Verona and Perugia to meet in the Supercoppa Italiana gold medal match

The top two teams in the 2025-2026 SuperLega Credem Banca regular season, Sir Susa Scai Perugia and Rana Verona will play for an Italian domestic trophy right before the start of the playoffs.

After overcoming the semifinals of the Del Monte Supercoppa Italiana on Saturday, the teams will meet in the tournament's final on Sunday, at 15:00 local time (14:00 UTC), in Trieste.

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Playing for their fourth-straight and seventh overall Supercoppa title, reigning world champions Perugia had no trouble beating reigning Italian champions Itas Trentino 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-20) in the first semifinal on Saturday.

Tunisian opposite Wassim Ben Tara came up big for Perugia in the semifinals, leading the team to victory with an impactful 21-point (17 kills, two blocks, two aces) performance. Ukrainian outside hitter Oleh Plotnytskyi also had a key role in their triumph, scoring 17 points (14 kills, two aces, one block).

French Olympic champion opposite Théo Faure was the only player on Trentino's side to get to double digits in scoring, registering 11 points, all in kills.

Verona beat Civitanova in four sets

The second semifinal was way more competitive and had Verona pushing hard to win the first two sets before triumphing 3-1 (27-25, 30-28, 17-25, 25-21) over Cucine Lube Civitanova.

Fighting for their first Supercoppa title, the reigning Italian Cup champions counted on an impressive 24 points (22 kills, two aces) from Malian outside hitter Noumory Keita to overcome the semifinals. Brazilian star opposite Darlan de Souza added another 18, with 11 kills, four aces and three blocks.

The match's top scorer was Civitanova's Bulgarian star outside hitter Aleksandar Nikolov, who left the court with 26 points (19 kills, six aces, one block) to his name, ten more than fellow outside hitter and two-time world champion Mattia Bottolo.

The two finalists have met three times already in the 2025-2026 season and Verona won on two of those occasions. Historically, however, Perugia lead by a wide margin, having 36 victories in 46 encounters.

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