- Düren has only played an Italian team once before. That was in the Champions League season 2005/2006, when the opponent was Sisley Treviso with big names like Alessandro Fei, Samuele Papi or Gustavo Endres in its ranks. Treviso won the first leg 3:2 at home after trailing 0:2. The Düren fans are still talking about the return match in Germany because their team won 3:2 after more than two and a half hours. Treviso had to postpone the flight home that was planned for the evening.

- SWD powervolleys Düren have had a tough time in the Bundesliga in Germany recently. They lost two matches in a row against the big names Berlin Recycling Volleys and VfB Friedrichshafen. The team is not playing consistently at the moment, also because important regular players have been missing again and again. Coach Rafał Murczkiewicz does not think that the team is 100 per cent at the moment.

- 2:16 - that's the sobering statistic of block points for Düren from the most recent match in the Bundesliga. Opponent Friedrichshafen scored 14 block points more.

- 23 years - that's the age difference between Düren's oldest player Björn Andrae (41) and the youngest Leo Bernsmann (18).

- First match in the Champions League between SWD powervolleys Duren and Sir Sicoma Monini Perugia. But not the first in European competitions. In fact, the two teams met in the Main Phase of the Cev Cup 2016 with two victories for Perugia: 1-3 in Duren and 3-1 in Perugia

-  A player on the court was present in 2016 at the double match, he is the Chilean opposite of the SWD powervolleys Duren Sebastian Gevert

-  Perugia comes from 14 consecutive victories (10 in the Italian Super League, 2 in the Italian Super Cup and 2 in the Champions League)