-time head-to-head record in the PlusLiga, however, stands heavily in favor of SKRA – 33-8 in wins.

The most anticipated match of the weekend is probably the one that will close the leg on Sunday evening, between PGE Projekt Warsaw and ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle. Projekt will welcome ZAKSA to the Torwar in the Polish capital at 17:30 (16:30). The home team is fourth in the standings on 22 and 8-2, while the visitors from Kedzierzyn-Kozle occupy seventh place on 16 and 5-5. Projekt beat ZAKSA in all three of their encounters last season – twice in the PlusLiga and once in a Poland Cup quarterfinal. The all-time PlusLiga head-to-head record between the two clubs, however, stands at 49-15 ZAKSA’s way.

Saturday’s program on December 13 will open at 14:45 (13:45) with Asseco Resovia Rzeszow’s home game against Steam Hemarpol Politechnika Czestochowa. Resovia stand sixth in the table on 20 and 7-3, while Steam are second from the bottom, in 13^th place on 5 and 1-9. The squad from Czestochowa, conducted by legendary Argentinean playmaker Luciano De Decco, is desperate to put an end to a negative streak of six consecutive losses.

Barkom Kazhany Lviv will entertain JSW Jastrzebski Wegiel Jastrzebie-Zdroj in Elblag on Saturday at 17:30 (16:30). The two teams are neighbors in the table, but with a five-point gap between them. The Ukrainian side is in 10^th place on 10 and 3-7, while the 2024-2025 regular season winners stand ninth on 15 and 6-4.

Slepsk Malow Suwalki will try to push up from the very bottom of the table as they host PlusLiga rookies InPost ChKS Chelm on Saturday at 20:00 (19:00). Slepsk Malow are stuck in 14^th place on 5 and 1-9, but their opponents are only a point above them in the scuffle for survival, in 12^th place on 6 and 2-8.

Another team participating in that scuffle, Cuprum Stilon Gorzow Wielkopolski, will have a tough home match against defending champions BOGDANKA LUK Lublin on Sunday. The game at Arena Gorzow will serve off at 14:45 (13:45). Cuprum Stilon are in 11^th place on 7 and 2-9. Lublin are running second on 25 and 8-3.

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

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